The new track is awful. Lily, what are you doing?

Why is it awful? :lol:

I’m really liking her direction

I really want to like the new single, but I'm just not sure I do. Do I think this is crap or do I like it? It's hard, sometimes, when you've been a fan of an artist for so long.

Why is it awful? :lol:

 

It wasn't pleasant to listen to and I didn't enjoy the experience of listening to it.

Edited June 2, 20187 yr by ebae

And I don’t enjoy the experience of reading your posts, yet here we are.

 

 

 

 

I’m still so excited for this album. From memory it was mainly mid-low tempo with a few perkier tracks.

And I don’t enjoy the experience of reading your posts, yet here we are.

 

Boom. I was thinking that. :lol:

Boom. I was thinking that. :lol:

 

What have I done to you both? :huh:

 

I complimented Three on the previous page but I'm just not keen on Lost My Mind.

Let's not make it personal guys, Tombo's allowed his opinions ~

 

I feel like I should be more excited for this album than I actually am :( I've not heard the new song yet but Trigger Bang burned out quickly and the two that followed were underwhelming. Still, I pray she can pull through on the album!

Boom. I was thinking that. :lol:

 

 

That’s a bit rude...

Both of you that is.

She’s putting up clips of the album on Instagram, starting with 14 and working to 1! Apples is the latest to go live

Pushing Up Daisies and Cake sound brilliant. She should've released those instead.

 

Edit: Also Waste :wub: , omg why on EARTH did she go with Trigger Bang as single #1, she killed all momentum.

Edited June 4, 20187 yr by ♡ Heezus Froot ♡

"Trigger Bang" is by far the best thing I've heard from this album and I'd imagine she/the record company thought the same which would be why :P

Edited June 4, 20187 yr by Midge

Trigger Bang is excellent, and I think it would’ve been a top 40 hit if the release had gone to plan.

Yeah, I'm not usually a Lily fan (outside of The Fear), but Trigger Bang is flipping amazing.

I think there are a multitude of reasons for it flopping such as it leaking and them having to release it majorly early - yet not reacting to the fact they needed to push it for promo much sooner; radio seemed anxious about playlisting it as well; her media profile isn't the best; it isn't as commercial as other lead singles. Though even back in 2013 "Hard Out Here" limped into the lower part of the top 10 and spent what, 2 weeks in the top 40??

"Waste" sounds like it might be "Trigger Bang" quality from the clips! A lot of the other clips sound very samey.

Edited June 5, 20187 yr by Midge

personally I think the single flopped cos of lack of promo, if it had been insta-added to R1 A-list and added high to Hothits from the get going, it would have been a hit, these days it's harder to get a hit without big radio/spotify deals

I'm excited about this album, everything sounds great and like a real follow up to It's Not Me, It's You.

 

You all need to read her recent interviews to understand the lack of promo. Some snippets to get an idea of why there doesn't seem to be much of a push.

 

Why do you think it took so long?

I wanted it to be really good, but I also wanted to A&R it myself and I wanted to make it myself. Like, I didn’t wanna do the traditional way of doing things. I didn’t wanna make a record with singles for radio. I think it went into Pop Star 101 on the last record, and I needed to figure out what I was. I felt like I needed to be a pop star to pay my bills, and I didn’t feel like that, so I did what I thought pop stars should do, and it was very wrong.

 

The album (Sheezus) got the most divisive and derisive reviews of your career. Did that hurt at the time? Or did you already know it wasn’t your best work?

No, I knew. I talked about it in interviews. I didn’t like the single choices. It was bad from the beginning.

 

Is it tough when you at some point realize, “Well, it’s too far along now, there’s nothing I can do to stop it?”

Yeah. I started drinking. It wasn’t like an escape, but I was like, “f***, I sold tickets to concerts for the next year, I’m stuck in this.”

 

“To play songs I don’t really like.”

Yeah. And I was having to spend long periods of time away from my children, and it was too much.

 

Was anyone at the label pushing you to make more radio songs?

I didn’t talk to anyone at the label. I still haven’t. I had no manager. I had to go into label meetings and stuff and then hearing about yourself as a product without the filter of a manager. And also, before that when people talked about album ships, that’s when people sold records. So it was like, “Oh, we’re gonna ship 500,000.” Now they’re talking like, “20,000, 30,000″ and I’m just thinking, “Oh I’m a failure,” not thinking, “Oh, the market’s changed.” But just talking about me as a person as a product they had to sell, and you just don’t want to hear those things as an artist. Having been privy to all of that stuff and seeing all the people I’ve been working with for years in a different light, I knew going into this album, I did not want to see any of those people. I didn’t want to talk to them. Not because I don’t like them, but I just couldn’t, it couldn’t bear any relation to what I wanted to do with this record.

You know, I signed a small deal with EMI when I was 19 years old. I’m still in that deal. Everything that’s happened has been beyond my expectations. I’m amazed that people come to my gigs. I would love to be able to do America properly again. Because I have kids, I can’t. In order to be the best for both jobs — being a mum and being a musician — I can’t do the other without doing the other.

 

What do you mean?

If I’m failing them I can’t concentrate on my music, and if I’m not happy and creatively content then I can’t mother properly. I have to have that balance. Of course the commercial side of things will take a hit, but that’s something I knew when I decided to have kids.

 

Do you see your own market research?

I don’t. Well, I did on Sheezus. That’s why I had a breakdown. I can’t talk about myself as a product. It makes me feel ill. If it had been my intention to have massive commercial success, I wouldn’t have signed a five-album deal for £25,000. I wanna make good shit and have enough money to support my kids.

 

Do you think that your idea of success was different before? You did once sing about wanting money and seeking fame on 2009’s “The Fear.”

In those days I was young, high, and drunk, living the high life. The tabloids got to me. They were gunning for me to fail. I wanted success ‘cause I didn’t want horrible journalists to write, “Ha-ha, her album’s a flop.”

 

Do you feel less motivated by that now?

Yeah. I had to gather myself before this record. I haven’t been going to high-profile events and doing fashion stuff. That stuff’s lovely, but it’s the icing on the cake once the music’s good. With Sheezus, I didn’t give enough respect to it. I was having an identity crisis. I was listening to everybody else for the first time. Maybe I had postnatal depression. All I wanted was to get on the radio. I wanted magazine covers. When those things didn’t go to plan, my world collapsed. Going into this album, I wanted to make the music the best. The goal had to be validation, not expectation.

 

Anyway, It's 2018. Chart placements and sales don't matter like they used to - especially for established artists. I'm always surprised to see more people not getting that on here.

Edited June 5, 20187 yr by blacksquare