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Post by Lozzy on May 6, 2011 22:15:45 GMT -5
#11 on iTunes! Go Gaga!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Mike79 on May 6, 2011 22:18:38 GMT -5
I just think it's the song title, JUDAS that is making people not embrace the song. I know it sounds weird but could be a reason. The beats are insane in this song!
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Post by Lozzy on May 6, 2011 22:21:30 GMT -5
I just think it's the song title, JUDAS that is making people not embrace the song. I know it sounds weird but could be a reason. The beats are insane in this song! What should she call it then?
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Post by Mike79 on May 6, 2011 22:24:01 GMT -5
It probably should not have been the second single, that's all.
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Post by When I Ruled the World on May 6, 2011 22:35:45 GMT -5
With Ellen, Oprah, American Idol, E! and a big budget video, this has ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE NOT to go #1 at this point. It is not even album release week and she is already getting the best promotion across the board. I'd be more worried about TTWE's freefall in ITunes if I were you.
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Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on May 6, 2011 22:37:45 GMT -5
With Ellen, Oprah, American Idol, E! and a big budget video, this has ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE NOT to go #1 at this point. It is not even album release week and she is already getting the best promotion across the board. I'd be more worried about TTWE's freefall in ITunes if I were you. No trolling if I were you.
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Post by Push The Button on May 6, 2011 22:39:17 GMT -5
I don't understand how promotion is supposed to automatically make a song go #1. If it's already fallen on iTunes and losing on radio, what makes you think it'll hit #1 just because it's performed on Ellen?
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Post by Lozzy on May 6, 2011 22:45:59 GMT -5
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Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on May 6, 2011 23:06:56 GMT -5
I don't understand how promotion is supposed to automatically make a song go #1. If it's already fallen on iTunes and losing on radio, what makes you think it'll hit #1 just because it's performed on Ellen? Maybe not #1 but there's the video plus all of the other random appearances. I feel like despite GaGa's popularity, Judas - the song, hasn't really been promoted as its own entity but anytime she makes an appearance, it will cause people to go check out whatever her current single is and until the album drops, Judas is the most recent release from her. I think all bets of Judas going to #1 are out but I'm still holding out hope it'll regain enough pop airplay to at least go Top 10 and return to the Top 10 on the Hot 100. I feel like it's such a critical period in the era now for a song to not go Top 10. I actually find it incredibly odd that an album receiving so much promo has one of its pre-album-release singles doing as poorly as this is.
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Post by Lozzy on May 6, 2011 23:12:37 GMT -5
Video views updated... 4,362,179
Amazing.
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Post by Black Jesus on May 6, 2011 23:18:04 GMT -5
Blahh why am I seeing this as #12 on iTunes
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Post by Lozzy on May 6, 2011 23:21:07 GMT -5
Born This Way press conference in Mexico City. She said that there will be two different versions of 'Americano.' Not very clear, but it sounds like the standard version will be techno-Mariachi and the special edition version will be full/pure Mariachi. It could just mean that the special edition version is an extended version though.
Kinda annoying to me if there's two versions of one track, it just seems like more of a marketing ploy. It would be cool if they did 2 versions for like, half of the tracks, or something though, but that's unlikely, no one does that.
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Post by Lozzy on May 6, 2011 23:22:50 GMT -5
With Ellen, Oprah, American Idol, E! and a big budget video, this has ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE NOT to go #1 at this point. It is not even album release week and she is already getting the best promotion across the board. Um she didn`t perform this on oprah and she hasn`t even been on idol yet... Obviously performing 'Yoü and I' is more of an album sales-oriented thing too, but I would expect 'Judas' to benefit at least a little from that too. I wouldn't think Oprah audience fits all that well with mainstream radio listeners, so people might hear 'Yoü and I' and think, oh, that's cool, and go and look it up on iTunes and find this. It can all work out like that. I think.
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Post by Lozzy on May 6, 2011 23:23:45 GMT -5
Blahh why am I seeing this as #12 on iTunes Only by 0.000410% Edit: OT - my mom thinks the album cover is 'scary'.
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Post by hotboi on May 6, 2011 23:26:32 GMT -5
I totally and still love this song but... the video gets me goosebumps in a negative way. I think I officially dislike the video.
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Post by Hussy on May 7, 2011 0:09:59 GMT -5
With Ellen, Oprah, American Idol, E! and a big budget video, this has ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE NOT to go #1 at this point. It is not even album release week and she is already getting the best promotion across the board. I'd be more worried about TTWE's freefall in ITunes if I were you. to correct ur info , TTWE is climbing again on Itunes, it was 35 yesterday and now its 28 and still climbing ;) now this is a SMASH and not ur Judas thing LOL
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on May 7, 2011 0:15:32 GMT -5
It probably should not have been the second single, that's all. It probably should not have been a single at all.
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Post by Myeahhh. on May 7, 2011 0:49:29 GMT -5
A lot of Christians have a problem with this song for some reason. All of my Christian friends said they feel uncomfortable listening to it. I think we all forget about these things because we live in our pop music Pulse bubbles. We understand its a simple metaphor; however, Christians look at it like this:
Judas = Betrayed Jesus + Gaga = Loves Judas ;therefore, Gaga is Evil/
Open-minded and rational? No. Realistic? Yes.
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Post by SPRΞΞ on May 7, 2011 0:52:35 GMT -5
if this keeps decreasing or comes to a hault, i wonder if her label will allow her to have complete control ever again? Wasn't this the case?
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Post by When I Ruled the World on May 7, 2011 0:56:47 GMT -5
I'd be more worried about TTWE's freefall in ITunes if I were you. No trolling if I were you. point taken... however, there are a few trolls in this thread... I'm not one of them (even if my comment was trollish).
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on May 7, 2011 1:01:13 GMT -5
if this keeps decreasing or comes to a hault, i wonder if her label will allow her to have complete control ever again? Wasn't this the case? I don't know how much truth there is to the rumors, but some industry people claim that relations between Gaga and the label are really bad right now and that the label is pissed at what happened and they are scrambling to salvage the era.
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Post by Lozzy on May 7, 2011 1:02:34 GMT -5
if this keeps decreasing or comes to a hault, i wonder if her label will allow her to have complete control ever again? Wasn't this the case? Didn't she want Marry The Night? I wouldn't call it complete control even if she really wanted this anyway. If she wanted to release something very controversial, backlash-trigerring, un-radio-friendly, etc, her label obviously wouldn't allow it. I still think this is a good choice.
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Post by SPRΞΞ on May 7, 2011 1:15:01 GMT -5
i'm still pressed they chose Alejandro over Monster. That would've continued her streak of #1's, i'm sure of it. And I love Alejandro! But Monster was more wow to me.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on May 7, 2011 1:21:24 GMT -5
i'm still pressed they chose Alejandro over Monster. That would've continued her streak of #1's, i'm sure of it. And I love Alejandro! But Monster was more wow to me. I do wish that "Monster" had still been released as a single to close off the era. What did they have to lose?
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Post by SPRΞΞ on May 7, 2011 1:30:51 GMT -5
cuz it was at the breaking point. Monster is my fav Gaga track tho. It's a shame...
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Post by lugus15 on May 7, 2011 2:21:09 GMT -5
It would be a tragedy (and I'm knocking on wood for it to NOT) that this album to have only 1 single quality track on it.
Specially considering that her last two efforts had 6 single quality tracks each.
PS: Monster should have been released as a single (with a rapper feature in it to give it the extra push) and, in this more Pop oriented 2011 climate, Eh Eh would have smashed hard.
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Post by JayBoozer on May 7, 2011 2:29:52 GMT -5
Um, Born This Way hit #1 on pop and the Hot 100 and that was literally a gay anthem. This is much more in the vein of Bad Romance, but regardless you could say that about pretty much every Lady GaGa song because every single of hers was played on a dance floor at a gay club... I would know. lmao um..it wasnt even semi "literally" a gay anthem. It was a wannabe DOA poor mans/ chump change I Will Survive. Only the really dumb down gays, super crazy GaGa loons thought this was any kind of "mega, impactful, gay anthem" lol. Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize that you were the arbiter of gay anthems. The only reason I said that was because its the only song I can think of in the modern history of music that is completely supportive of gays and other queer people that was hugely successful. What else should I be basing my opinion on? My gay smarter, more sane friends who hate GaGa?
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Post by Lozzy on May 7, 2011 3:19:01 GMT -5
i'm still pressed they chose Alejandro over Monster. That would've continued her streak of #1's, i'm sure of it. And I love Alejandro! But Monster was more wow to me. I would've liked 'Monster' for second single. It's obviously not as strong as 'Bad Romance,' but putting it out at the height of the era with the strong promo and the start of the tour, it would have probably been her sixth #1, especially with the killer video it could've had, and how well it fits with what I see as the main theme of the album. If it was third or fourth, I don't think it would've exceeded 'Alejandro.' As third single, maybe #4-#5 and as fourth single, #6-#7 - just because people were kinda starting to tire of her. At the moment, I'm still indifferent on if there should have been 3 or 4 singles. The fourth single would obviously be somewhat successful, but Gaga had had so many massive hits that releasing another hit could just step it over the line. It was probably wise to have the break - a fourth single wouldn't've helped album sales really anyway.
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Post by Lozzy on May 7, 2011 3:45:51 GMT -5
An excerpt from the full version of the E! interview
"The album cover, I don't know if you've seen it, it's half-motorcycle half-woman, and Nick Knight shot it, and the vision is of me in a state of endless journey - I am a vehicle. I'm the vehicle for all the ideas, and I'm not riding away from toward anything, I'm just in this endless state of creativity."
About 8-9 minutes in.
It may have been AP, but I don't recall reading it so it may help with some unsureness.
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Post by Pikachu. on May 7, 2011 4:10:33 GMT -5
That is such a great interview
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