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Why did Bionic "flop"?


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i put flop in quotation marks cus i literally know nothing about this album apart from it's reputation as one of pop's most memorable flops

i finally got round to listening to it and it's a decent album so far so what happened? :huh: 

does anyone know the full story? was the album too long to do well commercially? was it poor management?

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Mirrion Rizzons

lady gaga

the lead single was a bad choice + the video

her team gave up before it got a chance

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1 minute ago, Mirrion Rizzons said:

lady gaga

the lead single was a bad choice + the video

her team gave up before it got a chance

what's wrong with the lead? i LOVED that song back in the day :music: 

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dynamite

The lead was ... underwhelming, flat

Nothing caught my eye

Like a poem said by a neydy in red
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bloody g

 

I remember listening to Not Myself Tonight and thinking it was like a lovegame wannabe and then I forgot about it. I saw there was an album with it in like 2013 :poot: 

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Phoebe Buffay

Because at that time Gaga was on top of the world and Xtina was compared to her. The 'Not Myself Tonight' video being a rip-off of Madonna's Express Yourself, Xtina being a shady b!tch in most of her interviews, not enough promotion (she stopped promoting it the day the album dropped), her private life was falling apart (getting a divorce), starring in a movie (Burlesque), the media lynch...

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1. Her popularity wasn't as big at the time. Back to Basics did ok considering the sound wasn't really trendy but it wasn't that big.

2. 4 years is too long to release an album, especially if the artist's popularity is at a low. 

3. Perez Hilton smear campaign, Lady Gaga comparisons. 

4. I don't think this is necessarily a reason but the album was not as good as Stripped and Back to Basics.

5. She was super bitchy during interviews. People were over her.

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StarstruckIllusion

True. I've always wondered this. Not Myself Tonight is a BOP and fits perfectly w that era. 

7 minutes ago, Mirrion Rizzons said:

lady gaga

the lead single was a bad choice + the video

her team gave up before it got a chance

por que¿ what'd she do lmao 

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Phoebe Buffay
1 minute ago, Wigless said:

por que¿ what'd she do lmao 

Everyone was saying that Xtina was copying Gaga's style, especially the music and the fashion.

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4 minutes ago, MarlonBrando7 said:

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Lmao she’s so delusional, the album wasn’t experimental and surely wasn’t ahead of its time, if it was released in 2008 it would have been a success.

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