single Dua Lipa - "Houdini"

[BuzzCharts]

It was never lead single material.  If she wants to have success she needed to release a song that at least had a chance to succeed.  This song was dead on arrival.  

[Blue Monday]

49 minutes ago, raven said:

i’ve been saying this is gonna be her dangerous woman era - a more mature sound, managed by a parent, moderately well performing lead after a super smash era… we just need to wait till her second and third singles cause that’s when the real bangers/hits are coming 

Your mind omg 

[ariananext]

the song is amazing that's certainly not the reason it's "underperforming"

[TayDuaStan]

49 minutes ago, raven said:

i’ve been saying this is gonna be her dangerous woman era - a more mature sound, managed by a parent, moderately well performing lead after a super smash era… we just need to wait till her second and third singles cause that’s when the real bangers/hits are coming 

This. I posted a while ago but i got downvoted, that this is her Focus and her next single will be her Dangerous Woman (especially if she keeps Training Season, which according to insiders is so much better than Houdini). 

[Machete]

49 minutes ago, Dante Silva said:

Anything female fronted, with its roots in the Disco genre is always going to alienate straight, white, regional male radio DJ’s across the U.S. and bring out their patriarchal instincts. I have no doubt they are demonstrating their ‘soft power’ by minimizing plays of the song and therefore its impact.

What the hell is this idiotic post? "It will alienate straight white radio DJs and minimize plays"... are you aware that this song is being carried by radio in the US?  More airplay than streams week 1  The LAST thing you should ever blame on a Dua Lipa song bombing is "radio not playing it enough" 

[Dante Silva]

1 minute ago, Machete said:

What the hell is this idiotic post? "It will alienate straight white radio DJs and minimize plays"... are you aware that this song is being carried by radio in the US?  More airplay than streams week 1  The LAST thing you should ever blame on a Dua Lipa song bombing is "radio not playing it enough" 

I’m not interested in your raw nerve. I’m not your therapist.

[Machete]

1 minute ago, Dante Silva said:

I’m not interested in your raw nerve. I’m not your therapist.

You're clearly not interested in logic or anything besides loony conspiracy theories either 

[Dante Silva]

22 hours ago, Machete said:

You're clearly not interested in logic or anything besides loony conspiracy theories either 

‘Disco Demolition Night’ is a logical historical event. The descendants of those who took the baton from those DJ’s are operational and active today. You clearly are one of them. Only a fool makes a choice to not learn from and ignore the past.

Edited November 19, 2023 by Dante Silva

[liquiddiamonds]

46 minutes ago, Dante Silva said:

‘Disco Demolition Night’ is a logical historical event. The descendants of those who took the baton from those DJ’s are operational and active today. You clearly are one of them.

What we’re not gonna do is take important moments that were based in racism, misogyny and homophobia to justify a song underperforming for stan standards almost 50 years later. Disco has been white washed and accepted by the masses since then. Dua herself is an euro star coming off a hit album based on the sound that smashed on radio. Houdini is showing strong debut numbers on radio and she’s been touring stations. Maybe you meant conservative america not boping to disco music in the 2023 political climate, which you might have a point, but we’ve been past “disco sucks!” and disco-influenced songs were some of the most successful pop songs in the 2020s decade so far

[Kristie Kuwa]

The dramatic, lowkey living for it. It's gonna be so fun looking back at this in 3 months

[Relampago.]

We’re back to melting down again? Lemme start prepping my essays to Warner about making DTN the lead instead and Houdini buzz single

 

[BuzzCharts]

1 hour ago, ariananext said:

the song is amazing that's certainly not the reason it's "underperforming"

The song quality is exactly the reason it’s underperforming.  It’s a dud 

[katara]

31 minutes ago, Relampago. said:

We’re back to melting down again? Lemme start prepping my essays to Warner about making DTN the lead instead and Houdini buzz single

 

Cold Heart was actually the lead and DTN the 2nd single. Houdini is a buzz single before album release 

[Bloodflowers.]

This is her Me Against the Music, her Toxic is coming 

[Solaria]

4 hours ago, houdini said:

i really wonder why ODH hate dua so much  like she’s literally the least problematic, down to earth and sweetest pop girl out there. 

Aside from the ones that are just trolling and who are very unserious, there are also ones that can’t wrap their head around the fact that in a world where mainstream pop music is dominated by alt-pop, there’s still a pop girl. who unapologetically gives traditional 2010s MPG energy. They really think if a pop girl in this day and age doesnt make music in the style of Taylor or Lana, that they’re immediately inferior and have no place in the industry. It becomes very clear in the way that they discuss her 

[Kristie Kuwa]

1 hour ago, Love Again said:

Aside from the ones that are just trolling and who are very unserious, there are also ones that can’t wrap their head around the fact that in a world where mainstream pop music is dominated by alt-pop, there’s still a pop girl. who unapologetically gives traditional 2010s MPG energy. They really think if a pop girl in this day and age doesnt make music in the style of Taylor or Lana, that they’re immediately inferior and have no place in the industry. It becomes very clear in the way that they discuss her 

As I said, we had many terrifying things happening in the world and now we have Swiftmania. We gotta weather the storm guys

 

Edited November 18, 2023 by Kristie Kuwa

[mystery]

This song is absolutely amazing and one of her best already.

[Yog]

watch this MAGICALLY start popping off on tiktok and everywhere else after christmas freeze, her label doesn’t even hide it. 

[SayIt]

3 hours ago, Relampago. said:

We’re back to melting down again? Lemme start prepping my essays to Warner about making DTN the lead instead and Houdini buzz single

 

Would this even still be possible? I know Houdini could still have longevity and room to grow after the holidays. 

[Bloodflowers.]

It took TikTok a year since FN came out for Levitating to go viral. We have to just wait for kids to turn "catch me or i go" into a meme and we will be set to go 

[unclefloprry]

Not the meltdowns, lmao, the only reason the song falls on the global chart is because Biden's country   the ww numbers are still cute, not everybody can do +2.9M outside of Trump's country.



 

8 hours ago, bjorn said:

South America said NO 

This is probably one of the 3-4 english songs in the top 200 of SA countries

[seanbworth]

2 hours ago, Yog said:

watch this MAGICALLY start popping off on tiktok and everywhere else after christmas freeze, her label doesn’t even hide it. 

Thanks for foreshadowing exactly what y’all are going to use as an excuse if this song ends up taking off in January. There’s always an excuse when she smashes.

[unclefloprry]

btw if a certain song by a certain ex-act is Top 5 on radio and it's N/A on Spotify and AM, I think this could make it to those spots too.

[Gesi]

9 hours ago, tjspy said:

 

Soon you'll get better 

[Bloodflowers.]

After hearing this song after Sacrifice by The Weeknd, I need Houdini (Remix) feat. The Weeknd asap