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Post by af18c on Jan 18, 2004 21:34:20 GMT -5
Why Has Ms. Dynamite Never Cracked The US? "It Takes More" is a great song and never did anything on the charts. It deserved top 20! Do you think she can ever crack the us market??? I hope so, i like her music.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2004 21:45:34 GMT -5
Because as far as Urban Alternative goes, those types of acts don't do well here, and one of the lower quality Urban Alternative acts sure as hell isn't going to break it instead.
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Post by af18c on Jan 18, 2004 21:50:37 GMT -5
and one of the lower quality Urban Alternative acts sure as hell isn't going to break it instead. i thought she was pretty big in the UK ??? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2004 21:56:26 GMT -5
i thought she was pretty big in the UK ??? That doesn't mean she's one of the best Urban Alternative acts. 50 Cent and Avril Lavigne are huge here but they're not exactly critic favorites. |
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Post by Bob on Jan 18, 2004 22:27:20 GMT -5
i don't think she's good enough to make up for the disadvantage of being foreign
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Post by strong4PMB! on Jan 18, 2004 22:46:06 GMT -5
Her album put me to sleep. I really liked her singles for a short while.
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Post by EvanJ on Jan 18, 2004 22:54:26 GMT -5
She got two videos played on TV in the United States but not much airplay. Her album was also an Entertainment Weekly feature review.
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Post by strong4PMB! on Jan 18, 2004 23:34:35 GMT -5
She got two videos played on TV in the United States but not much airplay. Her album was also an Entertainment Weekly feature review. Wasn't "Dy-Na-Mi-Tee (Swizz Beatz Remix)" featuring Nas played on BET? That would mean she had 3 videos played on TV. She also performed one song on SNL, but supposedly didn't perform a second since she was feeling sick. Surprisingly her album debuted as a Heatseeker the following week. |
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Post by Keith3000 on Jan 19, 2004 1:11:14 GMT -5
i don't think she's good enough to make up for the disadvantage of being foreign Hate to admit, but I agree. Foreign acts just haven't done well in the States since '99 or so (with very few exceptions like Craig David, Daniel Bedingfield and a few others). In any case, I don't think Ms. Dynamite has that much quality...I actually can't stand "It Takes More". |
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Post by Flavoured on Jan 19, 2004 7:36:03 GMT -5
Wasn't she just starting to do something over here, but then she got pregant?
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Post by Brethren on Jan 19, 2004 9:30:44 GMT -5
Her materials ain't all that great to me. And she isn't even big in the UK. Her album did not go platinum to my recollection. Even if it did, it must had barely shipped 300,000 copies.
Her sales never did match up to all the hype and acclaim.
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Post by Zander on Jan 20, 2004 14:53:25 GMT -5
This is a great album.
Reasons for its failure here:
1) It's not about the same old crap that Americans would rather listen to
2) She's from another country, which means Americans would rather not acknowledge her
3) She's not a blonde bimbo with nothing to say
If she was another American blonde with big boobs and the usual generic R&B/pop crap, I'm sure she'd be platinum by now.
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Post by Joe1240 on Jan 20, 2004 17:24:11 GMT -5
I remember seeing Ms.Dynamite's video debut on TRL and see her come to the show. Surprised she didn't make it althrough as she was compared to Alicia Keys at the time.
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