Honestly the song should not have flopped I mean when we first heard it, it was universally loved, all we needed was the damn video and it would have been a bigger hit
DWUW probably had the catchiest beat of all the songs Gaga released so far in this album. I was moving to it when I heard it in a Best Buy commercial and I hated myself for that. That said, the song is too Gaga when you leave the chorus behind and that's not a good thing. She's flopping in general with this era because of how OTT she's been since she debuted. I think she needs to have a significant shift to interest the general public again.
It didn't flop, it was a minor hit. Lol. On top of that, it didn't have a video and the messy era began at that point where her management was disastrous.