I know an honest answer sounds so elitist.
Looking at her discography:
3 collabs hitting the charts in less than a month.
She is using Rih's strategy of "Quantity has a quality all its own".
- If a single can underperform or flop, it's wise to release multiple singles at the same time and hope that 1 of them goes through and becomes a hit.
- More artists/names per single, the love for collabs. The elitists don't collab with girls or do it only once with a girl per many years. You don't want your fave to be seen as a rentable rapper.
Let's see how her career peaks on the charts looked like:
Top 20 if I don't count divergent France and Italy.
How about comparing it with Applause?
Top 10 if I don't count divergent Netherlands and Sweden.
It's a clear difference when the career peak is nowhere near we all know what this lead single symbolises.
How about 2016 charts?
Top 30, top 50, top 30 if I don't count some divergent countries.
Wait that is comparable to Perfect Illusion:
When a main pop girl enters the scene, there is a loud bang, a grand debut:
Apart from a few divergent countries trying with their top 5, it's a flat out #1.
It stirred some controversy:
It makes the kissing girl theme hers and anyone else crossing that lane was called out by the media 7 years later:
Papers were written about it and talks at universities were given:
Quote:
'Experimentation: Appropriation vs. Transgression – Katy Perry’s I Kissed a Girl: Carrier or Corrupter of Hegemony?' Delivered at the Queer Screen Cultures Study Day at The University of Nottingham, 5th of May, 2009.
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She will eventually get a hit of this size, impact,...