Every huge artist has their "New Jersey" - a huge event album that ultimately feels a bit hollow & signals a career decline

Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 23 May 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link

i dunno, isn't it at war with the mystics? yoshimi has "do you realize"

― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Friday, 23 May 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link

the yeah yeah yeah song from at war with the mystics did fairly well, yeah? no one remembers that one

― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Friday, 23 May 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link

glad someone beat me to this

If “Houdini”, “Training Season”, and “Illusion” are any indication, we might be looking at the single biggest New Jersey since New Jersey.

Was going to say "don't the singles have to be relatively successful for it to be an NJ?" then I checked and saw that the first two hit the top 10. Shocking.
This has felt floptastic from word go.

the only thing is the singles from Future Nostalgia did pretty well, so I don't expect this album to outperform (if that is a requirement for an NJ). Otherwise, it does feel like the jig is up. I enjoy "Training Season" but it's not a patch on any of the Future Nostalgia singles. and "Illusion" is a poor excuse for a single

i heard a dua song in public recently and thought "oh this must be one of her not-quite-a-hit songs that didn't really connect from a few years ago" (like "we're good" or "idgaf" or w/e -- yes i know the latter was an actual hit in the uk, but not here). the song turned out to be current (or should i say past) single "training season"

song is bad btw

idgaf is at 1.5 billion Spotify streams