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Originally posted by Iyanla, Fix Me
1. You trying to say CIL is remembered only by the Urban audiences is false because it still gets spins on Pop, Rhythmic, and AC stations - which Toxic does not. Toxic doesn't get plays on any format so if you think saying, "CIL is remembered by the urban community i guess" is an insult think again.
2. The same could be said for Toxic really, Britney doesn't have a remembered move or dance routine. Beyonce has two.
3. Toxic did not pave the way or start any trend musically. Beyonce started the horns trend that lasted until 2007 really. Toxic was dance pop/edm - which didn't pop off until 2009 - thanks to Gaga and BEP. Britney later jumped back on that trend in 2011 but unfortunately she still wasn't ab;e to shift 1M copies of that album.
4. So to wrap this up Crazy in Love has more: - Views
Sales
Recurrent Sales
Covers by unknown and major artists
Airplay
and etc.
You can give any cockamainey reason the list above is, it doesn't matter.
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What does ANY of this have to do with Britney's selling 1M albums? lol If the thread was titled Beyonce vs Britney, i missed that.
Jay-Z is a feature on the song, those formats mostly playing it are urban. also, a song doesn't have to "pave the way" to be remembered (something i never said CIL wasn't). And for every sale, view or airplay CIL has, it's being compared to a song by an artist who was basically blacklisted by rasio at the time vs a lead single by a "new artist".
& Toxic's been covered just as much so lets not.
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Originally posted by swissman
Don't tell me to stop after you say you guess its remembered in the urban community, when it's CLEARLY remembered by other communities. Wasn't 50 Shades a white girl book?
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I said nothing bad about the urban community. it's remembered, i'll give CIL that, but not as remembered as Toxic no matter how it's looked at, stats and all.
and saying 50 shades of grey is a "white girl book" leads me to believe you feel like "urban" means black lol, i'm black and that's not what i meant.