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Originally posted by i spit on haters
Is this a brand new album or some sort of greatest hits album? either way I can't see this being much of a success, honestly.
How does one market a pop star who has basically been a hermit for the past several years? Janet hasn't done much of anything to keep her name & brand out there.
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That's not entirely true. Since her last album she's done a tour, which garnered great reviews and commercial success, 2 films, a book and 2 endorsements. Also hrr marriage alone garnered alot of press and was a top trending Yahoo topic for like a week. So it's not like she was M.I.A. like a Sade or something. People know she's still around for the most part. I don't think you need to constantly be in people's faces to have a successful comeback. No shade to either cuz I love them both, but her contemporaries, Mariah and Madonna had a ton of press leading up to their respective releases and neither did anything spectacular sales wise. So that disputes that claim. Like her contemporaries, she has age working against her so that will be her biggest hurdle, not if she's keeping herself out there or not. But one thing that she has working for her is that unlike her contemporaries, she's been away the longest and has conjured up anticipation so therebwill be more curiosity for this album than her previous on that alone. I mean just look how Sade and Maxwell's albums did after a prolonged absence. Sometimes just letting the public miss you, instead of constantly being in people's faces could work in an artist's favor. But we'll see. At the end of the day, flop or not, I'm just happy for new music cuz she's been through ALOT in the last 7 years and I just can't wait to hear her express it in new music.