|
Poll: Can radio save G.U.Y.?
View Poll Results: Will radio be enough to save G.U.Y.?
|
Yes
|
|
46 |
24.60% |
No
|
|
141 |
75.40% |
Member Since: 8/31/2013
Posts: 20,892
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 2/15/2012
Posts: 15,569
|
No. All in all, G.U.Y.'s just a bad song and it doesn't deserve to be a hit. Radio can try to force it down the public's throat like they did with Applause and Do What U Want, but audiences simply won't be interested.
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 1,481
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Rihinvention
No it's not. Just because an album has stand-outs doesn't mean the rest are automatically fillers. I'm basically just saying, that her album is a great, fun, pop record, and the songs on it are amazing, but there are some songs on there that are just so obviously smash-hits that you just KNOW they're going to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
And another thing: I'm sick of people talking about a lot of Katy Perry songs using words like "generic" and "formulaic" and "predictable" and "radio-friendly" and "childish" and "bubblegum" as if they're bad things. This is partly why Gaga is who she is and why she's so popular. When she entered the industry in 2008, she was so, SOOO unapologetically pop, and was so unabashedly pop. This was after years and years of there being a stigma on pop music. That it was manufactured and childish. And you were only cool if you listened to indie music or a band that you were the first person to find out about. Then boom. Gaga enters the industry. 2 number 1 hits in a row off her debut album (which hadn't been seen since Christina Aguilera). She literally had glasses that said "POP" on them and started her performances by saying "Pop. Music. Will. Never. Be. The. Same. Again." It was amazing. She single-handedly shed the negative stigma on pop music.
Now that Katy Perry is making unapologetically, unabashedly, radio-friendly pop music, you can't criticise her for it. If she, Bonnie Mckee, Max Martin and Dr. Luke know it's going to work, and know it's going to go to #1 and know it's going to make them a lot of money, then I say more power to them.
You can't have it both ways. You can't praise Gaga for The Fame being so radio-friendly, commercial, and unabashedly pop, and then praise her for being experimental with ARTPOP, and then criticize Katy for Teenage Dream and PRISM being so radio-friendly, commercial and unabashedly pop. It doesn't work that way. It's completely hypocritical and it's completely biased.
|
Best. Post. Ever.
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 28,137
|
It should at least climb up to the 100s with decent airplay
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 9,438
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 3,060
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Rihinvention
Mostly the ones on LittleMonsters.com tbh. I've only just discovered atrl, I'm new
|
Ah ok. LM.com is home to all the yes men monsters. It's all about praising everything gaga does all the time. I have no problem with that but I haven't logged into my account there since I joined tbh.
Gagadaily is a mix but most people on there are more reasonable.
Twitter monsters are generally the insane one's who send hate to other people and here seems to have some from each group.
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 28,137
|
Not relatively new ATRL-er Rihinvention snatching you all a bit
|
|
|
Member Since: 4/3/2014
Posts: 19,477
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Chemical X.
Not relatively new ATRL-er Rihinvention snatching you all a bit
|
|
|
|
ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 7/22/2012
Posts: 8,060
|
Of course! It's just starting.
|
|
|
Member Since: 3/21/2012
Posts: 55,134
|
Quote:
Originally posted by ClashAndBurn
No. All in all, G.U.Y.'s just a bad song and it doesn't deserve to be a hit. Radio can try to force it down the public's throat like they did with Applause and Do What U Want, but audiences simply won't be interested.
|
Applause and DWUW weren't shoved down our throats ..!!
|
|
|
Member Since: 10/14/2010
Posts: 6,781
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Is America awake yet?
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 771
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Rihinvention
No it's not. Just because an album has stand-outs doesn't mean the rest are automatically fillers. I'm basically just saying, that her album is a great, fun, pop record, and the songs on it are amazing, but there are some songs on there that are just so obviously smash-hits that you just KNOW they're going to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
And another thing: I'm sick of people talking about a lot of Katy Perry songs using words like "generic" and "formulaic" and "predictable" and "radio-friendly" and "childish" and "bubblegum" as if they're bad things. This is partly why Gaga is who she is and why she's so popular. When she entered the industry in 2008, she was so, SOOO unapologetically pop, and was so unabashedly pop. This was after years and years of there being a stigma on pop music. That it was manufactured and childish. And you were only cool if you listened to indie music or a band that you were the first person to find out about. Then boom. Gaga enters the industry. 2 number 1 hits in a row off her debut album (which hadn't been seen since Christina Aguilera). She literally had glasses that said "POP" on them and started her performances by saying "Pop. Music. Will. Never. Be. The. Same. Again." It was amazing. She single-handedly shed the negative stigma on pop music.
Now that Katy Perry is making unapologetically, unabashedly, radio-friendly pop music, you can't criticise her for it. If she, Bonnie Mckee, Max Martin and Dr. Luke know it's going to work, and know it's going to go to #1 and know it's going to make them a lot of money, then I say more power to them.
You can't have it both ways. You can't praise Gaga for The Fame being so radio-friendly, commercial, and unabashedly pop, and then praise her for being experimental with ARTPOP, and then criticize Katy for Teenage Dream and PRISM being so radio-friendly, commercial and unabashedly pop. It doesn't work that way. It's completely hypocritical and it's completely biased.
|
Amazing Post.
I would make it my sig if I could
|
|
|
Member Since: 2/2/2012
Posts: 26,226
|
Quote:
Originally posted by LP54
Will radio airplay be enough to save G.U.Y.?
Current iTunes position:
375
Promo so far:
Music video, The Today Show, Dateline, MTV/Logo Takeover, Late Night with David Letterman, iHeart Radio Hosting, Access Hollywood, E!
|
Seriously this is probably the most promo it has been done for an album in the past 10 years, she has literally performed everywhere an has been promoted by every channel
To answer the question, no.
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/20/2011
Posts: 12,590
|
Quote:
Originally posted by theworldfamous
Marry the Night and Judas disagree.
|
Yes, GUY is much more radio friendly then those songs.
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 6,304
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Swag
Seriously this is probably the most promo it has been done for an album in the past 10 years, she has literally performed everywhere an has been promoted by every channel
To answer the question, no.
|
How many channels has your tv? It seems not too many.
Little have you seen regarding promo judging from your post. Also, show us the receipts about promo done by pop stars in the past 10 years. Don't come back without it.
As for the op, it'll be hard but I believe G.U.Y. will peak top 40.
|
|
|
Member Since: 4/6/2014
Posts: 2,407
|
if it were based off of payola
|
|
|
Banned
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 1,868
|
yes they would have to cut out that whole "greetings her..." thing though
|
|
|
Member Since: 10/16/2005
Posts: 16,872
|
It's a great song. Probably one of the standout tracks on the album. Its performance is really baffling.
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/18/2013
Posts: 660
|
I don't know, neon lights was at the same itunes position and then z100 added the song at it began to climb. maybe it can be a moderate hit
|
|
|
Member Since: 11/2/2010
Posts: 3,167
|
|
|
|
|
|