If you're gonna do a personal album with no promo, this is the way.
No months of hyping it up as her most personal record, no months of calling it her Ray of Light, no hype about it containing her best vocals and Perfume being a "major career song," no PR lies about breaking Vegas records and never having lipsynched.
The Army lashing out against Bey is not surprising one bit, but the Monsters are something else.
I've seen more of them drag the album than any others.
Can someone explain to me why exactly?
Because Gaga is over, ARTPOP sucks and only someone with at least mild mental retardation would call it a good album?
Radiohead sold 3 million copies of the album at full price when they finally released it to iTunes and physical later.
Only about 1/3 of the people got the album for free, some people paid THOUSANDS of dollars, lots of people paid 20-50 dollars.
You're sounding more and more foolish. Beyonce is joining the rank of legends like Radiohead who changed the way people think about music in the digital age. Just because you're unaware of them doesn't mean they're not relevant or legendary. It just means you're ignorant. This isn't a race thing or an "urban music is better" thing. It's an innovation thing.
pls.
ARTPOP had an accompanying app, and foil edition and didn't do 300k.
Miley had her coochie exposed at the VMA's, and FOUR different album covers and didn't do 300k.
Obviously Urban artists wouldn't be the only people to ever do a promotion strategy and have it pay off, but you can definitely say if they were done for most Pop artists the sales would be dismal.
You can see it as a legend thing, but if Lil Wayne surprised announced an album and did 1 million y'all would not be calling him an innovative legend.
There's just one shot left of this drink, in this glass
don't make me break it!
so i take one look in the mirror
and i say to myself
baby girl u can't survive like thissssss
take it one step further
Freakum Dress out my closet
Yoncé filling out this SKIRT
i look damn good
i ain't lost it
I've also noticed that the ones that most complain and whine within her fan base about Lady ForbesGa are the ones that didn't even buy the album. Like the person that got me banned from the ARTPOP thread, hasn't even purchased the album yet while I bought 3 copies of that crap (granted, 2 of them were bought for 4 dollars at Amazon but still).