Mess @ every Tuesday the same theories

Well it's not the most fortunate day of the week for this thread.

Just imagine TIHWD getting second wind on pop and revive from nowhere .. I will be the happiest katy's fan in the world !

I think it's done personally. She should either end the era, or move on to a new single. Tho i'm not sure what is the best choice at this point. She would still go out on a high point if she ended it now (cuz of the video), but if she released something else and it flopped too it would cause more damage, so I dunno. I understand why they are taking so long.

It's not my impact. Birthday did kill the era. It killed her radio goodwill. Was a huge flop internationally. Destroyed her weekly album sales. It doesn't matter that Dark Horse was a big hit. They waited a LONG time to release a new single after Dark Horse. Birthday was released two months after DH peaked on Pop. So there was no overshadowing going on. The GP simply hated Birthday.

Most KatyCats know this, I didn't have to convince them. TIHWD is trying to repair the damage, but it's a struggle.

lol, Kworb is so biased. Birthday was a Top 10 Pop hit. it hit 80M airplay, hit #13 in sales, and hit #17 on the Hot 100. And all of that even with a horrid video. And how many views does the lyric video have? huh?

3 of those 4 stats are all related to airplay, which it only received because it followed such a massive airplay hit. It had one day in the iTunes top 15, but it peaked at #26 on Digital Songs. TIHWD has already beaten that.

There is no way to spin Birthday's performance into something that is not negative.

I know right?

Finally I learned the lyrics

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Finally some green updates. Time for the recovery.

"Unconditionally" returns on next week's The Voice.

This song grew on me so much

I used to hate it.

Thank you. Birthday's video ruined the momentum of the single, but not the era. The 5th single could've still smashed if it wasn't TIHWD.

I'm don't even stan for Katy, yet I'll willingly admit and testify that Birthday was a moderate hit in the US. A #17 peak and Gold certification is nothing to be ashamed of. Was this mostly based off of radio airplay? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean it didn't do moderately well, in the US at least. (Worldwide is a little bit of a different story, but that can arguably be attributed to a complete lack of promotion and an almost universally disliked video.)

I want them to let This Is How We Do do its thing, but I'm still holding onto hope for Legendary Lovers as the next and final single. (Unless they really wanna push it and release By the Grace of God as the final one after that - I would love that even more.)