I'm in a curious spot in my musical taste, I'm a lover of rock music, particularly hard rock and not so much soft rock. I really dislike pop music but I love dance music so if song is more in the pop side of life I want it hard hitting, fierce, turned up a couple notches and all that. I prefer most dance remixes of pop songs, seems to elevate the beat and edges to the song. That said, what makes a good pop song for me is the beat, not the hook. The vocals have to be pleasant and not annoying and definitely not too repetitive. Taking out my preconceived notions on how Adam was supposed to make rock music, change the face of music, ect, ect and also the OTT posturing from his fan group, I can see the song is not bad. FYE starts out on a good foot with me because I like the beat but I'm not sure the song is strong enough in general. You are right they really killed any vocal tone or nuance Adam has in this song. It really could be sung by anyone and sound the same. I will have to hear it spontaneously on the radio to really get my true feelings on it. Not bad but not ground breaking.
As far as how well the song will do, it is a lead single so it is going to get a lot of push and dollars behind it. All the songs you listed in comparison were lead singles, no shock that those become the biggest hits on an album. Daughtry's Its Not Over was his biggest CHR hit to date. CHR seems really receptive to lead singles, much more skeptical on follow up singles. So we really won't be able to tell until the second single comes out. With FYE, I'll guess a decent CHR hit because the push will be large and the dance-rhythmic nature of the song will fit in well with what is popular right now. Maybe it will do as well as Archie's Crush, hit #13 on CHR and sell almost 2x platinum. That is probably the best it could do, it takes quite a bit to crack the top 10 on CHR. My other concern is how late in the game it is, the holiday freeze is coming soon and a song that goes into the dark days of radio without strong footing isn't going to come out of it on the other side in a great position. Even though the song is out it has no adds date yet nor has it gone on sale. Adds dates are usually a couple weeks after it goes on sale although I can see them try to move it up because of the compressed timeline. Also, the idea is to have a song take off before the record drops and there is not much time for that. I think it was a mistake for RCA to let Adam out of the public consciousness for essentially 5 months. MJs may make people think Adam is all over the media but the truth is he isn't that far out of the Idol bubble yet. It seems to me like they are banking on his Idol hype and popularity to drive sales but I don't expect FYE to sell much more than Time For Miracles did. Why would it? Nobody outside his fanbase knows the song exists. Yes, radio play will eventually take hold but it takes a while for people to hear the song and for the spins to get up to heavy rotation and that is for any artist. Banking on that will happen in 3 weeks when the album drops is quite a gamble. So it will be interesting to see how this roll out goes and how the public will ultimately embrace the sound.
My thoughts...
I'm in a curious spot in my musical taste, I'm a lover of rock music, particularly hard rock and not so much soft rock. I really dislike pop music but I love dance music so if song is more in the pop side of life I want it hard hitting, fierce, turned up a couple notches and all that. I prefer most dance remixes of pop songs, seems to elevate the beat and edges to the song. That said, what makes a good pop song for me is the beat, not the hook. The vocals have to be pleasant and not annoying and definitely not too repetitive. Taking out my preconceived notions on how Adam was supposed to make rock music, change the face of music, ect, ect and also the OTT posturing from his fan group, I can see the song is not bad. FYE starts out on a good foot with me because I like the beat but I'm not sure the song is strong enough in general. You are right they really killed any vocal tone or nuance Adam has in this song. It really could be sung by anyone and sound the same. I will have to hear it spontaneously on the radio to really get my true feelings on it. Not bad but not ground breaking.
As far as how well the song will do, it is a lead single so it is going to get a lot of push and dollars behind it. All the songs you listed in comparison were lead singles, no shock that those become the biggest hits on an album. Daughtry's Its Not Over was his biggest CHR hit to date. CHR seems really receptive to lead singles, much more skeptical on follow up singles. So we really won't be able to tell until the second single comes out. With FYE, I'll guess a decent CHR hit because the push will be large and the dance-rhythmic nature of the song will fit in well with what is popular right now. Maybe it will do as well as Archie's Crush, hit #13 on CHR and sell almost 2x platinum. That is probably the best it could do, it takes quite a bit to crack the top 10 on CHR. My other concern is how late in the game it is, the holiday freeze is coming soon and a song that goes into the dark days of radio without strong footing isn't going to come out of it on the other side in a great position. Even though the song is out it has no adds date yet nor has it gone on sale. Adds dates are usually a couple weeks after it goes on sale although I can see them try to move it up because of the compressed timeline. Also, the idea is to have a song take off before the record drops and there is not much time for that. I think it was a mistake for RCA to let Adam out of the public consciousness for essentially 5 months. MJs may make people think Adam is all over the media but the truth is he isn't that far out of the Idol bubble yet. It seems to me like they are banking on his Idol hype and popularity to drive sales but I don't expect FYE to sell much more than Time For Miracles did. Why would it? Nobody outside his fanbase knows the song exists. Yes, radio play will eventually take hold but it takes a while for people to hear the song and for the spins to get up to heavy rotation and that is for any artist. Banking on that will happen in 3 weeks when the album drops is quite a gamble. So it will be interesting to see how this roll out goes and how the public will ultimately embrace the sound.