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Originally posted by efg
The excuses are already pouring in. "Wait till it's released on iTunes!!!1111!!" 
As if Christina has ever had strong iTunes sales. Considering that the general consensus is that this song sucks, I highly doubt this song is going to be a massive digital seller. Even with a decent video this song will still tank. The song is just tuneless. Single Ladies, 3 and Bad Romance were not earth shatteringly good, but the songs still had catchy hooks which got stuck in your head- therefore making them hits. I can't believe Christina fans still think this will set the charts on fire around the world. |
One thing that is being left unsaid is that Christina hasn't really had a chance to shine in the digital era. B2B was before iTunes had as much pull as radio for the Hot 100 wasn't it? And the only significant piece she has released since then is "Keeps Gettin' Better," a song that nobody expected to be a #1 hit in the first place but had a respectable showing as a GH single with middling promotion.
Maybe, just maybe, this song will capture a larger digital audience than any of us are expecting. I know that the odds are against her because somebody with huge digital power like Britney had Womanizer shoot straight to #1 around the same time KGB was released, and then 3 did the same thing last year. But I'm not going to count Christina out just yet.
I'm wondering which audience she will attract though. She's in a kind of awkward phase where this song is trying to appeal to the same tweens and teens who made Single Ladies and Bad Romance phenomenons, but she already lost her younger casual fanbase with B2B; this song may alienate the mature fanbase that's attracted to Beautiful/Hurt/Lift Me Up Christina. I'm tired of personally dissecting her though because I'm no industry analyst and I'm just interested in seeing how it shakes out.
so who knows...
