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Post by carriekins on Feb 25, 2016 20:32:58 GMT -5
I'm surprised there's such strong negative feelings towards this song. I don't mind it at all. I'm pretty indifferent to it, but my husband HATES it so I can see both sides, haha.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Feb 25, 2016 23:06:06 GMT -5
I like this song. I can see not liking it, but thinking that it's completely unlistenable garbage? Maybe it's just because I'm predisposed to find the good in every song I hear.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 25, 2016 23:26:52 GMT -5
I like this song. I can see not liking it, but thinking that it's completely unlistenable garbage? Maybe it's just because I'm predisposed to find the good in every song I hear. Yes, that's how opinions work. Anyway, if we could just heed this message that'd be great: I think we should go back to discussing "Drunk On Your Love" (whether it'd be positive or negative) and stop questioning posters and their feelings about said song, one way or the other.
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Post by myeverything on Feb 27, 2016 20:27:53 GMT -5
I'm not saying don't post opinions. Yes, we're ALL free to do that and isn't that the point??? All I'm saying is don't be so disrespectful and rude about it. I love the country music format and support ALL of it's artists. There may be some I don't care for or particularly like, but I'm not about to immaturely and publicly bash them to no end.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 20:34:00 GMT -5
I'm not saying don't post opinions. Yes, we're ALL free to do that and isn't that the point??? All I'm saying is don't be so disrespectful and rude about it. I love the country music format and support ALL of it's artists. There may be some I don't care for or particularly like, but I'm not about to immaturely and publicly bash them to no end. But I'm gonna bash a song if I feel like it. If that song is bad enough it's fair game. I won't go for the artist personally, but how in the song the narrator (the artist) displays the song that's fair game. Also I'm not going to support artists I don't like, that's like supporting a TV show you hate. You're basically allowing that artist to do whatever they please, but maybe just maybe if enough people don't support a song maybe that'll cause the artist to change their direction. I want in some way to make a difference, who knows maybe an artist reads this site (I doubt it but stranger things have happened).
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Post by Kat5Kind on Feb 27, 2016 20:48:02 GMT -5
Yeah, well, the excessive bashing makes the site less enjoyable. I'm not the only one who feels this way.
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Post by 43dudleyvillas on Feb 28, 2016 0:49:01 GMT -5
Here's the thing. Pulse is always going to be a mix of personalities and preferences -- some leaning more analytical, some leaning more in the vein of an entertainer, some more music-focused, some more chart-focused, some single-artist-focused, others format or genre-focused, etc. As staff, we're not here to enforce the supremacy of any one personality, but to uphold a set of rules that allows all the different personalities to peacefully and constructively converse. With that in mind, a few points/pointers: - If you choose not to criticize an artist, song, marketing move, etc., that you dislike, that is, of course, completely fine and welcome. But that doesn't make you morally superior or a more constructive poster. Constructiveness is about the content you post, it's not about whether you're being positive or negative. Cheerleading isn't necessarily any more constructive than colorfully-worded dismissals of a song as crap, and vice versa.
- Criticism of songs and artists? Fine as long as it doesn't meet our definition of trolling. Meta-criticism of posters & their opinions? Not so much -- it derails threads, as it has this one. Agree/disagree with posters on the merits/lack thereof of their posts, but keep away from the judgment & psychoanalyses of your fellow posters for having the views that they do.
- Pulse is not a fan board. While we do try to be a place where people of a wide array of personalities can interact, there is one characteristic that I think it is difficult to enjoy Pulse without, and that is a sense of humor. By that I mean a sense of humor about your favorites and their failings, because those are fair game for discussion. I mean a sense of humor about your least favorites and their inevitable chart successes. I also mean a sense of humor about your opinions, how much they match up with the market and whether or not people here will agree with them.
- Modulation matters. Sure, you are free to criticize songs and artists as long as you're not trolling (and cases of suspected trolling should be reported, not responded to on the board). However, criticizing persuasively or in a way that doesn't make people tune you out means not hurling insults for the sake of hurling insults. Sure, there are occasions when a ranty post about the abject awfulness of what you're hearing is all that you can manage and you just have to vent. Just check those posts with enough self-awareness that it's clear that you just needed to get something off your chest and you're not engaged in some grim quest to suck any pleasure people might take from a song/artist out of their experience.
- Colorful language can be great, but be mindful of how it reads. We have people of various backgrounds here, of various ages and of varying levels of ability/disability. Try to be sure that your choice of words doesn't (unintentionally or intentionally) exclude fellow posters.
I hope that clarifies where the staff stands on criticism and opinion-rendering. Enough with the meta-discussion now. If you have questions or comments about what's appropriate for the board, please feel free to PM a staffer. Thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2016 20:48:04 GMT -5
Okay, so something rather bizarre. Brett's song "Go On Without Me", from his debut album, Bring You Back, appeared in the New & Active section in last night's Billboard Country Update. "Go On Without Me" accumulated 383k in total audience this past week. I checked AllAccess, and there are 15 stations that started playing "Go On Without Me" in the past 7 days. I'm pretty sure all 15 of the stations are iHeartMedia stations. www.allaccess.com/mediabase/q/report/starters/song/ELDRGOWM/format/C1I'd understand it somewhat if the song was on Brett's current album, because sometimes stations will start spinning an album track if they think or know (or hope) it will be the next single...but that's not the case here. Does anybody know why these iHeartMedia stations have started spinning a random Brett Eldredge track from an album that was released in 2013?
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Post by bksouthga on Mar 1, 2016 21:12:36 GMT -5
Okay, so something rather bizarre. Brett's song "Go On Without Me", from his debut album, Bring You Back, appeared in the New & Active section in last night's Billboard Country Update. "Go On Without Me" accumulated 383k in total audience this past week. I checked AllAccess, and there are 15 stations that started playing "Go On Without Me" in the past 7 days. I'm pretty sure all 15 of the stations are iHeartMedia stations. www.allaccess.com/mediabase/q/report/starters/song/ELDRGOWM/format/C1I'd understand it somewhat if the song was on Brett's current album, because sometimes stations will start spinning an album track if they think or know (or hope) it will be the next single...but that's not the case here. Does anybody know why these iHeartMedia stations have started spinning a random Brett Eldredge track from an album that was released in 2013? The Revolution will not be televised!
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Post by tim on Mar 1, 2016 21:13:12 GMT -5
Okay, so something rather bizarre. Brett's song "Go On Without Me", from his debut album, Bring You Back, appeared in the New & Active section in last night's Billboard Country Update. "Go On Without Me" accumulated 383k in total audience this past week. I checked AllAccess, and there are 15 stations that started playing "Go On Without Me" in the past 7 days. I'm pretty sure all 15 of the stations are iHeartMedia stations. www.allaccess.com/mediabase/q/report/starters/song/ELDRGOWM/format/C1I'd understand it somewhat if the song was on Brett's current album, because sometimes stations will start spinning an album track if they think or know (or hope) it will be the next single...but that's not the case here. Does anybody know why these iHeartMedia stations have started spinning a random Brett Eldredge track from an album that was released in 2013? I believe iHeartMedia stations recently held their annual Country Cares fundraiser for St. Jude's and this is one of the songs that was played then.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2016 23:44:10 GMT -5
I believe iHeartMedia stations recently held their annual Country Cares fundraiser for St. Jude's and this is one of the songs that was played then. Ah, thanks. That makes a ton of sense. I've been seeing a lot of St. Jude posts so I'm not sure why I didn't think of it, but then again, I'm admittedly not familiar with most of Brett's music and I haven't even listened to "Go On Without Me". The only singles I've liked from Brett are "Raymond" and "It Ain't Gotta Be Love".
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Mar 2, 2016 0:57:06 GMT -5
To me, this is one of those songs where the repetition enhances instead of detracts. That's one of the reasons why I liked "Lover, Lover" so much, because it used repetition in a way that somehow worked. And likewise the chorus somehow works for me in a way that I can't really explain.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 1:34:23 GMT -5
To me, this is one of those songs where the repetition enhances instead of detracts. That's one of the reasons why I liked "Lover, Lover" so much, because it used repetition in a way that somehow worked. And likewise the chorus somehow works for me in a way that I can't really explain. I really enjoyed the repetition in "Lover, Lover" as well. But with "Drunk On Your Love", I absolutely can't stand how Brett stretches one-syllable words like "up", "drunk", "why", "high", and "love" into three syllables. It sound absolutely horrible to me. To me, it sounds like the writers tried way too hard to fit the lyrics to the melody...almost as if they had these lyrics in mind and they were stubbornly determined to make them fit into the song. Like I posted in the "worst lyrics" thread, when you actually sound this song out, this is how the lyrics read: I woke uh-uh-up Still druh-uh-unk On your luh-uh-ove, on your luh-uh-ove Now I know why-eye-eye I'm feeling so high-igh-igh 'Cause I'm still druh-uh-unk On your love, on your luh-oveI think it would sound a lot better if they had added more words, rather than stretch a one-syllable word into three syllables.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Mar 2, 2016 10:36:29 GMT -5
And that's why I find it so hard to explain. I don't usually like it when words are egregiously stretched out to fit a melody (cf. "Ooh, I love watching you-ooh, baby / Ooh, when you're driving me, ooh, crazy"), but somehow it works for me in this song, in a way that kind of thing usually doesn't cut it for me.
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Post by dm2081 on Mar 2, 2016 11:34:40 GMT -5
This is definitely one of the worst singles I can remember recently. The chorus is just so grating and the production sounds so awkward IMO. The lyrics could have been written by 7 year old and literally say nothing memorable. I see why radio is playing this because the sales are great and it's very safe fodder, but I can't figure out why this song is so popular to begin with.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 15:10:06 GMT -5
This is definitely one of the worst singles I can remember recently. The chorus is just so grating and the production sounds so awkward IMO. The lyrics could have been written by 7 year old and literally say nothing memorable. I see why radio is playing this because the sales are great and it's very safe fodder, but I can't figure out why this song is so popular to begin with. I don't think a 7-year old would write about being drunk (on someone's love) But otherwise I agree with you...I just don't see anything special about the lyrics here, and literally everything about this song annoys me. I understand why it's a hit (good sales, and I imagine the callout is fine, too), but what I can't understand is why this became so popular in the first place. I think I usually have a pretty good ear for what will work at country radio vs. what won't work, and while I expected this song to be a moderate hit (mostly because of Brett's momentum), I didn't expect it to be this big of a hit. Quite frankly, I'm surprised that more of the general public doesn't find this as grating/annoying/polarizing as I do, because again, I feel like I'm usually pretty "in tune" to what the casual listener would/wouldn't enjoy. Brett has become an industry favorite (I think it's probably because of his strong voice), but so far I've found his material to be incredibly disappointing, other than a select few tracks. Brett is clearly being pushed heavily by WME (William Morris Endeavor), hence his ACM nominations and all the big ads we've seen lately. His labels and the groups representing him are definitely pushing for him to become one of the bigger stars in the genre. But aside from some decent-selling singles, it doesn't appear that the fan interest is anywhere near the level of the industry support. Brett's Illinois album has only sold about 110,000 copies so far, which is far below what many of his peers have sold. Obviously Sam Hunt has sold way more, but we've also seen guys like Thomas Rhett, Kip Moore (1st album), Cole Swindell, Chase Rice (Sony debut album), Chris Young, Jake Owen, Brantley Gilbert, Justin Moore, Randy Houser, and Lee Brice sell anywhere from 2-3 times as much (with their last 1-2 albums) as each of Brett's two albums. I just find it rather disappointing that Brett is being 'championed' so much for music that, in my opinion, isn't all that good. Obviously if the quality of his music improves, then I certainly wouldn't mind Brett becoming one of the bigger stars in the genre because he does have a good voice. But so far I feel like he's wasting it on sub-par material.
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Post by robenglund on Mar 2, 2016 16:50:43 GMT -5
This is definitely one of the worst singles I can remember recently. The chorus is just so grating and the production sounds so awkward IMO. The lyrics could have been written by 7 year old and literally say nothing memorable. I see why radio is playing this because the sales are great and it's very safe fodder, but I can't figure out why this song is so popular to begin with. I don't think a 7-year old would write about being drunk (on someone's love) he does have a good voice. But so far I feel like he's wasting it on sub-par material. I was thinking the same thing. I hope a 7 year old doesn't write about being drunk. Too young lol. Anyways, in my opinion, and I know others have said this before, it should be clarified that the singles are wasted on sub-par material. Raymond is the exception in this case. But on the Illinois album, there are some strong tracks like "Illinois" and "Lose It All". "Lose My Mind" and "Drunk On Your Love" are definitely in the weaker category.
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Post by myeverything on Mar 3, 2016 21:26:43 GMT -5
I've had "Illinois" in my CD player for the last 3 months straight. First time I heard it, I thought his debut album was better but I gave it a second listen and became absolutely hooked. I think it is absolutely fantastic (along with his first album). All the album tracks are great and Raymond is my least favorite out of all of his material. Funny how much opinions differ.
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Post by hosssulpizio on Mar 4, 2016 1:34:40 GMT -5
This song is super generic. Wondering why Brett decided to record something like this? Maybe Thomas Rhett influenced "Illinois". Brett needs to have a stronger mindset if he was really persuaded to do this. But as I see it that's not very likely. He must've been hungry for money and didn't want to record songs that would help his career.
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 4, 2016 15:49:32 GMT -5
Wondering why Brett decided to record something like this? Brett co-wrote it. He probably genuinely liked the song since he had a hand in penning it. As much as I dislike this song, it's helping his career more than hurting it. It's in the top 5 heading to #1 and has sold incredibly well (currently #24 on the all-genre chart) throughout its chart run.
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Post by Marv on Mar 4, 2016 17:52:31 GMT -5
I used the word 'juvenile' a couple of years ago when Thomas Rhett and FGL were #1 and #2 on CT40 with Get Me Some Of That and This Is How We Roll, and this tepid tune is equally juvenile with lyrics which appear very forced in attempting to fit the music combined with too much repetition. I have no idea why he's so huge at country radio but I could also say that about most of the format's top 15 or so male singers whose collective quality of music has been underwhelming to say the least.
What makes things even worse is that the quality of music coming down the pike from the new group of females is substantially superior to what the males are putting out, but the ladies can't get any significant airplay, which is really infuriating in this bro-country era.
Half of the current Mediabase top 10 is simply awful, and that certainly includes this tune.
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Post by tim on Mar 5, 2016 6:46:29 GMT -5
Somewhere along the way this song grew on me. I have to agree with Ten Pound Hammer and say this works for me. I honestly tried hard to resist this song, but it's pure ear candy. I actually quite like it now.
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 21, 2016 19:03:43 GMT -5
Warner Music Nashville will be pushing "Drunk On Your Love" to #1 on Mediabase this week (they also are the label for "You Should Be Here"); they have a full page ad requesting "Max Spins for #1" in Country Aircheck this evening.
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Post by myeverything on Mar 22, 2016 11:21:51 GMT -5
Hope it makes it on both charts. What will this be, his 5th straight #1 in a row?
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Post by phil1996 on Mar 22, 2016 11:29:23 GMT -5
Wonder what they go with as the next single. "Wanna Be That Song" is a gem, but I have a feeling it's gonna be the Thomas Rhett duet,
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Post by dm2081 on Mar 22, 2016 11:49:03 GMT -5
I have a feeling "Fire" will be next which will annoy me to no end. There's wasn't much on the album that I liked, but "Illinois" was the clear standout, and would be my choice.
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 22, 2016 12:11:22 GMT -5
What will this be, his 5th straight #1 in a row? Yes. The week didn't start out good for "Drunk On You Love", as Brett got out gained by label mate Cole Swindell, by 120 spins and 300k in total MB audience. The point gap was minor (only 190 points) on MB this past week, so Warner will have zero trouble getting Brett #1 on Mediabase. The Billboard chart will be harder as Cole's up by 2.0 million in Billboard audience, so the gap will need to start getting smaller starting tomorrow if Brett wants to be #1 on both charts. I'm sure Warner will coax this into the way they would like since they're the label for both singles. Then you have Rascal Flatts and Big Machine, with their 146 spin gain today. There's no shot they can out-duel Warner here since they're so far behind this week but I wonder when their final push comes, since the song gained 7.0 million in MB audience this past week? There's little chance that song can wait out both "Drunk On Your Love" and "You Should Be Here" since the pedal has been pushed rapidly down the past 7-8 days or so. The next song is "Confession" (BMLG, just like "I Like The Sound Of That"), then there's a huge drop off in spins and audience when you get down to Chase Bryant and Old Dominion.
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Post by trebor on Mar 22, 2016 12:16:09 GMT -5
Congrats! #1 in Canada on both Billboard & Mediabase
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Post by myeverything on Mar 23, 2016 10:06:06 GMT -5
Good for him!! I can see "Fire" being released next... I've been saying all along that he's going to open his setlist with that one on the Keith tour and that's getting ready to start up in a couple months. If that doesn't get released next, I would absolutely LOVE to see "Wanna Be That Song" get released. (Favorite on the album). He was teasing on snapchat with that one not too long ago so that would be amazing. Didn't Thomas just release "T-Shirt" as his next single? Nashville stations are playing it.. So if he did then I don't see them releasing the duet right now. I think time frame wise, it would be smart for them to go with Fire, then Wanna Be That Song then possibly another? I'm in favor for Illinois too!! That would be a great last single to end the era.
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Post by phil1996 on Mar 23, 2016 10:25:44 GMT -5
The album was just released this past fall, I'm gonna say at least two more singles from it. I'd love to see "If You Were My Girl" get released, it shows his voice off so well. I really like the Illinois album, but would be disappointed if "Fire" is the next single. Only song I dislike on it.
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