Coming off of two of the most streamed albums of all time back to back to back to back massive culture smashes Don’t start now-Levitating-Cold Heart-Dance the night, she had all the hype for her new era

 

Now that it’s almost April it’s clear that neither Houdini nor Training Season are clicking

 

 Why?

 

What should she do now? Is it over?

Not releasing Ball and Chain

 

 

jk are you insane 

Nothing, just you wait for the Radical Optimism: Vertigo From Chaos Theory Edition

Didn’t atrl just make this mistake with Ariana? 
 

Dua simply hasn’t released a single this rollout that clicked with people. If her album is good with a proper banger, salty atrlers will be miserable again.

She’ll be more than fine tbh

Global 200 - current

#18 Training Season

#22 Houdini

 

Excl. US

#16 Training Season

#18 Houdini

 

I feel like the songs are doing fine/great. Especially Houdini since it's been out since October/November now.

 

And it's kind of crazy because Levitating, DSN, Dance the Night all also got criticism here for not doing well enough.. but now they're used to judge these singles.

Fire her daddy-ger 

Honestly these newer stars just don’t have the fervent fan bases of past pop stars. I’m sure she can still get smashes in the future, but she’s always struck me as more of a Rihanna than a Taylor, someone who needs the right trend or right moment to really make a smash and gets hits in the long run rather than immediate smashes. I also don’t think her identity is super well defined tbh. 

Houdini: 300m streams, 3m updates 4 months later, top 10 on pop radio

 

Dua Lipa: beautiful, talented, artistically ahead of her peers, one of the biggest pop stars of the 2020s

 

ATRL user DTF: No likes on their OP, making threads about an album that hasn’t been released, no single or album out, net worth under 1m, asking flame bait questions that will inevitably lead to a WP

 

So I ask: ATRL User DTF: What went wrong? What should they do now? Touch grass? Remain perched on Dua’s IG and ATRL threads? Who knows!

She will drop a collab that will give her moderate hit song for the summer 

A collab with another girl.

Haven't her singles always been slow but steady cookers? The crockpot of pop if you will. I don't think she needs to 'do' anything but what she's been doing.

yall are insufferable 

Considering she could retire and live a comfortably rich life off the royalties from her first two albums, I don’t think anything went wrong.

You guys need to understand that studying the downfall of a female pop singer does not work with every female pop singer 

Edited March 14, 20242 yr by PerfectCure

She's doing fine. Longevity is always the key.

47 minutes ago, DTF said:

Coming off of two of the most streamed albums of all time back to back to back to back massive culture smashes Don’t start now-Levitating-Cold Heart-Dance the night, she had all the hype for her new era

 

Now that it’s almost April it’s clear that neither Houdini nor Training Season are clicking

 

 Why?

 

What should she do now? Is it over?

3k of the Deluxe vinyl sold out in minutes, nothing went wrong 

Literally NOTHING? What are you even talking about? Are we living in the same universe right now?

She doesn't have a real fanbase and her hits needed a lot of payola. I think she is akin to Katy Perry, but Katy was more famous and successful.

ODHs never beating the ugly, jobless and terminally online allegations. 

I feel like I see another one of these irrelevant threads every time I come on ATRL

 

Nothing? Two moderately underperforming hits are the death knell of a hugely successful career, is that the new bar we’re using?

2 hours ago, Rico Shameless v2 said:

Global 200 - current

#18 Training Season

#22 Houdini

 

Excl. US

#16 Training Season

#18 Houdini

ain't nobody listening to these songs when the autoplay is off, be fr

Nothing.

 

Both get around 3m streams daily.

 

Just because they are underperforming in the USA doesn't make them flops cause people are streaming. 

2 hours ago, cat1867 said:

Didn’t atrl just make this mistake with Ariana? 
 

Dua simply hasn’t released a single this rollout that clicked with people. If her album is good with a proper banger, salty atrlers will be miserable again.

ATRL taking Ls left and right

ATRL has long been overly obsessed with "under performances" and "missteps." Even though the holy Taylor Swift was "flopping" with reputa and Lover, and it was hardly an omen for the future.

 

Likewise with ARTPOP, queen came back with #1s from two different albums. All is fine. Beyonce too.

 

Careers go up and down, it's not a tell this early on.

this is her arts not the charts era