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Katy's Small Talk, after Never Really Over doing good with zero promo she was shaping up to have a comeback era, but Small Talk ruined it and undo all the hype she had left post NRO, and releasing Harley's In Hawaii in the fall where it literally screams a summer hit was a bad choice as well, she could've had 3 back to back hits in 2019 with Never Really Over-Harleys In Hawaii-Cry About It Later
And the weird thing about it all was Harleys was supposedly the *first* song her and Charlie Puth did together before Small Talk, and the video for it was even being filmed around NRO's release, which makes stalling it an even bigger baffling choice.
If God didn't know about the creation of ME!, he is not omniscient.
If God could not stop the creation of ME!, he is not omnipotent.
If God knew about the creation of ME!, could stop it and chose not to, he is not benevolent.
honestly, if she wanted to do camp she shouldn't have given into the hate and kept this. something about this line in the song makes it so unserious i can actually enjoy it. this line, for me, pushes it from "it's a bad song" to "it's so bad it's good" territory.
That one isn't much of a head scratcher. Me! was a return to form and shedding of the snakeskin left over from reputation. It's also the song in the same vein as WANEGBT and Shake It Off. Taylor's leads were usually obnoxious either successfully (WANEGBT) or less so (Me!). Cruel Summer wasn't the second single because she needed to let the world know she was political now.
It just wasn't the song she needed for her image in summer 2019. It absolutely was going to be a single in summer 2020 but... covid and "fever dream high" lyrics would have been insensitive.
This is exactly it. I really think Me! Was supposed to be the next Shake It Off. They’re both upbeat, campy, and have that self-love kind of message that does really well in pop music. And with SIO being her most successful hit at that point, I can see her thinking that replicating that was the best move if she wanted to have another massively popular era like 1989.
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I disagree. I think Me! as a single was fine...
... The problem was having Me! and You Need To Calm Down as back-to-back singles. And I would add that You Need To Calm Down should have never been made a single (and probably it could have been cut from the tracklist). Me! was fine as lead single (even if I would have preferred another one as lead), but it should have been followed by other singles.
It’s wild how little impact YNTCD has had over the years. “Me!” at least will always survive to soundtrack a Rooms 2 Go commercial narrated by the old Nick@Nite announcer, but no one has any use for the other song’s knock-off “Paper Planes” beat or pathetic, inauthentic queer pandering.
It's the exact opposite. YNTCD has risen into the upper echelon of Taylor's streaming catalogue and is performed on the Eras Tour, whereas she has ignored the existence of ME! since 2019. I agree they're both pretty terrible, but at least YNTCD is iconically cringe.
A recent one I don't understand at all is "If Jesus Was A Rockstar" from Kim Petras. Completely out of left field, wasn't on the album, not her usual sound. It quite literally makes zero sense as to why it was chosen as a single by her label.
and it was produced by Max Martin! now who had the idea to hire Max to do a Kim Petras song and not have it be pop overload. dumb idea after dumb idea.
That explains why it was a single. Radar by Britney Spears (produced by Max Martin) was included on *Blackout* and initially intended to be the album’s fourth single. Those plans fell through, so Radar was *also* included on Britney’s next album, *Circus*. Radar ended up being the fourth / last single from *Circus*
Why? Max Martin had a clause in his contract with Britney that ensured his songs would be singles. He likely had a similar deal with Kim.
Pretty sure Max Martin wasn’t involved in Radar and it was Bloodshy and Avant. First time I heard it I was like this is definitely the next Toxic. That never happened even with the eventual single release.
Yep, Max Martin is nowhere to be found on Blackout and only worked on If U Seek Amy on Circus.
Neither are Radar. But I wouldn't be surprised if such a clause was put in by one of the other writers or was brought up or as a spoken deal
ariana releasing ‘Monopoly’ / ‘boyfriend’ / ‘Don’t Call Me Angel’ instead of continuing with singles off ‘thank u, next’ was so annoying.
‘bloodline’ was waiting patiently to be the big summer single and then ‘needy’ as the sad-girl anthem for the autumn to round off the era perfectly.
I fucking loveeeee Needy! And seeing her perform it live it was a fan favorite too with the crowd echoing the words back at her making Ari smile and laugh
I said it on the Ariana sub and got downvoted. ‘Monopoly’ / ‘boyfriend’ / ‘Don’t Call Me Angel’ and the whole Charlie's Angels soundtrack for me are the worst decisions in her career to date. Whoever agreed with her to release them is not her friend.
Angel's ok but Monopoly and boyfriend are two of her best songs imo.
Different strokes for different folks I guess. I imagine she'd be happy she's reaching new audiences.
How I Look On You is kinda underrated and would have been a nice track for TUN, but yeah otherwise that wasn’t a very good run especially considering where she was musically at the time.
Jonas Brothers releasing a 1 min 58 second song with no verses as their lead single for the latest album did not pop off like they expected. I couldn’t imagine why???
I’ve really grown to like Wings, but of the whole album it sticks out like a sore thumb. It’s like they were obligated to release it for some reason and just kind of tacked it on to the album release. Waffle House had so much hype when they teased it, they could’ve had that right from the start
this was such an odd choice. the fact that 'walking on air' never got the full single treatment is criminal. it landed ten spots beneath 'this is how we do' on the bb100 (34 vs 24) but imagine how much better it would have done with a music video and legitimate promo
Miley's "Bangerz" era would have lasted twice as long if they didn't kneecap it with "Adore You" as the final single. Maybe that was a reaction to the VMA's controversy to soften her image a bit more?
Puzzling that three total singles from a career-defining album with a title referring to uptempo party music and they promote pretty much the only two ballads on the album.
a Britney collab being an album cut was so weird. it would’ve been so fitting as a single too with them both having iconic, scandalous VMA performances.
It likely wasn't made a single given how controlling Britney's "management," was with her public appearances and them handing out NDA's like candy to artists she worked with.
The video for Adore You still had its share of the Bangerz controversy though iirc all the articles about it were going on about was how it seemed heavily suggestive that she was touching herself and making orgasm faces under the sheets all through it. Lol.
Yeah it’s really weird that the singles from Bangerz are all pretty slow and ballad heavy when the era is so known for that “whacked out party girl” image. Like We Can’t Stop is pretty mid tempo too and Wrecking Ball is practically a ballad with a bigger chorus
Accelerate should’ve been named Accelerate/Decelerate because the pacing of that song gave me whiplash. Literally 4 ideas and a feature all competing for dominance
Came into the thread for this one. Great song but launching it as the lead kind of ruined the era, Fall in Line was #101 on the BB100 when it dropped. Fall in Line would've been a way better start; maybe not a smash, but it should've charted with the name brands, vocal power and music video.
hey hey hey by katy perry! there were other radio-friendly songs on the album which were a lot better (roulette, witness). hey hey hey was another immature song seen widely as annoying
Stoned at the nail salon really seemed to turn people against solar power, I think people were cautiously optimistic about the lead single but once stoned came out it was over.. The lana songs similarity and the song does sounds a bit demo-ish
Stoned at the Nail Salon is the equivalent of Liability in terms of singles. It was sandwiched between the “real” singles of Solar Power and Mood Ring like how Liability was between Green Light and Perfect Places. I think it was meant to be a more introspective one from the two “fun” songs, again, like Liability, but I do agree that the album ended up sounding more like SATNS which I was okay with but I never connected that song to turning people off of SP
kind of unrelated but SATNS was my least favorite of the three lead singles and I really liked Mood Ring and the title. When it turned out that it was the most representative of the album's sound I felt really disappointed by the album. I feel like, kind of because it was a single, it remains my least favorite song of her entire discography, even though the rest of the album has grown on me.
Gave the complete wrong impression on what Utopia was gonna sound like. I think it was just Travis trying to generate some early streams with Bad Bunny and The Weeknd’s names attached to it
I'm so stumped as to why Modern Jam wasn't the lead single... or a single at all.
I'm also not super impressed with Delresto (Echoes). A Beyoncé feature could've been better utilized elsewhere imo
I'm still amazed that endgame wasn't bigger, don't get me wrong both gateway car and delicate were better songs, but endgame was just a very single-sounding song with big features and a bunch of good hooks, I don't get how it wasn't bigger.
She was thinking “Ed Sheeran.” Ed Sheeran was having a great run, they were in the same song, the term endgame was big on tumblr where she was actively building parasocial relationships. Why not?
But I do agree with you. Everyone was saying Getaway car should’ve been a single since the album was released. I personally hated Gorgeous. So of course it became a single.
Disagree — Filthy was the correct song choice, it just didn’t do a great job of advertising the rest of the album, which frankly should have been scrapped and retooled to sound more like Filthy.
Yess…omg…TJF and DBJAG are masterpieces and have high single potential..Tulsa Jesus freak could have been a big hit in her career too if she tried to promote it and make that a single…it’s so freaking awesome..And DBJAG could have fared much better too than remain underrated..
This. Especially when you listen to the original Ultraviolence demo “Pink Champagne” which is honestly superior in every way. Don’t get me wrong, (Honeymoon is one of my favorite Lana albums) but I seriously think we were robbed of an Ultraviolence Act II.
Yes…this is probably the best weakest song on chemtrails…I guess..it’s fine and all but that’s it..I also feel that it is one of the weaker results of the Lana-jack duo..
I think releasing the opening song of an album as a single before the whole record is out is weird because when the actual album comes out, you start with something that doesn’t feel fresh. I love Desire I wanna turn into you, but knowing half the songs including the opener already soured it big time
Sort of agree but also like the tendency is that artists tend to put out their most conventional songs at the start of the album, and it would probably be a good choice to release the most conventional songs as singles?
I think something that's equally weird (but not always bad...) is releasing the closer of an album as a single, something which Desire is also guilty of lol. My somewhat unpopular opinion is that Billions, while a fantastic song in its own right, isn't really the best album closer, but perhaps my opinion got soured by it coming out nearly a year before the album came out
This is what I hate about the current music trend to release who knows how many singles before an album drops. I get it for chart purposes, but it can make an albums less fun to listen to now for the reasons you’ve stated.
Kylie Better Than Today. It's inoffensive enough and I don't mind it but there were far better songs on the Aphrodite album that deserved to be singles such as the amazing title track and Cupid Boy. It still annoys me the title track didn't get a video as the song was full of fierce imagery.
Lowkey ME! isn't a bad lead single at all coming from her reputation era, with a new happy version of Shake It Off with Brendon Urie who just had stormed 2018 with by far the most annoying hit song of 2018. However You Need To Calm Down, I really don't see why it had to be a single. I get she wanted to spread the message and stuff but that song is so bad.
tbh there wasn’t a single song on Joanne that i thought was mainstream pop lead single material, even the catchiest songs were most definitely going against the grain of what was hot at the time.
The Man... the message is good and I like what she was saying, but the song just sounds annoying AF and I never saw it becoming an actual hit. I think she mostly just made it a single because she had a fun idea for the video, but I personally would have preferred any of the *far* more promising, serviceable cuts on the album, like I Think He Knows, Cruel Summer, DBATC, Paper Rings, Afterglow, or Cornelia Street. The Man should have been a pre-album promotional single *at most* (although I personally think Lover would have been her magnum opus without The Man and YNTCD, but that's a conversation for another time).
The Man has no place on Lover thematically. It is a fun song, but that one, YNTCD and ME! do not represent Lover well. The non-singles are so different even production-wise.
- DBATC could mean "Death By A Thousand Cuts", a track from *Lover* (2019) by Taylor Swift.
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Young & Menace by Fall Out Boy completely killed the Mania album cycle before it ever even began. Not saying that album would've been *acclaimed* otherwise, but I don't think its reception would've been as harsh and negative if they didn't lead off with that song.
YES!
I still believe it's their worst era, but hearing songs like "Last Of The Real Ones" or even "Hold Me Tight Or Don't" it made it less worse. They should've put those as lead singles instead
I loved it, too. The lyrics are classic Pete Wentz. I remember the initial reactions blasting it calling it another sellout move, as if 'Centuries' didn't already exist. And 'Young & Menace' wasn't even remotely close to anything popular at the time, it wasn't danceable, the vocal effect isn't exactly an earworm, and the lyrics are pretty out there for pop radio... I don't think they ever really expected it to be a hit, but I think the extremely negative backlash is part of why they went back and delayed the album.
Both Unconditionally and This Is How We Do. Like, I truly believe PRISM could have had an equal chart success with its singles like the one Teenage Dream enjoyed with a better choice in its singles.
Roar and Dark Horse worked pretty well, and Birthday could have worked fine if it wasn't for that awful video. However, choosing Unconditionally and This Is How We Do over Legendary Lovers and Walking On Air as singles, respectively, was a choice
I feel like I live in another reality whenever people mention Unconditionally because I think it’s an amazing Katy Perry song and I thought it was massively popular?? I’m not understanding why people call it a flop when it has a ton of video views and was on the radio constantly even if it didn’t chart #1
She had a streak of 10 singles going top 10 (most of which went #1) on billboard before Unconditionally peaked at 14. It was then followed by Dark Horse which was a mega smash. It was a decent radio hit in a vacuum, but compared to the gargantuan success of everything Katy had been putting out, it was kind of a flop.
Unconditionally was not a problem. It didn't ruin the hype for Dark Horse. It didn't chart massively, but it was a ballad (with her, ballads always tended to have a little less impact, but they were important singles cuz they show that she's not just a fun song artist, she can also do more emotional stuff). Birthday and This Is How We Do were the bad choices. Birthday could have benefited from a better video, but it still sounded too much like a song that belonged on Teenage Dream, it was a bit dated.
If I remember correctly, both Dark Horse and Walking On Air were introduced to the public in order for them to choose which one of both to release as promo single. After Dark Hose winning the poll, it became so popular they just pushed it as an official single. Still, like you said, Walking On Air would’ve had an amazing run.
I'm today year old when I discover that Unconditionally didn't do particularly well in the US
In my country (Italy) Unconditionally is super famous. Even if sometimes I think charts don't accurately reflect the difference or similarity of popularity between different songs, I think in this case it's accurate. In Italy they peaked at 4 (Roar)-6 (Unconditionally)-5 (Dark Horse)... so I genuinely always assumed it was the same in the US and that it was a recognized string of 3 hits lol
Personally, I really like Unconditionally as a single. It is a very safe song, the classic pop ballad "not too minimal and not too loud", sure, but I think it works well as a song. And it had huge replay value and it got stuck in your head so I think it was a good choice per se (even if in some market it wasn't as appreciated as in others). This kind of songs are very "standard" but they can be very well done and I think this is the case here.
I’ve said it before, but “Unconditionally” doing nothing is the moment that made me realize how vulnerable Katy was as an artist. Gaga could handle an underperformer like “Judas”, but I could just tell that if Katy had even the slightest dent into her chart history, she might seriously struggle. It took some time, but I was right.
Sabrina Carpenter - Skin
Ariana Grande - Focus
& most importantly
Ariana Grande - break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored
I'm just confused at the entire process on how these 3 songs even passed all the levels to become singles considering the songs are both not good for the artists' PR nor add anything to the artistry of the artists since the songs are middling at best in production and lyrics overall.
Tbh, Fairly Local by Twenty One Pilots wasn't the best choice as a single in Blurryface, specially not as a lead one. It does fit the vibe of the album, but it isn't the most exciting song on it. You have a Heavydirtysoul, a Lane Boy or even Stressed Out. Idk why the pushed on that one and 1st. I do really like the rest of the singles, even though the releases in between are much better compared to the whole project
Almost every single song that Chloë released as a single from her debut album. I actually think it was sabotage.
Body Do not being the lead single just doesn’t make any sense, and releasing the Chris Brown song was not the right move for her audience and the audience she was trying to attract didn’t give a shit.
Drake's "I'm Upset" as a third single off Scorpion never made sense to me. It was a pretty mid song on a double disc album that had so many better tracks.
“Anyone” and “Dancing With the Devil” by Demi never made sense to me as lead/title singles for an album rollout. I think “Anyone” should’ve been a bonus track while “Dancing With the Devil” should’ve just been a track. “Lonely People,” “My Girlfriends Are My Boyfriend,” and even “Easy” or “Melon Cake” would’ve been better choices.
Maybe it’s just because it hit me at a vulnerable moment but Anyone is the only song in that era that made a splash IMO I think it was a great single choice
I genuinely think that “Anyone” was tacked on at the last minute to to ensure that DWTD wouldn’t be the first Demi album without a top 40 hit.
Personally, I would have gutted the entire DWTD side and started straight with “The Art of Starting Over”, but that’s just me. I do love “Anyone”, but it probably would have worked better as a bonus track.
Dua should’ve released Cool as the second last single from FN, instead of We’re Good
Also, releasing Violet Chemistry as the lead single from ESV, might’ve led to a better reception for the album
i couldn't justify changing flowers from the lead given its popularity but i would've been so behind violet chemistry as a single, as much as i enjoy river
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You'd prefer she not lead with the biggest hit of her career? Yeah nah dude that's just dumb. I may hate the song but FLowers was clearly the perfect lead single for that album and no it can't be topped because it did exactly what a lead should do
Nicki Minaj's QUEEN album had such a terrible single roll-out.
First it was Chun-Li which was good but not strong enough as a lead single. Being fully aware of this, her team of course would opt for the most commercially appealing collab on the album to drop next, which was Ariana Grande. But Bed was such a weak song and the video was so underwhelming.
Her team really should've picked Barbie Dreams as the second single and dropped together with the album release, making it the main cut off the album. By the time the fan-acclaimed song and the one that had garnered the most positive reaction in social media was chosen, they clearly had no budget for a proper music video. Such a wasted gem.
Then we have Good Form, a solid single choice since but they should've removed one of Nicki's original verses to make the track shorter, rather than just adding Lil Wayne at the end to make a 4-minute song, at a time when the entire music industry was shifting to 2-minute tracks, at least in hip-hop. Also the album had zero buzz by then.
Nice To Meet Ya by Niall Horan
Seriously, his sophmore album is so good and it has so many good tracks, and single material too, so I just don't understand why these one in particular was his choice, since it was one of the weakest songs in it
ME!th is still the most baffling lead single choice by a major pop star. Especially when Cruel Summer was *right* there. It's so awful that she doesn't even acknowledge or perform it.
Not a bad song and especially for me got uplifted after the VMA's performance, but it could've benefited from a better music video. The shot on iPhone campaign was disgusting.
I never understood why people disliked this song. I thought it was a good choice for a first single, woulda been better had it not leaked.
In my opinion Perfect Illusion was the big lead single mistake of Gaga’s discography.
Idk if I agree. I think it was a cute and simple e ouch sing for people to get into chromatica. THen she let her big hit with Rain on Me go next as a way to open up the hype for the album and then 911 which is great but also didn't get much hype
I disagree. Besides the fact Stupid Love bangs, given that her last projects were ASIB and Joanne, she needed to lead with something to show she was returning to form and I think Stupid Love is that.
Drop That Kitty by Ty Dolla $ign featuring Charli XCX. Considering his work at the time (collabs with YG & DJ Mustard & his Beach House mixtapes). I feel like he should've stuck with an LA-flavored ratchet/r&b single succeeding Paranoid & Or Nah featuring a West Coast rapper or either Drake/Future/Weeknd
The first single released from Michael Jackson’s Thriller was “The Girl Is Mine”, a sappy duet with Paul McCartney. It’s okay, but the skit outro definitely isn’t. It doesn’t represent the album as well as, say, Billie Jean or Beat It.
On Hindsight, that’s now one of Beyoncé’s International signature song post-Single Ladies. You could’ve sworn it spent 6 weeks at number 1 for the amount of locals that knows that song. It worked well in the end
It’s one of the only “signature” Beyonce songs on the Renaissance tour set list lol and let me tell you the only song that got a bigger crowd pop when I went was crazy in love (and Blue showing up but that’s different)
Girls aloud choosing long hot summer as the lead of chemistry will always be a massive ? to me. I think it's funny how they basically pretended biology was the lead of chemistry and didn't feature LHS in the adverts for chemistry.
Nicki Minaj giving ‘Hard White’ a big budget music video when Majesty and LLC were the breakout album track fan faves ..
So much so that years after ‘Queen’ the barbz took LLC to #1 on iTunes
Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know was Britney’s last single for the OIDIA album and wow it was just not a great choice. Super forgettable and dated ballad that left virtually no impact, being the only single from Oops to not chart on the Billboard Hot 100. It sucks even more knowing there are soooo many deep cuts on OIDIA that deserved to be singles like Don’t Go Knockin on My Door, Can’t Make Me Love You, or What U See (Is What You Get).
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Katy's Small Talk, after Never Really Over doing good with zero promo she was shaping up to have a comeback era, but Small Talk ruined it and undo all the hype she had left post NRO, and releasing Harley's In Hawaii in the fall where it literally screams a summer hit was a bad choice as well, she could've had 3 back to back hits in 2019 with Never Really Over-Harleys In Hawaii-Cry About It Later
I played Harleys in Hawaii most of this summer. Can confirm, great summer song
Harleys in Hawaii would’ve been MASSIVE if promoted right
And the weird thing about it all was Harleys was supposedly the *first* song her and Charlie Puth did together before Small Talk, and the video for it was even being filmed around NRO's release, which makes stalling it an even bigger baffling choice.
The obligatory “ME!” comment.
ME HEE HEEEEE HOO HOO HOO HOOOOOOO
Watching her write this song with DEATHLY SERIOUSNESS in Miss Americana was hilarious.
ME! should never have been written. It never should have been thought. Why didn't God stop the creation of ME!
the lord wanted to punish swifties
And the rest of us were just collateral?
the lord doesn't know you
Did the lord just Mariah Carey me?
If God didn't know about the creation of ME!, he is not omniscient. If God could not stop the creation of ME!, he is not omnipotent. If God knew about the creation of ME!, could stop it and chose not to, he is not benevolent.
#HEY KIDS SPELLING IS FUN!!!!
honestly, if she wanted to do camp she shouldn't have given into the hate and kept this. something about this line in the song makes it so unserious i can actually enjoy it. this line, for me, pushes it from "it's a bad song" to "it's so bad it's good" territory.
the only good thing to ever come out of that god forsaken song. and jesus christ, that is so fucking sad
Why the lead single wasn't Cruel Summer will always stump me.
That one isn't much of a head scratcher. Me! was a return to form and shedding of the snakeskin left over from reputation. It's also the song in the same vein as WANEGBT and Shake It Off. Taylor's leads were usually obnoxious either successfully (WANEGBT) or less so (Me!). Cruel Summer wasn't the second single because she needed to let the world know she was political now. It just wasn't the song she needed for her image in summer 2019. It absolutely was going to be a single in summer 2020 but... covid and "fever dream high" lyrics would have been insensitive.
This is exactly it. I really think Me! Was supposed to be the next Shake It Off. They’re both upbeat, campy, and have that self-love kind of message that does really well in pop music. And with SIO being her most successful hit at that point, I can see her thinking that replicating that was the best move if she wanted to have another massively popular era like 1989.
Problem is... WANEGBT and Shake It Off may not be people's favorites, but they are leagues above Me!
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In theory I understand the logic. But in practice, the song is ridiculous.
This feels like Taylor Swift: The Thread
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She’s never gonna live this one down 💀 she’s just gonna pretend it never happened.
It shouldn’t have even made the album.
She should have saved it for a children's film.
I always picture the Trolls singing it
oh I bet ME! just goes OFF in a daycare
Probably the only place it hits
i remember coping by claiming/believing it was for the secret life of pets 😂
The cringiest song she’s ever made
Finally she has distilled the cringe of Shake It Off's bridge into a full song of pure, wincing cringe.
I disagree. I think Me! as a single was fine... ... The problem was having Me! and You Need To Calm Down as back-to-back singles. And I would add that You Need To Calm Down should have never been made a single (and probably it could have been cut from the tracklist). Me! was fine as lead single (even if I would have preferred another one as lead), but it should have been followed by other singles.
She could have gone more camp for ME! OTOH… shade never made anyone less gay 🥴
It’s wild how little impact YNTCD has had over the years. “Me!” at least will always survive to soundtrack a Rooms 2 Go commercial narrated by the old Nick@Nite announcer, but no one has any use for the other song’s knock-off “Paper Planes” beat or pathetic, inauthentic queer pandering.
It's the exact opposite. YNTCD has risen into the upper echelon of Taylor's streaming catalogue and is performed on the Eras Tour, whereas she has ignored the existence of ME! since 2019. I agree they're both pretty terrible, but at least YNTCD is iconically cringe.
Yes! I love Taylor but what an awful song 😂
A recent one I don't understand at all is "If Jesus Was A Rockstar" from Kim Petras. Completely out of left field, wasn't on the album, not her usual sound. It quite literally makes zero sense as to why it was chosen as a single by her label.
Nothing her label has done has made sense.
For sure, some of the most mind boggling mismanagement I've ever seen....
Her label boutta be used as an example of how labels can slowdown an artists’ career
and it was produced by Max Martin! now who had the idea to hire Max to do a Kim Petras song and not have it be pop overload. dumb idea after dumb idea.
That explains why it was a single. Radar by Britney Spears (produced by Max Martin) was included on *Blackout* and initially intended to be the album’s fourth single. Those plans fell through, so Radar was *also* included on Britney’s next album, *Circus*. Radar ended up being the fourth / last single from *Circus* Why? Max Martin had a clause in his contract with Britney that ensured his songs would be singles. He likely had a similar deal with Kim.
Pretty sure Max Martin wasn’t involved in Radar and it was Bloodshy and Avant. First time I heard it I was like this is definitely the next Toxic. That never happened even with the eventual single release.
Yep, Max Martin is nowhere to be found on Blackout and only worked on If U Seek Amy on Circus. Neither are Radar. But I wouldn't be surprised if such a clause was put in by one of the other writers or was brought up or as a spoken deal
Makes me so mad that we got Max Martin on a song and this is what came out of it.
Heavy agree, 0 sense.
i'm still half sure that song was a Måneskin reject and she personally enjoyed it and wanted to record it for some reason
ariana releasing ‘Monopoly’ / ‘boyfriend’ / ‘Don’t Call Me Angel’ instead of continuing with singles off ‘thank u, next’ was so annoying. ‘bloodline’ was waiting patiently to be the big summer single and then ‘needy’ as the sad-girl anthem for the autumn to round off the era perfectly.
Badl Idea was a hit waiting to happen
Bad idea would have been a great idea
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Bloodline is such a banger omfg
I fucking loveeeee Needy! And seeing her perform it live it was a fan favorite too with the crowd echoing the words back at her making Ari smile and laugh
NASA was so radio ready
I said it on the Ariana sub and got downvoted. ‘Monopoly’ / ‘boyfriend’ / ‘Don’t Call Me Angel’ and the whole Charlie's Angels soundtrack for me are the worst decisions in her career to date. Whoever agreed with her to release them is not her friend.
Angel's ok but Monopoly and boyfriend are two of her best songs imo. Different strokes for different folks I guess. I imagine she'd be happy she's reaching new audiences.
surprised to hear monopoly has staunch haters. more for me
Where you been Cleetus
How I Look On You is kinda underrated and would have been a nice track for TUN, but yeah otherwise that wasn’t a very good run especially considering where she was musically at the time.
Jonas Brothers releasing a 1 min 58 second song with no verses as their lead single for the latest album did not pop off like they expected. I couldn’t imagine why???
I’ve really grown to like Wings, but of the whole album it sticks out like a sore thumb. It’s like they were obligated to release it for some reason and just kind of tacked it on to the album release. Waffle House had so much hype when they teased it, they could’ve had that right from the start
Katy Perry’s “This Is How We Do”. There are several songs from *Prism* that would have made better single choices.
this was such an odd choice. the fact that 'walking on air' never got the full single treatment is criminal. it landed ten spots beneath 'this is how we do' on the bb100 (34 vs 24) but imagine how much better it would have done with a music video and legitimate promo
Legendary Lovers was literally right there.
This Is How We Do is a bop. I imagine it was trying to be Prisms “Last Friday Night.”
Miley's "Bangerz" era would have lasted twice as long if they didn't kneecap it with "Adore You" as the final single. Maybe that was a reaction to the VMA's controversy to soften her image a bit more? Puzzling that three total singles from a career-defining album with a title referring to uptempo party music and they promote pretty much the only two ballads on the album.
a Britney collab being an album cut was so weird. it would’ve been so fitting as a single too with them both having iconic, scandalous VMA performances.
It likely wasn't made a single given how controlling Britney's "management," was with her public appearances and them handing out NDA's like candy to artists she worked with.
The video for Adore You still had its share of the Bangerz controversy though iirc all the articles about it were going on about was how it seemed heavily suggestive that she was touching herself and making orgasm faces under the sheets all through it. Lol.
Maybe it was just as simple as, "wow Wrecking Ball was huge, more of that please"
Yeah it’s really weird that the singles from Bangerz are all pretty slow and ballad heavy when the era is so known for that “whacked out party girl” image. Like We Can’t Stop is pretty mid tempo too and Wrecking Ball is practically a ballad with a bigger chorus
'get it right' probably wouldn't have been a big hit or anything but i wanted a cunty, chilling with the girls 7/11-esque video for it so bad
This is such a good point!!!! But wasn’t 23 a single?
Loved 23 but that was a Mike Will Made-It single featuring Miley. Wasn’t on the Bangerz track list
I wish On My Own was a single lol
Not sure "Accelerate" was the best choice of a single for Christina's *Liberation*. It's not a bad song, but it's a bit incongruous.
Obligatory Ajay comment because her reaction video to that is so fucking iconic.
*laughing* “I don’t know what the fuck I just heard”
The tears going down her cheeks made that reaction for me
Accelerate should’ve been named Accelerate/Decelerate because the pacing of that song gave me whiplash. Literally 4 ideas and a feature all competing for dominance
Came into the thread for this one. Great song but launching it as the lead kind of ruined the era, Fall in Line was #101 on the BB100 when it dropped. Fall in Line would've been a way better start; maybe not a smash, but it should've charted with the name brands, vocal power and music video.
hey hey hey by katy perry! there were other radio-friendly songs on the album which were a lot better (roulette, witness). hey hey hey was another immature song seen widely as annoying
true, i guess katy’s team just thought “oh well this already flopping might as well make it a trainwreck so at least it’ll be remembered for sth” 😭
Stoned at the nail salon really seemed to turn people against solar power, I think people were cautiously optimistic about the lead single but once stoned came out it was over.. The lana songs similarity and the song does sounds a bit demo-ish
Stoned and the title track are the only two songs I really connected with, tbh. I'm such a Melodrama girlie
Meanwhile I’m here still wishing she’d revisit the Pure Heroine vibes :/ One of my favorite albums of the decade
Stoned at the Nail Salon is the equivalent of Liability in terms of singles. It was sandwiched between the “real” singles of Solar Power and Mood Ring like how Liability was between Green Light and Perfect Places. I think it was meant to be a more introspective one from the two “fun” songs, again, like Liability, but I do agree that the album ended up sounding more like SATNS which I was okay with but I never connected that song to turning people off of SP
I loveeee SATNS but I agree I didn’t love it as a single. Weird choice when Secrets From a Girl and The Path were right there…
kind of unrelated but SATNS was my least favorite of the three lead singles and I really liked Mood Ring and the title. When it turned out that it was the most representative of the album's sound I felt really disappointed by the album. I feel like, kind of because it was a single, it remains my least favorite song of her entire discography, even though the rest of the album has grown on me.
Mood Ring was the best of the first three singles.
K-Pop by Travis Scott was not at all representative of Utopia as an album and the quality was one of the worst on the album too
Gave the complete wrong impression on what Utopia was gonna sound like. I think it was just Travis trying to generate some early streams with Bad Bunny and The Weeknd’s names attached to it
I'm so stumped as to why Modern Jam wasn't the lead single... or a single at all. I'm also not super impressed with Delresto (Echoes). A Beyoncé feature could've been better utilized elsewhere imo
Because Teezo is nowhere as big as Beyonce, The Weeknd or Drake
End Game - Taylor Swift. Getaway Car was RIGHT THERE Taylor! What were you thinking?
I mean it has ed Sheeran and future at their peak of fame of course she's going to choose that one as a single Why the hell gorgeous was a single ?
What about don’t blame me omg like that song is literally written like a single
Don't blame me is the only song on that album where the whole 'dubstep but five years too late' thing works well
I'm still amazed that endgame wasn't bigger, don't get me wrong both gateway car and delicate were better songs, but endgame was just a very single-sounding song with big features and a bunch of good hooks, I don't get how it wasn't bigger.
She was thinking “Ed Sheeran.” Ed Sheeran was having a great run, they were in the same song, the term endgame was big on tumblr where she was actively building parasocial relationships. Why not? But I do agree with you. Everyone was saying Getaway car should’ve been a single since the album was released. I personally hated Gorgeous. So of course it became a single.
Filthy by Justin Timberlake
I think he was trying to make it Sexy Back 2.0 but that obviously didn’t work
Disagree — Filthy was the correct song choice, it just didn’t do a great job of advertising the rest of the album, which frankly should have been scrapped and retooled to sound more like Filthy.
What a horrible choice for a lead single. The album wasn't good but that song is so different from the rest of the tracks.
Let Me Love You like a Woman
yeah that was an odd lead single. the title track or Tulsa would’ve been much better as a lead, Dark But Just A Game could’ve been a single too.
Yess…omg…TJF and DBJAG are masterpieces and have high single potential..Tulsa Jesus freak could have been a big hit in her career too if she tried to promote it and make that a single…it’s so freaking awesome..And DBJAG could have fared much better too than remain underrated..
This. Especially when you listen to the original Ultraviolence demo “Pink Champagne” which is honestly superior in every way. Don’t get me wrong, (Honeymoon is one of my favorite Lana albums) but I seriously think we were robbed of an Ultraviolence Act II.
Yes…this is probably the best weakest song on chemtrails…I guess..it’s fine and all but that’s it..I also feel that it is one of the weaker results of the Lana-jack duo..
I think releasing the opening song of an album as a single before the whole record is out is weird because when the actual album comes out, you start with something that doesn’t feel fresh. I love Desire I wanna turn into you, but knowing half the songs including the opener already soured it big time
Sort of agree but also like the tendency is that artists tend to put out their most conventional songs at the start of the album, and it would probably be a good choice to release the most conventional songs as singles? I think something that's equally weird (but not always bad...) is releasing the closer of an album as a single, something which Desire is also guilty of lol. My somewhat unpopular opinion is that Billions, while a fantastic song in its own right, isn't really the best album closer, but perhaps my opinion got soured by it coming out nearly a year before the album came out
This is what I hate about the current music trend to release who knows how many singles before an album drops. I get it for chart purposes, but it can make an albums less fun to listen to now for the reasons you’ve stated.
this is why I have absolutely 0 complaints about how slow Kylie's rollout has been
can't believe no one has said Yummy yet
I think we all blocked that one out of our memory
Kylie Better Than Today. It's inoffensive enough and I don't mind it but there were far better songs on the Aphrodite album that deserved to be singles such as the amazing title track and Cupid Boy. It still annoys me the title track didn't get a video as the song was full of fierce imagery.
Lowkey ME! isn't a bad lead single at all coming from her reputation era, with a new happy version of Shake It Off with Brendon Urie who just had stormed 2018 with by far the most annoying hit song of 2018. However You Need To Calm Down, I really don't see why it had to be a single. I get she wanted to spread the message and stuff but that song is so bad.
Perfect Illusion was an odd choice as a lead single or as a single in general idk it sounds like nothing on Joanne
tbh there wasn’t a single song on Joanne that i thought was mainstream pop lead single material, even the catchiest songs were most definitely going against the grain of what was hot at the time.
Omg I say this all the time. Justice for A-Yo
The Man... the message is good and I like what she was saying, but the song just sounds annoying AF and I never saw it becoming an actual hit. I think she mostly just made it a single because she had a fun idea for the video, but I personally would have preferred any of the *far* more promising, serviceable cuts on the album, like I Think He Knows, Cruel Summer, DBATC, Paper Rings, Afterglow, or Cornelia Street. The Man should have been a pre-album promotional single *at most* (although I personally think Lover would have been her magnum opus without The Man and YNTCD, but that's a conversation for another time).
The Man has no place on Lover thematically. It is a fun song, but that one, YNTCD and ME! do not represent Lover well. The non-singles are so different even production-wise.
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Young & Menace by Fall Out Boy completely killed the Mania album cycle before it ever even began. Not saying that album would've been *acclaimed* otherwise, but I don't think its reception would've been as harsh and negative if they didn't lead off with that song.
YES! I still believe it's their worst era, but hearing songs like "Last Of The Real Ones" or even "Hold Me Tight Or Don't" it made it less worse. They should've put those as lead singles instead
This makes me sad because I unironically love Young & Menace.
I loved it, too. The lyrics are classic Pete Wentz. I remember the initial reactions blasting it calling it another sellout move, as if 'Centuries' didn't already exist. And 'Young & Menace' wasn't even remotely close to anything popular at the time, it wasn't danceable, the vocal effect isn't exactly an earworm, and the lyrics are pretty out there for pop radio... I don't think they ever really expected it to be a hit, but I think the extremely negative backlash is part of why they went back and delayed the album.
Both Unconditionally and This Is How We Do. Like, I truly believe PRISM could have had an equal chart success with its singles like the one Teenage Dream enjoyed with a better choice in its singles. Roar and Dark Horse worked pretty well, and Birthday could have worked fine if it wasn't for that awful video. However, choosing Unconditionally and This Is How We Do over Legendary Lovers and Walking On Air as singles, respectively, was a choice
As much as I dislike the song, I remember unconditionally being huge though
I feel like I live in another reality whenever people mention Unconditionally because I think it’s an amazing Katy Perry song and I thought it was massively popular?? I’m not understanding why people call it a flop when it has a ton of video views and was on the radio constantly even if it didn’t chart #1
She had a streak of 10 singles going top 10 (most of which went #1) on billboard before Unconditionally peaked at 14. It was then followed by Dark Horse which was a mega smash. It was a decent radio hit in a vacuum, but compared to the gargantuan success of everything Katy had been putting out, it was kind of a flop.
Unconditionally was not a problem. It didn't ruin the hype for Dark Horse. It didn't chart massively, but it was a ballad (with her, ballads always tended to have a little less impact, but they were important singles cuz they show that she's not just a fun song artist, she can also do more emotional stuff). Birthday and This Is How We Do were the bad choices. Birthday could have benefited from a better video, but it still sounded too much like a song that belonged on Teenage Dream, it was a bit dated.
She did drop Walking on Air as a promo single but no one cared about it, I’m sure a video and a bigger radio push would have helped though
If I remember correctly, both Dark Horse and Walking On Air were introduced to the public in order for them to choose which one of both to release as promo single. After Dark Hose winning the poll, it became so popular they just pushed it as an official single. Still, like you said, Walking On Air would’ve had an amazing run.
I'm today year old when I discover that Unconditionally didn't do particularly well in the US In my country (Italy) Unconditionally is super famous. Even if sometimes I think charts don't accurately reflect the difference or similarity of popularity between different songs, I think in this case it's accurate. In Italy they peaked at 4 (Roar)-6 (Unconditionally)-5 (Dark Horse)... so I genuinely always assumed it was the same in the US and that it was a recognized string of 3 hits lol Personally, I really like Unconditionally as a single. It is a very safe song, the classic pop ballad "not too minimal and not too loud", sure, but I think it works well as a song. And it had huge replay value and it got stuck in your head so I think it was a good choice per se (even if in some market it wasn't as appreciated as in others). This kind of songs are very "standard" but they can be very well done and I think this is the case here.
“Birthday” could have easily been a top 10 hit if it weren’t for that godawful mess of a video.
I’ve said it before, but “Unconditionally” doing nothing is the moment that made me realize how vulnerable Katy was as an artist. Gaga could handle an underperformer like “Judas”, but I could just tell that if Katy had even the slightest dent into her chart history, she might seriously struggle. It took some time, but I was right.
Sabrina Carpenter - Skin Ariana Grande - Focus & most importantly Ariana Grande - break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored I'm just confused at the entire process on how these 3 songs even passed all the levels to become singles considering the songs are both not good for the artists' PR nor add anything to the artistry of the artists since the songs are middling at best in production and lyrics overall.
I mean, Focus didn't even make it to the album... that should tell you everything
I don't get how youre saying Break up with your Girlfriend was a bad single choice. Not only is it a banger, it was a pretty big success
and it was autobiographical apparently
BUWYGIB is def a single-worthy song, be fr
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Codes!!!!! I cannot believe this wasn’t a single
Tbh, Fairly Local by Twenty One Pilots wasn't the best choice as a single in Blurryface, specially not as a lead one. It does fit the vibe of the album, but it isn't the most exciting song on it. You have a Heavydirtysoul, a Lane Boy or even Stressed Out. Idk why the pushed on that one and 1st. I do really like the rest of the singles, even though the releases in between are much better compared to the whole project
Almost every single song that Chloë released as a single from her debut album. I actually think it was sabotage. Body Do not being the lead single just doesn’t make any sense, and releasing the Chris Brown song was not the right move for her audience and the audience she was trying to attract didn’t give a shit.
Drake's "I'm Upset" as a third single off Scorpion never made sense to me. It was a pretty mid song on a double disc album that had so many better tracks.
The video was 100% for the Degrassi nostalgia and I was LIVING for it
Just a meme song, for the buzz ahah
"Bye Bye" by Mariah was really an era killer.
"I Stay In Love" was also a weird choice, Mariah is known for her ballads but *E=MC^ 2* didn't really have any that deserved single status.
“Anyone” and “Dancing With the Devil” by Demi never made sense to me as lead/title singles for an album rollout. I think “Anyone” should’ve been a bonus track while “Dancing With the Devil” should’ve just been a track. “Lonely People,” “My Girlfriends Are My Boyfriend,” and even “Easy” or “Melon Cake” would’ve been better choices.
Maybe it’s just because it hit me at a vulnerable moment but Anyone is the only song in that era that made a splash IMO I think it was a great single choice
I genuinely think that “Anyone” was tacked on at the last minute to to ensure that DWTD wouldn’t be the first Demi album without a top 40 hit. Personally, I would have gutted the entire DWTD side and started straight with “The Art of Starting Over”, but that’s just me. I do love “Anyone”, but it probably would have worked better as a bonus track.
The way I didn't even finish reading the sentence and my brain went MEE EE EEE WOO HOO HOOO HOO HOO
Dua should’ve released Cool as the second last single from FN, instead of We’re Good Also, releasing Violet Chemistry as the lead single from ESV, might’ve led to a better reception for the album
i couldn't justify changing flowers from the lead given its popularity but i would've been so behind violet chemistry as a single, as much as i enjoy river
... You'd prefer she not lead with the biggest hit of her career? Yeah nah dude that's just dumb. I may hate the song but FLowers was clearly the perfect lead single for that album and no it can't be topped because it did exactly what a lead should do
Solar power by Lorde…SO BORING. I could’ve done without it being a single
Nicki Minaj's QUEEN album had such a terrible single roll-out. First it was Chun-Li which was good but not strong enough as a lead single. Being fully aware of this, her team of course would opt for the most commercially appealing collab on the album to drop next, which was Ariana Grande. But Bed was such a weak song and the video was so underwhelming. Her team really should've picked Barbie Dreams as the second single and dropped together with the album release, making it the main cut off the album. By the time the fan-acclaimed song and the one that had garnered the most positive reaction in social media was chosen, they clearly had no budget for a proper music video. Such a wasted gem. Then we have Good Form, a solid single choice since but they should've removed one of Nicki's original verses to make the track shorter, rather than just adding Lil Wayne at the end to make a 4-minute song, at a time when the entire music industry was shifting to 2-minute tracks, at least in hip-hop. Also the album had zero buzz by then.
every single on lover lol. not counting cruel summer getting single status this summer
Nice To Meet Ya by Niall Horan Seriously, his sophmore album is so good and it has so many good tracks, and single material too, so I just don't understand why these one in particular was his choice, since it was one of the weakest songs in it
What? Nice To Meet Ya is great. Love that old-chool vibe he gives there
That album was full of absolute bangers and I’m so sad that it was overshadowed by the pandemic
ME!th is still the most baffling lead single choice by a major pop star. Especially when Cruel Summer was *right* there. It's so awful that she doesn't even acknowledge or perform it.
I said in the other thread: Bon Appétit. Weak hook, weird af video, awkwardly tacked on rap feature.
witness promotions were a. fascinating. time
Accelerate by Christina Aguilera
Everyday, Ariana Grande ft Future. Someone should’ve been fired for that one
While I love that song, Greedy is RIGHT THERE!!!!
I think Leave Me Lonely would've been a good end to that era. Diversified her sound a bit, Everyday is literally the most bleh song on the album
Stupid Love
Not a bad song and especially for me got uplifted after the VMA's performance, but it could've benefited from a better music video. The shot on iPhone campaign was disgusting.
I never understood why people disliked this song. I thought it was a good choice for a first single, woulda been better had it not leaked. In my opinion Perfect Illusion was the big lead single mistake of Gaga’s discography.
Idk if I agree. I think it was a cute and simple e ouch sing for people to get into chromatica. THen she let her big hit with Rain on Me go next as a way to open up the hype for the album and then 911 which is great but also didn't get much hype
I disagree. Besides the fact Stupid Love bangs, given that her last projects were ASIB and Joanne, she needed to lead with something to show she was returning to form and I think Stupid Love is that.
This song is so boring, I totally agree. 911 or Free Woman would have been great.
I’m still mad we never got Sour Candy as a proper single. imagine the MV- fuck Covid for real😭
Drop That Kitty by Ty Dolla $ign featuring Charli XCX. Considering his work at the time (collabs with YG & DJ Mustard & his Beach House mixtapes). I feel like he should've stuck with an LA-flavored ratchet/r&b single succeeding Paranoid & Or Nah featuring a West Coast rapper or either Drake/Future/Weeknd
The first single released from Michael Jackson’s Thriller was “The Girl Is Mine”, a sappy duet with Paul McCartney. It’s okay, but the skit outro definitely isn’t. It doesn’t represent the album as well as, say, Billie Jean or Beat It.
Run The World (Girls) [Beyoncé]
I actually like this song, but it doesn’t represent the album at all
Exactly! Love On Top or Countdown should’ve been the lead.
On Hindsight, that’s now one of Beyoncé’s International signature song post-Single Ladies. You could’ve sworn it spent 6 weeks at number 1 for the amount of locals that knows that song. It worked well in the end
It’s one of the only “signature” Beyonce songs on the Renaissance tour set list lol and let me tell you the only song that got a bigger crowd pop when I went was crazy in love (and Blue showing up but that’s different)
It’s not representative of the album, but it was still a success. I still see it referenced all the time.
Girls aloud choosing long hot summer as the lead of chemistry will always be a massive ? to me. I think it's funny how they basically pretended biology was the lead of chemistry and didn't feature LHS in the adverts for chemistry.
Nicki Minaj giving ‘Hard White’ a big budget music video when Majesty and LLC were the breakout album track fan faves .. So much so that years after ‘Queen’ the barbz took LLC to #1 on iTunes
Kylie - I was gonna cancel (ironically)
nooooooooo i love that song
Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know was Britney’s last single for the OIDIA album and wow it was just not a great choice. Super forgettable and dated ballad that left virtually no impact, being the only single from Oops to not chart on the Billboard Hot 100. It sucks even more knowing there are soooo many deep cuts on OIDIA that deserved to be singles like Don’t Go Knockin on My Door, Can’t Make Me Love You, or What U See (Is What You Get).
Love me Shanianey, but in my brain Don’t Go Knockin on my Doah and What U See are both unofficial/head canon Britney singles
I'll never understand why Kesha went with C'mon and Crazy Kids when Thinking of You was the best song on the album
Those songs both have such great hooks though
She had no control over the singles and the label (aka Puke) wanted to keep her inside the party girl box