base talk Moments where artists were candid about flopping?

[Kimbra]

I can't think of any that isnt from an UNSUNG episode or TLC  at the Grammy's.

[A-V-XYZ]

Britney when she said she retired was candid on why (flopping + tired of the industry).

[BrattyBottom]

Doesn't Miley do this after every era since Bangerz?

[teresaguidice]

gaga's manic "arts not the charts" artpop tweets, pink naming an album "i'm not dead" after flop, i think bebe had a breakdown on twitter about her album OUT-OUTing, charli references it a lot including on a bunch of lyrics on brat, brandy "but we need the audience to BUY the album"

[blackoutbritney]

I feel like Katy a bit

[Cain]

"Maybe it was too ahead of its time for certain people"

[Dula Peep]

Bebe

[tost1]

[tost1]

Also Janet was candid about Madonna flopping

[Capris Groove]

Madonna:

 

At 2:13: "and if this is a career slump, then may it last forever."

 

 

And my favourite:

 

[Technicolor]

[HausOfPunk]

 

[itshyolee]

1 hour ago, teresaguidice said:

brandy "but we need the audience to BUY the album"

ICONIC

 

They really made her lose out on 100 sales

[LOTF]

1 hour ago, Capris Groove said:

Madonna:

 

At 2:13: "and if this is a career slump, then may it last forever."

 

 

And my favourite:

 

Ugh THE ABSOLUTE queenery this is why we STAN!!!!!

[Oktober Knight]

Madonna after releasing Confessions: "my last album [American Life] didn't sell that well. Maybe people didn't understand it" (or something along those lines). 

[punisher]

 

[SharGaga]

When Katheryn said she got seasonal depression in an Aussie interview after Witness bombed

[Radical Pessimism]

4 hours ago, tost1 said:

Also Janet was candid about Madonna flopping

When selling 2 millions was considered a flop

[LittleCupid]

2 hours ago, punisher said:

 

The Japanese version is funnier

 

 

[alexrex]

'I'm at a place where if this doesn't work, I'm not out on the street'

[Mandalay]

Zero from Mariah, and we love her for that.

[StonedSoulPicnic]

Quote

 

Perhaps the biggest gamble in Mitchell's career was her 1979 Mingus, a collaboration with Charles Mingus, the jazz bassist, who was dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. Her record company wanted her to do something more commercial. Instead she wanted to write the lyrics and sing Mingus' tunes. "It cost me plenty," says Mitchell about the critical and commercial flop. "It put me in a no-man's land where radio stations couldn't pin me down. But if I had to do it over again, I would."

 

https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=240

 

 

[MalibuBarbiieDelish]

Cheryl refusing to release her album after the singles flopped LOL!

[Devin]

7 hours ago, tost1 said:

Also Janet was candid about Madonna flopping

pfft

[Soda Pop Queen]

Beyoncé on the 4 era floppage or just losing in general 

 

 

And she's always been more or less grounded in this mentality which is why she's the only MPG that I truly believe does not put much stock into the charts, and it became more apparent the older she got and the more freedom she got. This is the same woman that used to didn't know there were certifications beyond gold and the same woman that was telling people that she wanted to be retired by age 30.

Edited July 10 by Soda Pop Queen