in your opinion, what times did a singer got their lead single wrong? what song would you have chosen?

 

(imo):

 

Lana:

 

Chemtrails Over the Country Club

Let Me Love You Like A Woman -> Chemtrails OR Tulsa Jesus Freak

 

Blue Banisters

Blue Banisters/Text Book/Wildflower Wildfire -> Dealer

 

Mitski:

 

Be the Cowboy

Geyser -> Nobody

 

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

Bug Like an Angel -> My Love Mine All Mine OR Star

 

The Neighborhood:

 

The Neighborhood

Scary Love -> You Get Me So High

 

Chip Chrome & The Mono-Tones

Middle of Somewhere -> Stargazing

Edited March 25, 20242 yr by TROPICUM

Kylie Minogue

 

X - 2 Hearts should have been IN MY ARMS

Kiss Me Once - Into The Blue should have been Waiting For The Sun or FINE

Run the World Girls tbh. The lead should have been Love on Top which the GP loved.

 

Despite Love On Top being the fourth single, it has more spotify streams than many 2011 smashes like Born This Way and Sexy and I know It etc. 

Edited March 25, 20242 yr by SoundsandSongs

Bringing in the obvious answer

 

 

 

I would have chosen Cruel Smash as the lead! 

Edited March 25, 20242 yr by Dear Reader

Imo for Lana it makes sense to release droplets like Let Me Love You Like A Woman when the album release is far away, cause if she just put out Chemtrails title track right away the hype would have been long gone by the time of album release.

Lady Gaga - Joanne : Perfect illusion (wrong) vs Million Reasons (right) 

 

Beyoncé - Renaissance : Break my Soul (wrong) vs Cuff It (right) 

 

Taylor Swift - Lover : ME! (wrong) Vs everything from Lover but IFTYE and It's nice to have a friend (maybe Paper Rings or Daylight shorter version ) 

 

Katy Perry - Smile : She should have used Never Really Over as real lead single 

 

 

OT: The Edge of Glory should've been the second single from Born This Way and Dark Horse should've been the second single from Prism with unconditionally as third single.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 25, 20242 yr by Sweeftie13

Toxic over MATM

Slumber Party over MM

 

 

1 minute ago, Illuminati said:

Imo for Lana it makes sense to release droplets like Let Me Love You Like A Woman when the album release is far away, cause if she just put out Chemtrails title track right away the hype would have been long gone by the time of album release.

honestly yeah this crossed my mind but in my own delusional universe where this question exists she has a clean-cut single & album release schedule 

2 minutes ago, Dear Reader said:

Bringing in the obvious answer

 

 

 

I would have chosen Cruel Smash as the lead! 

Nah Cruel Summer worked well in 2023/2024 cause it was loved by fans for many years and it's remembered as the simble-song of Eras Tour

 

 

2 minutes ago, Dear Reader said:

Bringing in the obvious answer

 

 

 

I would have chosen Cruel Smash as the lead! 

Cruel Summer is the perfect lead but it wouldn't have smashed as hard in 2019. Maybe Lover would've been the best lead choice in the long run? (Cruel summer as the eras tour smash fits so well.)

Stupid Love when Rain on Me was right there, tf was she thinking? 

6 minutes ago, Dear Reader said:

Bringing in the obvious answer

 

 

 

I would have chosen Cruel Smash as the lead! 

ME! walked so Cruel Summer could run.

 

 

1 minute ago, Sweeftie13 said:

Nah Cruel Summer worked well in 2023/2024 cause it was loved by fans for many years and it's remembered as the simble-song of Eras Tour

 

 

 

1 minute ago, SoundsandSongs said:

Cruel Summer is the perfect lead but it wouldn't have smashed as hard in 2019. Maybe Lover would've been the best lead choice in the long run? (Cruel summer as the eras tour smash fits so well.)

yeah, paper rings would've been the best lead single choice

2 minutes ago, Sweeftie13 said:

Nah Cruel Summer worked well in 2023/2024 cause it was loved by fans for many years and it's remembered as the simble-song of Eras Tour

 

 

 

2 minutes ago, SoundsandSongs said:

Cruel Summer is the perfect lead but it wouldn't have smashed as hard in 2019. Maybe Lover would've been the best lead choice in the long run? (Cruel summer as the eras tour smash fits so well.)

I mean sure now it is bigger. But I don't think any other track would serve right as the lead. MAYBE Paper Rings 

Half of Gaga's discography

Accelerate. The fact that she chose this song to make her comeback from 5 years of absence when she had Fall in Line and Maria

 

Hilary Duff's Chasing the Sun

 

Loveee the song now but it is not lead COMEBACK material

My conspiracy theory I still hold on to is that Fifth Harmony was forced to release Down as their lead single so the public would care less about their comeback without Cam*la. None of their efforts would have any chance against label politics but He Like That literally has a gorgeously shot video with product placement and the song is so good! Down should have either been an album track or never released, they should have included Better With You on the tracklist.

 

5H final album should've been

He Like That -> Angel with a real budget music video (those 2 are interchangeable tbh) -> Better With You !! -> Don't Say You Love Me . The $5 video for Deliver is a cute promo single, Sauced Up could also have been a buzz single

Spoiler

 

 

1 hour ago, Sweeftie13 said:

Beyoncé - Renaissance : Break my Soul (wrong) vs Cuff It (right) 

If Beyonce had her way Church Girl wouldve been a single instead of Cuff It  Someone needs to fire whoever chooses her singles. 

 

Trying to release Church Girl before Cuff It, RTW before Love on Top, Diva and Ego before Sweet Dreams, Ring the Alarm before Irreplaceable and Beautiful Liar.....

 

So many terrible choices.

1 hour ago, TitanicSurvivor said:

Accelerate. The fact that she chose this song to make her comeback from 5 years of absence when she had Fall in Line and Maria

 

Or pope. That song was fire  

1 hour ago, SoundsandSongs said:

Run the World Girls tbh. The lead should have been Love on Top which the GP loved.

 

Despite Love On Top being the fourth single, it has more spotify streams than many 2011 smashes like Born This Way, On the Floor, Sexy and I know It etc. 

On the Floor has 973m combined streams. They're split between two versions: the full song and the radio edit

Edited March 25, 20242 yr by Taeyong

1 hour ago, Sweeftie13 said:

Lady Gaga - Joanne : Perfect illusion (wrong) vs Million Reasons (right) 

Million Reasons would've been as wrong as PI if not worse! Dancin in Circles is the only answer.

Lead singles don't always need to be the biggest you guys realise

 

I think Run the World and BMS walked so the latter singles could run tbh. And I think they were both great introductions into their respective eras. 

Interscope when Carly Rae Jepsen had to release I Really Like You as a lead single 

Wrong according to what metrics? Cause to me a bad lead is the one that makes you scrap an era/doesn't lead to an album. If the song you released as lead manages to lead, regardless of chart performance, then it wasn't a bad choice. 

Another thing is the opinion on quality.