and then january is gone... I really hope she drops a single before Cats starts.
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I really find it strange that her projects are mostly around the same year she plans to release music... And what's worse, she wants to focus on one project at a time because she needs to "commit".
I really find it strange that her projects are mostly around the same year she plans to release music... And what's worse, she wants to focus on one project at a time because she needs to "commit".
It''s her most laughable excuse, because she always kills her album eras for this exact same reasons. She basically let KL become a trainwreck for commiting to XFactor USA, and same happened for BFL when she did Cats inbetween and I doubt that she didn't knew about either XFactor or Cats months in prior.
I agree on BFL, but KL actually could have been properly extended. If she didn't do XFactor USA, she could have promoted Wet and maybe come with a thoughtout plan and release a better single than Try With Me
It's not about postponing the music for other projects. Most of these 'projects' give momentum for the album's release. Let's not forget that Nicole is pretty insecure about releasing music, and who can blame her really? She has been releasing great songs for years and people don't pay attention. So she has to make people care about her first, so they'll buy her music. All these shows she's been doing all these years are an attempt to try and turn people on her side. And it's slowly working.
If we didn't see her on X Factor USA/UK, Dancing With The Stars, I Can Do That and all these shows, we wouldn't know a lot of stuff about her. She's using these platforms FOR her music.
And Cats on Broadway is literally the PERFECT platform for her new album. If what she's saying stands, and she's focusing on just recording quality music, and not having to worry if it's trendy or pop enough or whatever, then Cats is the perfect way to show people that she's taking a more mature, artistic approach to her career. She is bound to earn tons of praise and critical acclaim for her role as Grizabella so that could be a start to a whole new direction in her career and music, and imo, THIS is where she'll find great success and appreciation.
I know those shows are meant to work in her benefit. But for example XFactor USA, I get that she was not able to fly oversees, but still she did it to open a mall. Logically her team should have gotten her an oppertunity to atleast record or pre-record an additional televised performance (at that time for Wet) or even just an interview to get the momentum of her music going. Instead she, her team and label invested time in the US, which was logical on one side, but also rush released a re-release single and a Repackage down the line, and performing but not releasing an other song in the US. Which made the era end as a trainwreck, while it could have ended smoothly had they tried to re-release it with a proper thoughtout campagne, which could have flown smoothly along with the tour she did back then.And Pretty could have for example part of the re-release in the UK Spring back then, being promoted along with the tour.
The projects do help to giver her projects some kind of momentum, but they should be able to co-excist. and I hope she and her new label will actually do that this time.
Her new album doesn't seems to aim for succes but rather quality, but I hope they finally realise that if she does Broadway that she should ride along the way down the acclaim, rather then doing nothing. Even a stand-alone single wouldn;t be a bad idea if she is still working on an album. It could be something that flows logical of the Cats experience, and wouldn't feel wrong to include as bonustrack on the album she is working with, if it would randomly get praise/acclaim.
I just hope she finally starts grabbing certain oppertunities that are there to easily grab, instead of letting everything fall to focus on other projects, while both her music and sideprojects can easily co-excist or even flow through eachother with the right planning and handling.
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Even an idea could be to get David Garrett to release Serenity. It shows her pipes, fits along Cats as a sortof Musical-esque song. It could get her acclaim and keep the train going, while recording/prepping a new album
I think the biggest mistakes of her career was never releasing an album in the US. Both Killer Love and Big Fat Lie should have been released in the US, no matter how much they would have sold. Scrapping album after album only makes her seem like a joke. How many times is she going to say that she's coming out with her debut solo album in the US? It's ridiculous. Just release the damn albums, get the pressure off your chest and then do what you wanna do. She always has the pressure that it's her first album that she's going to release in the US and she thinks it has to smash or sell millions.That's far from the case. Especially with Killer Love. She had a Top 40 hit with Right There, which also went Gold and gave her some kind of exposure and hype, she then had DHYB which got some attention, even though radios didn't play it, and she also had X Factor USA at the moment. Not releasing Killer Love in the US during that time was a HORRIBLE decision. I don't know if it was Nicole's decision, or Interscopes. It was probably both.
I agree. It was a huge mistake not releasing KL (and even HNIN). Like I've said before, she could have easily built a fanbase online with the release. People would be able to hear the songs on Spotify and Pandora. That's how a lot of people discover songs and artists nowadays outside of radio. They don't check charts.
I think the biggest mistakes of her career was never releasing an album in the US. Both Killer Love and Big Fat Lie should have been released in the US, no matter how much they would have sold. Scrapping album after album only makes her seem like a joke. How many times is she going to say that she's coming out with her debut solo album in the US? It's ridiculous. Just release the damn albums, get the pressure off your chest and then do what you wanna do. She always has the pressure that it's her first album that she's going to release in the US and she thinks it has to smash or sell millions.That's far from the case. Especially with Killer Love. She had a Top 40 hit with Right There, which also went Gold and gave her some kind of exposure and hype, she then had DHYB which got some attention, even though radios didn't play it, and she also had X Factor USA at the moment. Not releasing Killer Love in the US during that time was a HORRIBLE decision. I don't know if it was Nicole's decision, or Interscopes. It was probably both.