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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Jan 14, 2015 8:59:35 GMT -5
I still love this song and I'm happy all the success it and Rae are achieving. She also confirmed that her next single is not included on the EP. I don't hate the EP, I actually quite like it but I do t hear a hit so her saying that the next single isn't on there gives me a big relief.
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Post by mus1cr0w on Jan 14, 2015 12:19:32 GMT -5
Good God her EP is annoying. It's a good thing her next single is not on there because I don't hear another hit either.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jan 14, 2015 12:41:02 GMT -5
Oh good, because "Careless" is the only song on the EP that I think would've been a worthwhile follow-up hit. I really hope that her next single is better and less polarizing than some of the songs on the EP. ;)
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Post by dajire4 on Jan 14, 2015 12:42:17 GMT -5
I know RaeLynn's music is quite polarizing, but to me she comes off so endearing and charming. She's good at releasing catchy ditties and although she's not my favorite female newcomer by any means, I do think she deserves a spot among the females who should keep scoring hits
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Post by draggintheriver on Jan 17, 2015 5:53:51 GMT -5
Here's to hoping Lie or Love Triangle is the follow up single to this.
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Post by trailing on Jan 19, 2015 22:00:49 GMT -5
I love this song, one of the biggest reason is because it angers the Lenas of the world.
Lena : An ugly feminist, who is mad at guys because the don't give her attention.
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Post by rsmatto on Jan 20, 2015 13:01:48 GMT -5
I still love this song and I'm happy all the success it and Rae are achieving. She also confirmed that her next single is not included on the EP. Yes, her next single may very well be "Love Triangle."
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Post by matty005 on Jan 20, 2015 13:17:20 GMT -5
I know RaeLynn's music is quite polarizing, but to me she comes off so endearing and charming. She's good at releasing catchy ditties and although she's not my favorite female newcomer by any means, I do think she deserves a spot among the females who should keep scoring hits All two of them? ;)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 13:19:02 GMT -5
I love this song, one of the biggest reason is because it angers the Lenas of the world. Lena : An ugly feminist, who is mad at guys because the don't give her attention. Generalizing much? I'm a female, and I don't have a problem with the message of the song; I don't like it because I find the lyrics and vocals cringeworthy. Disliking this has nothing to do with feminism.
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Post by trailing on Jan 20, 2015 15:31:23 GMT -5
I love this song, one of the biggest reason is because it angers the Lenas of the world. Lena : An ugly feminist, who is mad at guys because the don't give her attention. Generalizing much? I'm a female, and I don't have a problem with the message of the song; I don't like it because I find the lyrics and vocals cringeworthy. Disliking this has nothing to do with feminism. Did it anger you though?
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jan 20, 2015 15:54:39 GMT -5
I still love this song and I'm happy all the success it and Rae are achieving. She also confirmed that her next single is not included on the EP. Yes, her next single may very well be "Love Triangle." Ooh, well that has me excited. The live performance I heard of "Love Triangle" was very promising, so I have a feeling I'll like that one a lot more than the offerings on her EP.
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Post by rsmatto on Jan 20, 2015 16:03:20 GMT -5
It's the lone song I have from the EP they gave radio folks that wasn't on that EP sent to iTunes. :)
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Post by rjz on Jan 20, 2015 20:21:24 GMT -5
Generalizing much? I'm a female, and I don't have a problem with the message of the song; I don't like it because I find the lyrics and vocals cringeworthy. Disliking this has nothing to do with feminism. Did it anger you though? 'Interesting' theory lol I agree with carrieflattsfan that this song doesn't really have anything to do with 'feminism' and I have to say I've never heard of the term 'Lena'; am I living under a rock or something? I dislike this song but it doesn't make me angry; any more than many other songs sung by men or women make me 'angry'. They may make me cringe, laugh, sing along, get nostalgic, roll my eyes, feel happy or cry, but angry has never entered into it. I have, however, seen rare cases where someone becomes 'angry' when others criticize or don't like a song they think is the cat's pajamas
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Post by someguy on Jan 20, 2015 21:39:30 GMT -5
"God Made Girls" goes recurrent tonight, after 28 weeks and a #18 peak. I think it makes it the lowest peaking On The Verge single to date.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 21:48:17 GMT -5
"God Made Girls" goes recurrent tonight, after 28 weeks and a #18 peak. I think it makes it the lowest peaking On The Verge single to date. Hmm. This could be another case of Billboard prematurely pulling the plug. GMG was definitely eligible to go recurrent, but I thought BB would give it a grace week. It gained 11 spins and 164k on Mediabase today, so I don't think Valory is done promoting this one. I don't know if it'll re-enter right away next week, but I don't think Billboard should have pulled it just yet. It finished with 19.734 million (in top 10 recurrents), down from 20.406 million on last week's chart, but its spins loss was really small. Billboard is going to look silly (again) if "God Made Girls" continues to hang in there on Mediabase.
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Post by someguy on Jan 20, 2015 21:51:18 GMT -5
I wish Billboard would just stand behind their decisions. To me, a song re-entering needs to be a really big deal (like, a song getting pulled at #36, then eventually lasting a few more weeks and making the top 10). After a few weeks, I can see the case for talking about re-entering a song. I hate when they pull a song, only to re-enter it the next week. To me, a song going recurrent at #25, then hanging around a few more weeks to make it to #18 doesn't warrant a re-entry. Those kind of things only make them look silly.
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Post by sabre14 on Jan 20, 2015 21:54:32 GMT -5
"God Made Girls" goes recurrent tonight, after 28 weeks and a #18 peak. I think it makes it the lowest peaking On The Verge single to date. Hmm. This could be another case of Billboard prematurely pulling the plug. GMG was definitely eligible to go recurrent, but I thought BB would give it a grace week. It gained 11 spins and 164k on Mediabase today, so I don't think Valory is done promoting this one. I don't know if it'll re-enter right away next week, but I don't think Billboard should have pulled it just yet. It finished with 19.734 million (in top 10 recurrents), down from 20.406 million on last week's chart, but its spins loss was really small. Billboard is going to look silly (again) if "God Made Girls" continues to hang in there on Mediabase. I agree, Billboard to me jumped the gun a couple weeks pulling the plug on this right now. "God Made Girls" is only down less than 100k in audience since Sunday on Mediabase and like you said, it gained 164k in audience today with a slight spin increase. Valory, judging by the way this has performed this month, does not want to go quietly. Billboard might be slightly trigger happy here.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 22:04:17 GMT -5
I agree, Billboard to me jumped the gun a couple weeks pulling the plug on this right now. "God Made Girls" is only down less than 100k in audience since Sunday on Mediabase and like you said, it gained 164k in audience today with a slight spin increase. "God Made Girls" would have been down about 500-600k on Mediabase if it weren't for Westwood One's satellite stations; W1's Mainstream Country station increased rotation for GMG by 7 spins last week, which is roughly +700k in audience...if you take that out, well, -100k - 700k = -800k, which is gonna be about -650k on Billboard. But otherwise I agree...I still think it's a little silly for Billboard to not give this a grace week, especially since Valory is obviously still promoting it.
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Post by trailing on Jan 20, 2015 22:05:45 GMT -5
'Interesting' theory lol I agree with carrieflattsfan that this song doesn't really have anything to do with 'feminism' and I have to say I've never heard of the term 'Lena'; am I living under a rock or something? I dislike this song but it doesn't make me angry; any more than many other songs sung by men or women make me 'angry'. They may make me cringe, laugh, sing along, get nostalgic, roll my eyes, feel happy or cry, but angry has never entered into it. I have, however, seen rare cases where someone becomes 'angry' when others criticize or don't like a song they think is the cat's pajamas Have you seen the Youtube comments? In my opinion the song isn't sexist but in their opinion the song is extremely sexist. It just a term I made up, when I think of ultra feminist Lena Dunham is the first one to pop in to my mind. haha. I don't care if anyone dislikes the song nor do I care if anyone has a negative opinion of the song, everyone is entitled to their own opinion positive or negative. But a lot of feminist seems to have misunderstood the message the song is trying to deliver. Rather than that women should be submissive and that their only meaning in the world is to serve the man as a lot has taken it, the message is that the girl was made to complete the guy. She isn't even singing anything about girls having to stay home and be the housewife, a lot of them seem upset that she feels like somebody got to wear a pretty skirt. It just blows my mind what people get upset about these days. And that is what I said in my post, that it angers them. You just seem to dislike the song.
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Post by someguy on Jan 20, 2015 22:06:27 GMT -5
Maybe it's Billboard's own way of rebelling against the On The Verge program
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Post by matty005 on Jan 20, 2015 22:07:13 GMT -5
'Interesting' theory lol I agree with carrieflattsfan that this song doesn't really have anything to do with 'feminism' and I have to say I've never heard of the term 'Lena'; am I living under a rock or something? I dislike this song but it doesn't make me angry; any more than many other songs sung by men or women make me 'angry'. They may make me cringe, laugh, sing along, get nostalgic, roll my eyes, feel happy or cry, but angry has never entered into it. I have, however, seen rare cases where someone becomes 'angry' when others criticize or don't like a song they think is the cat's pajamas Have you seen the Youtube comments? In my opinion the song isn't sexist but in their opinion the song is extremely sexist. It just a term I made up, when I think of ultra feminist Lena Dunham is the first one to pop in to my mind. haha. I don't care if anyone dislikes the song nor do I care if anyone has a negative opinion of the song, everyone is entitled to their own opinion positive or negative. But a lot of feminist seems to have misunderstood the message the song is trying to deliver. Rather than that women should be submissive and that their only meaning in the world is to serve the man as a lot has taken it, the message is that the girl was made to complete the guy. She isn't even singing anything about girls having to stay home and be the housewife, a lot of them seem upset that she feels like somebody got to wear a pretty skirt. It just blows my mind what people get upset about these days. Probably not the best source to use as an argument.
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Post by sabre14 on Jan 20, 2015 22:07:26 GMT -5
I agree, Billboard to me jumped the gun a couple weeks pulling the plug on this right now. "God Made Girls" is only down less than 100k in audience since Sunday on Mediabase and like you said, it gained 164k in audience today with a slight spin increase. "God Made Girls" would have been down about 500-600k on Mediabase if it weren't for Westwood One's satellite stations; W1's Mainstream Country station increased rotation for GMG by 7 spins last week, which is roughly +700k in audience...if you take that out, well, -100k - 700k = -800k, which is gonna be about -650k on Billboard. But otherwise I agree...I still think it's a little silly for Billboard to not give this a grace week, especially since Valory is obviously still promoting it. I think sending this recurrent this week is even more of a head scratcher than "Headlights" not being sent recurrent. I just did not see enough evidence that its January performance that was any indicator that the bottom was going to drop out on it, at least not at this moment. Billboard and Mediabase have me a bit perplexed right now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 22:16:50 GMT -5
I think sending this recurrent this week is even more of a head scratcher than "Headlights" not being sent recurrent. Nah, I have to disagree on that one. "God Made Girls" was eligible to go recurrent, but it was also eligible to receive a grace week (since it had a bullet last week). This came down to a simple judgment call on Billboard's part: send it recurrent, or give it a grace week. But with Montgomery Gentry, that was a slam-dunk case. They already got their grace week last week, so they should have absolutely 100% been sent recurrent tonight.
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Post by sabre14 on Jan 20, 2015 22:22:01 GMT -5
I think sending this recurrent this week is even more of a head scratcher than "Headlights" not being sent recurrent. Nah, I have to disagree on that one. "God Made Girls" was eligible to go recurrent, but it was also eligible to receive a grace week (since it had a bullet last week). This came down to a simple judgment call on Billboard's part: send it recurrent, or give it a grace week. But with Montgomery Gentry, that was a slam-dunk case. They already got their grace week last week, so they should have absolutely 100% been sent recurrent tonight. I think Billboard's thinking was (not agreeing with this by the way) was that "Headlights" didn't lose a drastic amount of audience and it did gain in spins. Though Billboard's recurrent rule says that it should have been since they rely on audience losses to send songs recurrent, especially after a grace week. I suppose the hard fact of their rules is a good reason to expect MG's song being sent recurrent more than RaeLynn not to be, but "God Made Girls" just did not perform like a song that should have been sent recurrent. I don't even know what logic the fine folks at Billboard were going with? Look I don't like the song and my first reaction was "Ya" but then it switched to shock since I just did not expect this to be sent recurrent. I've seen Billboard not follow their rules before in a hard and fast way, so perhaps that's why I wasn't quite as surprised by "Headlights" (again, I agree it clearly should have been).
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Post by trailing on Jan 20, 2015 22:23:40 GMT -5
Have you seen the Youtube comments? In my opinion the song isn't sexist but in their opinion the song is extremely sexist. It just a term I made up, when I think of ultra feminist Lena Dunham is the first one to pop in to my mind. haha. I don't care if anyone dislikes the song nor do I care if anyone has a negative opinion of the song, everyone is entitled to their own opinion positive or negative. But a lot of feminist seems to have misunderstood the message the song is trying to deliver. Rather than that women should be submissive and that their only meaning in the world is to serve the man as a lot has taken it, the message is that the girl was made to complete the guy. She isn't even singing anything about girls having to stay home and be the housewife, a lot of them seem upset that she feels like somebody got to wear a pretty skirt. It just blows my mind what people get upset about these days. Probably not the best source to use as an argument. Yeah regrettably Youtube is a cease pool for people with stupid opinions but even The Guardian picked it up and called it sexist. To give you a few quotes... Why is everyone going berzerk over the fact that she likes to wear a pretty skirt? It is mind boggling. Where did she imply that? about letting the guy drive? or holding her the door? or maybe the guys romantic fantasies is a women making him was a truck? Okay, what relevance do the fact that it was penned by a women when it comes to sexism? both genders can be sexists. www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/nov/25/god-made-girls-is-no-retort-to-bro-country-trendI can't stomach quoting more cause I feel like my brain is developing a tumor by reading the article. Liberal folks can't seem to accept that other people don't share their point of view on everything.
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Post by matty005 on Jan 20, 2015 22:33:47 GMT -5
Probably not the best source to use as an argument. Yeah regrettably Youtube is a cease pool for people with stupid opinions but even The Guardian picked it up and called it sexist. To give you a few quotes... Why is everyone going berzerk over the fact that she likes to wear a pretty skirt? It is mind boggling. Where did she imply that? about letting the guy drive? or holding her the door? or maybe the guys romantic fantasies is a women making him was a truck? Okay, what relevance do the fact that it was penned by a women when it comes to sexism? both genders can be sexists. www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/nov/25/god-made-girls-is-no-retort-to-bro-country-trendI can't stomach quoting more cause I feel like my brain is developing a tumor by reading the article. Liberal folks can't seem to accept that other people don't share their point of view on everything. Yeah, let's not start this.
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Post by trailing on Jan 20, 2015 22:39:48 GMT -5
Yeah regrettably Youtube is a cease pool for people with stupid opinions but even The Guardian picked it up and called it sexist. To give you a few quotes... Why is everyone going berzerk over the fact that she likes to wear a pretty skirt? It is mind boggling. Where did she imply that? about letting the guy drive? or holding her the door? or maybe the guys romantic fantasies is a women making him was a truck? Okay, what relevance do the fact that it was penned by a women when it comes to sexism? both genders can be sexists. www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/nov/25/god-made-girls-is-no-retort-to-bro-country-trendI can't stomach quoting more cause I feel like my brain is developing a tumor by reading the article. Liberal folks can't seem to accept that other people don't share their point of view on everything. Yeah, let's not start this. I understand that it is a directionless discussion that won't go anywhere and it has no place on a music discussion board so yeah sorry for bringing it up.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2015 13:21:22 GMT -5
Billboard may have been correct to pull this after all. I do think Valory is still promoting this, but I think radio has pushed it as high as it's gonna go. "God Made Girls" lost 28 spins and 315k in audience on Mediabase this morning, so it looks like its losses are starting to increase.
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Post by sabre14 on Jan 21, 2015 15:02:41 GMT -5
Billboard may have been correct to pull this after all. I do think Valory is still promoting this, but I think radio has pushed it as high as it's gonna go. "God Made Girls" lost 28 spins and 315k in audience on Mediabase this morning, so it looks like its losses are starting to increase. I saw the update as well, and for the meantime Billboard is looking good on the move to send this recurrent. Its total losses since Sunday have only been 400k in audience or so, and 52 spins, though the losses are steadily increasing this week. Meanwhile though, "Headlights" continues to flounder as its down another 100k in audience and 31 spins on MB today, so they aren't looking so hot right now leaving that song on their chart this week.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2015 15:37:11 GMT -5
Another tiny gain on Mediabase today (+8 spins, +83k audience), but GMG is still down over 100 spins from this time last week. Valory is still fighting to revive this one but I'm not sure it can be done.
Anyway, this is from the mid-week BCU, regarding her EP Me:
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