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Originally posted by MattyTacos
But, Lady Gaga has had HUGE hits all her career. All of her singles did successfully well except MTN. Wouldn't that mean by Gaga's standards G.U.Y flopped and even harder than Birthday on Katy's standards. Both songs didn't get a lot of promo. Gaga went on TV and promoted the song by showing clips of the video and talking about it. Katy never did that for Birthday. The only promo that Birthday got was streaming points and radio plays, same for G.U.Y.
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Wait, so Applause isn't considered a flop now?
Also, I'm taking into account the lack of promo and the fact the era itself was in a decline. Also, showing a couple clips really isn't the same kind of promo that a radio deal is. There also wasn't much hype to the vid, it kinda just dropped out of nowhere, unlike Katy's.
By all standards, G.U.Y. performed far better than it should have.