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Originally posted by GoodMusicLover
She has in fact been very absent, but that's her own doing...it's not because she lost popularity or relevance. And it also doesn't erase what she has accomplished in the first 4-5 months of the year.
Do you think Nicki/Carly have done enough to pass her? Keeping in mind that it's the total accomplishments during the year that count and not who's big right now.
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No, I've noticed a decline in her popularity and relevance. Adele was never in the public eye, her music and album just exploded with such magnitude that everyone praised everything she did and radio was willing to run a ballad like Someone Like You straight to the top of the charts. We saw oversaturation at the start of the year that culminated in Rumour Has It's flop, despite immense radio support confidence and huge pre-single release sales. Interest in her, from fans per week/media interaction/searches for her/news coverage in the US has declined to where it was before Rolling In The Deep, even with the recent announcement of her pregnancy.
The decline in interest is understandable, because she's essentially done with 21, but it's hazardous for an artist like her who has no devout fanbase but had, at her peak, the goodwill of all groups of people because she was cool, coffee house-sophisticated and different. But that type of success is probably going to hurt her more, and I think her presence this year has all but evaporated, regardless of whether she has the best-selling album of the year again (which she will).
On the other hand, Carly Rae Jepsen is pretty much the only artist that even has a shot at any type of "It Girl" title. Lana Del Rey destroyed herself in the eyes of the public, Nicki isn't new or even remotely cool anymore, and others, like Azealia Banks and Rita Ora are nobodies to the general public.
Call me crazy, but Call Me Maybe is by far the biggest and most iconic hit of the year, even beyond the likes of We Are Young and Somebody That I Used To Know because of its sheer pop cultural significance. On top of that, it was pretty much a **** in the face to all of the alternative rock pop momentum that the latter two stirred early in the year.
That said, I hardly think there's an "It Girl" this year that's comparable to Adele in 2011 or Gaga in 2009.
