ShockPop 7,747 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 I have this theory that ARTPOP was never supposed to be successful.The reason I say this is because Gaga was pushed and pushed to get the album out, the theme changed a million times..But the main thing that stands out is Gaga giving us warnings before the album dropped. "Some of you will betray me" "This album isn't as cohesive as my previous work" "it could mean anything" "Art in the front (music in the back?)"Plus various other quotes where she basically says that if we like the quality of her work before then we will hate ARTPOP. The other reason I think it was planned to underperform was btw shattered her popularity in a huge way and alarm bells started ringing. At that point they knew there was going to be an album with Tony & they saw that as an opportunity to make a comeback... but first she needed to hit rock bottom and I think they needed something controlled to take her to the pits. Basically, they wanted to control the fall in order to make a bigger comeback.Another hint of this is shipping figures. If it was expected to do well then why didn't they ship the amount of copies they did for BTW? Just a thought from the back of my mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiona Apple 13,006 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 I love reading different theories .It's interesting.. And yeah I kinda agree with you. How could an album with this concept be a big hit? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiona Apple 13,006 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 But I disagree with some parts... For example.. Music IS art.And the "some of your will betray me" thing was for the tour ,it had nothing to do with ARTPOP I think Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByeBye49 161 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 I highly doubt they wanted it to under perform...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GagaUnderYou 4,993 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 nah why would you want your work to underpreform? gaga told us that ARTPOP was her best work and she probably won't ever top it. it just didn't do well with sales but the album itself is amazing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooke Hoegan 1,018 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 nah why would you want your work to underpreform? gaga told us that ARTPOP was her best work and she probably won't ever top it. it just didn't do well with sales but the album itself is amazing. ​oh gosh I completely forgot about it now I'm seriously worried, if that's the case Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FATCAT 60,100 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 ​oh gosh I completely forgot about it now I'm seriously worried, if that's the case ​She's said that every album, don't even worry. This kitten over here (meow) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didymus 34,380 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Nice of you to forget all the incredible praise she gave the album "where she basically says that if we like the quality of her work before then we will hate ARTPOP" Where the hell did you get that idea Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 98,060 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 It is March 2015 and people are still making up theories of why ARTPOP "flopped". If you see me posting like crazy, I'm either bored or procrastinating. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAC 1,942 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Interesting theory but I highly doubt that they wanted the album to do poorly. The music business just doesn't work that way. Not that I know a lot about it but I can't see them doing this. I really like ARTPOP still and don't really get the hate it has these days to be honest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShockPop 7,747 Posted March 8, 2015 Author Share Posted March 8, 2015 It would explain why they still toured with such a dud, though. They wanted to make their money back and knew they could do it.You can't jump up until you hit the bottom. I think it was all planned to do poorly - and that'll be part of the reason Troy left. He couldn't handle the planned flopping. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeleteMyAccount 11,881 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 ​oh gosh I completely forgot about it now I'm seriously worried, if that's the case ​I think she's referring more to the process of creating the album: writing, recording, photoshoots, etc. There's no way she could have predicted the lukewarm reception the album got after being released. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry 26,836 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Lmao no I do not think Gaga would spend such time creating an album for it to intentionally fail. This is one of the most ridiculous theories I've heard yet tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie14 4,828 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 But ARTPOP really didn't even sell that poorly and got the exact same metacritic score as both Prism and Bangerz.Of course this is subjective but I think ARTPOP is comparable to past Gaga albums in terms of musical quality. Gaga talked a lot about how hard she worked on ARTPOP and how much she likes the music. I really don't think she would put something out that she doesn't think is good. It wasn't like this awful failure of an album that people believe it to be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorothy Gale 7,575 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 I just think she knew it was unlikely that she'd get BTW's sales again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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