Yeah, this is the messiest era I've witnessed in my life. ARTPOP was messy but it had some control and well planned promotion.
It is obvious that Mariah does not care about the album at all because if she did, you know she'd be all up in our faces like she were back then during the TEOM & EMC2 eras. It's unfortunate because the album is really good. One of the best this year.
They shouldn't have scrapped the album date infinitely when she had that shoulder injury. Why not just postpone it to September or October? And as #Beauitful peaked back in July, they should've released a brand new single! WTF were they thinking about not releasing any single until February?! Of course the hype died. Ugh. Stupid. The album is full of potential hits! Faded, Dedicated, Thirsty, Make It Look Good, You Don't Know What To Do, Meteorite, and Money! (I included YDKWTD because they basically just sent it out for adds without any push or promotion. They left it to die on arrival! And y'all know it totally could be massive if Mariah'd just push and promote it!) AND, You're Mine was a BAD single choice. I will not understand that one. If they'd picked Thirsty or YDKWTD instead, then the era would've probably turned out better, tbh.
Her team is absolutely the worst. They're full of "yes" people and they're lazy, tbh. They have not done a **** for this album/era.
The only good thing this era is the tour. Originally, I was hoping they'd use the money to promote YDKWTD but as we all can see, she doesn't give two ****s about the song as a single so I've given up a long time ago. Anyways, back to the tour, I hope to see her when she comes to the US. Hopefully she doesn't lip-sync though.
/rant over