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Originally posted by Roman Holiday
I'm shocked every time I hear Slave and Dirrty were such huge flops in America. was like 9 when they came out and I thought they were huge at the time. The videos were always playing on TRL.
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Britney's excuse was that she went with concert west/AEG or pepsi i forget for her DWAD tour. Clear channel owned majority of the top 40 stations in the states at that time.
It wasn't even heavily added.
I remember they had a site called r&r online that would monitor these things and Iwas just getting into the charts at that time.
Xtina was surprising because the producer of the song was actually big and the urban pop sound was in. Her song got added to around 90 rhythmic and pop stations the first week. It was added on so many stations but only managed top 15 because it turned people off.
It was designed to be a #1 hit but the content was tacky AND THEN the video was tackier. Overprotected meets slave for you gone wrong.
that said, THIS was the start of xtina confusing her audience much like a few artists out right now and as a result she started to lose people.
Had she had her back to basics image during stripped then she would rival beyonce right now.
Instead she reinvented herself the wrong way at the wrong time and luckily had Beautiful to save her a bit
