base talk More tragic Turned Down, Shape Of You, Toxic, Halo, Don't Cha, Happy, Just Dance

[Link16]

Little Mix turned down Shape Of You and New Rules 

 

 

Kylie and Janet turned down Toxic 

 

 

Leona Lewis turned down Halo, Burn, All Of Me and We Found Love 

 

 

Paris Hilton and Sugababes turned down Don't Cha

 

 

Cee Lo Green turned down Happy

 

 

Nicole Scherzinger turned down Just Dance, We Found Love, On The Floor and Crazy

 

 

Edited May 15, 2022 by Link16

[Johnny Jacobs]

6 minutes ago, Link16 said:

Shape Of You

Huh? Didn't he say he wrote it to Rih but decided to keep it? 

[Erreur2 La Nature]

Paris Hilton, Leona Lewis and Little Mix are non event in the music industry so even if they kept and released the songs mentionned, they would not have been hits. Though Kylie and Janet saying no to Toxic is probably the biggest mistake of their career 

[Virgos Groove]

From those three, Leona.

 

But nothing will be more tragic than Nicole Scherzinger turning down Just Dance, We Found Love, On the Floor and Gnarls Barkley's Crazy.

Edited May 15, 2022 by ATWK

[Johnny Jacobs]

Leona with her turned downs are the most horrifying tbh

[Link16]

Just now, Johnny Jacobs said:

Huh? Didn't he say he wrote it to Rih but decided to keep it? 

 

[Johnny Jacobs]

1 minute ago, Link16 said:

 

Oh wow 

[Solaria]

Little Mix doing Shape Of You or New Rules doesnt work in my mind at all  they are so screamy and anthemic.. Dua’s cool summer vibey voice made the song work idem for Ed

[shelven]

Tbh I don't think any of them are super tragic because I don't think any of those songs would have become the huge smashes they became if it wasn't for the hit-making power of the artist who released it.

 

Leona's probably comes the closest to being tragic, because she might have been able to turn Halo into a decently sized hit considering Bleeding Love wasn't that old by the time Halo came out.

[magazine]

9 minutes ago, Link16 said:

Little Mix turned down Shape Of You and New Rules 

And thank god they did 

 

Imagine a world without those two worldwide smashes 

[Nightingale]

The only ones I see being hits for those artists are Halo for Leona and Toxic for Kylie. Maybe Burn for Leona too but WFL was only as huge as it was because of Rihanna. Halo would have been a great comeback right in line with Bleeding Love but I think Ryan Tedder has said Halo was always supposed to go to Beyoncé even if it was briefly offered to Leona 

[Link16]

3 minutes ago, ATWK said:

From those three, Leona.

 

But nothing will be more tragic than Nicole Scherzinger turning down Just Dance, We Found Love, On the Floor and Gnarls Barkley's Crazy.

WHAT? 

[mlaredoperez]

-Zara turned down sweet melody. 

-Britney's team turned down When I grow up , umbrella & telephone

-Rihanna turned down DJ got us falling in love

-Pink rejected Since u been gone

-MJ rejected JT's Rock your body

-Janet rejected How will I know

-Celine rejected Aerosmith's Don't wanna miss a thing.

 

 

[Just a Gay on ATRL]

3 minutes ago, mlaredoperez said:

-Zara turned down sweet melody. 

-Britney's team turned down When I grow up , umbrella & telephone

-Rihanna turned down DJ got us falling in love

-Pink rejected Since u been gone

-MJ rejected JT's Rock your body

-Janet rejected How will I know

-Celine rejected Aerosmith's Don't wanna miss a thing.

 

 

Good riddance that Rihanna turned down DJ Got Us Fallin In Love tbh

[Link16]

17 minutes ago, mlaredoperez said:

-Zara turned down sweet melody. 

-Britney's team turned down When I grow up , umbrella & telephone

-Rihanna turned down DJ got us falling in love

 

 

 

Rihanna turned down was Chandelier, We Can't Stop and Lean On was more tragic 

[MALAMENTE]

42 minutes ago, ATWK said:

From those three, Leona.

 

But nothing will be more tragic than Nicole Scherzinger turning down Just Dance, We Found Love, On the Floor and Gnarls Barkley's Crazy.

Damn

[Rihbeyga]

12 minutes ago, Link16 said:

Rihanna biggest turned down was Chandelier, We Can't Stop and Lean On 

Cheap thrills?

[Link16]

14 minutes ago, Rihbeyga said:

Cheap thrills?

you're right, it wasn't rejected by Rih, but originally written with Rihanna in mind

 

https://www.mtv.com/news/1724271/sia-chandelier-sounds-like-rihanna/

[andresg770]

At least Leona had a hit with "Bleeding Love."  Nicole's solo career, on the other hand...  Oh boy. It could've certainly used some of those songs she rejected.

Edited May 15, 2022 by andresg770

[Rap God]

Eminem turned down See You Again 

 

 

[Siberian Tiger]

3 hours ago, Link16 said:

Leona Lewis turned down Halo, Burn

Didn't watch the video but that is not true. Both songs were written by Ryan Tedder and he talked about it. 

Halo was written for Beyonce and Leona would have it only if Beyonce rejected it. Didn't happen though. 

With Burn Ryan wanted the song to be released ASAP but Leona's album got delayed so he gave it to Ellie. 

[Jay07]

I wonder how Britney would have sounded on Umbrella.

 

Little Mix would have sounded great on New Rules.

[Katamari]

3 hours ago, ATWK said:

From those three, Leona.

 

But nothing will be more tragic than Nicole Scherzinger turning down Just Dance, We Found Love, On the Floor and Gnarls Barkley's Crazy.

Imagine turning down ******* crazy

 

her mind is a choice

[ithinkheknowsoutsold]

Kylie should've done Toxic. Maybe it could've been as big as CGYOOMH was for her, and it followed by Red Blooded Woman would've provided her back-to-back hits in the US from Body Language, and the back-to-back success of Fever and Body Language would've finally established her in the US.

[Bey'Knight]

3 hours ago, Link16 said:

 

So technically little mix nor Rihanna turned it down. It sounds like he n his team decided to keep it before it got A&R’d to those artists