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Originally posted by goldsoundz
They sent reps around the country to beg stations to play it, including Hot AC and Rhythmic--fruitless endeavors. It went top 20 on Pop because Capitol was able to convince stations in the midwest to play it while she was touring there. She spent a day recording introductions for Clear Channel stations on the coasts that had to drop the track a week later because research came back, and it was terrible. Since those stations set the trends, the midwest and south followed. Those are the facts.
We get it: you think it sounds like a smash and it should've smashed. People on ATRL also thought "Guy" and "Love Me Harder" were smashes, and the ones that loved the former happened to love "This Is How We Do." It's nothing personal, but your blind optimism has turned into arrogant ignorance.
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To be fair G.U.Y. would've smashed if anyone other than 2014 Lady Gaga had released it. It's no different to any of her other hits.
I'm, in all honestly, completely surprised any professional in the music industry thought This Is How We Do could've even come close to being a hit. It's like they heard the pitch ("It's a party song about being laid back, cool and not giving a damn what people think!") and declared it should be a single without having ever heard it.
Fans often love songs that would be terrible singles, but I'm yet to find an example where fans
hated an album track that went on to become a massive smash. This should serve as a lesson to Katy; if your fans call a song ****, it's probably ****. Hopefully it flopped hard enough to not be a stain on her Greatest Hits.
I read on Twitter that there's a gay **** where one of the actors has a cutout of Katy taped to his head 
