Did Jessie J sabotage her own career?

[bayonse 6,525]

wait who are u to bash her for deciding to follow her instincts? 

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

She came back from being bi to being straight, that was the start of the mess.

[RAMROD 104,186]

Most probable. She abandon lots of people. The English crowds included cos she tried to be relevant in the USA

[Benji 20,113]

I don't know really. To me her peak was with Do It Like A Dude. Sure, she went onto have equally or possibly bigger songs but she went from this edgy new popstar, to just being bog standard and she lost her image.

 

[Katsuki Bakugo 9,788]

I believe because it has everything to do with that she is basic and boring and doesn't push the envelope enough for the GP. Also she went back on her word re:bisexuality is concerned.

[Lion Heart 15,041]

She literally has no unique 'image' anymore. No one outside internet forums knows what she 'looks' like, and they really just don't care about her music enough to be invested in her. She can sing, but sadly no one really cares.

 

 

[JbGaga 2,261]

I just dont think shes writeing great music and the style is just strange. idk

[JbGaga 2,261]

37 minutes ago, Benji said:

I don't know really. To me her peak was with Do It Like A Dude. Sure, she went onto have equally or possibly bigger songs but she went from this edgy new popstar, to just being bog standard and she lost her image.

 

That was before she was even big tho...

 

[Benji 20,113]

2 minutes ago, JbGaga said:

That was before she was even big tho...

Maybe not across the pond when she became americanized. This is the song that made her big in the U.K.

[Andreyw 4,285]

Well, the success she had during her first era was just a phase, like her sexuality 

[Pitch 204]

The quality of her music drastically decreased

[ShockPop 7,747]

Jessie J chased the fame.

When her first album had moderate success, her label decided she could smash stateside by conforming to what they might want.

Her next album was decidedly awful. The sound and image was made for US radio and just didn't work. She turned away new fans with her shaven head even though it was for charity.

She had a local album next that made no waves at all.

She put out bang bang to great success due to features. Flop album.

Thing is, she tried to change to suit the American market after a small success... But her success was because of what she was putting out. Changing into something else stopped her being able to sell.

She's a great songwriter and one of the best singers in the world but she's got an identity crisis that does nothing for her career. She needs to choose a path and walk on it.

[Bloody 64,631]

She was pretty successful in UK and she chased US in order to succeed there too but it didn't work as expected, it's not so bad.She writes good songs and she's one of the best singers out there I'm sure she could be bigger again.

[StrawberryBlond 14,102]

We've had this conversation before. The answer is kinda yes and kinda no.

She didn't do herself any favours by steadily selling out more and more with every release, which went against what her fans liked her for - her uniqueness. She also overexposed herself on UK media, making us very sick of her. Her obnoxious, OTT attitude on The Voice didn't help either. Her oversinging became really tiresome. She insulted the British public by saying that they didn't appreciate her big voice (despite the UK being her biggest market) and that Americans would like it better, which is why she was choosing to focus on building a name for herself there. Then she admitted she lied about being bisexual and was just going through a phase, which majorly turned off her large LGBT fanbase.

But at the end of the day...she was just a burning match. She burnt hot and then burnt out fast. It's very common to get artists like this nowadays. Their label push them to be all over the place and slay with their debut then give up on them afterwards. The public felt like her debut wasn't as good as it was hyped up to be and that was the beginning of the end, really. It meant there were a lot of regretted purchases and no demand for her follow-up...and even less for a follow-up to that. The public can be very fickle and Jessie J is a poster child for that theory. She was a megastar with her debut, irrelevant after. She went from having every song on her debut being a #1/top 10 to having no hits at all (Bang Bang doesn't count, that's got 3 people on it and she didn't even write it yet somehow, she gets all the credit for it). She went from playing arenas to playing teeny concert halls in the space of a year. She is one of the worst cases of falling from popularity very quickly. Completely her own fault or did the public just move on like they always do? It's a bit of both.

But seriously, who went down on who to get her that Bang Bang gig? She was basically a nobody in the US, how did she get to do a single with 2 of the biggest female artists in America? And how on earth did she manage to claim all the credit for this song despite her not writing it (and she'd written all her singles until then) and sharing the song with 2 other people (and it was sung with everyone getting their fair share of lyrics, it wasn't small features)? It was no wonder her promotion basically stopped after that single. Her label clearly threw every penny in the ring to get this collab to happen that they had no budget left to keep her momentum going.

[Clip 5,100]

17 hours ago, MANiKIWI said:

Guys I've figured it out - it's the fringe. At the start she had a fringe, so everyone liked her, but then she got rid of it and we could see her forehead and people don't like her. It happened to Gaga as well, ever since she got rid of her fringe she's been a flop. And  t-swizzle straightened her hair and got a fringe and she's more successful than ever. The music industry hates foreheads.

#FREETHEFOREHEAD

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