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Originally posted by -Derek
so depressing this is flopping.
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"Flopping"? By what criteria? Anyone who expected a gold debut was operating under a severe hopeful delusion and/or, like me, knows nothing about current tastes in pop music.
First, great vocals simply don't count for as much as they once did in the glory days of Celine, Mariah, Whitney, etc. (This site has a thread titled: "Poll: Is Mariah Carey Relevant Musically?" Answer: No.) Second, her sales totals have a very long way to go, with book, Oz movie, overseas promotional and domestic concert tours still to provide even more publicity for Lea as an entity separate from Glee. Third, "success" can be simply defined as: Columbia gives her a second album. (I have no doubt they will. "Louder" was the just first step in a long-range career-building project.)