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Fan Base: Azealia Banks
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Inuborg I love your avi so ****ing much!
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Inuborg I love your avi so ****ing much!
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Thanks!!!!
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Member Since: 3/8/2014
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Shout out to the kunts lurking here
We'll all be together soon.
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Member Since: 8/25/2011
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I really hope she promotes "H M & R" I love it!
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Member Since: 12/21/2011
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Originally posted by maiko
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No omg it would slay (and so do you )! It would look very Heavy Metal & Reflective
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Member Since: 12/21/2011
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Originally posted by ruefle
Promotion
She should immediately decide the next two songs she's going to release, keeping in mind critical acclaim and potential for mainstream success. Frontrunners are Miss Camaraderie, Chasing Time, and Wallace. Everyone seems to agree Miss C is her best song, and yet I get the sense she's hesitant to release it because she wants it to get treated right. Well, sorry, babe, but the time has seriously come to put your best foot forward.
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I think Chasing Time would be perfect (because it supposedly sounds very UK) and Miss Amor/Camaraderie because they've been soooo hyped up. I wouldn't mind a cute video like this either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT5O2JB1j-Q (it'd be like 212 2.0.)
I know this will sound so stupid but I really hope she calms it down on the complex lyrics because people are incredibly lazy and assume she's talking gibberish when in fact she's just being perceptive.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Watching the video really makes you enjoy the song much much more!
The part where the bikes are circling her! The foreign language at the beginning made me scream though
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Member Since: 4/7/2012
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Originally posted by ruefle
Two tenets:
1) BWET must be released this fall, during the BWET tour.
2) Regardless of whether she'll sign with a major or indie label in the future, BWET will be released independently: “Banks hopes to release those songs on her own label, and move on.”
Distribution
I'm in the group of those who think a digital-only release would be a disappointing embarrassment. If she can't strike a temporary deal directly with a distributor or larger label just for the purpose of releasing CD and vinyl versions of BWET (well worth it even if she has to pay a lump sum to them and hand over 75% of the profits, for heavens’ sake), she should frankly use a service geared more towards tiny artists like tunecore Disc Manufacturing or finetunes Digital Media Services. My only concern here is whether this would open her up to the album leaking weeks before release…
Digitally, she can stick with what she's doing, which I think people have speculated is through tunecore. Can she buy her own iTunes banner, or is that something that can only be negotiated via a label?
Promotion
She should immediately decide the next two songs she's going to release, keeping in mind critical acclaim and potential for mainstream success. Frontrunners are Miss Camaraderie, Chasing Time, and Wallace. Everyone seems to agree Miss C is her best song, and yet I get the sense she's hesitant to release it because she wants it to get treated right. Well, sorry, babe, but the time has seriously come to put your best foot forward.
So yeah, record videos for those two tracks. Release first track by the 20th of this month, and the video the video the following week. Rinse and repeat for track #2 in September. At that time, put out the album cover, tracklist, release date, and preorder.
All this time, she should be getting her Beyoncé-level work ethic on, recording as many videos for BWET tracks as possible. Like, Gaga-during-Monster-Ball, sink-a-ton-of-your-own-money-in-it ****. When it comes time for release week, the strategy is saturation: as many radio and blog interviews as you can grab, any TV promo you can snag (probably zero, unless maybe something in the UK), and one new video per day each day that week. (Yes, Weird Al's Mandatory Fun-style. It sure worked for him!)
Goal
BWET gets critical acclaim with >78 on Metacritic. BWET sells at least 20,000 copies in the US so that it isn't a total flop. Physical distribution will make this possible, in contrast to Sky Ferreira's iTunes-only release. (50,000 would be the beautiful goal, possible if there's more people checking for the long-awaited BWET than we expect and/or if her video saturation works like it did for Weird Al.)
After this, it won't matter if she doesn't chart a single song from the album in any country. She'll have proved she didn't completely annihilate her career and can move on to Fantasea II and whatever else next year, either on a real label or using the blueprint for BWET.
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I agree with the majority of this post, the only thing I disagree on is if she goes for a digital-only release, she needs to utilise iTunes. Get herself a banner and give away one track for free. She said she has a good manager & lawyer in that buzz feed interview so I think they'll be working on a CD release aswell. I think Sky did 7k first week with just iTunes sales. It's now at 30k since the CD/Vinyl distribution.
The bold is a good point to. HM&R is a good introduction.. now she needs to unleash the best stuff that has the potential to appeal to a wider demographic. I mean I know we can only tell so much from song descriptions but I do think Miss C will be the best track to lead with. Only two swear words, singing, rapping and it's a Lone production. She doesn't even need a hit, something like Genesis by Grimes or Everything is Embarrassing (attention wise, not sonically speaking) by Sky which just sticks with a certain crowd and gets some acclaim.
It doesn't seem like she wants to take a break though. I'd say promote BWET from Sept 2014 - July/Aug 2015 (festival season) and try find a new deal at the same time. Maybe drop a new mixtape at the tail end of next year and then take a small break to figure everything out.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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I like teen-idle's idea
I NEED a physical release! There's no way I'll be satisfied with some internet files of AZ's holy firstborn
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Member Since: 1/4/2014
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Originally posted by Stantasea
I like teen-idle's idea
I NEED a physical release! There's no way I'll be satisfied with some internet files of AZ's holy firstborn
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Yes, a physical copy is a must for me as well. I will not deal if it's only iTunes but I'm sure she'll do both
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Member Since: 4/7/2012
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Originally posted by Luminary
Yes, a physical copy is a must for me as well. I will not deal if it's only iTunes but I'm sure she'll do both
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The difference between Sky & Azealia is that Sky didn't have any backing from her label, they refused to make physical copies. Azealia has the choice because she runs the show, so I'd say it's almost definite we'll get physical copies, even if it is in limited form.
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Member Since: 1/2/2014
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I want her to release another 4 track length EP
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Member Since: 4/7/2012
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Has she got herself a publishing deal with Sony? Sony/ATV publishing have tweeted the link to the HM&R music video.. probably clutching straws but it might mean a distribution deal could follow in the future.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by Roc
I think Chasing Time would be perfect (because it supposedly sounds very UK) and Miss Amor/Camaraderie because they've been soooo hyped up. I wouldn't mind a cute video like this either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT5O2JB1j-Q (it'd be like 212 2.0.)
I know this will sound so stupid but I really hope she calms it down on the complex lyrics because people are incredibly lazy and assume she's talking gibberish when in fact she's just being perceptive.
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that video seems more like Luxury 2.0 tbh.. But i wouldnt mind her doing something like Luxury again it was simple but sooo good
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Member Since: 12/21/2011
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Originally posted by cherrygodess
that video seems more like Luxury 2.0 tbh.. But i wouldnt mind her doing something like Luxury again it was simple but sooo good
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True lol but yeah I want a simple video from her too!
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Member Since: 12/21/2011
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Originally posted by cherrygodess
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Yaaazzzzzzz didn't she ask to get snatched up by Sony?!
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Member Since: 12/15/2011
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I want Chasing Time to be a next single
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Member Since: 1/4/2014
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Originally posted by cherrygodess
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Originally posted by Roc
Yaaazzzzzzz didn't she ask to get snatched up by Sony?!
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Yes, I remember her mentioning something like that. I hope this is goooood
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Member Since: 1/4/2014
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Originally posted by Mr.Fenty
I want Chasing Time to be a next single
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Me too.. Chasing Time or MissA/C.. One of those three, pretty please AB
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