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Post by missbehaving on Nov 16, 2015 12:37:54 GMT -5
"Republic is now promoting The Band Perry's "Live Forever" at Hot AC radio. While its run at country radio appears over, The Band Perry’s “Live Forever” is now being worked to the hot adult contemporary format. The song is now featured on Republic Records’ hot adult contemporary promotion list. The label is also promoting songs like Shawn Mendes’ “Stitches,” James Bay’s “Let It Go,” Demi Lovato’s “Confident,” Fall Out Boy’s “Irresistible (featuring Demi Lovato),” The Score’s “Oh My Love,” and DNCE’s “Cake By The Ocean” at the format. According to Mediabase, “Live Forever” received 29 hot adult contemporary spins from a total of 3 stations during the November 8-14 tracking week. Issued as the lead single from the sibling trio’s “Heart + Beat,” the song had a short and disappointing run at the country radio format. It peaked at #27 on Billboard Country Airplay and is no longer on the active chart." source: headlineplanet.com/home/2015/11/16/the-band-perrys-live-forever-getting-hot-ac-radio-push/Jeez... might as well not bother marketing themselves as country anymore. Just send every following single to pop radio, sell the album as pop and stop applying the country label to them. They're going forward with pop regardless country acceptance or not, so obviously that genre doesn't matter to this band anymore. Also they're probably back to the drawing board to work on songs that will appeal to the pop audience and turning their backs on what country fans want.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2015 13:25:02 GMT -5
That's so weird! Why would they take a song that they repeatedly insisted was country and try it on Hot AC after country sent it packing?
It's almost as if it was never a country song in the first place.
Almost.
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Post by missbehaving on Nov 16, 2015 13:34:49 GMT -5
That's so weird! Why would they take a song that they repeatedly insisted was country and try it on Hot AC after country sent it packing? It's almost as if it was never a country song in the first place. Almost. It was a country song when it was convenient... they sent it to Hot AC with no "pop remix" so they know well that this is a pop song. Sending it to pop was probably always part of the plan for this song (and the forthcoming singles from this album), I'm just surprised they're still doing it after how badly the song flopped in country. Obviously it's pop enough that its country performance is irrelevant.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2015 13:53:20 GMT -5
They're really trying it, someone make it stop.
TBP completely sold out, tried to defend their wolf in sheep's clothing act, and now they're trying to save face by crying foul & sending LF to Hot AC.
This saga keeps getting more pathetic, and I can't say I'd be disappointed if this era is a disaster and they don't recover. Their musical integrity is gone and in the trash can going forward.
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Post by Dustin J. on Nov 16, 2015 20:06:57 GMT -5
It's almost as if it was never a country song in the first place. It wasn't...yet some people tried to tell us it was.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2015 20:20:47 GMT -5
It's almost as if it was never a country song in the first place. It wasn't...yet some people tried to tell us it was. Were those people named Kimberly, Neil, and Reid? ;) (and Scott Borchetta too)
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 16, 2015 20:23:32 GMT -5
This won't do anything on Hot AC. Republic Nashville was planning this push long before the song went for adds at country radio, so they might as well try and salvage what they can from "Live Forever."
This lead single's promotion hype and performance at radio could not have gone any worse, though.
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Post by ¤ Matthea ¤ on Nov 16, 2015 21:06:22 GMT -5
This song is simply bad. What were they thinking? I don't even care that it's not country.
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Post by missbehaving on Nov 18, 2015 15:35:57 GMT -5
They're really trying it, someone make it stop. TBP completely sold out, tried to defend their wolf in sheep's clothing act, and now they're trying to save face by crying foul & sending LF to Hot AC. This saga keeps getting more pathetic, and I can't say I'd be disappointed if this era is a disaster and they don't recover. Their musical integrity is gone and in the trash can going forward. Wolves in sheep's clothing indeed... they've been working on a series of "secret concerts" and Christmas concerts exclusively with pop stations. Oh and they're still performing their new masterpiece "In It Together" so I say they might be back to the drawing board but I bet there's not one country song that will come of this last jolt of creative inspiration. It's like they're thinking "hey the country thing didn't work with this new direction let's go full pop anyway". Oh and someone recorded the full live performance of "Drink It Up" www.periscope.tv/Sheryl_Stewart/1dRJZwDwZorxB
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2015 17:10:07 GMT -5
They're really trying it, someone make it stop. TBP completely sold out, tried to defend their wolf in sheep's clothing act, and now they're trying to save face by crying foul & sending LF to Hot AC. This saga keeps getting more pathetic, and I can't say I'd be disappointed if this era is a disaster and they don't recover. Their musical integrity is gone and in the trash can going forward. Wolves in sheep's clothing indeed... they've been working on a series of "secret concerts" and Christmas concerts exclusively with pop stations. Oh and they're still performing their new masterpiece "In It Together" so I say they might be back to the drawing board but I bet there's not one country song that will come of this last jolt of creative inspiration. It's like they're thinking "hey the country thing didn't work with this new direction let's go full pop anyway". Oh and someone recorded the full live performance of "Drink It Up" www.periscope.tv/Sheryl_Stewart/1dRJZwDwZorxBI'm all for artists challenging themselves creatively, but I firmly believe that going forward with this era despite the horrendous backlash from "Live Forever" will do them more harm than good. Their fans have spoken, and clearly there is no interest in The Band Perry trying the Pop route, so I'm puzzled as to why they think pushing this sound will do them any favors. Their comments seem to indicate they're insecure, and that they are trying to convince themselves that the public will suddenly accept their new image. It doesn't sound like most of this album will be any better than "Live Forever," so I see no indication that the public will suddenly jump on board with the second single. If they honestly believe that this era will magically turn around for them based on the terrible reactions from their own fans, I'm not sure what to say. At this point, they're risking a lot by going forward with this project, and whatever happens will be a result of TBP/Big Machine convincing themselves that the public will suddenly accept such a turn of the tides. If this tanks, they're going to have no one to blame but themselves, but I'm already expecting them to come crawling back with the, "This wasn't really us! Our label made us do it!" when this era doesn't pan out.
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Post by missbehaving on Nov 22, 2015 9:42:54 GMT -5
according to some fans at a fan facebook group TBP are going pop officially and leaving country. One of them was told this by a radio worker at CMA week, that's why they didn't take any part of this and have stopped promoting with country, they're now only working with pop radio.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2015 10:10:58 GMT -5
Wow they've really gone off the rails. There's no denying it they've sold out. You know I spent this weekend listening to their debut album and I did gave Pioneer a re-listen and honestly now, I'm just amazed at how bad The Band Perry has because even Pioneer was decent on re-listen. Just seeing these guys not even bothering to be country anymore it's just sickening. I hope if the report is true that they stay in the pop music world.
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Post by draggintheriver on Nov 22, 2015 11:05:28 GMT -5
Atleast we got this gem before they sold out.
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Post by The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 on Nov 22, 2015 11:37:20 GMT -5
Well... if they are really thinking about promoting their next pop songs to pop radio instead of country, then I have no problem with it. On the contrary, I think that would be the right thing to do, even though I can't see then succeeding if they are any similar to "Live Forever". I just wish they would scrap this project and go back to their previous sound, not because it was country but because it was WAY WAY better material in general.
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Post by missbehaving on Nov 22, 2015 12:25:48 GMT -5
Well... if they are really thinking about promoting their next pop songs to pop radio instead of country, then I have no problem with it. On the contrary, I think that would be the right thing to do, even though I can't see then succeeding if they are any similar to "Live Forever". I just wish they would scrap this project and go back to their previous sound, not because it was country but because it was WAY WAY better material in general. I don't see "Live Forever" working with the current pop scene... same for those two songs they've been playing live. They recently said their "big collaboration" is with someone from a "different universe" from theirs. Might actually be Nicki Minaj, which doesn't surprise me that they're holding on to another pop artist, I really don't think their new music will do a thing on its own. Even with a featured artist that doesn't garantee the music/album will be successful with the pop crowd. Pop is a genre with too much competition where selling is getting tougher... these days only artists with MASSIVE following can sell more than 100k first week. I will bet anything that Heart + Beat will not reach 100k first week, especially if they ditch their loving country fans.
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Post by dm2081 on Nov 22, 2015 13:29:03 GMT -5
Goodbye The Band Perry, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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Post by hosssulpizio on Nov 22, 2015 14:03:30 GMT -5
It's so sad how willing The Band Perry are to record songs like "Live Forever" for the new album. Why can't you just decide to start over with some better songs?
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 22, 2015 14:24:14 GMT -5
It's so sad how willing The Band Perry are to record songs like "Live Forever" for the new album. Why can't you just decide to start over with some better songs? Because they've spent too much money, promotion and time to start over. It's also stubbornness.
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Post by hosssulpizio on Nov 22, 2015 14:32:47 GMT -5
It's so sad how willing The Band Perry are to record songs like "Live Forever" for the new album. Why can't you just decide to start over with some better songs? Because they've spent too much money, promotion and time to start over. It's also stubbornness. True but I have a feeling their new album is gonna suck. Somehow Swift looks better than them.
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Post by missbehaving on Nov 22, 2015 15:21:35 GMT -5
It's so sad how willing The Band Perry are to record songs like "Live Forever" for the new album. Why can't you just decide to start over with some better songs? Because they've spent too much money, promotion and time to start over. It's also stubbornness. You're right on stubbornness. Their attitude at the CMAs and their turn to pop shows that they have learned nothing from the LF flop and are acting like victims... In their heads LF didn't flop because it's bad, it flopped because Country Music is being "mean" to them. It will be interesting to see what happens after their pop thing flops, if they stay or if they come back running to country - "that was just an experiment"..."country TBP is the real TBP". I kind saw the move to pop coming when they removed the "we're the band perry and we play country music" slogan from their bio as soon as they announced LF. Do they really think crap like this is "excellence"? Seems authentic? Sounds like their best work ever? This is why they're flopping... the new music is .
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2015 15:40:47 GMT -5
I have no ill feelings toward them for leaving. Every artist is entitled to make whatever music they want. However, NO artist is entitled success with that music. It must be earned. They have the privledge of performing for a living, not the right. Their attitudes about this thing have been subpar to put it nicely. Not to mention they blatantly lied to everybody at first.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Nov 22, 2015 16:55:57 GMT -5
Well I guess if they're going to go full-on pop, then so be it. I'll still be interested to hear what they put out because I love them and I thought "Live Forever" was a great song, regardless of what genre it belonged in or w/e, but I'm going to miss them in country music if they're truly done with the genre though. But their transition doesn't bother me anymore than Taylor Swift's didn't and I guess at least they'll have the decency to take their non-country music off country radio, which can't be said for everyone else.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2015 17:00:26 GMT -5
They're going to f***ing fail in pop music and I doubt country music would welcome them back. The more this era goes on the uglier it's getting. It's like watching a train wreck and I honestly can't help but laugh at how bad this'll probably get.
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Post by matty005 on Nov 22, 2015 17:48:50 GMT -5
Because they've spent too much money, promotion and time to start over. It's also stubbornness. You're right on stubbornness. Their attitude at the CMAs and their turn to pop shows that they have learned nothing from the LF flop and are acting like victims... In their heads LF didn't flop because it's bad, it flopped because Country Music is being "mean" to them. It will be interesting to see what happens after their pop thing flops, if they stay or if they come back running to country - "that was just an experiment"..."country TBP is the real TBP". I kind saw the move to pop coming when they removed the "we're the band perry and we play country music" slogan from their bio as soon as they announced LF. Do they really think crap like this is "excellence"? Seems authentic? Sounds like their best work ever? This is why they're flopping... the new music is . You got this all from a look? Wow, that's impressive.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2015 17:58:03 GMT -5
Since there's no official word on this yet, I'm going to hold off fully on this, but IF it's true then I'm not mad at the Band Perry. I'm just disappointed.
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Post by Markus Meyer on Nov 22, 2015 18:36:46 GMT -5
If this is true, I'll quite miss them... Their debut and 'Pioneer' were both excellent IMO.
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Post by Marv on Nov 23, 2015 5:27:18 GMT -5
1,000% agree on Pioneer, an absolutely superb CD starting with that instantly memorable title track.
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Post by brinkeronline on Nov 23, 2015 15:35:49 GMT -5
This whole Heart+Beat, Live Forever, and whatever this song is comes off as awkward.
Awkward dancing, awkward pandering to the crowd, awkward marketing, awkward, awkward, awkward.
TBP can do pop. Country-pop. Better Dig Two and Done. are both good! And since they (and their team) seem so adamant to do choreography, the small dancing/jumping bits in Done. were fine as well.
I think TBP were well on their way to transitioning from a B act in country music to a mainstay, but they decided to jump when their core audience isn't that huge to begin with, so they don't even have a dedicated 100,000 fans to count on for first-week sales in case pop doesn't work out well.
Taylor already sold a million albums in a week before AND had been around for the better part of a decade, so if her pop switch wasn't well received, Big Machine already made their money back from her core audience.
For TBP, having their biggest album sell 1.5 million on the back of ONE crossover (when sales were exponentially better for small acts) and their second album debut with 129k nearly three years ago (again, in a better sales climate) doesn't signal the best circumstances for a crossover to an entire new genre.
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Post by 19waves on Nov 24, 2015 17:24:12 GMT -5
ima lol if that In It Together song is the next single. preschool morals for a song is just lol
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Post by jesster on Nov 24, 2015 20:01:32 GMT -5
I hope they are not going full pop, and it strikes me as unlikely to give them anywhere near the success they've had in country. Much less enduring long-term success.
But if they are jumping and doing it now before they build a bigger audience, my guess is they had little choice. They're a little up in years to be a debut pop act, especially Kimberly.
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