Quite remarkable for Anyone after it was written off on its first day!

quite remarkable for a Camilla reject!

quite remarkable for a Camilla reject!

I don't think this sort of thing is uncommon in the world of pop music - many songs probably get offered to different artists and it doesn't work out! The Middle by Zedd quite famously went through numerous incarnations before it ended up on the line-up of artists it got.

Literally God is a Woman was a RITA ORA reject.

I don't think this sort of thing is uncommon in the world of pop music - many songs probably get offered to different artists and it doesn't work out! The Middle by Zedd quite famously went through numerous incarnations before it ended up on the line-up of artists it got.

 

Exactly!

 

Sweet Melody is a Zara reject and look at it smashing while look at Zara flopping

Literally God is a Woman was a RITA ORA reject.

 

I understand why It was rejected but I’m shocked!!

Rita as well? I know that Camila recorded it in some iteration initially, but then I thought Ariana and her team re-wrote it to fit for her instead after it didn't work for Camila? I can't imagine anyone else singing that final chorus anyway :lol:

 

Away from that - I'm impressed by Bieber's progress! It's his best in a while. This is exactly the opposite of what happened with 'Friends' - I remember at the time that the site was convinced that it would block Dua's second week at #1 but it stalled at #2, now people were writing this one off and it looks like a future #1 contender!

Poor Camila, she's becoming the new Leona passing up on all these hits.

Some of these songs wouldn't have been hits in the hands of the artists they were originally intended for anyway, it's often about artist profile rather than the song itself, sadly.

 

I doubt Zara would have smashed with Sweet Melody, Little Mix's relevance wasn't exactly as big as it used to be prior to this single but it was still way bigger than Zara's and enough to get them decent radio and streaming support.

 

Likewise Leona with Burn all those years ago, that seems to have gone into folklore as a major missed opportunity but I doubt she'd have even gone top ten with it.

Leona passing on being the vocalist on We Found Love is the craziest reject

 

but The Middle is a different case, they tried like 15 singers as featured and went with Mae Morris, the song was always Zedd's, it's not that 15 different acts rejected it

 

would be great to hear Zara's demo for Sweet Melody, has it leaked?

Literally God is a Woman was a RITA ORA reject.

 

I knew about the Camila version but is there any source for this? I can't find anything online.

but The Middle is a different case, they tried like 15 singers as featured and went with Mae Morris, the song was always Zedd's, it's not that 15 different acts rejected it

It was a Demi Lovato song before it went to Zedd https://variety.com/2018/music/news/zedd-th...sen-1202778917/

Bieber for #1 next week please!

wow the story about The Middle and a fascinating read. So an early version of the song was offered to Dem but rejected

then the song ends up in Zedd's lap and finishes it up and tries it with almost every female singer out there from Camila Cabello to

Carly Rae Jepsen, at a certain point there is a supposedly final version with Anne Marie with artwork and release date but that gets cancelled

and in the end it's Maren Morris :D

Literally God is a Woman was a RITA ORA reject.

 

Thank the lord we were spared her version xx

By the way Sweet Melody was actually written by MNEK and the other writers in a writing camp for Demi Lovato (we don't know if it was for TMYLM or her upcoming album tho), then it was rejected by other pop girls (Zara, Selena, Jojo and Hailee Stenifeld) and then it went to Little Mix who loved it immediately.

By the way Sweet Melody was actually written by MNEK and the other writers in a writing camp for Demi Lovato (we don't know if it was for TMYLM or her upcoming album tho), then it was rejected by other pop girls (Zara, Selena, Jojo and Hailee Stenifeld) and then it went to Little Mix who loved it immediately.

 

It's utterly mad when you think of some of the songs these people have actually kept and RELEASED themselves.

Sweet Melody would sound flat as a pancake if done by Selena

then imagine a version with Demi shouting all the way through... crazy how Demi has rejected all these great songs like Sweet Melody or The Middle

and then said yes to Anne Marie's I Love Me :o ouch

I could imagine a Demi version of 'Sweet Melody' really working actually! I can definitely hear her doing the verses anyway.