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Originally posted by Poisonous
This basically sums it all. I agree with everything you wrote. What's more interesting is, our fan base thread is probably one of the most active here. Kelly Rowland and Ciara's have less pages, yet they their stans have more to discuss because their faves are actually releasing music.
Like you always say, we go in circles around her failures and what she could do or could've done. That's probably 80% of what this entire thread is about.. I really don't blame some of her stans who have lost faith in her. This entire solo career attempt is a total fiasco.
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Kelly Rowland doesn't really have any fans on here, but Ciara does. They're too busy in her song threads to post in their Base thread. We only have this.
I never really had faith. What happens, happens.
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Originally posted by J-esper
Her story is basically a contradiction of what she does. If you just look simply to Behind The Music, you see a story about a woman who wants to build a succesful solo brand. But in reality she is an insecure woman, without marketing skills, who has material for a life long discography, with no idea what to potray to create that illusion of that "succesful brand" that has been potrayed in the media and by herself. She really isn't made for the pop music business. She only would have been fine, if she would have some people at the start of her career who could have puppeted her career path. That is why she got succes with PCD tbh, she was not in control during those days, she just was their to fill her role. And that is also why Doll Domination went in a downwards spiral at some point, since she got more freedom during that era to control things.
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I agree with everything, but I don't think those qualities in bold are necessary for a pop singer. Marketing is what managers, publicists, labels, etc. deal with and it's their job to make their clients visible and push them towards some direction. Britney has that and Beyonce had that with her father, but Nicole doesn't. And I hate making this is a race issue, but I'm not sure what direction she would be pushed towards and marketed as considering her ethnicity. She's not white and she's not black and not a Latina either so who does she appeal to in her own country? She's a southern girl, but most people won't consider her that. The best image they could push for someone like her is the "exotic sex siren" thing; I think that's the only angle they could exploit and it's exactly what was done in PCD. There were two white women, two sorta white women and a sorta black women with her so they could better appeal to a mainstream audience while Nicole did most of the work.
By the way, Nicole never said she wanted to be a "solo brand" in Behind the Music. She just said she wanted to be a pop star. I don't think she's interested in money so "brand" is misleading.