It still remained at 2 play counts on my iTunes, where as The Fame, The Fame: Monster all have 100-500+ play counts, Born This Way tracks with 100-300, and Applause with 2 (and overall ARTPOP album with 3).
Well when it got premiered after the Pop 911 mess on the iHeart Radio app(btw that was a pain to figure out how to use) regardless I was in the middle of making raman noodles for lunch and I was bopping like a bitch!
I was so dissapointed. I honestly believed she was going to come back with something incredible and I was hyped for over a month. It was a dated sound with terrible lyrics.
I absolutely loved it at first and called it one of my favorite songs of hers, but now I don't think it's one of her absolute best. I do still like it a lot.
It was a good song but something about it didn't seem enough. Also I still expected it to shoot up quickly to #1 on iTunes no matter what I thought it sounded like.
I thought "Applause" had SO MUCH going on and I didn't have a clue what she was saying in the chorus, but I remember having it literally on repeat for days and now it's my most played song on iTunes.