Of course. If you peruse old ATRL posts (i.e., before 1989 opened w/ 1.3M, sold 5M copies in the U.S., spent a year in the Top 10, spawned multiple #1 hits, and garnered mass acclaim), everyone predicted that critics and fans would be alienated by her move to pop and that her album sales and acclaim would collapse as a result.
Sounds like quite the risk for the biggest album seller of the millennium.
For example:
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
1989 will be Taylor's least acclaimed and worst-selling album to date.
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4 million+ people will not be purchasing an album filled with Max Martin radio fodder. This isn't the early 2000s.
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