Also Britney with Work Bitch & Perfume

She really tried it with Work Bitch, and it backfired
& her half naked appearance in Perfume, which didn't even chart

Nick Jonas

It was the biggest album of her career worldwide tho. The US was the only place to not accept her sexual side (bar Lady Marmalade) tbh, both Dirrty and Can't Hold Us Down did amazing WW.

Demi.

Demi

Demetria and Nicholas come to mind.

Neither Work Bitch or Perfume are about sex. You know you're trying too hard when you can't even get your facts right.

OT: Gaga with Do What U Want and G.U.Y.

ugh this was a bop though

To be fair, Britney was selling sex with basically every single video that comes to my mind right now.

It ain't a big deal some have not worked for her.

Not really. None of those singles or their videos were more sexual than what she has done in the past. And it backfired would mean they have flopped because of her, according to you, overly sexual image, which was also not the case.

Perfume did chart btw

Wtf at people mentioning Britney? She sells sex in every single music video she has ever released... so if one single flopped, it doesn't mean anything.

Demi

This.

She tried it with Focus and it backfired. Let's see how is she gonna do with her next era.

She literally made that video because she was "sick of making sexy videos all the time" She wasn't trying to serve sex. Wow.

Demi can't sell sex, she can just about evade a harpoon.

Wow, a 6x platinum/7 million selling song is now considered moderate and she has yet to try to start attempting to sell sex. Failure of a post.

So going #1 without a video is the standard now, not the exception? With a better video Birthday would have gone Top 10; the lyric video streams prove people were interested in the song enough to go back and view that one over the "party version". Dark Horse was still slaying anyway and affected Birthday's chart run, and the airplay wasn't anything special anyway, it peaked at #8 on pop radio.