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Originally posted by Patrick
This isn't really specific to ATRL, but as a music community it's something we understand better than thr average joe. I HATE that people don't really understand the concept of the single; that labels, artists and radio put their efforts into promoting/playing one track from an artist at a time.
Actual conversation I had with a Katy Perry fan around the time "Waking Up in Vegas" was released.
"I love Katy Perry's new song."
"Which one?"
"Oh, "Waking Up in Vegas".
"That's not even that new."
Yes, technically the song had been around for months, but it had sat dormant on a tracklist and had not been given attention prior to my comment. At the time of my comment the track had just gone out for radio adds. I was so pissed off I went home and looked up the official release date, but I didn't bother to correct the stupid **** because I knew they wouldn't understand. Still, I hate that they had the satisfaction of thinking they were more up-to-date with pop music than I was because they just happened to have Katy Perry's album and they could not comprehend how this old album track was in reality Katy's new hit.
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Ugh, yes! That happened to me with Bruno Mars' "The Lazy Song." My friend was playing it and it was the first time I had ever heard it, so I was like, "Is this the new Bruno Mars song?" She was like, "Um, I don't know. It's been out for a while." Now, being a good boy of ATRL, I knew the damn thing had just been released to radio, like, two weeks before. But because that bitch had the stupid ****ing album, she completely misunderstood what I was trying to say. There was no point in trying to correct her, so I just let it go, looking like the idiot myself.
