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Originally posted by dperkins
She will.. She's been under record label orders for the past few eras. She hasn't been allowed to record what she wanted only. It has to please them as well. I know she has a lot of creative control, but it's more like, you're album needs to be commercial and have hits, now go! Like she gets to create it, but it has to be what they're wanting. I feel like if the labels hadn't been moved around, she might have had more freedom with this album, but lets look at it here..
I'm Not Dead - her "comeback" album that couldn't be messed up. She needed to have a pretty commercial album.
Funhouse - after taking a while for IND to become successful in the US, the label couldn't risk her losing her momentum. So, another commercial album please
The Truth About Love - after being moved to a new label with a new label head, she wasn't allowed to mess up being on their roster. She may not be new, but she was new to the RCA team. Another album to guarantee hits and success please.
I think she also realized, the more successful you are, the bigger your tours are. She LOVES to tour and to perform. It's where her passion is mostly. She will probably give us one more album like this (but I think it will be different sonically. Just still commercial) before we get the off the wall stuff. Album 8 onwards is what I've been saying for a while now.
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Yeah, but I have the feeling that RCA will be even more pushy next time, they want another success like TTAL. This will go further as long as
she stops it. And of course she's doing it for the tour, she even stated somewhere in an interview (maybe 2009?) that she needs radio hits to do what she really loves: touring. But it's tricky because after some time she won't enjoy performing them (aka GTPS, U+Ur Hand, Stupid Girls, Please Don't Leave Me, So What, True Love...). Just look at the Summer Carnival, she brought back songs like Try Too Hard, Unwind or I'm Not Dead, she must love them then. It was a soldout stadium tour in Europe where fans have loved her for a long time so she could rely on that and perform non-single tracks from previous albums. She needs those "really her" songs.
So yeah, I was thinking about that the next album wouldn't be that different either. I'm counting on another baby, so the tour won't be that big. But after that, a lot of things could happen (finally).