Why has the music video for "Praying" done so poorly?

[Born To Slay 10,996]

Praying is pretty nice sized hit at this point, it's about to go top 10 on overall radio and it's been in the top 20/30 of iTunes forever now yet it only has 66 million views. Why?

[Amidana 4,207]

Dr. Luke probably pays people not to watch it 

[SCHEISSEMONTRE 2,783]

I’m offended by what you are saying. I Love the Praying MV. Don’t hate on Kesha Bitch!

edit. I just read it over.....I’m sorry

[ThisGuyTony 23,649]

Ballads don't do well on streaming.

 

[Runway 27,876]

bc it's a sales/radio hit, not a streaming one

[Bambino 23,630]

Maybe it's do with promo?

I mean MR was a bigger hit and still has little views for a big hit.

[Babel 40,888]

Because the editing is off-putting, just like most of Jonas Akerlund recent videos. 

[Duella Dvil 10,183]

It's a longish video that monologue

[XXXXX 4,775]

3 minutes ago, Triggered said:

Because the editing is off-putting, just like most of Jonas Akerlund recent videos. 

Are you coming for JW? 

[ArtGagaPop 61,940]

Because it's like MR, the song i mainly popoular in US and not so much anywhere else... also kesha never was that big outside of the US and only has 2 videos over 100M so it's not a suprise praying is not doing that great on yotube. Also this
 

6 minutes ago, Uncle ARTPOP said:

It's a longish video that monologue

I feel like as soon as a video is not the song only it damages the views more or less. 

[ArtGagaPop 61,940]

7 minutes ago, Triggered said:

Because the editing is off-putting, just like most of Jonas Akerlund recent videos. 

Praying is keshas best video though and JW was also great, what are you doing 

[Supersonic 49,376]

3 minutes ago, Triggered said:

Because the editing is off-putting, just like most of Jonas Akerlund recent videos. 

Bad editing doesn't stop a video from becoming a viral hit. (See: ET, Unconditionally, Chained to the Rhythm & Swish Swish by Katy Perry).

Not having any kind of Payola does though (Also the editing on Praying is ok, it's a pretty video)

[FfFfFfFF 54,014]

8 minutes ago, Triggered said:

Because the editing is off-putting, just like most of Jonas Akerlund recent videos. 

[Reality 65,735]

Because people don't appreciate talent

[xoxo Craig 55,649]

23 minutes ago, Born To Slay said:

Praying is pretty nice sized hit at this point, it's about to go top 10 on overall radio and it's been in the top 20/30 of iTunes forever now yet it only has 66 million views. Why?

Because the song is pretty bad, why would anyone watch a video for a song nobody is here for?