How does that relate to the thread tbh?

The drag.

Honestly, ARTPOP isn't worth the 18 dollars it's priced at (and really, no album should be that expensive).

Poor judgment on the part of the label and the retailers who fix her prices.

Im so tired of people blaming BTW FOR ARTPOP low sales.
I agree BTW was too long and had many fillers but it has nothing to do with Artpop not selling well

-- 35 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 5,990 -- RED

Slay Taylor!!!

The physical version is $7 on Amazon. If people want to buy it cheaper they can.

Well, most definitely BTW era damaged her alot. ALOT. And yeah, BTW album or should I say, the ridiculous discount it had and its sales made ARTPOP look like a total failure, which it's not.

Still, it would be nice to be able to buy it for $7 somewhere else, like in an actual store. Me, personally, I'm not a fan of buying music or DVD's online. But that's just me.

The price at major retailers is still way too high. Interscope should go for some kind of discount, like right now if they want to keep the album in TOP 50.

9K.

This won't even go platinum lmao.

Slay bitch

BTW seemed catastrophic at the time but all it really did was create a backlash from her key demographic. Which I always knew would take its toll at the start of the new era (this one). But critically the content of the album fared relatively well considering and she could still boast 700k first week numbers (thats the number when you subtract the amazon sales which youre all so annoying about). There was conviction within her execution of that era even when some people didnt respond to it positively and that showed through.

ARTPOP, however, has given her a critical and a media backlash. Both of which can ruin her more than the erosion of fans which could always spike back up given a good review. Her support from her key demographic eroded with the Born This Way era and that ultimately effected ARTPOP in the long run. I believe this era shes kind of lost conceptually and has lost touch with how to sell herself well which has affected ARTPOP. Then of course, the constant bashings from the media in regards to her under-performance compared to previous eras also heavily persuades people to not get into this record probably moreso. Because while this album isnt like veryexciting or whatever its still just as catchy and as hit worthy as her contemporaries and if it werent for their constantly being indirectly persuaded to dismiss her I think theyd respond well to it. But see, in a way the critical lashings are kind of necessary imo because even though this album is underrated in terms of its standard pop quality, I think they didnt want to just let her go with a slap on her wrist for being conceptually muddy/messy this time and honestly they shouldn't. Most of the reviews are like "yeah this song is good and this song is good but you cant be so conceptually lofty and release something thats just standard enjoyment" and from that point of view I find the general response justified. Imo its considered a failure because its unaccepted by critics. Had she at least had critics on her side I think the tune would be a little different.

Totally went on a fan rant and I didn't even mean to.