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I believe they ditched "Run" in the States in favor of THIS bland mess. There were also plenty of better single options on the album than this ("Take a Bow" for one).

 
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I remember REALLY hating this at the time and being FURIOUS that it was a single. Not sure why now but here it is anyway

 

dUb said:


When Migrate was RIGHT THERE! FUCK PEREZ HILTON etc.
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I was going to post this too and add:



JUST when she got radio back on board with "Obsessed" she released THAT. It's as if Tommy Mottola was still calling the shots.
 


Don't get me wrong; the album version is possibly their best song ever. But it was a terrible idea to butcher it into a single edit.
 
basically EVERY Leona single post-Run would qualify for this.



DISASTER



BORING (and not in the good way)



WHAT'S A BLACKBEAR ANYWAY



WELL, SHE LOOKED GOOD.



MADE CAMPAIGN DOA
 
Suedey said:


The alpha & omega & OG of all horrible single choices.



FUCK it!
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I would have been inclined to agree in 2003, tbh, but I could not have imagined a "Hollywood" or "Love Profusion" etc released in its place. It all needed to happen in order for the stars to align with COADF, I think.
 
dUb said:
this claim is disupted :emoji_exclamation:
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No it's not and even discounting it to 99 cents or whatever didn't change its fortunes.

Original Firecracker version - FINE, no problem. The single version was a WTF HOT MESS moment and not in a good way.
 
American Life is an incredible song and she should've been applauded for having the balls to go for it. (she should've had the balls not to pull the video, though.)
 
POP! said:
I would have been inclined to agree in 2003, tbh, but I could not have imagined a "Hollywood" or "Love Profusion" etc released in its place. It all needed to happen in order for the stars to align with COADF, I think.
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Yah but still awful single choice particularly with that stupid flags video. Had she stuck to her guns (ha!) and released the video then the grating non-commercial musical aspect would have been understood in CONTEXT. But in the end we ended up with the worst of BOTH worlds - awful music video to go with a non-commercial song - i.e. HORRIBLE SINGLE CHOICE.
 
Inexplicably released in America as her third single after two reasonable hits, when she had Always Come Back To Your Love and Body 2 Body in the wings. Killed her career stone dead. (Though obviously it wouldn't have survived long with her TERMINAL LAZINESS anyway)

 
Jark said:
American Life is an incredible song and she should've been applauded for having the balls to go for it.
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I don't disagree with that but it was a horrible single choice and killed off the post-Music momentum (although to be fair 'Die Another Day' had already started a mini backlash...)
 
Suedey said:
Yah but still awful single choice particularly with that stupid flags video. Had she stuck to her guns (ha!) and released the video then the grating non-commercial musical aspect would have been understood in CONTEXT. But in the end we ended up with the worst of BOTH worlds - awful music video to go with a non-commercial song - i.e. HORRIBLE SINGLE CHOICE.
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Ah yes, I'll agree with that. She needed to double down, but did not which felt very un-Madonna... then we got the GAP ad and English Roses. :eyes:
 
VoR said:
Surely Two Hearts is Kylie's all-time worst single choice in terms of the damage it did?
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what damage did it actually do? X sold great, she followed it up with a huge smash and got a third "minor hit" too. it was just immediately forgotten.
 
Jark said:


MADE CAMPAIGN DOA
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What would you have released in its place? I'm not saying it was a great single, but I think any song off My December would have underperformed. "One Minute" is arguably the most commercial / GP friendly track there, but still feels very SLIGHT compared to the blockbusters off its predecessor...

For Kelly I'd add "I Do Not Hook Up". She clearly had a gun held to her head at this point, and it was radio friendly enough, but I'd have gone straight to "Already Gone", or done "Don't Let Me Stop You" if they wanted something uptempo for single #2.

 


widely hated rehash of a previous single which in itself was not that great as the follow-up to a HOT BANGER LIKE GET RIGHT? keep it!
 
VoR said:
Inexplicably released in America as her third single after two reasonable hits, when she had Always Come Back To Your Love and Body 2 Body in the wings. Killed her career stone dead. (Though obviously it wouldn't have survived long with her TERMINAL LAZINESS anyway)
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I always found the American mindset of being all "we can't have more than two bangers in a row, we need the obligatory BALLAD" quite annoying and jarring. Sure they wanted that A/C Hit but it wasn't always necessary :zombie:
 
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