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Originally Posted by Scruffydog777
Many is a very relative term. You say many of us, I assume you mean members of AAm and maybe AF. How many "active" members do these two forums have and of those active members, how many think UEDS was her best work. I don't think it's a very impressive number, and after all the French media labled this album a flop. Do you think that's something they do lightly? There was no tour, no concerts. There are many awards presented by the music industry for all different types of music, not just main stream music. They often recognize artistic merit by non-mainstream artists. Did UEDS win anything? Could it be that the album just wasn't that good?
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No it couldn't be, because "good" is subjective. What you're doing is belittling the taste and opinions of anyone who doesn't agree with you, and trying to justify your
opinions with data.
It doesn't matter how many statistics you can pull about album sales or the number of people who like it versus the number who don't, it won't turn your
opinion into a
fact. You can dislike
Psychédélices and
Une enfant du siècle all day long, but when you try to tell people who like them that they aren't
good, you're just being ignorant.
Looking at popular music, it should be glaringly obvious that how well something sells can not be an accurate measure of how good it is
(if for no other reason than because "good" is subjective). So you can lay your "
UEDS didn't sell well because it isn't good" theory to rest, because it's flawed on every level.
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Then why did
Une enfant du siècle sell so poorly?
a) poor marketing; not enough people knew about the album
b) Alizée's past image; the French public think she is a joke / don't want to like her / are not willing to give her new music a chance
c) niche appeal; the music appeals to a group too small to sell huge numbers
d) any combination of the above
Whatever the reason, it wasn't because the album isn't
good.