Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on Mar 26, 2022 0:12:48 GMT -5
I was thinking about “Unsent” by Alanis Morissette and it was the second single from her album and how weird it was that that song was picked to be a single for what was an important point in the era. It got me wondering about other times artists at key point in their careers release completely out-of-left-field songs as singles.
I’m not talking about songs that aren’t as catchy as others on the album, or songs that are ‘bad’ but still have a fairly standard structure (so we don’t need to mention “…Ready For It” by Taylor, for example). I’m interested in other examples of songs that were just plain head-scratchers when they were singles. Maybe its structure is really different, or it’s a spoken word track, or an actual interlude. Something about it that makes it the least likely option as a single and then, it’s the one they go with.
I’m not talking about songs that aren’t as catchy as others on the album, or songs that are ‘bad’ but still have a fairly standard structure (so we don’t need to mention “…Ready For It” by Taylor, for example). I’m interested in other examples of songs that were just plain head-scratchers when they were singles. Maybe its structure is really different, or it’s a spoken word track, or an actual interlude. Something about it that makes it the least likely option as a single and then, it’s the one they go with.
