A certain member seems to be stuck on this. I told him just because it doesn't sound like all her other singles, that doesn't make it risky. A change for her maybe, but not risky
What do you think? Was it a risky single choice like Judas, Anaconda, 45S? Discuss.
It wasn't a risky single choice, no. By the time it was released it was obvious it was a smash waiting to happen.
I guess one could argue it was a chancy route to go down when making the song--trap hadn't really fully broken through to pop then--but the trap elements are really only there for one song and they're minor. It was more of just a successful venture than a real "risk."
According to ATRL members who stan for flops, their faves release "expertimental/risky" songs when those song turn out to be flops...
So using that logic until a Katy song flops (and I mean REALLY flops, I'm taking a #76 Hot 100 peak sized flop) we can't say she has released a risky song therefore DH ain't risky.
No. It definitely went against the mainstream pop sound of that time (and now we see a lot more urban-influenced material but I wouldn't say this is bc of Dark Horse necessarily even tho DH produced so many clones), but it just wasn't risky and it's not like she released it out of her own will... Everyone was eating it up and she had to make it a single lol.
