A forgotten mess: How Applause lost the top of BB because of a wrong choice

[GloZell Green 11,723]

I actually like this, because a promo single that didn't have a video and was never played on the radio went to 8  

[VforVendetta 2,024]

3 minutes ago, SISTERV said:

I'd rather have another Top Ten than it creeping to the number 2/1 spot because of some one off performance. If it weren't for this ARTPOP would have only one top ten which would be even crazier. 

I think it would have made more sense for DWUW to have been played at the YouTube event. That song would have been the big hit of the era. It would have beaten out Applause,too sending the singles toward an upward projectory. Meaning...even GUY might have had the chance to be bigger.

Noone remembers Dope anyway, impact matters, not numbers alone, only obsessed stans (like us lol) care about numbers. But a top 2 on BB is not just a number, it's impact that is translated to sales, streaming and airplay. A pop song depends on becoming a trend to become huge, push album sales and drag a succesfull era.

[VforVendetta 2,024]

2 minutes ago, GloZell Green said:

I actually like this, because a promo single that didn't have a video and was never played on the radio went to 8  

As I said above, noone cares. Even we barely remember it, simply because a song out of nowhere that returns to nowhere after a wekk, has minimal impact.

[HEARTHUNTER 7,611]

Elton John was right when he said ARTPOP was full of bad career decisions.

[Greg 6,330]

After what happened that day, the fact she even turned up was pretty amazing. I think that whatever was planned, she would have ended up singing Dope anyway. I find it so difficult to watch that performance knowing what she was going through. 

[Jester 6,305]

They probably didn't even know it would count as streaming tbh

[deeman 189]

This is what the applause was for.

This performance is better I find. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMyfd5w9kF8

[VforVendetta 2,024]

1 minute ago, Greg said:

After what happened that day, the fact she even turned up was pretty amazing. I think that whatever was planned, she would have ended up singing Dope anyway. I find it so difficult to watch that performance knowing what she was going through. 

The concept of Gaga singing Dope that was amazing but ARTPOP has no free space for these decisions, if Gaga was on TFM she could have sang everything but during ARTPOP the mess was too big already to waste this performance on a promotional song. Yes, the song breaks my heart (many know that I stan hard for Dope) but all the drama because of the underpeformance made Gaga more harm than the pain of that day.

[Desperado 2,439]

27 minutes ago, venusian said:

let it go boo

honestly 

[Harry 26,836]

I don't think it really matters now but I would have preferred DWUW at this event anyway

[VforVendetta 2,024]

2 minutes ago, Harry said:

I don't think it really matters now but I would have preferred DWUW at this event anyway

Yes, I mentioned DWUW as well, if it had been performed it was a sure top 6 at BB. AFter that the song would have a more promising chart performance (and who knows maybe Gaga's team would have been "forced" then to release a video)

[HermioneGranger 608]

True true

[Greg 6,330]

2 minutes ago, VforVendetta said:

The concept of Gaga singing Dope that was amazing but ARTPOP has no free space for these decisions, if Gaga was on TFM she could have sang everything but during ARTPOP the mess was too big already to waste this performance on a promotional song. Yes, the song breaks my heart (many know that I stan hard for Dope) but all the drama because of the underpeformance made Gaga more harm than the pain of that day.

Idk, I think Troy leaving Gaga that day validates her doing the performance she did. Just from the fact that the start of the performance is her apologising to her parents and Natali shows she was not emotionally stable enough to get up and dance and pretend everything was fine. She thought it was over.

[Creyk 17,805]

Well ****.

You just made me so sad

Why Gaga whyyy

[VforVendetta 2,024]

8 minutes ago, Greg said:

Idk, I think Troy leaving Gaga that day validates her doing the performance she did. Just from the fact that the start of the performance is her apologising to her parents and Natali shows she was not emotionally stable enough to get up and dance and pretend everything was fine. She thought it was over.

Ikr, she was obviously not well emotionally and Gaga paid this in more than one ways. She lost a friend, an important person on her team and had a huge damage on her career. How could she be ok?