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Originally posted by SO.UNCOOL™
So I've come to the conclusion that "Hold You Down"completely ruined the momentum of Jen's music career.
Despite "Get Right" being her lowest charting lead single in the U.S. at the time and it being the first single released after the 'Bennifer' fallout, 'Rebirth' still managed to open with a very solid 260k.
It was obvious Epic thought they could re-create "All I Have" with "Hold You Down" but that failed miserably
We'd be in a whole different situation had they released "Step Into My World" as the second single. Anyone else agree?
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I kinda agree!
I think the album was great, well, most of her albums sometimes are. But they always choose the wrong singles! I've never understood that. I know it's strange but sometimes I do kinda blame the seasonal change. I know it may be silly but sometimes some singles just don't work for Winter, Spring, or Summer, if that makes any sense. "Hold You Down" was transitioning from Winter to Spring, and I always felt like it just didn't fit right. As the flowers were blossoming the video looked dead as hell, along with the song. She might've well just shot the video at a graveyard.
"Rebirth" should had been "Get Right", "Step Into My World" [Spring], "Whatever You Wanna Do" [Summer], "Cherry Pie" [Late Summer like Aug]