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Originally posted by EightSin
No.
Every girl wants a Teenage Dream era and that's the god-damn tea.
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I've always felt most of TD #1s were really undeserving, the songs are pretty generic and forgettable, and all strike me as filler. 'California Gurls' was definitely a 'Tik Tok' redo, and not even a good one, TD, the song, generic at most, I mean the chorus melody is so lifeless and random for me, then 'Firework', the only #1 I can understand, and I don't even like it, 'Born This Way' and '****in' Perfect' are songs with the same message and definitely feel much better written, but I accept 'Firework' has the "formula". Then 'ET', while is the only song I like from what I've heard of TD, I've never thought it'd get a #1, I mean is slow, sounds like a song you might have heard before, the beat is the best of the song, 'LFN', wow Britney's album fillers are much better than this and never got released. Then TOTGA, a sort of ballad that makes most obvious Katy's hard-drums-for-every-song formula. Then the re-release, that Join The Army video and a song that is like the others, generic and WA, man, that #2 it got was like totally unexpected.
What all the other pop girls could wish for is Katy's marketing team, they made the absolute most of the pretty mediocre album, and I think the general public is in the same line with me, Loud and Born This Way sold pretty much the same as TD with a lot less single success, especially BTW. The videos were a lot better of what could you expect from them, each one was like an "event" because each one was so varied and well-directed (pop-wise), and had like these extras, like the 'Firework' documentary short, the party with Rebecca Black interviews. Wide Awake is such an awful song with a big budget video. With 5 #1s *without counting POM* it equals Michael Jackson's 'Bad' but 'Bad' sold 45 million copies and TD I think around 8 million, that with a re-release and a movie, wich also helps my point since it pretty much flopped, the Bieber movie made a lot more. And don't tell me it's because album sales decline, '21' sold more than 20 million WW with just 3 WW hits, all TD singles were hits and they were 8. However, TD hits since 'Firework' didn't slay that much worlwide in comparison to the US, for example while LFN was released around the same time as Man Down, and you may view the latter as a flop but in France LFN peaked at 22 and MD topped the charts for 5 weeks and France is one of the biggest markets. So I think the success of TD was more of a marketing success, the album was pushed way more than what its music could have pulled off by itself.
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Originally posted by And Now I Wonder
No. Every artist dreams of a Daydream Era.
Two debuts at #1, longest running Billboard #1, 25 million copies sold WW, successful Daydream Tour.. unparalleled SLAY. |
I've always noticed something about Mariah Carey, she's been very successful and sold a lot, has a ton of #1s but no one really remembers her that much. I mean, have you heard someone who's not a fan play 'Touch My Body' recently?
