Glory Era Autopsy

[BritneyGasoline]

image problems…… awful video for Make Me + VMA performance after Beyoncé slayage + no album artwork.

Better could have been a 3rd cool single, even now.

[Queen'sGuard]

Cannot find a way to understand people saying Glory was awful. Like what? Repetitive? Talking strictly music, have you liked a single album since Blackout? Or Circus? If Glory is repetitive, what was FF? I love FF, but I'm just saying.  

Sometimes I feel that we have let the poor promotion, questionable choreography, and such affect the way we look at this album. If the gp had taken to this album, would we praise it more? The way we have FF? Probably.   

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19 hours ago, PokemonSpears said:

Well, I see many things.

For starters, they took waaaay too long to release the album, and the problem goes since Britney Jean. Even if didn't sell that much, or even if mos of her fans thought she wasn't even singing on it, they should've released more singles in 2014 so the waiting didn't feel as long as it was.

Also, taking that much time to release Glory, made the tracks sound, yes, great, but like everything else that other artists were releasing in 2014-2015, early 2016. It wasn't groundbreaking, despite being awesome. And that's the dilemma, some will argue they had to take that long in order to make it the awesome album that it is, but then I'll tell them if would've been so much more praised and recognize if it came out 2 years ago. And it's not that it sounds dated, 'cause it doesn't, it's just that it's nothing new compared to what other current artists have released lately.

But anyway, that's the album they had, and they had to sell it right. First of all, even though I liked the BBMAs medley, it was a wasted opportunity. They had to release the lead single there. She had to take advantage of it and she should've only performed Work ***** and the lead single. Other option would've been if they premiered the music video there. And the worst scenario would've been to do the performance, and just release the single, without the video, later in the week. It was just too distant from the album's release, so I think it didn't have a huge impact on sales. They also were almost the last artist to upload the live performance to their VEVO channel, and even though the performance was reported by many websites,  the video wasn't there until a few days later, and they missed a lot of views there.

Speaking of lead singles, Do You Wanna Come Over should've been the lead and Make Me... the second. Then closer to the release of Make Me..., I believe it was when they announced Private Show, and the commercial, and suddenly all the attention went to PS, when MM hadn't even come out yet. The promo singles weren't the right in my opinion. First of all, if they wanted to release Private Show as a preview and for the fragrance and such, they should've released a full videoclip, and the song and the perfume, but clarifying it wasn't the lead single, and then including it on the album just as a bonus track.

As I said, singles 1 and 2, should've been DYWCO and MM. But before, the promo singles should've been Just Luv Me, Slumber Party and Clumsy, and leave them like that.

Ok, they went for MM. The whole music video mess doesn't need more explanation. We all know the sad story.

Now for the promo, I've commented this before. I recognize that they really tried this time around. They did things we could've only dreamed of years ago, but strangely, that dream didn't feel as good as we would've expected in real life. It was like, yay! VMA's performance after 9 years, but then she performs the slow Make Me..., half of it, and then another song from other artist, with G-Eazy's rap verses that lasted almost the half of the entire performance itself, so it was like, ok... She looked great and everything, but it was just too messy, without mentioning the whole Beyoncé mini concert out of nowhere right before her performance, which wasn't really up to Team Britney. Then they trying to send that MM&I remix to radio as if it was what everyone was expecting, was like, no, please stop it. Or maybe if at least they officially released it as a single, with a videoclip and everything, but no.

She should've performed a Glory medley instead, even if it wasn't as long as Beyoncé, but at least 3 songs. DYWCO being one of them, which should've come out as the second single that night.

Jimmy Kimmel promo, the sketch was cute and all, not as funny as we would've expected, and no live performance of the song. K. Then the carpool karaoke, first live vocals in a long time, but she was the most awkward she had been in years, and they didn't even bother to explain her what the show was about. The Today show, was it the Today show? She performs, but despite other nights being in full energy, that morning she just wasn't feeling it. And who watches the Today show?

Lots of radio interviews, but they were all about the same topics, the carpool karaoke, her son naming the album, etc, they talked about anything but the songs, the music, the creative process, etc. There were just very few questions specifically about the music. It would've been easier to just make a press conference to tell everyone her son had the idea of naming the album, and all the other questions every interviewer repeated. The Europe promo tour, again, it was fine, but they didn't even have a poster of the album on the background. People say she just promoted POM, I think she didn't even promote that, she just went to chat to all these places, and those interviews just completely missed the whole point of her trip.

But we had the performance at Jonathan's show. We also had the iTunes festival. That was one of the few smart things they did. Too bad it wasn't televised. Just like the other festivals later in the year, they were all awesome, but I don't think it had any impact on her sales or popularity on radio.

Slumber Party was an awesome video, which I think it's the best I take from this era along with the album itself, but again, the song wasn't the right option for a single, even less a second single, and even when I don't have anything against Tinashe, the solo version was so much better, and she didn't even bring any popularity or success to the song, which by the way, wasn't even properly released as a single, just the video and the remix EP later. All of those were little mistakes that could've been done differently.

Of course, not releasing a third single is the worst mistake they did. The most effective way to kill an era :P

 

by the time i finish reading this

 

 

[Mona Lisa 2.0]

11 minutes ago, Queen'sGuard said:

Cannot find a way to understand people saying Glory was awful. Like what? Repetitive? Talking strictly music, have you liked a single album since Blackout? Or Circus? If Glory is repetitive, what was FF? I love FF, but I'm just saying.  

Sometimes I feel that we have let the poor promotion, questionable choreography, and such affect the way we look at this album. If the gp had taken to this album, would we praise it more? The way we have FF? Probably.   

When I first listened to the album I just liked 8 from 18 songs, just 2 from the standard version, and now I don't even listen to it anymore.