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She said it was only going to be available until the Thursdya of release week. I'm sure it'll reappear around the RSD as the Mine tracks are getting a release then

She should be so proud of the chart success regardless - I'd just hate the sales to be used against her.

The only thing I have to wonder though - though it's great she debuted top 3 - what's the achievement if it freefalls? Won't the sales cement the label's reasoning for not backing her?

I just saw WIL being on Radio 2 Playlist - is this a single

Absolutely smashed that performance

There might be a rights issue on the tracks being on streaming?

Yes I imagine it will be in time for the 20 year reunion when conversations will really kick off... what is that 2031?

TBH from a fan's POV its actually better as (depending on if the unreleased tracks are sold as part of this), any re-releases or anniversaries would come from Primary Wave and would not be held up waiting for Britney's approval. It is a shame though as it does say she doesn't really care about her music.

The Sphere keeps popping up as a rumour - maybe its because BSB have recently done it. Personally, there seems more hype for them to get back together (but it might be Victoria constantly using The Spice Girls to promote Cruz' music). I read online the Netflix doc got cancelled though.

I really like the album - Adult Size Medium, Future Tripping, We Don't Talk and Growing Up are standing out for me. I will say the Mine versions are on the whole awful - Sparks sounds like a Kerry Ellis G-A-Y Heaven remix. So Yesterday is the only ok one.

I think their desperate for a top 5 and I imagine a deluxe is coming as one of the promo songs for the album isn't even on the album unless I've missed it? Friends?

Not sure about order but I deff want these songs: Daydreamin' The Way Thinkin About You Honeymoon Avenue God is a Woman POV Dangerous Woman Yes And Thank U Next 7 Rings Into You Moonlight We Can't Be Friends The Boy Is Mine Saturn Return/Eternal Sunshine Break Up with your Girlfriend Bye Imperfect For You Ghostin Twilight Zone Hampstead REM

I don't think anyone expected this to do brilliantly - it's a 5 minute song of him basically mumbling - if anything he's scammed a #1 out of it and you know there is a safer second single on the way.

I think she said in an interview that she didn't have enough stuff at present but was working on it - I wonder if that's why she's been doing the shows to fill it out a bit.

I think the one thing I've seen people talk about online is perspective - obviously things are really heightened in this situation with lots of eyes watching. For example - Jade's song Natural At Disaster has some truly dreadful and out-of-touch lyrics "I'm pretty sure that you're the devil" however it's her perspective and what she went through - in the same way Jesy acknowledges she was not easy in the group however when it came to that final conversation with the other 3 and one of them was like "can we go now?" that would have been tough - again - looking at both sides of the argument - the person in question may have been sick to the back teeth of these regular occurences, alongside Jesy seemingly putting herself in the victim role constantly and not taking any ownership of things she did that may have upset others. We all know something went down on the Sweet Melody video as Jesy's barely in it and when she is, her outfit doesn't even match the other girls' and she left quite soon after. I think Jesy surrounded herself with a lot of Yes people (as all the girls do) and that doesn't help them with perspective from an other eye - for example if I were around Jade I'd probably have kept Natural at Disaster off the album or have some serious lyric changes. I think a lot of people have said that after LM5 it was obvious the girls wanted to step away and the quality of the Confetti album showed. Covid certainly didn't help and we all know Perrie wanted to leave. From my personal view, the 3 didn't really work as well - they were slightly more in sync but Jesy truly is the star of them and she was certainly a missing element from my perspective (having watched their final O2 show as a four piece and then watching them as a 3). I think the lack of any success of any singles post-Sweet Melody shows that people were also not that invested. Again it comes to perspective, stepping away from the Little Mix bubble has obviously done wonders for Jesy as she has been able to review her time differently, as she said to Jamie Laing. The situation between the four is very nuanced.

I think if Victoria capatalised on the success, it'd have translated more. She didn't acknowledge it. Whereas Lily has been fully embracing all the memes, tiktoks about David - the album being promoted alongside the Stranger Things series.

I don't think so - if memory serves (and it's really shit). This was a party around either Tears or You Go Your Own Way and they played Forget About Me, Rollercoaster and Tears. I remember reading about it online and fans were gushing about Rollercoaster as a huge hit in the making.

I quite agree and she's got so much goodwill behind her, she kinda always has. The solo career was a bit of a led balloon and it's a shame as some of the songs I heard online sounded really good. The reality is the 4 of them will probably get back together for their 20th anniversary in 2031 - none of their solo careers have done particularly brilliant (unless Jade pulls a Harry Styles and has a huge second album, I know her tour is doing well).

I mean neither this or Rollercoaster are particularly interesting - I still cannot believe fans went to an early listen of the album and called Rollercoaster the hit Perrie needed. The best thing she did was regroup and come back with If He Wanted To He Would

Charlie and Voicenotes were such good albums so I hope this is as good - the 3 singles so far aren't giving much hope

I'm still super surprised to read that expectations were low for this album - anyone knows salacious gossip has a huge impact on music (look at Brooklyn Beckham revisitilising Victoria's solo career, Miley with Flowers, the Jonas Brothers dating sagas of 2008).

It is amazing to see the impact of a tour performance via TikTok

It's gutting this has turned into her biggest hit when so many others deserved the success - Nights Like These, Alter, Water, After Hours

I think cinematrography wise it was absolutely beautiful - I'm just not really on board with his music (nothing to do with the languages as I adore Shakira and Anitta). There's no denying he is a star though - just wish his music was better. The Gaga arrangement didn't really work for me either but it was fun.

I'm super happy she's having success, just wish it was with a better song :lol: 6 months later and it's still not clicking. I'm on board for Eurosummer to be pushed as a single.