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Post by Adrian C. 🍓 on Mar 23, 2019 0:05:27 GMT -5
The Middle is the most generic thing Zedd has ever made and is easily one of the worst songs of 2018. 365 is improvement and doesn’t deserve to be doing this poorly, especially after how much success The Middle had.
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Post by kcdawg13 on Mar 23, 2019 0:42:10 GMT -5
I liked The Middle but this is a lot better.
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Post by upsidedown on Mar 23, 2019 5:39:46 GMT -5
Y'all are dissecting too much. From the average person's stand point, The Middle is the better pop earworm. That's clear.
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Post by Az Paynter on Mar 23, 2019 7:24:18 GMT -5
POP: 24 22 ZEDD & KATY PERRY 365 3217 3140 77 9.891
-23 Spins -33 Bullet -0.216 Audience
HOT AC: 30 28 ZEDD & KATY PERRY 365 557 499 58 1.042
+9 Spins -3 Bullet +0.071 Audience
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Post by avamaxstan on Mar 23, 2019 7:40:18 GMT -5
Yikes... Katy really has lost her cache at pop radio. Also the song isn’t that instant unlike The Middle which was designed in a lab to be a radio smash.
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Post by wavey.✨️ on Mar 23, 2019 8:00:09 GMT -5
It's not just that The Middle was a hit...there was PROMO. Target, other commercials, wasn't there a radio deal as well?
What did 365 get?
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Mar 23, 2019 9:06:11 GMT -5
The Middle has a really catchy, ear worm chorus especially for casual listeners (which is most people). I think this is a better song, but man I wish they had brought it a little harder with the chorus. The verses are so good and I love the beat and feel of them and then the chorus is so boring to me I want to fast forward to the next verse as soon as it starts.
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Post by Dylan :) on Mar 23, 2019 9:19:03 GMT -5
Katy Perry, who peaked chart wise in 2012, hasn't had a hit since 2017 and a real hit since 2014, managed to send a pretty generic tropical sounding pop song to the upper regions of the top 20 with absolutely no promotion and the only push being her name and the name of a DJ who has had five pop hits and a lot of misses recently, even with big names like Shawn Mendes. That's pretty impressive. I don't know why people are using this song and its performance as an example of her being done at radio. The Middle and Stay sounded the exact same and were very obviously Zedd. This sounds nothing like a Zedd song.
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Mar 23, 2019 11:29:53 GMT -5
It's not just that The Middle was a hit...there was PROMO. Target, other commercials, wasn't there a radio deal as well? What did 365 get? Nothing. IG posts aren’t promo, and neither is this last-ditch effort of a vertical video, or whatever that means. It’s real sad cuz the Katy Perry of Teenage Dream/Prism would NEVER allow this to happen. Even Rise was promoted way more than this.
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Post by kcdawg13 on Mar 23, 2019 16:17:43 GMT -5
The label should just payola the song like that Fletcher track
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Post by airbear92 on Mar 23, 2019 19:25:15 GMT -5
Y'all are dissecting too much. From the average person's stand point, The Middle is the better pop earworm. That's clear. Exactly, and its apparent. Case closed
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Post by airbear92 on Mar 23, 2019 19:28:23 GMT -5
I'm still baffled how The Middle managed to be such a huge smash and this can't even crack the top 20 on pop. Because its catchy af and this isn't...
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Mar 23, 2019 22:33:57 GMT -5
Imagine thinking 365 isn’t catchy.
The problem remains there is no efffort being made and it’s basically put out to pasture.
The video is great, but other than that, she’s been lazy. The reaction to people who have heard it has been overwhelmingly good. There is just no exposure.
I also think she shouldn’t release any more music if this is the amount of effort that is going to be made. Sure she can make music, but don’t release any singles. I don’t want her winding up like Britney Spears.
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Post by Anticonformity on Mar 24, 2019 2:08:25 GMT -5
I think it's actually funny how she promoted this song at the iHeart radio music awards...
I felt like I was part of an inside joke, I'm all SWEET SHE'S TRYING TO STAY IN CHARACTER AND EVEN HAD A THROW AWAY REFERENCE and everyone is like "why she looking like a robot and who's next to her?"
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Post by Az Paynter on Mar 24, 2019 7:05:14 GMT -5
POP: 21 22 ZEDD & KATY PERRY 365 3244 3142 102 9.869
+27 Spins +25 Bullet -0.022 Audience
HOT AC: 28 28 ZEDD & KATY PERRY 365 565 520 45 1.068
+8 Spins -13 Bullet +0.026 Audience
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Post by Az Paynter on Mar 25, 2019 8:00:41 GMT -5
POP: 21 22 ZEDD & KATY PERRY 365 3272 3233 39 10.019
+28 Spins -63 Bullet +0.150 Audience
HOT AC: 28 28 ZEDD & KATY PERRY 365 586 539 47 1.160
+21 Spins +2 Bullet +0.092 Audience
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Post by airbear92 on Mar 25, 2019 8:18:51 GMT -5
Imagine thinking 365 isn’t catchy. The problem remains there is no efffort being made and it’s basically put out to pasture. The video is great, but other than that, she’s been lazy. The reaction to people who have heard it has been overwhelmingly good. There is just no exposure. I also think she shouldn’t release any more music if this is the amount of effort that is going to be made. Sure she can make music, but don’t release any singles. I don’t want her winding up like Britney Spears. It isn't. The hook has too much going on and the beat is flat and lullaby enducing
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Post by #LisaRinna on Mar 25, 2019 10:33:47 GMT -5
Looks like Katy can't win :(
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Post by divasummer on Mar 25, 2019 14:06:51 GMT -5
Imagine thinking 365 isn’t catchy. The problem remains there is no efffort being made and it’s basically put out to pasture. The video is great, but other than that, she’s been lazy. The reaction to people who have heard it has been overwhelmingly good. There is just no exposure. I also think she shouldn’t release any more music if this is the amount of effort that is going to be made. Sure she can make music, but don’t release any singles. I don’t want her winding up like Britney Spears. It isn't. The hook has too much going on and the beat is flat and lullaby enducing I Love this song and I don't always care about a catchy hook or chorus but you are completely correct. Again I love the song but the verses is what brought me into liking it. The chorus is very busy for a "pop" sing along chorus and a lot of people don't care about the mood of the song. They want to sing along not just feel fierce. There are so many songs like this that I just don't get why people don't hear how good it is but they don't. lol. I hope I'm wrong I would love to hear this on the radio but between her not being at her peak and some of the reasons already mentioned. This very well may be peaking now..
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Post by kcdawg13 on Mar 25, 2019 22:33:10 GMT -5
^ The song isn't dead yet guys
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Post by Az Paynter on Mar 26, 2019 7:21:32 GMT -5
POP: 21 23 ZEDD & KATY PERRY 365 3270 3236 34 10.000
-2 Spins -5 Bullet -0.019 Audience
HOT AC: 28 28 ZEDD & KATY PERRY 365 583 561 22 1.196
-3 Spins -25 Bullet +0.036 Audience
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Post by divasummer on Mar 26, 2019 11:46:03 GMT -5
^ The song isn't dead yet guys I hope your right but even todays update was a dud.....
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Post by leonagwen on Mar 26, 2019 15:33:29 GMT -5
^ The song isn't dead yet guys It doesnt look good. Low sales, bipolar updates.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 15:40:25 GMT -5
Katy Perry cannot song choruses at all. Swish Swish was awful. Chained to the Rhythm sounded terrible. Her pop peak was the Teenage Dream album with smash after smash. Firework, Ternage Dream etc. were all great. This sounds ok.
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Post by wjr15 on Mar 26, 2019 16:02:34 GMT -5
Katy Perry cannot song choruses at all. Swish Swish was awful. Chained to the Rhythm sounded terrible. Her pop peak was the Teenage Dream album with smash after smash. Firework, Ternage Dream etc. were all great. This sounds ok. You're entitled you're wrong opinion, especially when catchy choruses is what Katy is known for.
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Post by survivorqt on Mar 26, 2019 16:23:07 GMT -5
The chorus in this is not singable, her big hits had massive, singable choruses
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Post by wjr15 on Mar 26, 2019 16:36:38 GMT -5
I don't know about the rest of y'all but 365 has a catchy singable chorus, it's definitely more lowkey than her past songs though.
CTTR and Feels both had extremely catchy choruses and I'll admit that BA and SS didn't have the strongest of choruses.
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Post by wayneashleymusic on Mar 26, 2019 16:39:04 GMT -5
Yet another song in the saga of the USA vs. Afrobeats. It's either a complete HIT (One Dance- Drake, Despacito ) or a complete MISS. I just wish this country and pop radio would make up its mind on the genre.
I'm a big fan of Afrobeats... always have been, and even my own music takes its root in the genre. But one thing I've learned from boards like this... don't count on it being a hit in the US!!
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Post by deepston on Mar 26, 2019 18:30:55 GMT -5
Imagine thinking 365 isn’t catchy. The problem remains there is no efffort being made and it’s basically put out to pasture. The video is great, but other than that, she’s been lazy. The reaction to people who have heard it has been overwhelmingly good. There is just no exposure. I also think she shouldn’t release any more music if this is the amount of effort that is going to be made. Sure she can make music, but don’t release any singles. I don’t want her winding up like Britney Spears. It isn't. The hook has too much going on and the beat is flat and lullaby enducing I got a feeling your judgment would be a little different if the song was smashing
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Post by hitmakaontharise on Mar 26, 2019 22:26:20 GMT -5
Yo Im telling y’all this isn’t it. This is a summer smash in the making.
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