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Post by think pink. on Jan 13, 2024 8:57:14 GMT -5
GP are tired of the stunts. Gotta come with good music now.
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Post by sportytheartist on Jan 13, 2024 9:03:56 GMT -5
This was definitely not what I expected. I thought at least top 30 in US.
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Post by leonagwen on Jan 13, 2024 9:05:46 GMT -5
A song is not done after one day.
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Post by Choco on Jan 13, 2024 9:06:51 GMT -5
Blessing in disguise. Give us better music and less attempts at virality.
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Post by kcdawg13 on Jan 13, 2024 9:11:05 GMT -5
I really like LNX but I feel like he cares more about developing his persona and visuals as a pop star more than making good music, he has lots of good tracks but looking at his whole discography a lot of his stuff is under 2 minutes and personally designed for TikTok or for social media attention and this song is no exception, also a lot of the production on his songs also sounds really cheap, for a pop star of his caliber he should be hiring better producers (imo). I honestly wish he'd ditch the gimmicks for a bit and just deliver a really good album.
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Post by stormlover74 on Jan 13, 2024 10:07:00 GMT -5
This song is DOA. Gonna need to rise from the dead
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Post by avamaxstan on Jan 13, 2024 10:09:24 GMT -5
53 on Spotify is shocking. How is this flopping so hard? Where did his hype go? Man just had a string of smash hits. 2-3 years ago, and they were riding on a very well executed promotional campaign of controversy and gimmick. Shock value has high return but short shelf life (the trajectory from The Fame -> Artpop, for example). And the song simply isnβt good enough to be a hit on its own musical merits.
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Post by Au$tin on Jan 13, 2024 10:10:22 GMT -5
53 on Spotify is shocking. How is this flopping so hard? Where did his hype go? Man just had a string of smash hits. 2-3 years ago, and they were riding on a very well executed promotional campaign of controversy and gimmick. Shock value has high return but short shelf life (the trajectory from The Fame -> Artpop, for example). And the song simply isnβt good enough to be a hit on its own musical merits. Gaga still pulled in huge numbers with Applause on its first week. Plus I don't recall any of the singles past "MONTERO" being all that controversial. They were basic AF actually. So, this is not that. This is something else entirely. He's not even pulling good numbers on his first day.
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Post by COW COW COW COW COW COW COW on Jan 13, 2024 10:12:53 GMT -5
I really like LNX but I feel like he cares more about developing his persona and visuals as a pop star more than making good music, he has lots of good tracks but looking at his whole discography a lot of his stuff is under 2 minutes and personally designed for TikTok or for social media attention and this song is no exception, also a lot of the production on his songs also sounds really cheap, for a pop star of his caliber he should be hiring better producers (imo). I honestly wish he'd ditch the gimmicks for a bit and just deliver a really good album. I think that part of it is the gimmick has no bite this time around. Hanging your self on a cross may have been controversial back in Madonnaβs day, but it wonβt get the same shock value anymoreβ¦especially when youβve already given the devil a lap dance and snapped his neck. it reminds me of when William Friedkin directed βTheExorcist.β It was controversial, it was huge. Truly a pop culture moment. Everyone was talking about, everyone had strong opinions. Friedkin also courted controversy with the gay BDSM thriller βCruising.β but What was Friedkinβs next horror movie? Anyone? β¦βThe Guardianβ (1990), a movie about a Tree nymph who pretends to be a nanny to steal and eat a baby. But people found the villain lame, Ebert referred to it as a βKiller Tree Movie.β Times had changed, and a tree creature is less scary to most people than the Devil. There was no where to go. Plus the movie sucked. So Lil Nas X is attempting for viral controversy/notoriety with something that is equal parts passΓ© and hackneyed. He needs to do what GaGa did, and just start making solid music. He got the attention with being shocking. But Lady GaGa didnβt follow up her meat dress with a dress made of romaine lettuce. She did great work.
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Post by avamaxstan on Jan 13, 2024 10:18:46 GMT -5
2-3 years ago, and they were riding on a very well executed promotional campaign of controversy and gimmick. Shock value has high return but short shelf life (the trajectory from The Fame -> Artpop, for example). And the song simply isnβt good enough to be a hit on its own musical merits. Gaga still pulled in huge numbers with Applause on its first week. Plus I don't recall any of the singles past "MONTERO" being all that controversial. They were basic AF actually. So, this is not that. This is something else entirely. He's not even pulling good numbers on his first day. Industry Baby also trolled for controversy with the gay sex prison video with blurred buttholes. And it was boosted by the Jack feature. And it was also a banger. And then TWIW also had the somewhat controversial football locker room gay sex video.
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Post by HamedM1 π on Jan 13, 2024 10:47:53 GMT -5
Wow this wildly underperforming, very easily looking to be the next Bongos if this don't get any better.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jan 13, 2024 10:58:30 GMT -5
I really like LNX but I feel like he cares more about developing his persona and visuals as a pop star more than making good music, he has lots of good tracks but looking at his whole discography a lot of his stuff is under 2 minutes and personally designed for TikTok or for social media attention and this song is no exception, also a lot of the production on his songs also sounds really cheap, for a pop star of his caliber he should be hiring better producers (imo). I honestly wish he'd ditch the gimmicks for a bit and just deliver a really good album. Have to agree. His album contained some really solid music that he could explore a bit further. But he does need the hits to do that. This song isnβt bad but itβs predictable from him, which makes it safe. The lead-up promo to the single was more exciting than the song itself, and thatβs not going to help him. With that said, his gimmicks is one of the reasons I enjoy what he does. I think the jesus bit was just a bit tired.
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Post by omieethehomieee on Jan 13, 2024 11:23:34 GMT -5
I kind of had a feeling this would happen considering the way the GP responses were on every social media platform. Also he just may be suffering that sophomore slump curse
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Jan 13, 2024 11:39:04 GMT -5
2-3 years ago, and they were riding on a very well executed promotional campaign of controversy and gimmick. Shock value has high return but short shelf life (the trajectory from The Fame -> Artpop, for example). And the song simply isnβt good enough to be a hit on its own musical merits. Gaga still pulled in huge numbers with Applause on its first week. Plus Applause eventually went on to become a pretty big hit, even if it wasn't on the level of Bad Romance/etc. It was a very catchy pop song. I also think this is catchy, but I'm not sure it will develop into a fairly solid hit just because people seem to be rejecting this pretty hard even from the beginning.
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Post by spiritboy on Jan 13, 2024 14:02:32 GMT -5
Shading Madonna and Gaga just before the single release wasn't a good move it seems The song is really bad, i don't see it doing any damage on the charts.
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Post by Dylan :) on Jan 13, 2024 14:14:01 GMT -5
Taking the song purely on its own, it just goes nowhere, has no message bar saying heβs in his prime and viral. There is no hook, no interesting vocals, no interesting instrumentation. Nothing. If this was on the last album it would likely be the weakest song
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Post by think pink. on Jan 13, 2024 14:20:45 GMT -5
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Post by 360brat on Jan 13, 2024 14:49:39 GMT -5
53 on Spotify is shocking. How is this flopping so hard? Where did his hype go? Man just had a string of smash hits. Late to the Party was supposed to a lead single I'm pretty sure and it tanked as well. He had a song called down south hoes that was clearly supposed to release in 2022 but never did because late to the party flopped. Ya'll forget that he hasn't had a real hit since 2021, his whole gimmick is starting to feel repetitive and a retread of better songs, and honestly the song just isn't that good.
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Post by Mayman on Jan 13, 2024 15:28:48 GMT -5
Late To The Party was just a standalone track, wasn't sent to radio at all and clearly would not work for airplay. He had a moderate hit with Starwalkin last year but it wasn't given his usual promo since it was for a soundtrack. Let's also remember that That's All I Want was the #1 song on pop radio in 2022, so it's not like he's been underperforming for years.
This song is okay but I agree with the sentiment it's not anything out of the ordinary for him. He needed something fresh to put out, which this is not. I'll still listen occasionally to it.
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Post by Choco on Jan 13, 2024 15:30:59 GMT -5
The droplets are good help when they smash but otherwise irrelevant to whatever the next lead does because the label just sweeps them under the rug and says "promo droplet lol". Hence why in spite of those two songs not doing that much, there was still the expectation for this to open well even in spite of Ariana's lead.
I think it's a combination of the song not being anything new adding to the tiresome antics.
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Post by g8erboi on Jan 13, 2024 17:20:29 GMT -5
The floppage is HILARIOUS. You tried, boo, you tried.
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Post by Anticonformity on Jan 14, 2024 1:37:45 GMT -5
It's not my fave and clearly the video is what sells the song, but it isn't THAT bad... maybe an album track...
I do think he has so much unreleased that could be bangers but sadly they seem to not be used for the album :( (Sunami would've been a good comeback! "When I walk out the house and I wear what I'm wearing Bitch, I know I look gay Why the fuck is you starin' at me It's apparent that I know I'ma stay")
I'm all for him to keep up the jesus stuff though, we've had to put up with him with xtians for far too long...
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Post by avamaxstan on Jan 14, 2024 1:40:13 GMT -5
A song is not done after one day. When itβs a hugely hyped comeback single released along with a big music video from a major artist and it fails to even crack the streaming charts, yeah it pretty much is.
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Post by collin on Jan 14, 2024 2:27:44 GMT -5
I mean. Did they really expect this to be a big hit?
The biggest controversy of all would be him releasing a great song for the first time. Letβs try that.
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Post by HamedM1 π on Jan 14, 2024 9:43:32 GMT -5
Yeah this is not looking good at all.
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Post by avamaxstan on Jan 14, 2024 9:58:27 GMT -5
I see Taylor, dolly, Kanye, Oprah, Ed Sheeran, Mariah, Obama⦠this video is going to be a mess. But will prob help it debut top 10. Prob? Top 10 ? It was going to easily clear top 5 with very high odds at top 2 lol and with the controversial video will be a challenger for #1
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Post by big2000 on Jan 14, 2024 11:18:44 GMT -5
#77 on Spotify for day 2, and missed top 100 completely on the global chart. Yikes.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Jan 14, 2024 11:22:20 GMT -5
This is legit flopping way harder than I ever expected lol. I expected that like...a top 20 was pretty guaranteed. Are people that annoyed with him? New single next week or does he need to take a month or two to regroup?
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Post by Ling-Ling on Jan 14, 2024 11:24:41 GMT -5
I won't write it off completely yet, for all we know it can go viral on TikTok and have a bounce-back. But there's no denying the performance out of the gate is abysmal.
Time for a rebrand! And time to see if he can stand on his own two legs as an artist without the gimmicks and trolling (or at least with intelligent trolling and gimmicks).
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Post by rnb on Jan 14, 2024 11:38:53 GMT -5
he better pray the tiktok gods make this viral and if not..
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