Sophomore Era: Future Nostalgia or Teenage Dream?

[undertake67 529]

I think future nostalgia is a better album, but era wise it can't even compare to Teenage Dream.

[Lextyr97 18,927]

Future Nostalgia is a better album but the Teenage Dream era... there’s no comparison. Katy dominated. 

[Jose P 23,341]

Only one of those eras had 5 #1 hits, only matched by Michael Jackson himself. The TD era was beyond legendary and iconic, no doubt about that. 

[Stephen 30,263]

FN of course 

[MoonIight 1,372]

Future Nostalgia is the better album, but Teenage Dream era is unmatchable

[HausOfAntonio 7,992]

50 minutes ago, Dulo Peep said:

Teenage Dream was born in a ideal, utopic world, where everything was perfect, economy was stable, people were happy,  not even Gaga was a competition for Katy 

 

Dua did what she had to do in the MOST CHALLENGING time of our modern era, the worst human crisis EVER. She truly was a popstar fighting to thrive in adversity, bringing creativity and willpower to push her work forward

The world was literally going through the effects of the 2008 recession 

[vyniildisk 12,689]

3 minutes ago, HausOfAntonio said:

The world literally was going through the effects of the 2008 recession 

oh and that is way worse than this? this is a nightmare we are living in, its like a economy crisis /recession mixed with a zombie apocalypse, mixed with political thriller, and i can keep going

 

ALSO, no one prepared Dua for this, right now artists are more or less adapted but this mess literally took Dua by surprise back in february

[HausOfAntonio 7,992]

1 minute ago, Dulo Peep said:

oh and that is way worse than this? this is a nightmare we are living in, its like a economy crisis mixed with a zombie apocalypse, mixed with political thriller, and i can keep going

 

ALSO, no one prepared Dua for this, right now artists are more or less adapted but this mess literally took Dua by surprise back in february

I didn’t say it was worse sis but it was DEFINITELY felt. It was almost apocalyptic for many, many people at the time. Dua did amazing for the times I’m not discrediting that, but you literally said “utopic” and “economy was stable” 

[vyniildisk 12,689]

1 minute ago, HausOfAntonio said:

I didn’t say it was worse sis but it was DEFINITELY felt. It was almost apocalyptic for many, many people at the time. Dua did amazing for the times I’m not discrediting that, but you literally said “utopic” and “economy was stable” 

this is the worst human crisis in HISTORY, worst than the 1929 recession and worst than the 1920 plague. Lets not compare triconic sistren, lets not. 

[HausOfAntonio 7,992]

1 minute ago, Dulo Peep said:

this is the worst human crisis in HISTORY, worst than the 1929 recession and worst than the 1920 plague. Lets not compare triconic sistren, lets not. 

I just said i wasn’t comparing, just correcting

[Monster7 5,660]

Teenage Dream era was massive. But right now I can't listen to it, most of the songs feel so uninspired, childish and bland to me that it's surprising it had that level of success. Future Nostalgia is musically timeless imo, reminiscent of the 80s but very present too. I think it will age like fine wine for me at least

[vyniildisk 12,689]

Just now, HausOfAntonio said:

I just said i wasn’t comparing, just correcting

Then lets not correct triconic sistren, lets not.

[RAMROD 104,076]

One is mediocre basic album, and another one is Future Nostalgia.

[nswain1110 2,727]

1 hour ago, COOOK said:

"Although the Future Nostalgia era is still going on and with the SIDE B currently on the works, this is the closest we had to a Teenage Dream era in regards to commitment with singles, promo and delivery."

 

Alright I know we're talking about Sophomore effort's here, but I just want to shine a light on the most comparable female pop eras in general. With that in mind, T-Swifts 1989 was actually the closest thing we've had to a Teenage Dream moment, in terms of current Pop girls. That era was just insanely successful. Seven singles, three #1 hits on BB and a total of five BB top 10 hits. Ten million physical copies sold WW (compared to 6 million for TD), etc. Katy did better in singles (sales + chart positions) but Taylor blasted her out of the water in album consumption. They both had massive sold out arena tours and they completely dominated the Pop landscape with those respective eras. In the end, those two eras are the most similar and comparable for me. 

Of course for Gaga, her Teenage Dream / 1989 moment will always be TF + TFM era. Future Nostalgia is a good album and is doing well, but it's just not in the same league as those.

[Reject False Icons 4,626]

The disrespect to Teenage Dream 

the era is already on legendary status