Feeling the need to establish herself as a "gay icon." Her overzealous activity in the gay community alienated her from a large portion of her fanbase.
Wonder how much different her career would have been if the label kept their control and forced her to release Dance in the Dark, instead of Alejandro which is commonly seen as the point she started dipping down. Would she still end up in the same situation?
Hmm. I think she developed a kind of pretentiousness towards the end of The Fame Monster era that made her make career choices she wouldn't have made otherwise. I saw the word overzealous a couple posts above, and maybe that's what it was?
Everything about BTW. The first single being so close to EY and people already talking about minutes after it premiered. The discount on Amazon (great for 1st week sales, but pretty much a joke to buy an album for under a dollar in the first week of release). How can an artist agree to do that even if they get paid full prize for it? and afterwards everything went downhill.
It also didn't help that her fanbase was pretty much a bunch of vile kids & teenagers who acted the exact opposite of what the message for the era was.
Selling BTW for 99cents like whose idea was that?! That's why everybody said ARTPOP was a flop (cause of that 80% downfall) even though it sold well the first week!
I hate that she ALWAYS overhype everything she has to stop doing that!
Also I don't think she manages singles and promo singles very well and she promises things but doesn't deliver (venus,dwuw videos...)
Not Born This Way being her downfall. :aah:
That album sold at least 6.5 million copied WW and produced 2 WW hit singles.
In that case, Talk That Talk would have been Rihannas downfall
It was extremely front loaded. It sold 1 million first week in the US and then took like a whole other year to sell the same amount again And it dipped from 1 million first week to under 200K second week
The fact is, that the general public basically forgot her during her 2 1/2 year long break. Y'all need to realize that.
the success came from the over hype that the TFM left, she wasn't a frontloaded artist till BTW was released, Marry the night being a great song and still flopping was better proof of how people were tired of her in 2011.