Sparkle

Not the discord server sending one of the modlors to confront me. These receipts do not contradict the point I made, that the original only sold roughly around half what the previous album Fearless did which makes it a bomb and the re-recording will fail to match whatever success Red TV had making it a double-bomb! No amount of "country radio hits" will change that but whatever helps you cope dear!

Successful?? Hasn't the original only sold half what its predecessor Fearless did? It's here to bomb once again as a re-recording as if the floppage of the original wasn't enough! Speak Now is about to claim the title of first album ever to fail in meeting commercial and critical expectations in not just one but TWO distinct album campaigns.

This lazy repackaging is getting rightfully panned just like the original was back then. Sad that even notoriously corrupt critics are refusing to get on her payroll now.

Lady Gaga

Yeah I don't think she has what it takes to bag any more debuts like that tbh! Her public perception has changed for the worse due to her racist behavior lately and we can already see the karmic effect manifesting in her critical support waning so abrubtly. It's only reasonable to expect the commercial power to be next in line for the chopping block!

For better or worse, usually for worse.

Sorry to burst your delusional bubble but that doesn't seem to be the case unfortunately. Just checked and there's a vast amount of music videos by pop girls that have accumulated more views post LWYMMD. Swifties love to make everything about numbers and "objective data" so I'm sure they will remain consistent and agree with me on this.

If you were to disregard everything that went right for "Come On Over", I think maybe then the parallel would start to make sense.

Britney for all (yes, even for Britney Jean). I unironically think Unusual You, Big Fat Bass & Criminal are better than anything Taylor has put out so far.

See swifties, this is what an act who can produce multiple smashes per era looks like. Take a good look and I'd advise you to get used to what you just glared at because it's coming to torment you acutely for the rest of the year! Y'all are in for a rude awakening.

And then she decided to go and make a huge fuss about a couple dancers dropping her barely sold out tour gig for Katy's, calling it "sabotage". If that isn't enough proof of her backstabbing nature I don't know what is!

I don't doubt Britney would be having comparable box scores for her dates if she bothered to embark on a tour nowadays tbh! And NO, sadly I think that Taylor doing her spam release thing back in the late 90's would not have mattered much because people used to have a higher quality standard for music back then.

As I have already pointed out earlier today in a similar thread, the pandemic really did wonders for the whole touring business, didn't it?

Britney SOLD over 50 million albums in that time period alone. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Taylor is expected to be matching that figure by the end of the current year, is she?