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Why Has 'Judas' Underperformed?

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  1. 1. Why Has 'Judas' Underperformed?

    • It was lyrically too controversial.
      5
    • The music video was not up to standard.
      3
    • The song was not up to standard.
      15
    • The release of 'The Edge of Glory'.
      11
    • Lack of promotion.
      14
    • Other.
      8

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Judas is "flopping" in America (Flop for Gaga's standards), it's struggling to even sell 1 million+ downloads which is a shame :(

 

Nevermind, she can console herself with the album sales...

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Still a bad thing tho, all her singles have passed 2 million+ downloads bar Judas...

Who cares though when she's selling albums tremendously. I mean, really? Singles don't really make profit and are promotional tools for the album...

 

It's not as if it's going to do anything to affect or damage her status.

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Has it really underperformed? Its no8 and could yet climb. don't right the song off just yet.

I think the main reason was that the song isn't as good as it thinks it is. It just doesn't quite work, the heavy electrohouse influenced verses followed by the most lightweight and dated chorus that ends up sounding tinny by comparison. It has admittedly finally clicked with me since I heard the album but before then it really did come across as a poor version of Bad Romance.

 

It's not a particularly 'likeable' song, and it believes it's more than the sum of its parts; it just doesn't all come together as a song and feels disjointed and can be a jarring listen. The religious imagery didn't help either, people did find it offensive and some people just did not 'get' the Judas reference. In short audiences didn't connect with it on a wide enough scale. The Edge of Glory, Hair or Marry the Night would have worked far better as the second full single, and Judas should haven been relegated to an iTunes countdown release. This is all of couse, commerically speaking, because I really like Judas and the video, and I actually like the fact that GaGa has the freedom to make something as unmarketable-sounding as Judas an album leading single, and the fact that she can choose to make her album cover a half-motorbike, half-human hybrid picture. I like that she takes risks even if they don't pay off.

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