base talk Is “Houdini” a flop?: The Megathread!

[Raspberries]

On 11/27/2023 at 10:21 PM, khalyan said:

You made over 20 posts in the last two weeks about how you feel about Houdini, I think that thread ban was for your own health!

I also just realized who you are. You are in countless Taylor threads putting her down/dragging her and you are a moderator  

[Johnny Jacobs]

8 hours ago, Miichael said:

Dua clearly doesn't view Houdini as being disco at all, she literally said she chose the song because it is such a large sonic departure from FN

[Bhabylon]

it's so funny how the success stans who bandwagoned because of FN smashing are scrambling here

I promise you life is funner when you stop relying on other people to validate the music you like

[Slayn]

I don't care if y'all deem this a flop or not- this song is one of the best released this decade. 

[krustysalt]

The 3 week old Houdini is already below other lead singles Kill Bill, Flowers and Vampire on Spotify, what went wrong? 

 

 

 

 

 

[LittleStarmen]

yes it feels like a filler song

no chorus

[Billionaire]

18 minutes ago, krustysalt said:

The 3 week old Houdini is already below other lead singles Kill Bill, Flowers and Vampire on Spotify, what went wrong? 

 

 

 

 

 

damn 

[Cheers]

22 hours ago, Johnny Jacobs said:

Yea this confuses me too. Idk why her stans are acting like this is so different and artistic like

[Mrnoniee]

ya'll girlies need to get into this:
 

 

who cares about charts though.
Dua DID what she had to do.

[Bosque]

10 hours ago, Cheers said:

Yea this confuses me too. Idk why her stans are acting like this is so different and artistic like

Is a common coping mechanism on ATRL when any song flops. It’s just a basic electronic song with a guitar added in and we all know it 

[vale9001]

11 minutes ago, Dephira said:

Is a common coping mechanism on ATRL when any song flops. It’s just a basic electronic song with a guitar added in and we all know it 

more are just trying to seems sophisticated have to say this song is good because of a very popular and cool indie musician...as if Bon Iver is able to produce I wanna dance with somebody or Bad Romance. 

One of the most common ignorant prejudice in music is "real musicians" can produce or write anything a great mainstream pop musician - producer can if only they want.

 

Nothing more false lol 

Edited December 2, 2023 by vale9001

[halcyonday]

how are the things going for ms houdini?

[Delirious]

Damn...this really bombed... unfortunate cause the song was somewhat cufe

 

Anyways moving on, single 2 will smash I feel

[Fastlane]

On 12/2/2023 at 2:33 PM, Mrnoniee said:

ya'll girlies need to get into this:
 

 

who cares about charts though.
Dua DID what she had to do.

Could have been a perfect follow-up to "Flowers".  

[Bentley]

this fuckin flopped. Doing worse than Familia’s lead single coming off of future nostalgia and that payola’d Elton John rehash.  We must laugh 

 

Edited December 19, 2023 by Bentley

[Bentley]

Rotten Pie was the writing on the wall… the little duas didn’t heed our warnings…

 

[Bentley]

Doing worse than We’re Good? Im

cackling to the skies! 

 

[Digitalism]

On 11/28/2023 at 12:21 AM, khalyan said:

You made over 20 posts in the last two weeks about how you feel about Houdini, I think that thread ban was for your own health!

The sad part is that 20 post seems a small number compared to other users attacking the song on that thread 

[wastedpotential]

This is really giving Perfect Illusion, across the board. A cute but divisive, Kevin Parker produced, "dark" themed pop song with an underwhelming chorus full of clunky lyrics that debuted respectably high enough and then collapsed into a Hot 100 free fall. Lets see what happens in January, but it's not looking good for miss Dua 

 

Does Dua have any deceased family members to capitalize on? 

Edited December 19, 2023 by wastedpotential

[chosensparkles]

5 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

This is really giving Perfect Illusion, across the board. A cute but divisive, Kevin Parker produced, "dark" themed pop song with an underwhelming chorus full of clunky lyrics that debuted respectably high enough and then collapsed into a Hot 100 free fall. Lets see what happens in January, but it's not looking good for miss Dua 

 

Does Dua have any deceased family members to capitalize on? 

at least PI was still serving some music highlights

Houdini is getting eaten by a Miley AI cover

 

also not Swifties talking about capitalizing on someone when Taylor's whole shtick is capitalizng on relationships drama & feuds

[poki]

I still can't believe Dua's team let Tate do BBMA while she sat home playing League of Legends. 

[poki]

As in, they CLEARLY saw Tate threatened to take Dua's spot i nthe music scene and didn't even flinch. 

 

All it did was make FN look like a fluke era as of now. 

[wastedpotential]

10 minutes ago, chosensparkles said:

at least PI was still serving some music highlights

Houdini is getting eaten by a Miley AI cover

 

also not Swifties talking about capitalizing on someone when Taylor's whole shtick is capitalizng on relationships drama & feuds

Yeah the Miley AI did devour 

 

And clock me a bit, as a Swiftie I do know all about capitalization on personal backstory for artistic content. I'm still curious if we're getting a dead-aunt adjacent album from miss Dua to go along with the PI parallels 

[halcyonday]

On 12/2/2023 at 12:33 PM, Mrnoniee said:

ya'll girlies need to get into this:
 

 

who cares about charts though.
Dua DID what she had to do.

why is it better than Dua's version

[chosensparkles]

1 minute ago, wastedpotential said:

Yeah the Miley AI did devour 

 

And clock me a bit, as a Swiftie I do know all about capitalization on personal backstory for artistic content. I'm still curious if we're getting a dead-aunt adjacent album from miss Dua to go along with the PI parallels 

Dua doesn't have it in her sis

but let's wait if they push Houdini heavily on radio +playlisting as if it wasn't rejected

it's gonna enter top 10 on Pop radio