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Originally posted by Gagamon
Was Fame highly successful? Just successful? Or not that successful? I wasn't really following it when it was released.
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It's sold over 30,000,000 bottles, has made $1,600,000,000, and was the 8th best selling perfume of all time as of early 2013. (
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Originally posted by Reinvention
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- Venus: No explanation needed.
- G.U.Y.: "Greetings Himeros, god of sexual desire, son of Aphrodite," "Mount your goddess. A summer moon comes into full phase, and Mars' warm spirit rams into the atmosphere."
- Sexxx Dreams: "You could turn a stone or the color of, man petrified by a woman..." (I always took this to be a reference to Medusa and the fact that the sight of her turned onlookers to stone.)
- Mary Jane Holland: "...so if you have fear, Apollo, sit on my lyre..."
- Plus the repeated referencing of
The Birth of Venus throughout the era.
I think Temple would have furthered this theme, and for some reason, I feel the same about Titinus. (I'm not sure why though.)
She still has a career, but she certainly reached a very low point during ARTPOP. The decline is real...but there is still power in ha name!!
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) if she didn't. With the right material and image, she can easily get back "on top." But right now, she does NOT have the biggest brand or most power by any stretch of the imagination.
