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Single: Bonnie McKee - "American Girl"
Member Since: 9/25/2011
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This song needs to smash, I loved it from the beginning.
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Member Since: 2/13/2012
Posts: 62,082
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It's peaking on radio. Ughhhhhhhh something push it! Epic, help!
Also, she needs to take Part Of Trash out of her medley and add Supernatural by K$ 
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Member Since: 1/22/2005
Posts: 13,429
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Originally posted by PhoebeBuffay
what's the peak??
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#75 on it's first week. So we're almost back to that!
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Worldwide iTunes
#19 Lebanon (+78)
#35 New Zealand (+1)
#49 Australia (=)
#50 Fiji (-5)
#61 Germany (+6)
#66 Cambodia (=)
#80 United States (+5)
#132 Zimbabwe
#163 Canada (+17)
#187 Austria (+16)
It's actually taking off in Germany! Canada's been up and down. Oceania still holding it down.
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Member Since: 2/13/2012
Posts: 62,082
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Is this not out in the UK yet?
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
Posts: 17,329
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Originally posted by collin
It's peaking on radio. Ughhhhhhhh something push it! Epic, help!
Also, she needs to take Part Of Trash out of her medley and add Supernatural by K$ |
She's doing some radio promo tbh
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
Posts: 17,329
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Originally posted by .Chad.
#75 on it's first week. So we're almost back to that!
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Worldwide iTunes
#19 Lebanon (+78)
#35 New Zealand (+1)
#49 Australia (=)
#50 Fiji (-5)
#61 Germany (+6)
#66 Cambodia (=)
#80 United States (+5)
#132 Zimbabwe
#163 Canada (+17)
#187 Austria (+16)
It's actually taking off in Germany! Canada's been up and down. Oceania still holding it down.
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Yas! Insane how Bridgit started with RON just like this. But she had Disney promo.. Epic Records needs to do something, this song is a smash waiting to happen!
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Member Since: 1/11/2012
Posts: 14,421
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Originally posted by collin
It's peaking on radio. Ughhhhhhhh something push it! Epic, help!
Also, she needs to take Part Of Trash out of her medley and add Supernatural by K$ |
Why would she take a #1 single out of it in favor of Supertrashural?
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Member Since: 1/22/2005
Posts: 13,429
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Originally posted by collin
Is this not out in the UK yet?
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No, the UK release probably isn't for a little while. Since she's gonna go over there to do promo for it.
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Up to #79!!
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Member Since: 11/18/2008
Posts: 60,607
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wHAT CAUSED THIS TO GO BACK TO TOP100?
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
Posts: 17,329
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My power! 
78.Cassadee Pope - Wasting All These Tears 0.0466
79. Bonnie McKee - American Girl 0.0465
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 56,234
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I'm just so pressed that this wasn't an instant smash for her... I mean, it should kind of be expected since she's a "new artist" to the general public, but I was really hoping for her to have a smash hit similar to I Kissed A Girl, TiK ToK or Call Me Maybe. It's that type of song.
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Member Since: 8/16/2010
Posts: 19,703
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Epic is such a flop label. Ugh!
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 3,801
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Watching her sing a medley of hits makes me wish she had half the success of some of those artists. She's an okay vocalist who clearly can write songs the GP wants to here but this single just isn't it.
I wish her the best, again, she was a huge player in half those songs, I would feel a little frustrated to sing them...
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Member Since: 11/13/2009
Posts: 25,902
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So what is going on with her? I thought she would smash honestly.
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Member Since: 9/25/2011
Posts: 12,630
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I know she co wrote like 6 number 1's with Katy but sometimes I wonder if she wrote like 90 percent of them and Katy added a little bit here and there, or maybe the opposite. Would love to be a fly on the wall for their writing sessions tbh
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Member Since: 9/25/2011
Posts: 12,630
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Originally posted by Beatfreak
So what is going on with her? I thought she would smash honestly.
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Give her time, she can still smash. Look at Icona Pop their song it didn't take off till like almost 1 year later. Same with Lights, Just Dance etc.
I still have faith in my girl
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ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by iheartBrit
I know she co wrote like 6 number 1's with Katy but sometimes I wonder if she wrote like 90 percent of them and Katy added a little bit here and there, or maybe the opposite. Would love to be a fly on the wall for their writing sessions tbh
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I don't think that it's that simple... Bonnie McKee co-wrote on a lot of #1 hits, but it never does specify just how much of the writing was Bonnie's.
She may have written 90% of one track, 10% of another, 30% of the next, etc. It's not really as black and white as "Bonnie wrote that smash hit for Katy". Keep in mind that Bonnie usually writes with a lot of other writers/producers, too.
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Member Since: 2/13/2012
Posts: 62,082
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I don't understand when she says stuff like "it was hard to give up the title Teenage Dream" and that makes me think she has a larger part in writing these songs than people would like to credit her for.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 34,855
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Originally posted by collin
I don't understand when she says stuff like "it was hard to give up the title Teenage Dream" and that makes me think she has a larger part in writing these songs than people would like to credit her for.
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I think I saw an interview or something with Bonnie where she said that she'd been toying with the basic idea for "Teenage Dream" in her brain for a while before she decided to go to Katy with it and write it together. And in interviews they've both told pretty specific stories about how the writing process for the song went down. So at the very least I think Bonnie and Katy probably did an equal share of the writing for that song.
But then in interviews about stuff like "Wide Awake," she's awfully vague and gives complete non-answers and you have to wonder... 
Also, iirc she once basically admitted to having written all of "Dynamite" while Taio and Luke went out to lunch despite Taio also having a writing credit on the song 
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Member Since: 1/20/2012
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Bonnie is talking about giving up the "teenage dream" theme in her quote, not giving up the full formed song itself.
Bonnie has explained the writing process of TD (the song) in great detail:
Katy and I wrote and rewrote this song 4 times. It started off being kind of a “forever young” idea. That was always the spirit of it. Katy started with a lyric about Peter Pan that was cool, but it just kept feeling too young, and we wanted it to have more edge, more sex. There was a version that included a line that said “and the next thing you know, you’re a mom in a minivan” that kept us laughing uncontrollably for an hour. We literally wrote it front to back three times and were rolling around on the studio floor delirious.
Finally, we thought we had cracked the code, we wrote something that was based on the metaphor of “trying me on”, comparing the feeling of wearing new clothes to sex, kind of a “Dress You Up in My Love” deal, and we thought we had it, but then Benny Blanco came in and was like “no.” Luke always makes us “Benny Proof” everything. He says that if Benny doesn’t get it, America won’t get it.
Katy and I looked at each other with dread, knowing we had to start all over again. He said, “something more like this” and played us The Teenagers “Homecoming”, but at that point we were both so over it we just called it a night. Katy had invited me to write with her in Santa Barbara with Doctor Luke and Max Martin the next week, and I really wanted to bring my best, so I took it home and sat with it for a while. I thought about my own adolescent years, my own first love. I thought about watching Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo and Juliet” and putting on a little mini disco ball light and just dreaming of Leo. I thought about me and my friends sitting around at slumber parties in the 90’s, giddy even just THINKING about boys. Back when love and sex were still mysterious and magical. I thought about what Benny said and I listened to the song again, and I was like The Teenagers… that’s such a great word, Teenager. It is a very descriptive word; it packs a lot of emotion and imagery into three syllables.
That’s what songwriters are always looking for- powerful, familiar themes in simple packages, and there it was. I couldn’t believe after all of our agonizing over “youth” themes, that we had overlooked such an obvious one- the teenage condition. That night I had to leave for Santa Barbara, and with this word under my belt I was confident I could piece it together from there. I was texting myself rhyme schemes all the way up PCH, trying to unscramble the puzzle before I walked into that studio. When I got there, I was all excited to tell Doctor Luke about how I’d finally cracked the code, but he was pissed off that we had spent all this time just on the chorus and banned us from spending another second on it. So I bit my tongue, and we went in and started on the verses. Katy already had some beautiful images mapped out- building forts out of tents, running away and never looking back, etc, and we wove a beautiful story together. I am really excited about the video because it is just exactly everything we talked about when we wrote it. So finally she went in to put down vocals and I was freaking out that i wasn’t able to reveal my “Teenage Dream” version yet, and it wasn’t until she had recorded the whole thing that I pulled Luke and Max aside and told them about my idea. When I sang it to them they said “Well why didn’t you say that in the first place?!” Ha ha. I tried! Anyway we recut the chorus and Katy was much happier with it, which was the most important thing to me. The “Skin tight jeans” line in the bridge was a scrap that came from our “Try me on” version, and it happened to rhyme with Teenage Dream, so I guess it wasn’t a complete waste of time!
When we listened back we were all so pumped that it had paid off. I remember Max sitting back and saying “I wish we could bottle this feeling”. It was really magical.
Chad said this in a very old thread.
The song was always meant for Katy. Bonnie is just talking about giving up the lyrical ideas that were close to her heart. (The "eternal youth" theme, and giving up the word "teenager" for any titles in the future. Since the term "teenage dream" was her idea that came at the very end of the song's conception. Then that became the name of Katy's entire era...)
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