Posted May 16, 20223 yr We will be looking at each Gaga era over the next few weeks and letting YOU become a Little Manager! In this thread, discuss how you would've managed the era. Which singles would you have released, what songs would've received music videos, any promo opportunities you could utilise? Think as widely or as briefly as you wish! What would be your ideal singles run for this era? Here is how Gaga's team did it: 1st single: Stupid Love 2nd single: Rain On Me 3rd (video only) release: 911 Promo single: Sour Candy Would you have done anything differently? The Fame era The Fame Monster era Born This Way era ARTPOP era Joanne era A Star is Born era
May 16, 20223 yr Author I feel like a few of us will definitely have something to say for this one :kink:
May 16, 20223 yr “Sour Candy” should have been an official single. There, I said it. A late-July release would have coincided well with when Rain On Me would have peaked interest-wise and served as a prelude to the Dynamite/Ice Cream onslaught that would follow weeks later. Gaga would still be promoting Chromatica in the VMAs while BP would have wrapped up domestic promotions for How You Like That. Ideally it gets the VMA slot along with what we did get, and in Korea we’d get a dance practice and a special stage at M Countdown or something Like could you imagine if BP were a special guest for the VMAs? Picture this: Gaga performs “911” first, then there’s an interlude where her backup dancers are fixing a satellite and it gets up and running. Gaga walks over to the monitor, pushes a few buttons, and the camera zooms in on the screen. On the other side, a silhouette appears sitting on a desk, accepting the transmission. They flip their hair, slowly come into the light and reveal themselves to be… Jennie. The song starts playing and the rest of the girls come out one by one. Sour Candy starts playing. The biggest obstacle to that happening would have been YG since they would have been promoting TREASURE (their latest boy group) at the same time, but I think Gaga would have held enough power to make it happen.
May 16, 20223 yr In a perfect world the pandemic wouldn’t have happened and the Chromatica promotional period would have been among the biggest Gaga spectacles in recent memory. But alas, this is our Earth, and our Earth sucks.
May 16, 20223 yr I'm still gutted we didn't get the Coachella performance and some other stuff they had planned. And agree, Sour Candy should've been treated as a proper third single. It still a huge bop though.
May 16, 20223 yr Author Like could you imagine if BP were a special guest for the VMAs? Picture this: Gaga performs “911” first, then there’s an interlude where her backup dancers are fixing a satellite and it gets up and running. Gaga walks over to the monitor, pushes a few buttons, and the camera zooms in on the screen. On the other side, a silhouette appears sitting on a desk, accepting the transmission. They flip their hair, slowly come into the light and reveal themselves to be… Jennie. The song starts playing and the rest of the girls come out one by one. Sour Candy starts playing. This sounds incredible and also so upsetting that it didn't happen. The numbers don't lie - Sour Candy is one of the most streamed easily from the album and so even though it's in my bottom 3 personally on the album it really was demanding to be a single. Sad :(
May 17, 20223 yr Author 1st single: Stupid Love (but with a wildly different music video!) 2nd single: Rain On Me (wouldn't change a thing) -promo single- Sour Candy 3rd single: Sour Candy promoted to official single with music video and VMAs performance 4th single: Free Woman (remix with Rina Sawayama) - celebrate the end of lockdowns! 5th single: Alice (with a warped, Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland inspired music video) I'd have had Sine From Above acoustic version released too alongside the Voce ads and have Babylon remix package released too as part of the Dawn of Chromatica release promotion. Oh what could have been :(
May 17, 20223 yr Plastic Doll as first and only single in fact don't bother releasing the rest of the album except the Sine From Above remix
May 18, 20223 yr Plastic Doll as first and only single Just one pandemic was enough for the world :king:
May 18, 20223 yr Plastic Doll as first and only single in fact don't bother releasing the rest of the album except the Sine From Above remix Sorry, but this wasn't Ava Max or Zara Larsson "era"
May 18, 20223 yr Author Plastic Doll as first and only single in fact don't bother releasing the rest of the album except the Sine From Above remix That your option. :)
May 18, 20223 yr 1 Alice Promo: Stupid Love 2 Rain on Me 3 Sour Candy Europe only: Sine From Above 4 Babylon
May 18, 20223 yr Plastic Doll as first and only single in fact don't bother releasing the rest of the album except the Sine From Above remix
May 18, 20223 yr Keep the first two as they are, pushed 'Alice' with a video about a month after the album release and gone with 'Sinew From Above' 4th with a big awards show performance in Q4.
May 19, 20223 yr Author I love Alice a lot but it's not the first single for me and I only included because of the persistance on here that it's a SMASH. Is it really the more I think about it, is it REALLY? :thinking:
May 20, 20223 yr Alice could be a fun last single that sees the era off into the last few awards shows, it’ll probably flop as hard as G.U.Y. but hey, at least it’ll be part of the canon? Also realized that if she had released Sour Candy as a single around early August, it would have peaked around the same time Blackpink’s album would be released, thus getting a slight streaming boost from Blinks *.*
