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Why wasn't "Born To Make You Happy" a US single over Sometimes?


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Seems like a more logical step than "Sometimes", it's still dance-y like Baby One More Time compared to Sometimes which was a pure pop ballad. BTMYH should have been a single in the States 

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BTMYH would've flopped like FTBOMBH if it was released.

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3 minutes ago, A-V-XYZ said:

BTMYH would've flopped like FTBOMBH if it was released.

How do you manage to ALWAYS be the first one to comment on a Legend X (as in Xila) thread? Are you Lucy or sth?

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The only misstep of the debut era. Would have been bigger than either Sometimes or From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart. 

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never knew. although sometimes really sounds like a US hit, BTMYH is the better song.

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crazy (remix) should've been the 2nd single and included on the album tbh. I think it would've been a sure fire top 5 after BOMT smashed. I don't see anything significantly changing with the other singles 

 

no shade but she didn't have much to choose from on that album so releasing Ooops right after makes perfect sense 

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2 minutes ago, Bey_Rihstan said:

crazy (remix) should've been the 2nd single and included on the album tbh. I think it would've been a sure fire top 5 after BOMT smashed. I don't see anything significantly changing with the other singles 

 

no shade but she didn't have much to choose from on that album so releasing Ooops right after makes perfect sense 

She had I Will Be There, Thinkin About You? 

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it shouldve been a single but instead of FTBOMBH, not sometimes

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Because Sometimes is the superior bop:xtinass:

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27 minutes ago, Josh said:

She had I Will Be There, Thinkin About You? 

both (of those two you mentioned) are terrible!

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I know Britney hates Sometimes

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Sometimes makes sense to give something different. It should have replaced FTBOMBH which was just not good. It that went top 20, then BTMYH would have easily been top 10

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I think US was eating up those AC ballads at the time so it makes sense they released FTBOMBH. It was still the decade of Mariah/Celine after all.

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Her label overall had some odd choices in every album cycle.

 

- They didn't push DLMBTLTK in the US which is Shania's main market (she co-wrote the track, that alone would have sparked attention)

- They wanted Bombastic Love to lead the 3rd album (:rip:)

- Didn't want to release Toxic (:rip::rip::rip:)

 

So I suppose this is BOMT's mystery haha. 

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1 hour ago, Josh said:

She had I Will Be There, Thinkin About You? 

to do what with? those songs suck babe. as does like... 60% of the album 

 

Ooops was much better 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Sugar-Rush said:

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Because Americans are tasteless rats.

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Both are BOPS but BTMYH >>>>>

 

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Her A&R from that time period mentioned on a podcast that BTMYH didn't test well with American radio programmers. They were tasteless. Much like, how they relegated Deep In My Heart and Autumn Goodbye to  bonus tracks outside of the states bc the label didn't think the songs would be received well by the American public in the way they would be by Europeans. 

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2 hours ago, Scandalous said:

it shouldve been a single but instead of FTBOMBH, not sometimes

Agreed.  FTBOMBH is a cute song, but was not single-worthy at all.  I'm genuinely shocked it charted higher than Sometimes. :psyduck:

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46 minutes ago, BeenTheShit said:

Agreed.  FTBOMBH is a cute song, but was not single-worthy at all.  I'm genuinely shocked it charted higher than Sometimes. :psyduck:

BTMYH is my favorite from her debut, but FTBOMBH is a classic and whenever she decides to come back I'll manage her to her comeback remix with La Factoría with this smash.

 

 

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Sometimes was a good single choice. However, BTMYH should've been the fourth US single instead of FTBOMBH. That one should've remained an album track.

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LOVE that song!

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