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Originally Posted by Zee
You also need to factor in what else is in the charts - you mentioned Firework and Grenade, both of which have been out for a while now, and the competition in other releases isn't particularly strong, it's how any song gets to #1 - tactical marketing. As I said, it's a generic dance song filling the void in the generic dance song market at the moment - it's not going to be remembered as a Britney Spears classic in years to come. She was still in the limelight though, plenty of people make careers out of being complete idiots with hugely negative public images or become infamous for such behaviour (Katie Price, Perez Hilton, Lindsay Lohan...) - they go by the philosophy that any publicity is good publicity. She didn't 'win back the hearts of everyone' - she's a popstar whose problems spilled into the media, she's not the first and she won't be the last. As I said in my previous post, you're using past successes to justify this song which has nothing to do with any of those things. The song is generic dance crap, there is nothing wrong with liking that, it just seems silly to me that people are trying to put people down for stating that particular view.
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I definitely wouldn't say the competition is not strong - Avril, Kanye, and Jay-Z (as I said) are very popular in the US and have all had multiple #1 singles. Grenade and Firework have been out for weeks now but they are peaking and are on a roll. Constant radio airplay and strong digital downloads clearly make them competition.
I beg to differ that Hold It Against Me has no chance of becoming a Britney classic, especially if it is widely successful, but we'll see. It's YOUR opinion that it's a generic dance song, it doesn't make it a fact. It's certainly less generic than any other song on pop radio right now in America.
Hah, but the thing is she never MADE a career out of infamous behavior. Everyone knows she was an international pop superstar before her breakdown. She rose, then fell, then rose back up again. It's not like she's famous and popular because of what happens in the media. If anything those negative stories hurt her image way more than help it. The point is, she came back from an extremely dark place in her life and people were endeared to that, that she was able to finally pull herself together and get back up again.
I'm rivaling the fact that you think it's generic dance crap, because I disagree, and I'm letting you know WHY I disagree and why I think it's not.