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Artists Who Peaked Early
Lady Gaga, for me, peaked with Fame Monster. 8 solid, amazing tracks - Born This Way is hit and miss in my opinion, out of the 14 tracks I would say I love Born This Way, Judas, Americano, Road to Love, Heavy Metal Lover and Edge of Glory. And again, this is just my opinion, she's lost some of the elements that made her fun. There's no bouncy fluffy fun tracks on Born This Way like Summerboy, Boys Boys Boys, Eh Eh and Telephone. I'm kinda over her.
So who do you think peaked early? |
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Lady Gaga is definitely one. Born This Way was a solid effort but it didn't quite live up to The Fame Monster heights and I don't think it was ever going to and a lot of people recognise that. Whatever she does in the future will be criticised for not living up to TFM and that's the danger of peaking too early but I still think she'll be around a good while longer.
Most of the top popstars today with the exception of Gaga didn't peak early on which is interesting. Rihanna didn't peak til GGGB. Katy Perry's peak is right now, on her second album tbh. Beyonce - has she even peaked yet? I don't reckon so Most artists who peak on their debut suffer that 'sophomore slump' which usually determines the end of them. Pixie Lott's a recent example. Another artist who peaked early on was Leona Lewis. Echo was never a failure but people considered it so compared to Spirit. Though tbh it could have been huge if her management got their act together. |
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Lady Gaga is definitely one. Born This Way was a solid effort but it didn't quite live up to The Fame Monster heights and I don't think it was ever going to and a lot of people recognise that. Whatever she does in the future will be criticised for not living up to TFM and that's the danger of peaking too early but I still think she'll be around a good while longer.
Most of the top popstars today with the exception of Gaga didn't peak early on which is interesting. Rihanna didn't peak til GGGB. Katy Perry's peak is right now, on her second album tbh. Beyonce - has she even peaked yet? I don't reckon so Most artists who peak on their debut suffer that 'sophomore slump' which usually determines the end of them. Pixie Lott's a recent example. Another artist who peaked early on was Leona Lewis. Echo was never a failure but people considered it so compared to Spirit. Though tbh it could have been huge if her management got their act together. |
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Agree with all of them, Beyonce I think got close to peaking with Sasha Fierce but then 4 has been too dissapointing to continue that peak.
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Leona Lewis. Bleeding Love was okay at the time. Literally everything else she has done since has bored me to sleep.
I don't see her lasting much longer tbh. You need much more than a pretty voice to last. |
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nope. 4 is her creative and performance peak so far. its got better and better. pixie lott has gone backwards.
And couldn't agree more about Pixie, she exploded into the scene then dissapeared into nothing.
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Just my opinion of course.
And couldn't agree more about Pixie, she exploded into the scene then dissapeared into nothing.![]() but end of time is beyonce's best live group choreo performance and run the world at the billboard awards 2011 is her best solo performance. |
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Reading through there Beyonce i feel had her first peak with DC 1999 - 2002 TWOTW and Survivor albums.
Beyonce solo never has had one significant "peak" as such just a few hits per record really sustained until now...her most creative peak and due to Sasha Feirce i think she found a new credit to her as a solo performer for the 4 album which is IMO her strongest overall album since those respective DC albums actually. As for peaking too early i fear gaga has peaked too early, i mean 3 years in and thousands have gone off her....but also with BTW she won some people over (myself included) but the spark seems to have gone with what made her interesting in a current music buying environment...we will see however but gaga in late 09 - 2010 was her commercial peak IMO. Adele i fear this will see ehr peak with her second album, se will sustain her name on later records but she wont match the success of 21 again....not that it matters but this is a massive early peak for her. Duffy peaked with Rockferry I feel which is a shame as she is so capable of so much more but unfortunately.....it will never surface. |
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Many people are going off Lady GaGa because of the dark, horrible imagery that she portrays and the constant outrageous outfits.
Some people love it, some people hate it. My friends and I dislike her at the moment. |
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Mika: at first 'Grace Kelly' was a novelty one-hit wonder, then he went on to have further hits, and I started to think he'd be the exciting, creative male artist the UK has lacked for years...then I realised that most of his songs were the same 'wonky' pop style and his 2nd album flopped.
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Pixie Lott
that was the biggest early peak artist ever! |
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Lady Gaga, for me, peaked with Fame Monster. 8 solid, amazing tracks - Born This Way is hit and miss in my opinion, out of the 14 tracks I would say I love Born This Way, Judas, Americano, Road to Love, Heavy Metal Lover and Edge of Glory. And again, this is just my opinion, she's lost some of the elements that made her fun. There's no bouncy fluffy fun tracks on Born This Way like Summerboy, Boys Boys Boys, Eh Eh and Telephone. I'm kinda over her.
So who do you think peaked early? Honestly this forum makes my blood boil sometimes, people think music is so disposable and it makes me sad. As for the thread title, I'll say Guns N' Roses. Highest-selling debut album of all-time and frequently ranked as one of the best albums ever; after that their catalogue became much more spotty and inconsistent. |
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The Military Wives. No 1 this coming week then we will never here from them again
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Duffy - Pretty much peaked with Mercy
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Pixie Lott
that was the biggest early peak artist ever! I think you will find that Duffy was the real Fosbury of Flops (TM). Ms Lott comes nowhere near her simply because her debut was nowhere near as successful as Ms Duffy's. |
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say Arctic Monkeys. I'm not passing any sort of judgment on their albums (I happen to think Suck It And See is something of a return to form). I just think with their record breaking first album, and the way they'd harnessed the internet like no other band before them, meant they peaked impossibly high at the very beginning of their career. Actually think it works in their favour though, because now they've reached the top and satisfied that craving for success, it leaves them free to pursue whatever kind of creative bursts they like.
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Their problem is guitar/indie is out of fashion in the charts but they remain a huge live act. And they are brilliant, of course. Plus, amazingly, they have still managed to get all their albums to #1 (not forgetting Turner has also gotten a side project to #1 and been nominated for the Mercury Prize 3 times before his 24th birthday). An incredible record.
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Yeah, I feel sorry for some of the indie/guitar acts who were on the cusp of becoming huge, then the sudden implosion happened, and guitar/indie rock was out of fashion, and pop/grime/electrourban became the dominant genres in the charts.
Not only bands like Artic Monkeys, but Razorlight. Once they commaned the attention of all the music press, but they quickly became irrelevant. This country loves indie/guitar stuff too much though. It'l defintely come back in a cycle soon. |
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Keiser Cheifs after yours truly angry mob fell by the wayside
Duffy-one great album could not repeat Alanis Morissette- Jagged Little pill flawless but as with Gaga great follow ups that were not as huge commercially and she became that girl with that album which is a shame as all her albums are great Avril Lavigne- nevr reclaimed the success of let go had decent follow up sales but especially after best damn thing it's like avril remember her Christina Aguilera- Middling debut album Stripped one of the great modern pop R&b albums never really captured that essence again and with two okay follow ups sort of became not so much irrelevant just not as big when i think of more i'll come back P.S to the OP get what you mean but in terms of quality and content BTW may not be as fun as the fames but is a huge step up and progression she has far from peaked more like scratched the surface and is beginning to tap into her true talent |
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Their problem is guitar/indie is out of fashion in the charts but they remain a huge live act. And they are brilliant, of course. Plus, amazingly, they have still managed to get all their albums to #1 (not forgetting Turner has also gotten a side project to #1 and been nominated for the Mercury Prize 3 times before his 24th birthday). An incredible record.
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Agreed. Submarine soundtrack was impressive too. I'm not a fan of the charts for this reason though, it means nothing. The amount of records sold has no relation to the quality of a record.
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Guns n Roses - debut album Appetite for Destruction is still one of my favourites. Everything after it has a few good songs but lots of filler.
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Alanis Morisette
Avril Lavigne Natasha Bedingfield Leona Lewis |
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Rick Astley
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Oasis. Their first two albums were amazing, some of the best music ever made. Their subsequent albums, although mostly good never came close to what they achieved with their first two.
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And couldn't agree more about Pixie, she exploded into the scene then dissapeared into nothing.
