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Music News: Britney Spears - 'Femme Fatale'
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^^ Exactly. If you look out, there ain't the same fascination around her as it was almost during all 2009.
And the digital singles **** is because she surged in the moment digital era started to be extremely relevant. New artists tend to gradually sell better than older artists, hence why she's had such huge leads on digital sales...
& ^ I'm not writing her off. But fact is that Telephone did not live up to what it was hyped for and her charm is slowing down (soon people will ring off her weirdness), what was already happening with LoveGame, then she did amazing re-surging on trends with "Paparazzi" and post "Bad Romance", which led people to hype Telephone up. No artist can or will survive all hyped up forever, specially if you keep bombarding people with new stuff all the time, people will eventually grow it off...
Anyway I'm done with this. This is a ****ing Queen of Pop thread. So leave this Gaga nonsense to the desperate "Telephone is gon' be #1" people on the iTunes thread....
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Originally posted by Vini
^^ Exactly. If you look out, there ain't the same fascination around her as it was almost during all 2009.
And the digital singles **** is because she surged in the moment digital era started to be extremely relevant. New artists tend to gradually sell better than older artists, hence why she's had such huge leads on digital sales...
& ^ I'm not writing her off. But fact is that Telephone did not live up to what it was hyped for and her charm is slowing down (soon people will ring off her weirdness), what was already happening with LoveGame, then she did amazing re-surging on trends with "Paparazzi" and post "Bad Romance", which led people to hype Telephone up. No artist can or will survive all hyped up forever, specially if you keep bombarding people with new stuff all the time, people will eventually grow it off...
Anyway I'm done with this. This is a ****ing Queen of Pop thread. So leave this Gaga nonsense to the desperate "Telephone is gon' be #1" people on the iTunes thread....
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Okay, well I see were you are coming from.
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Originally posted by efg
Gaga isn't the it girl anymore? Then who is?
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Right now? I would say Ke$ha. "TiK ToK" was HUGE, "BBB" isn't living up to it's success on radio, but it's doing well on iTunes. And her Animal album is already beyond 400k being released in January. Not to mention, "YLIMD" is growing on radio and she's getting a lot of big promotion.
An "it girl" is not a long term thing. No one is the it girl for years and years. If we're calling people it girl from success, then Britney is an it girl from the success of "Womanizer" and The Circus Tour. See, doesn't make sense. The definition is relatively temporary. GaGa was the it girl from "Just Dance" to "Poker Face". With "Paparazzi" til now, she's just been a well established debut artist.
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^^ w Here, please!
BACK ON TOPIC!
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Originally posted by Blindeyes
Right now? I would say Ke$ha. "TiK ToK" was HUGE, "BBB" isn't living up to it's success on radio, but it's doing well on iTunes. And her Animal album is already beyond 400k being released in January. Not to mention, "YLIMD" is growing on radio and she's getting a lot of big promotion.
An "it girl" is not a long term thing. No one is the it girl for years and years. If we're calling people it girl from success, then Britney is an it girl from the success of "Womanizer" and The Circus Tour. See, doesn't make sense. The definition is relatively temporary. GaGa was the it girl from "Just Dance" to "Poker Face". With "Paparazzi" til now, she's just been a well established debut artist.
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Kesha? Ehhhh. She may be the up and coming 'it girl' in the USA, but she sure as hell isn't anything to worry about WW (bar 'Tik Tok'). BBB and her new album is flopping globally.
An 'it girl' should be able to have success in the USA and WW. Something Gaga has over Kesha.
The term 'it girl' is temporary. I agree with you. But in order for you to no longer be an it girl, there has to be someone better who comes out. Either that or your records start flopping, or people lose interest. None of those has happened with Gaga.
But I do get your point.
ANYWAY, back to Britney. I hope we get a mini interview and a photoshoot from her. Were she discusses the direction her album is going in.
I hate using random tweets as a source.
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Originally posted by efg
Kesha? Ehhhh. She may be the up and coming 'it girl' in the USA, but she sure as hell isn't anything to worry about WW (bar 'Tik Tok'). BBB and her new album is flopping globally.
An 'it girl' should be able to have success in the USA and WW. Something Gaga has over Kesha.
The term 'it girl' is temporary. I agree with you. But in order for you to no longer be an it girl, there has to be someone better who comes out. Either that or your records start flopping, or people lose interest. None of those has happened with Gaga.
But I do get your point.
ANYWAY, back to Britney. I hope we get a mini interview and a photoshoot from her. Were she discusses the direction her album is going in.
I hate using random tweets as a source.
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Not true. An it girl doesn't have to be worldwide. There are defined it girls in the UK, and many other major music countries that aren't known in the US, and vice versa.
But anyway, for Britney we're getting closer.
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^ I almost forgot you had an exclusive. Anyway, the closer is to the actual work/project or to the announcement?
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Um, GaGa is the only artist in history to have 6 consecutive number one songs on The Pop 100.
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You know, I ****ing HATE when people do that, cause that isn't true. Gaga may be the only on the ACTUAL chart to have done that, but before Billboard changed chart names and whatsoever, other artists have achieved such thing, like, let's say, Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey. The latter, for instance, has had her first 10, I repeat, TEN singles topping the Mainstream Pop radio chart. It doesn't take away ANY brilliance of Gaga's performance, but let's just put all the FACTS on the table, please.
Now, PLEASE, just stick to Britney before this thread gets closed, for Christ's sake. :-/
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Originally posted by Blindeyes
Not true. An it girl doesn't have to be worldwide. There are defined it girls in the UK, and many other major music countries that aren't known in the US, and vice versa.
But anyway, for Britney we're getting closer.
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IA. But I was talking about an it girl on Gagas level.
But anyway. Booooooo for no Britney news. I want some more Candies pic.
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But anyway. Booooooo for no Britney news. I want some more Candies pic.
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LOL, we're settling for Candies' pictures now. How sad.
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LOL, we're settling for Candies' pictures now. How sad.
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........Ah well. It would be too amazing if we got some insight as to what she's going to do for her new record, so I guess we have to settle for Candies pics. =/
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^^ w Here, please!
BACK ON TOPIC!
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I love that photo, also her cop outfit.
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Originally posted by Blindeyes
Right now? I would say Ke$ha. "TiK ToK" was HUGE, "BBB" isn't living up to it's success on radio, but it's doing well on iTunes. And her Animal album is already beyond 400k being released in January. Not to mention, "YLIMD" is growing on radio and she's getting a lot of big promotion.
An "it girl" is not a long term thing. No one is the it girl for years and years. If we're calling people it girl from success, then Britney is an it girl from the success of "Womanizer" and The Circus Tour. See, doesn't make sense. The definition is relatively temporary. GaGa was the it girl from "Just Dance" to "Poker Face". With "Paparazzi" til now, she's just been a well established debut artist.
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GaGa is still the IT girl. She's only been out like a year. and she's yet to STOP and comeback.
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Originally posted by efg
Kesha? Ehhhh. She may be the up and coming 'it girl' in the USA, but she sure as hell isn't anything to worry about WW (bar 'Tik Tok'). BBB and her new album is flopping globally.
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Nope, BBB's been in the WW top 20 almost since the album release.
http://www.mediatraffic.de/tracks.htm
Right now it's at 11 and the albums sold over 500k. not bad at all for a debut. gaga's meteoric rise did not happen right away seeing as her album sold 24k opening week.
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Originally posted by Vini
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She's so EPIC
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Nope, BBB's been in the WW top 20 almost since the album release.
http://www.mediatraffic.de/tracks.htm
Right now it's at 11 and the albums sold over 500k. not bad at all for a debut. gaga's meteoric rise did not happen right away seeing as her album sold 24k opening week.
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The UWC doesn't measure worldwide success. It gives weight to each individual nation. Since BBB has done well in the US it automatically gets a high placement in the "worldwide" chart just because the US is such a big market.
Same deal with the European Hot 100 - a song can get #1 in the UK and place top five on the Euro Hot 100 without ever charting anywhere else in Europe.
Bar Australia and Canada, BBB has unfortunately had an underwhelming international chart performance.
Anyways I NEED SOME BRITNEY NEWS
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GaGa is still the IT girl. She's only been out like a year. and she's yet to STOP and comeback.
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Not here for the stans
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Please do not bring a stan war in here. I see it coming...let me get my aspirin and a bottle of water ready for I foresee a headache coming.
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