Lady A - “Like A Lady”

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Apr 20, 2021 13:48:41 GMT -5 dawhite76 said:

Really?!? You have to ask why?

Yeah. I don’t get it.

[matty005]

Apr 20, 2021 13:48:41 GMT -5 dawhite76 said:

Really?!? You have to ask why?

I don't get it either.

[dawhite76]

Two men - married fathers, no less! - declaring they feel like ladies. Not rocket science....

[raylatch98]

I don't see anything wrong with it, I mean I am a dude and I sing along to this, "Man I Feel Like A Woman", "Only Girl In The World", despite the fact that the lyrics don't apply to me at all

[taylor]

Apr 20, 2021 16:26:53 GMT -5 dawhite76 said:

Two men - married fathers, no less! - declaring they feel like ladies. Not rocket science....

Every child upon being conceived initially has a vagina before science and hormones determines whether or not that vagina will turn into a penis...everyone has a feminine side  ;)

[matty005]

Apr 20, 2021 16:26:53 GMT -5 dawhite76 said:

Two men - married fathers, no less! - declaring they feel like ladies. Not rocket science....

Oh I guess we have different sense of humors. Among other things.

[dawhite76]

The lyric would have been much more effective if the men sang "She feels..." instead of "I feel...." Just one among many issues I have read online about this song ranging from it dissing the other Lady A to ripping off Ingrid Andress' "Lady Like." Amazing how their career has faltered lately - I thought they were getting back on track with the "Ocean" album.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Apr 20, 2021 16:26:53 GMT -5 dawhite76 said:

Two men - married fathers, no less! - declaring they feel like ladies. Not rocket science....

And? They were singing along to a song. Not sure how there’s more meaning than that - unless your ultra sensitive to men singing along to songs with feminine pronouns. What kind of toxic masculinity projection tho. Lol. 😂😂

[dawhite76]

It goes both ways. About 20 years ago, Vince Gill and Patty Loveless released "My Kind Of Woman/My Kind Of Man." In the chorus, they both sing the line, "You're my kind of woman, you're my kind of man." Hearing Vince sing that Patty is his kind of man and Patty sing that Vince is her kind of woman ruins the message of the song for me. You may call it harmonizing or singing along - I call it sloppy and silly.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Apr 22, 2021 8:47:18 GMT -5 dawhite76 said:

It goes both ways. About 20 years ago, Vince Gill and Patty Loveless released "My Kind Of Woman/My Kind Of Man." In the chorus, they both sing the line, "You're my kind of woman, you're my kind of man." Hearing Vince sing that Patty is his kind of man and Patty sing that Vince is her kind of woman ruins the message of the song for me. You may call it harmonizing or singing along - I call it sloppy and silly.

Lmao, you’re a funny guy! 🥰

[raylatch98]

Re-enters the Mediabase Top 30 at #29 with a solid bullet of 201. Hopefully with this being Top 30 it can start selling more as this song has little buzz to it at all (the music video was released almost 2 months ago and has barely cleared 400k in views and that is with an ACM performance for some added buzz.)

[vann]

I liked "Champagne Night" more than this one but "Lika a Lady" doesnt bother me and I think its ok but as a fan I think they always can make better than the superficial and obvious thing.

ps: I´ve been off the boards for some months but it feels good to write back here! I hope everyone is ok.

[CoJoFan]

Album available for preorder with instant grat track “Things He Handed Down” available.

[vann]

"Things He Handed Down" is the type of song that I´ve always liked to hear from them besides I enjoyed having Charles leading the vocals on this one.I´m curious for this EP.

[raylatch98]

Good news this song is at #25 on Mediabase this week with a pretty solid bullet of 138 which isn't bad since Luke Combs staying at #1 really siphoned a lot of available spins this week.

Now the bad news is that even with the CMT performance the sales for this song and streams are trash. On YouTube this song's 'music video' has only half a million views and sales wise this is already back down in the 500s all genre on iTunes.

If this song is gonna be a radio hit, it's gonna probably be their least successful song that made the Top 10 (if it even makes the Top 10 as I suspect this is gonna start struggling soon).

[recordyear]

Bubbling under hot 100: #16 (debut)

[lady𝓐fan]

Just like their two previous hit singles, callout scores for this started out pretty badly but have improved dramatically. Seems like a rite of passage for Lady A singles at this point, lol. Sales are still terrible but seeing as it’s not too far behind “Knowing You” (a much better seller) on HCS, there must be some metrics where “Like a Lady” is doing decently. Their next single (“What a Song Can Do” plz) probably needs to have a bigger impact if they want more radio success from this project, though.

[.indulgecountry]

Aug 20, 2021 11:23:15 GMT -5 lady𝓐fan said:

Their next single (“What a Song Can Do” plz) probably needs to have a bigger impact if they want more radio success from this project, though.

Omg yes please!! That song is just magical. It feels like "What If I Never Get Over You" part II in terms of capturing that classic Lady A sound and it has a FIRE melody. Would be absolutely thrilled for that to be their next single, and I think it would make a much bigger impact than "Like a Lady" has.

[raylatch98]

I will say am I the only one who feels like ever since the name change last year the buzz and sales with Lady A has gone downhill significantly? "Champagne Night" was a middle of the road hit at best, their last album didn't even chart on the Country Albums Chart, and "Like A Lady" is a total non event as a single.

They really need a single fast that generates some sort of buzz or something because man it feels like they are way in the background in terms of popularity lately for country music despite radio liking them

[austin]

I think the press surrounding the name change was definitely bad for them, but they were already kinda being phased out before then, they were pretty low impact all around until “What If I Never Get Over You” which was an undeniable hit and in contention for the best single of their career.

I think they’re probably happy to be relevant at all this late in their career.

[ericNY2002]

Got a 3 song radiotraks survey for Lady A’s next single. The songs were “What A Song Can Do”, “Where Would I Be” and “You Keep Thinking That”. What A Song can Do was the best option In my opinion.

[raylatch98]

Mediabase callout scores have this at a negative score of 21.8 so that doesn't make me feel great for this songs future climbing the chart as anything at, above or near 20 on the negative score usually indicates a song getting stalled out

[lady𝓐fan]

Callouts are so weird sometimes... This one's scores started out bad, improved and were actually really good for a few weeks, then took a big tumble recently. Honestly just push for a top 10 peak and let it go, it's not worth the lost momentum.

[.indulgecountry]

Considering how little this moved the needle, this honestly did pretty well for them if this were to stall out soon due to the poor callout. Even if they were able to muscle this into the top 10 or higher, it was an extremely soft hit and wasn't going to be remembered in the future. It's past time to try something else anyway imo, and I'd love to see them push the title track from their latest album as I can see that one performing more similarly to "What If I Never Get Over You" for them.

[zdm1998]

I say see if this can be pushed to the top 10 somewhere in the next few weeks and move onto something new. I don't think this has hurt their momentum at all, but don't push it so far past its expiration date that it starts to.

[raylatch98]

Oct 15, 2021 8:21:27 GMT -5 zdm1998 said:

I say see if this can be pushed to the top 10 somewhere in the next few weeks and move onto something new. I don't think this has hurt their momentum at all, but don't push it so far past its expiration date that it starts to.

I mean the -82 bullet on the chart today is the closest thing to pretty much saying this is past or just about at the expiration date as you can get. This song has pretty much gained almost all it is going to be able too, and honestly I don't see a feasible path to the Top 10 on even Mediabase for this one, as this song has been doing hardly anything for a while now.

I suspect that even though their CCUSA appearance also happens to be around when their next album is released, I imagine that will be when they will give this song a final push as well and wherever it ends up is the final peak. 

[lady𝓐fan]

Well, if it's any consolation to stations that don't want to keep this in high rotation for much longer, this one's negative and heavy burn scores have improved from alarmingly terrible to just bad...

"Like a Lady" is also (finally) predicted to debut on the Hot 100 tomorrow, and will probably get a boost on the October 30th chart due to album release week (if it isn't free-falling at radio by then). I'm almost fearful to see what kind of numbers the album posts considering acts like Blake Shelton and Old Dominion can't even break 25k, Lady A's 7-song EP from June didn't even chart, and "Like a Lady" has been such a non-event...

[recordyear]

Hot 100: #90 (debut)

[lady𝓐fan]

Oct 17, 2021 20:37:05 GMT -5 lady𝓐fan said:

Well, if it's any consolation to stations that don't want to keep this in high rotation for much longer, this one's negative and heavy burn scores have improved from alarmingly terrible to just bad...

And they improve yet again – the negative score isn't the highest on the callout chart anymore and heavy burn is in line with most other songs on the chart. These scores are more in line with the scores "Like a Lady" was getting over the summer, which makes me wonder if the bad feedback in these last few weeks was actually accurate or not... Either way, this is hanging on by a thread – I wonder if they're even going to bother with a push since top 10 is so out of reach.

[isanka]

I really really love this track.