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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 23:54:18 GMT -5
I like this song, but there were a few remaining album cuts from Golden that I like better, and would have preferred one of them to have been released over this. It'll be really interesting to see how this ends up doing. It's off to a decent start, entering the chart at #43 tonight. It's notable, to me at least, that it entered much lower than Brantley Gilbert's second single, but that features other artists, and I imagine had some sort of radio deal. I think this song and album are very important in determining where Lady A's career goes from here. Brantley's new one got the Clear Channel deal last week Monday, so look for it to take a bit of a hit in tomorrow's update. I can see it going up ahead of "Bartender" though, simply because it's a big bro song.
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Post by cmc78 on May 20, 2014 14:14:16 GMT -5
They are filming the video today in LA.
Some tweets about it.
Actress, Model,Showtime Ring Girl @thecaitlinleahy tweeted Filming a music video with the amazing @ladyantebellum & the gorgeous @kateupton
@buckwinthrop a talent manager, clients include models Kate Upton and Britt Brousseau, tweeted @ladyantebellum rocks with "Bartender" single music video ft @kateupton @brittbrousseau #bartenderproblems
And from last night
Actor @jessewoodrow tweeted so honored to be asked to appear in the new @ladyantebellum music video!!!! i'll be on set all day tomorrow!!
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on May 20, 2014 22:19:55 GMT -5
iTunes reception has been pretty strong so far, in the 40s currently.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2014 22:22:48 GMT -5
I really like this song, and I'm so not a Lady A fan. I heard it on the radio and was impressed. Just bought it. Lady Antebellum thanks you! tvoss20, I've heard that the singles with Hillary on lead vocals sell better than Charles' If the data supports this, that would probably explain why Hillary has become the face of Lady A lately. With their dismal chart/Itunes runs lately, a Hillary lead makes more sense if they are indeed hoping this will get them back on top. I absolutely agree 100% Charles should be the primary lead vocalist, though. It's disappointing he's been pushed aside. I loved their earlier work because they were equals...now it seems like they're trying to make Hillary the star.
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Post by sabre14 on May 20, 2014 22:56:38 GMT -5
To be honest I miss the days of "Love Don't Live Here", "Lookin For A Good Time", "I Run To You" and even the "Need You Now" and "American Honey" era. It just seems to me that Lady A has been all over the map since "Downtown". The Own The Night era was so faceless and vanilla with seemingly trying to recapture the success of "Need You Now". Then "Downtown" to "Goodbye Town" to "Compass" to "Bartender" is like a pinball machine with going in another direction from the previous release. I understand why they went to "Compass" and issued a deluxe package of Golden after the under performing of "Goodbye Town" but it sounds like they aren't 100% certain where they like to go with their music. Maybe I'm over thinking this too much and they truly want to do a wide spectrum of songs like "Just A Kiss", "Downtown", "Goodbye Town", "Compass" and "Bartender" alike.
As for "Bartender", I like it well enough but it's far from their best work. I agree with the trading off of lead vocals point. Maybe that's why I like songs like "Lookin For A Good Time", "Need You Now".
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Post by cmc78 on May 20, 2014 23:04:35 GMT -5
And I disagree with 'they are trying to make Hillary the star' cause she was practically blamed for the under performing Golden era because she had a baby. She shouldn't be shamed for having a baby with her husband. She made it known after she got married that she couldn't wait to be a mom and didn't think she and her husband would wait that long. And honestly as quick as they put out albums, they could have just delayed Golden's release to the fall after she was back from maternity leave and not even bothered with Golden Deluxe, cause not like they were out of public eye that long. July, August, and September were the months away, by October they were back on tv performing on Ellen.
Cause if this album era isn't bigger than Golden, then who will they blame?
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Post by Marv on May 21, 2014 2:36:18 GMT -5
Who the heck 'shamed' Hillary for wishing to become a mom? That is extremely sexist not to mention repulsive and downright unconscionable.
If you're going to indict anyone for the performance of 'Golden' either on the CD chart or as it relates to the potential to produce a string of hit singles, whomever chose to copy the downright greedy and extremely shortsighted procedure of tons of irrelevant top 40 lightweights by re-releasing 'Golden' (an indefensible ripoff IMHO with a few new tracks is the person who really deserves to be shamed, and certainly not Ms. Scott under any circumstances.
Had a third or even a fourth single been released, 'Compass' and/or 'Bartender' if not both of those songs could have certainly been saved for a new CD for early next year should they have chosen to do so.
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Post by .indulgecountry on May 21, 2014 3:17:20 GMT -5
This is kinda meh to me. It's not nearly as great as "Downtown" and many of the unreleased Golden tracks but I do like it better than "Compass" (which I found very grating -- one of their worst singles imo) at the very least. I'm not feeling the production on this - it comes off too slick and mechanical for me and overall it just seems rather one-note. It doesn't have the same looseness that I loved about "Downtown."
Also, does "Bartender" (the chorus especially) remind anyone else of this Maroon 5 song?
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Post by Kentucky25 on May 21, 2014 7:29:45 GMT -5
Nothing really here for me. I love Hilary's voice, just prefer their slower and split vocal songs to this kind.
I swear Lady A's trouble is that songs like "Need You Now" were SO popular that they were more than overplayed and a lot of people have been burnt out on them because of it.
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Post by Zazie on May 21, 2014 7:35:38 GMT -5
Who the heck 'shamed' Hillary for wishing to become a mom? That is extremely sexist not to mention repulsive and downright unconscionable. If you're going to indict anyone for the performance of 'Golden' either on the CD chart or as it relates to the potential to produce a string of hit singles, whomever chose to copy the downright greedy and extremely shortsighted procedure of tons of irrelevant top 40 lightweights by re-releasing 'Golden' (an indefensible ripoff IMHO with a few new tracks is the person who really deserves to be shamed, and certainly not Ms. Scott under any circumstances. Had a third or even a fourth single been released, 'Compass' and/or 'Bartender' if not both of those songs could have certainly been saved for a new CD for early next year should they have chosen to do so. Normally decisions about country performer parenthood are cleared through a Pulse committee that evaluates the sincerity of the married (or unmarried -- we're very fair) couple, their last few singles' chart performance, and other factors I am not at liberty to disclose. I am in the middle of a five-year term on that committee, and it's been very interesting work. You can be sure Hillary got a thorough hearing from our group. It's generally considered bad form for artists to make this kind of decision on their own, the way lesser people do it.
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Post by countrymusic20 on May 21, 2014 7:44:52 GMT -5
This is kinda meh to me. It's not nearly as great as "Downtown" and many of the unreleased Golden tracks but I do like it better than "Compass" (which I found very grating -- one of their worst singles imo) at the very least. I'm not feeling the production on this - it comes off too slick and mechanical for me and overall it just seems rather one-note. It doesn't have the same looseness that I loved about "Downtown." Also, does "Bartender" (the chorus especially) remind anyone else of this Maroon 5 song? I hear no similarity at all
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on May 21, 2014 8:37:32 GMT -5
Nothing really here for me. I love Hilary's voice, just prefer their slower and split vocal songs to this kind. I swear Lady A's trouble is that songs like "Need You Now" were SO popular that they were more than overplayed and a lot of people have been burnt out on them because of it. I don't think it's so much a question of being burnt out as it is all of their subsequent releases being compared to the success of Need You Now. That being said, I think if they remixed the song to take out the banjo and added a little heavier percussion, they could service this to pop radio closer to album release.
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Post by layne on May 21, 2014 9:53:39 GMT -5
This is kinda meh to me. It's not nearly as great as "Downtown" and many of the unreleased Golden tracks but I do like it better than "Compass" (which I found very grating -- one of their worst singles imo) at the very least. I'm not feeling the production on this - it comes off too slick and mechanical for me and overall it just seems rather one-note. It doesn't have the same looseness that I loved about "Downtown." Also, does "Bartender" (the chorus especially) remind anyone else of this Maroon 5 song? Yes it definitely reminds me of that song. I like Bartender better than Downtown but I don't think it's better than anything on the NYN album.
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Post by cmc78 on May 21, 2014 11:55:32 GMT -5
Who the heck 'shamed' Hillary for wishing to become a mom? That is extremely sexist not to mention repulsive and downright unconscionable. If you're going to indict anyone for the performance of 'Golden' either on the CD chart or as it relates to the potential to produce a string of hit singles, whomever chose to copy the downright greedy and extremely shortsighted procedure of tons of irrelevant top 40 lightweights by re-releasing 'Golden' (an indefensible ripoff IMHO with a few new tracks is the person who really deserves to be shamed, and certainly not Ms. Scott under any circumstances. Had a third or even a fourth single been released, 'Compass' and/or 'Bartender' if not both of those songs could have certainly been saved for a new CD for early next year should they have chosen to do so. Most recent example was interview Charles did with NC newspaper before concert there and he was complaining how hard it was for him to take that time off when Hillary had her maternity leave. He spoke as if it was some huge hardship for him. I saw tweets to Hillary about not liking what he said and during that show CK did some backtracking talking how the time they had off was a blessing and how awesome it is to see people coming back out to see them. That interview was not first time he's said something like that along with saying they pushed tour to 2014 to give Hillary more time off when it was pretty well known low ticket sales was reason tour was rearranged. On the other hand, Dave has never once complained about the time off and always talks how great it is to have Hillary's baby out on tour.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2014 12:22:25 GMT -5
Who the heck 'shamed' Hillary for wishing to become a mom? That is extremely sexist not to mention repulsive and downright unconscionable. If you're going to indict anyone for the performance of 'Golden' either on the CD chart or as it relates to the potential to produce a string of hit singles, whomever chose to copy the downright greedy and extremely shortsighted procedure of tons of irrelevant top 40 lightweights by re-releasing 'Golden' (an indefensible ripoff IMHO with a few new tracks is the person who really deserves to be shamed, and certainly not Ms. Scott under any circumstances. Had a third or even a fourth single been released, 'Compass' and/or 'Bartender' if not both of those songs could have certainly been saved for a new CD for early next year should they have chosen to do so. Most recent example was interview Charles did with NC newspaper before concert there and he was complaining how hard it was for him to take that time off when Hillary had her maternity leave. He spoke as if it was some huge hardship for him. I saw tweets to Hillary about not liking what he said and during that show CK did some backtracking talking how the time they had off was a blessing and how awesome it is to see people coming back out to see them. That interview was not first time he's said something like that along with saying they pushed tour to 2014 to give Hillary more time off when it was pretty well known low ticket sales was reason tour was rearranged. On the other hand, Dave has never once complained about the time off and always talks how great it is to have Hillary's baby out on tour. There was backlash ALL over social media from Lady A fans calling out Charles for complaining about Hillary's maternity leave. I felt bad enough for Hillary when the fans where whining. but Jesus, that is a whole other level of disrespectful when your own bandmate who is supposed to support you and love you like family says something like that, in an interview, no less. Just disgusting. Hillary seems like such a sweetheart, I just can't believe people were so nasty over Hillary choosing her family over her career. IMO, my guess is that Hillary and her husband wanted a baby, and the pregnancy just happened at a bad time for them, in terms of career plans. The fact that "Golden" ended up underperforming had more to do with the single choices to me, anyway. If radio had jumped on board and they had gotten a few hits and kept the momentum of the album up, the fact that Hillary was pregnant would have been completely irrelevant.It sounded to me like their fans were looking for someone to blame, and were mad that the tour was cancelled. s*** happens, and none of it was Scott's fault. And in regards to my earlier point about making Hillary "the star" I meant that it seems like the label is making a point to make sure Hillary is front-and-center because her voice is the one that pushes the most singles these days. I vastly prefer "Downtown" to this, but it's a hundred times better than anything from OTN. This doesn't seem that radio-friendly to me, but if this picks up, radio will probably jump on board.
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Post by cmc78 on May 21, 2014 12:22:38 GMT -5
And digital sales predictions for what Bartender will sell in its first week? Performing on American Idol tonight and GMA Friday morning should help.
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Post by cmc78 on May 21, 2014 14:42:37 GMT -5
Most recent example was interview Charles did with NC newspaper before concert there and he was complaining how hard it was for him to take that time off when Hillary had her maternity leave. He spoke as if it was some huge hardship for him. I saw tweets to Hillary about not liking what he said and during that show CK did some backtracking talking how the time they had off was a blessing and how awesome it is to see people coming back out to see them. That interview was not first time he's said something like that along with saying they pushed tour to 2014 to give Hillary more time off when it was pretty well known low ticket sales was reason tour was rearranged. On the other hand, Dave has never once complained about the time off and always talks how great it is to have Hillary's baby out on tour. There was backlash ALL over social media from Lady A fans calling out Charles for complaining about Hillary's maternity leave. I felt bad enough for Hillary when the fans where whining. but Jesus, that is a whole other level of disrespectful when your own bandmate who is supposed to support you and love you like family says something like that, in an interview, no less. Just disgusting. Hillary seems like such a sweetheart, I just can't believe people were so nasty over Hillary choosing her family over her career. IMO, my guess is that Hillary and her husband wanted a baby, and the pregnancy just happened at a bad time for them, in terms of career plans. The fact that "Golden" ended up underperforming had more to do with the single choices to me, anyway. If radio had jumped on board and they had gotten a few hits and kept the momentum of the album up, the fact that Hillary was pregnant would have been completely irrelevant.It sounded to me like their fans were looking for someone to blame, and were mad that the tour was cancelled. s*** happens, and none of it was Scott's fault. And in regards to my earlier point about making Hillary "the star" I meant that it seems like the label is making a point to make sure Hillary is front-and-center because her voice is the one that pushes the most singles these days. I vastly prefer "Downtown" to this, but it's a hundred times better than anything from OTN. This doesn't seem that radio-friendly to me, but if this picks up, radio will probably jump on board. I didn't know there was a backlash all over social media towards Charles for his complaining. I just saw a few tweets. Charles was annoying back before Hillary got pregnant, cause after she was married she was asked alot about when starting a family or then when Dave got married they'd all be asked who will start a family first and Charles would always say "anyone but Hillary" cause that means we have to come off the road. She said in interviews of wanting a family and couldn't wait to be a mom, but she also admitted when promoting Golden the pregnancy was a surprise and that she and her husband knew it was a possibility but weren't expecting it when it happened. I don't think Golden under performing has anything to do with Hillary's pregnancy, I just think the whole era was handled wrong by their team. And the fans that attacked her for having a baby and the cancelling a few shows in 2012 was ridiculous.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2014 17:37:29 GMT -5
This is kinda meh to me. It's not nearly as great as "Downtown" and many of the unreleased Golden tracks but I do like it better than "Compass" (which I found very grating -- one of their worst singles imo) at the very least. I'm not feeling the production on this - it comes off too slick and mechanical for me and overall it just seems rather one-note. It doesn't have the same looseness that I loved about "Downtown." Also, does "Bartender" (the chorus especially) remind anyone else of this Maroon 5 song? Heh. My favorite Maroon 5 song :) But I don't hear any similarities between "Makes Me Wonder" and "Bartender", not really at all. I've only heard "Bartender" a couple times but I like it quite a bit and I think it'll bring them back to the top 10, probably #1. I don't think I like it as much as "Downtown" or "Goodbye Town" though, and there were a couple other tracks on Golden that I liked better as well (namely "Better Off Now", "Golden", and "And The Radio Played"). Golden is such a great album and it is my favorite from them by a pretty good margin, so I am hugely disappointed that they only released 2 singles and then went with "Compass", passing up some great gems on the album as well as "And The Radio Played" from the deluxe edition. "Compass" was a decent single but if they were only going to release one of the deluxe tracks, it should've been "And The Radio Played".
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Post by musicbuff78 on May 21, 2014 21:39:01 GMT -5
Yep, just like I thought...I'm totally done with country music. I went from being their #1 fan and introducing them to people on here before they got a record deal (Myspace anyone???) to not liking anything they have released since Downtown. Their last album I liked was OTN and I thought Golden was utterly terrible and I predicted it wasn't going to really do much or have much for hits.
I listened to this song last night and while I think it's as terrible as Compass, I see this getting them back into good rotation and becoming a hit for them. I just really wish they would go back to the days of their debut album which made them a household name. Actually, I thought this was so bad I couldn't make it through the entire thing. I maybe listened to 45 seconds....and that's being generous.
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Post by tim on May 21, 2014 22:12:49 GMT -5
I'm going to join the not feeling this one crowd. The first ten second intro to the song before Hillary comes in just does nothing for me. You have a combination of an electric guitar with a banjo mixed in that just doesn't catch my ear. This isn't quite what I was expecting from Lady A after the Compass era (and I thought that was a great album). I don't know, maybe this will grow on me down the road. I suppose everything I read leading up to this I was expecting something truly "refreshing" and am just not hearing it.
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Post by 14887fan on May 22, 2014 16:04:40 GMT -5
Solid Idol performance, and Hillary Scott looks great! I still don't like the song very much, though. Also, the song is now up to #25 on iTunes all-genre and #4 on iTunes Country.
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Post by austin on May 23, 2014 15:10:05 GMT -5
I am obsessed with this. It is their best single since the debut record IMO. Hopefully it is huge.
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Post by someguy on May 26, 2014 21:46:13 GMT -5
I heard this on an AC station at the dentist's office tonight. I was pretty surprised, since I haven't even heard it on a country station yet. (Not that I listen to radio much anymore, but still).
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on May 28, 2014 15:22:53 GMT -5
Can I be honest here? I find "Bartender" to be pretty decent, but I'm getting really concerned about their career. I know that I shouldn't be, but given that Golden was released a little more than a year ago and they're already moving on to a new era after some regrettable single choices (namely "Goodbye Town" and the rush-released "Compass"), I can't help but feel that the people working behind the scenes (marketing, advertising, promo, etc) are getting pretty clueless about managing this group these days. What if this whole new era doesn't live up to their expectations?
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Post by onebuffalo on May 28, 2014 15:32:18 GMT -5
Can I be honest here? I find "Bartender" to be pretty decent, but I'm getting really concerned about their career. I know that I shouldn't be, but given that Golden was released a little more than a year ago and they're already moving on to a new era after some regrettable single choices (namely "Goodbye Town" and the rush-released "Compass"), I can't help but feel that the people working behind the scenes (marketing, advertising, promo, etc) are getting pretty clueless about managing this group these days. What if this whole new era doesn't live up to their expectations? No, you can't be honest here. If this upcoming CD does not live up to expectations, Lady Antebellum will sink further in the standings of country groups out there. After all, Lady A was replaced by Little Big Town at the C.M.A.s for Vocal Group of the Year. However, L.B.T. was replaced by the Band Perry at the A.C.M.s (I expect the same thing at the C.M.A.s this year).
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Post by layne on May 28, 2014 16:00:31 GMT -5
I feel like Lady A's loss of momentum or lack of interest started before the release of Goodbye Town. In fact, I don't think Goodbye Town was a horrible single release but the timing of it may have been bad. I don't really know if anything they released would have fared a whole lot better. They didn't have any bro songs on the Album to release and Little Big Town and The Band Perry seem to be having trouble with sales and airplay on mid-tempo ballads as well.
I like Bartender pretty well, and I feel like it will do as well as "Downtown" did as a lead single.
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Post by cmc78 on May 28, 2014 16:25:51 GMT -5
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Post by onebuffalo on May 29, 2014 9:35:22 GMT -5
Debuts at #19 on the mongrel chart.
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Post by Rumors on May 29, 2014 17:37:19 GMT -5
Lady A's slowdown is really all related to one thing...singles haven't been as strong on the past two albums. Plus, country artists release a lot of albums and tour the US and Canada a lot. Someone mentioned burn out above and I agree. I thought it was funny that Charles was complaining about a 3-4 month break in touring with Hillary's pregnancy. Are you kidding me? Try following some non-country artists and see how long some breaks are...years rather than months. The key to a long career in my mind is being able to step back a bit and then come back strong and create new interest (and hopefully maintain many old fans, too). For the average listener out there, Bartender could be a 3rd or 4th single since Compass wasn't released that long ago.
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Post by surfy on May 29, 2014 18:11:10 GMT -5
I liked Downtown a LOT, but I never charted it for some reason :( But that was the last single I liked of theirs...
Until this song came out! I love this song, and it will get it's revenge for Downtown!!! Good job Lady A! :)
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