Cheryl Cole - A sell out?
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This is by no means a hate thread. I really like Cheryl's solo career. But for some reason I always find her album eras rushed. In my opinion her songs on her albums usually only contain one good single with the exception of 3 words.
The singles 3 words, the flood and under the sun are just awful! Why on earth would a record company release them? They are boring. Did they spend all the budget on singles/videos for fight for this love, promise this, and call my name?
I am also finding her book & her recent tour tour really boring. Her tour was really low budget (well it looked like it was). I have a feeling she knows her career is dying post-xfactor. If Girls Aloud don't do as well as expected - what will she fall back on? I have a feeling she has peaked now. The new GA song is not that good either. It's meant to be a comeback song. Anyone would think it's a 3rd single which has been released from an artists second album.
I hope GA's second single will be decent - but I doubt it.
The singles 3 words, the flood and under the sun are just awful! Why on earth would a record company release them? They are boring. Did they spend all the budget on singles/videos for fight for this love, promise this, and call my name?
I am also finding her book & her recent tour tour really boring. Her tour was really low budget (well it looked like it was). I have a feeling she knows her career is dying post-xfactor. If Girls Aloud don't do as well as expected - what will she fall back on? I have a feeling she has peaked now. The new GA song is not that good either. It's meant to be a comeback song. Anyone would think it's a 3rd single which has been released from an artists second album.
I hope GA's second single will be decent - but I doubt it.
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Only exception has to be 3 words cuz that's just awful
Fight For This Love, Parachute, Promise This, The Flood, Call My Name, Under The Sun & Screw You are all decent if not good pop songs.
Plus A Million Lights has a few more potential singles like Sexy Den A Mutha, Last One Standing & A Million Lights
I loved all the ones you have said (in bold). I have feeling she won't release anything else - because of GA's return.
Most artists have at least 12 singles under their belt by the end of their third album, Cheryl has got like 7?
She'll need a good 5 or 6 studio albums before she has enough singles to fill up a greatest hits.
I mean she was born on Popstars, do you think she was ever in it for anything other than fame and money?
How naive are you?
And 3 words is her best song.
100% agree.
I loathed 3 Words when I first heard it, and wrote her career off... but then it just snagged in my brain. The video debuted and I understood it better. Like you said, it's just hypnotic.
It's far from safe as well. Cheryl could have just stuck to generic to get ahead in the charts, but she took a risk with 3 Words, and it became a slow burner that paid off for her. I can't think of a song like it really.
Cheryl is only 29 the book is not going to be the most exciting story ever created, is it?!
She has included what people wanted to know about her and her private life (Drugs, Arrest, Marriage, Affairs and Malaria)
Her solo work i agree was not very good but it was never going to live up to the hype that preceded it, she has done good - 2 No.1 albums, 3 No.1 Singles and solo arena tour.
The new Girls Aloud song does seem to be really popular though. I think it will do really well and may even boost some of the other members solo careers.
I suspect her record company thought she could release a couple singles and reach platinum easily, so weren't bothered GA reunion would put an end to it after the second single. I think if they knew she would struggle to sell the album then they probably would have had a longer album campaign.
I find it strange Screw You was announced as the third single and they released a lyric video for it, yet haven't done anymore. I don't even think it was sent to radio.
The tour didn't feel low budget because she played arenas and not the B/C venues like the O2 Academy's, but I'm guessing they didn't throw loads and loads of money at it because it was her first solo tour.
The Flood and Under The Sun still sold like 140,000+ singles each, so it's not all bad.
The singles industry although at an all time high is virtually worthless in its current digital format. As realistically an mp3 bought today at 89p is never going to appreciate in value but basically becomes worthless unlike vinyl or cd copies which dependent on covers release notes versions released became collectible especially when misprints happened. Record companies are desperately trying to come up with new ways to release and promote without much success.
I was going to ask what was happening with screw you have they scrapped the release
She hasn't exactly sold out because she is just one of those forgettable artists that hasn't got her own stamp, she just sings songs written by other people and it's usually whatever genre is "in" at that time.
This, this, one hundred times this.
I agree. I've never seen the appeal of GA and thought Cheryl was massively overhyped by the media but I really like 3 Words. It's far and away the best thing she's done imo
Cheryl has never suffered from poor airplay, proving playlists aren't drawn up on the quality pf the music or talent of the voclist.
This is exactly what I was going to say, although you have worded it better.
3 Words is her only somewhat decent pop song imo
I also don't get the hype for Fight For This Love I really think it is a dreadful song. Suprised that so many liked her debut single.
You can say the same about all 4 members of Little Mix, they were 'born' on X Factor.
You're telling me they are not 'in it for anything other than fame and money'?
Cheryl a SELLOUT. Haha? That's ludicrous. You have to be an artist first. Then you get to be a sellout. Guess nobody told her about that first step.
She never had any