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Often times, artists put out a lead single to signify a new era, and then things don't go to plan. Some examples are Beyonce's Work It Out, Nicki Minaj's Massive Attack, Ariana Grande's Focus. In some cases, like Miley Cyrus' She Is Coming EP, and Iggy Azalea's Team, the entire album was eventually scrapped. One album and era that till remains a mystery is Selena Gomez's Rare. She lead with the singles Fetish, Bad Liar and Wolves, which now seem like misplaced standouts in her discogrpahy. Many think this is because they were meant to be on a scrapped album, or that album went through many transformations before it became Rare.
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[@Chuuzus]

All I know is, Normani scrapping out Motivation as her lead single was a big mistake because the song and the video was a perfect way to let the world know she was here to stay!

[@naomi.cannibal]

It would’ve been a greaaaat lead for a pop album, almost feels like a waste in that regard but it’s still a fun single

[@Kevin-rg3yc]

I don’t think it was a big mistake bc it didn’t commercially do well as expected not to mention that wasn’t the sound Normani wanted to do she’s more appreciative to the song’s music video she was basically forced/encouraged by RCA records to do motivation. Any Normani fan knows she envisions her authentic sound to be a mixture of dark pop and alternative R&B, plus wild side would end up becoming more successful than motivation and has the dark pop meets alt-R&B sound that Normani desire so it was smart she scrapped motivation

[@LyndaOkoli]

I agree 100% they should have used the momentum that song got to properly propel her

[@kwadwothestan]

I disagree bc at that time she had no clue as to what her artistic direction could be. She didn’t even want to put Motivation out as she felt it didn’t fit her. By the time Wildside came out, she had taken the time to solidify her artistic image and direction. And of course Wildside performed much better than Motivation.

[@theetaurus1832]

@@Kevin-rg3ycthis is delusional

[@lanceadams1334]

Work it Out being Beyonce's first solo song will never not be funny. Imagine her being in an Austin Powers movie now, absolutely not. I think Work it Out is pretty good but Baby Boy and Crazy and Love were just so much better and definitely fit the vibe of Dangerously in Love

[@naomi.cannibal]

Yeah I don’t mind it… I listened to it and was like “sounds like bey to me 🤷🏾‍♀️” but I do think CIL def had more mass appeal

[@pettyking1621]

I need to find where I read this from, but I also remember seeing somewhere that her and her team were indecisive about which Jay Z collab to push from DIL and almost went with That’s How You Like It over Crazy in Love. Just imagine how that would’ve gone 😭

[@dianabryan7421]

​@Petty King oh LAWD😂😂

[@AngeBiampandou]

@@pettyking1621Actually Naughty Girl was supposed to be the lead single but Beyoncé pushed CIL instead and the label said yes at the last minute. The label didn't believed in Dangerously in Love at first let alone in Crazy in Love. They thought the album had "no hits" and that Crazy in Love sounded "too dusty" and "old" bc of the horn riff sample from the 70s. That's why she brought Jay-Z for the urban/hip hop appeal. And it obviously paid off and she proved them wrong

[@jesusaceves3893]

I just thought Work It Out was just part of the movie soundtrack because it's basically inspired by the movie and the vibe and era, but I have to be a in a mood for me to listen to it. Definitely Baby Boy is probably one of my favorite Beyoncé song. Dangerously In Love is a bop for sure.

[@simonnader8173]

I will forever wonder what the album with Bad Liar and Fetish being singles would have sounded like

[@tinkerella]

right? i was so confused with that era, its the only music i really liked by her

[@simonnader8173]

@@tinkerella it really could've been her best

[@shatteredbeautysumin7413]

I LOVED BAD LIAR AND FETISH, THERE SHOULD'VE BEEN AN ALBUM FOR THOSE SONGS

[@JoseHernandez-gy7qu]

Probably like revival 2.0

[@DP-mv7ph]

fr those are the only songs i like of her... she doesn't know what good music sounds like

[@alberto_bifulco]

Mother’s daughter is one of Miley’s very most powerful songs, and Slide away is pure emotion… both very underrated gems of her career.

[@gregory_payton]

"... Which actually contains National Anthem" I'm still dead every time I remember this 💀💀

[@simply_ari_j]

I want the dark pop album from Selena sooo badly

[@Timothyrpiano]

She said in a Variety interview the album was coming this year

[@TigrisAquino]

Me tooooo

[@tears3194]

she needs to give us a fetish a visual album

[@syria0110]

I really liked Focus. I remember finding out Jamie Foxx did the chorus and going "that makes sense." I think it deserved better, but it makes sense that it wasn't the lead single of Dangerous Women based on the eventual direction the album would go in

[@naomi.cannibal]

I liked it a lot too, I get how it sounds like problem but I did not mind at all lol

[@kwadwothestan]

I still listen to Focus to this day, I love it😭 but I think it was a good decision to scrap it at the time

[@poisonparadise97]

I’ve always preferred Focus over Problem. It’s a stronger song compared to Problem in my opinion.

[@samirsaleh2889]

I love the false leads for Selena Gomez. It Ain’t Me and Back to You are my favorite!

[@naomi.cannibal]

That single run she had was toooo good

[@korikewl0151]

Fetish still has me in a chokehold til this day 😭❤️

[@tinkerella]

ugh bad liar still slaps so harddddddd

[@DanielOkungbowa]

It Ain't Me is such a beautiful song, I don't think people talk about it enough

[@leazaring5586]

same, i still wish we got a full album of songs like those

[@ObakengMoshodi]

Hit Different by SZA is another one. I actually felt a bit sad bc she totally discarded it even though she included other older singles.

[@TigrisAquino]

Felt!!

[@emmarosie7176]

Its trash, don’t blame her for removing it.

[@fortyshorty2459]

Hit different is 🔥 definitely hits different for me personally… I have memories of being isolated during Covid 🫠 both good & bad 😎🧘🏾‍♀️

[@Jacqt]

I agree. She did sample Hit Different on Good Days which did make the album. My bad y’all, it is Love Language, not Good Days

[@alexacosta3655]

She sampled hit different in love language.* Not good days. I think it was meant to be a hit and it didn't perform how they thought it would. But it's still is an awesome song. Maybe she'd include it on the deluxe version of SOS.

[@cradio52]

Kim Petras is a really great recent example of having like 47 “false start” lead singles. Hell, her label started an entire proper rollout with Future Starts Now for the Problematique album and then scrapped it completely.

[@eeeeeoww]

two singles then it was scrapped like ???

[@patusa45]

and now the whole album is gonna be based on unholy ☠️☠️

[@shaneclawson5854]

Yeah I don't understand why Kim's label scrapped that album 😕 I still stream the leaked tracks from Problematique on the tube 😂

[@abbyc.4458]

Love Kim petras! I only learned about her from unholy but I love her music! I also thought she isn’t as widely known until now because most of her songs aren’t radio friendly. well, and transphobia 🙄

[@tears3194]

FR! kim has many great songs and possible to reach billboard but charts but it was unreleased or scrapped.. don’t understand why i think her record label is trying to sabotage her career

[@m20047]

i don’t like a lot of selenas music but that 2017 era for her was so amazing she really found a sound that worked with her voice. i wish an album would have been released it would have been so good 😔

[@JasmineBurnett-pd8bz]

I agree she needs to stop putting out generic pop like rare and put out droplet era levels of dark pop experimentation.

[@andreee_os]

Slide Away deserved everything, its arguably her best song ever

[@JamieBu77]

Agreeeee

[@elliotcleaver9087]

The house in the Bad Liar video was also the house in the Fetish video! I loved that sound for Selena and I hope she returns to it for her next😩

[@naomi.cannibal]

Oooh another Easter egg! I didn’t know about that one

[@dinasilva9263]

I Love Focus from Ariana. Is actually one of my favorite songs from her. The song is so catchy and i like the video so much.

[@henrywayne5724]

I don't 😅. I appreciate the course correction she made with Dangerous Woman (which turned 7 recently!)

[@moniecekim3198]

Same lol. I love both the song and the video

[@visualspark6308]

@@henrywayne5724 Ariana’s vocals and the melody are nice, but I hate Jamie’s part. Plus the production gets way too heavy at times, which almost drowns out Ariana’s vocals. I think with different production, and an alternative to Jamie’s role, the song could have been good.

[@glasstablegcrls]

@@henrywayne5724 right 😭 focus, problem, and bang bang can burn in a ditch tbh 💀

[@tokyoyoongi5538]

It's a fun, campy song but looking back, it wouldn't have fit the rest of Dangerous Woman (the sultry vibes).

[@izoilica2516]

'Bad Liar' is sooooo good tho 😩

[@naomi.cannibal]

It is teeeew good

[@Kevin-rg3yc]

One of my 2 favorite Selena songs right besides fetish, which’s stays at #1 for me

[@roguecodes]

Bad Liar is STILL on my playlists!! I hope she returns to that style it was a slay

[@bubbles2215]

I’m so glad that Ariana went in a different direction. Focus was WAY too similar to Problem and like you said, too manufactured. She would have pigeonholed herself, and honestly might not be the star she is today if she went in that direction. Dangerous Woman, on the other hand, is still my all time favorite Ariana song, and that album is still tied for my favorite of her albums with Thank U, Next.

[@daxmichael6855]

Dangerous Woman is so good. Especially when that electric guitar solo comes in. Definitely one of her best songs!

[@ClumsyTrout]

It breaks my heart all the time that Tinashe never got that push she deserved. I’m just glad that it never stopped her from making music. Too. Under. Rated.

[@naomi.cannibal]

Nah we love a queen who perseveres, she’s so damn talented

[@kaylac349]

Damn maybe I’m a flop bc I love almost every song mentioned in this video 😂

[@naomi.cannibal]

Me too… flop twins 👯‍♀️

[@julieblair7472]

I will say it again, your stories like this are as good as the best music magazine journalism in the 90s and 00's. You're so good at finding a thread and pulling it.

[@naomi.cannibal]

Thank you so much ♥️ I watched a lot of music tv growing up so it def rubbed off!

[@cezaricacumatrenco2037]

I SECOND THIS

[@lauraboredom2168]

Selena Gomez's droplet era was so iconic that album would've been such a hit

[@musicexplosionx4575]

Ariana really said, “Uh oh. This cute stuff isn’t working anymore. It’s time to get grown.” And that was the best decision she made.

[@hotsexyangel]

She still kept her cuteness, she just naturally matured and it showed through her music too. (Plus she prob had to stay more kid friendly coming off Nickelodeon lmao but still, my point stands)

[@twinktane]

Fetish and bad liar were soooooo good we deserved an entire album of that sound. And like I used to is one of my fav Tinashe songs, really wish she could have released the original Nashe album but Songs For You is still my fav Tinashe album

[@pettyking1621]

A similar thing happened for JoJo’s “Good to Know” album. The original lead single was Sabotage w CHIKA from 2019, but ended up being scrapped since it underperformed. Then, she ended up releasing Man in 2020 and pushed that as the lead.

[@naomi.cannibal]

Not you reminding me I need to stop playing and do a jojo video

[@dinasilva9263]

@@naomi.cannibal oh yes please. I love JoJo, her music means a lot to me and her career story is so sad and unfair.

[@pettyking1621]

@@naomi.cannibal I would kill for a JoJo video. She’s truly one of the greats and there’s so much that could be unpacked about her career

[@terrionevans2166]

@@naomi.cannibal JOJO PLZZ❤😂

[@alejandroalvarado4178]

@@naomi.cannibal yes please a JoJo video ❤

[@amberreed7704]

RCA didn’t know what they had with Tinashe. Throw a Fit is fun and it sounds amazing blasting from your car

[@kwadwothestan]

One thing about me I love a good false start lead single😭 you can’t become a main pop girl without having at least one in your career, it’s a rite of passage honestly

[@aissdiouf9624]

Massive Attack is perhaps the only song in the world I can rap every single lyric to, every ad-LiB, I could probably even do the beat. When it came out I was obsessed but looking back over a decade later I see how weird of a choice it was for Nicki’s mainstream debut single.

[@Nyxthebat04]

RCA sounds like a terrible label to be signed to, I've only heard bad things about how they treat their artists, from Doja to Miley to Avril. They genuinely almost killed Avril's career after TBDT. During TBDT, they made Avril scrap the more rock direction of the album and paired her up with Dr Luke (who was already a rapist at that point) to make the more poppy record it ended up being. Then, when she wanted to make a more stripped back, vocally lead album they didnt let her release it for 3 years and forced her to release pop singles that were extremely different from the rest of the album.

[@Housewarmin]

I used to love Iggy Azalea, I used to think she was going to be the next big popstar like Doja Cat. But it seems like after the internet clowned her on her mumble rap, she's kida fallen off.

[@Kevin-rg3yc]

Lol from what I remember iggy was called out for being a racially insensitive culture vulture not for her skills as a rapper that came afterwards

[@filipmarinkovic6281]

Selena included Wolves, Bad Liar, Fetish, If It Ain't Me and Back To You on a Target and International Deluxe versions of Rare, and i'm glad bc those are some of the best on the album, Wolves is imo #1

[@missmeagan8117]

I was OBSESSED with Massive Attack when it came out! I was a freshman in high school and I had it on repeat! It was also in the Dance Central video game lol

[@NinaBell826]

I absolutely loved the Focus “false start” lead single Yes, identical to Problem, but more enjoyable and it takes me back to a good time in my life (freshmen year of college- I played the song to death). I was always curious how the roll out of the Moonlight album would have been if she would have stuck with it, but happy we got Dangerous Woman in the end.

[@jiggly6878]

I was blasting focus non stop when it dropped its so good

[@sadith_]

green is your colour, and your hair looks so amazing 🥹🫶

[@naomi.cannibal]

Thank you bestie 🥹

[@jacarriusdoesthings]

Work It Out by Beyoncé was an fav. I remember her debut single came out back in the summer of 2002.

[@dashiajames1882]

Goodmorning: Idk about y'all, I think they shouldn't rely on first lead single to predict how good an album would do. The whole album might be better than the lead songs. That's like a person relying on 1st page of a book thinking it gonna be boring. It's just the lead song, not the whole album. They should actually give it a try..!! Everyone likes different things, so the album might do really great. Plus might earn alot of $$$$..!! Who knows. Alot of ppl loved "For the Night " by Chloe Bailey but alot didn't like her 1st album..!! It could've been the other way around. I really wish they'd stop scrapping an album thinking it might be great. " Don't knock it until you try it "..!! 🤔🤔 I always thought " Crazy in Love " was actually Beyonce lead song. Huh very interesting.

[@Abcdefghiiiiii]

I used to love work it out. I always thought it was just a promotional song for Austin Powers though.

[@missbellaiza]

It ain’t me, bad liar and Fetish are 3 of my favorite songs from hers and I honestly wished she continue on because It really felt like a progression. Although rare is my favorite song as well…

[@jamiewah]

charli has so many of these! superlove, after the afterparty, arguably 5 in the morning. 1999 is interesting because its pretty much the opposite! it was supposed to be a non-album single but then she put it on her self-titled!

[@CASSIOPEIAMASHUPS]

Idk if you knew this but a handful of the songs on Plastic Hearts (Angels Like You, Bad Karma, Hate Me and probably others I can't remember) were leaked in She Is Miley Cyrus sessions and probably intended for that album. She kept them on Plastic Hearts and doubled down on the rock sound of those songs (also Bad Karma allegedly originally featured Shawn Mendes and I feel like I heard a leaked snippet but idk)

[@stephanie6869]

prisoner also featured shawn mendes before dua was on it, i think there’s a leak of it on youtube still

[@KacperLipa]

Speaking of 'Plastic Hearts' any song from it deserved the sucesses of 'Flowers'...

[@MissAlmostFine]

You are absolutely right. I love Plastic Hearts.

[@curlybebe]

Massive Attack still one of my favorites Nicki songs (and music video) to this day

[@jusiyaindia]

Right!!!

[@serenitygreene5661]

Work It Out: I love this song, it deserves better. Massive Attack: I never listened nor watched it. But when she came out with Your Love, we got some more blank cds lol. Focus: I still remember when Focus first dropped. I didn’t think it was that bad until it got to the chorus and realized that it was made to replicate Problem’s success when Jamie Foxx came in. If you just removed that then the song would be fine. Team: the last song I used to check in on Iggy lol. I remember when it first came out I was heavily invested in the dance side of YT so that’s how I discovered it. I actually liked it, though I haven’t went back though Sally Walker is decent. Selena: I remember when these songs dropped but I never was a fan of Selena, just a casual listener but I remember there were a lot buzz around her during that time in terms of music. Tinashe: i love Tinashe and I remember this era because this is when I became a fan, Throw A Fit is my favorite out of the two. Miley: I haven’t checked back in with Miley since 2013 lol. She looked so much like her Godmom on the cover.

[@user-hc2tu7ul7j]

Austin Power movies always generated good songs lol. Britney Spear’s Boys, Ludacris’s Number One Spot, and Beyoncés Goldmember and Work it out

[@ddjr6673]

Just discovered your channel LOVE it!! Huge music fan (from many different eras). Thank you so much. LOVE Slide Away - feel it would fit perfectly on the current album Endless Summer Vacation.

[@cassieoliveira13]

i wish seven heavens was released, bad liar and fetish are my favorite songs by Selena.

[@jayce.milky09]

please make more videos like these..pop facts and deep dive to pop artists in 90s 00s 2010s !!💁🏼‍♂️🩷🩷🩷

[@sayyednaqvi7973]

I wish Selena incorporates some of her dark pop in her upcoming album and not gonna lie I am actually looking forward to sg3.

[@Timothyrpiano]

Me too! She said it's gonna be a more up-tempo dance album than Rare

[@matthewvillarreal2562]

@@rw6218 she considers it 3 because her first album was not under Interscope Records so she didn’t have a lot of creative control.

[@Ididntpourthewhiskey]

I love how much effort you put in your videos.

[@naomi.cannibal]

Thank you!

[@matthewbenge7112]

You are always serving looks! New hair, new styles of clothes than the last uploads...always gorgeous. Props. Love your videos!

[@naomi.cannibal]

Thank you, this is so sweet ♥️

[@jani4117]

Even with the success of it, I really thought an album was gonna come after wild side for Normani

[@Timothyrpiano]

Me too. I don't know what's going on anymore

[@JettDoesStuff]

I remember one time reading that alien was supposed to be the lead single from Britney Jean but her label chose work bitch and a scrapped single that wasn’t a lead single was nothing feels like you by little mix it was supposed to be the sport relief single but the label told them they had to do a cover but then a year or few later another artist did sport/comic relief and they got to do an original song

[@armandosandoval8840]

Just a minor tip;Dangerous Woman was also offered/written for Rihanna.

[@naomi.cannibal]

I know! Just saying Carrie was who it was made for

[@YoureDone96]

It would’ve been better for Rihanna 🤭

[@bratzscene3131]

@@YoureDone96 absolutely not, how tf is Rihanna supposed to sing that song😭

[@m20047]

@@YoureDone96 it would be cool to hear her version but idk it just fits ariana so well i can’t imagine anyone else pulling it off.

[@churroloverrr0015]

@@bratzscene3131 Rihanna raspy voice would eat that upp, dont play

[@user-te5xq4sx2b]

I love your vids much- literally always check on your page for a new vid!

[@LILGHETTI]

Plastic hearts is Miley's best album so I'm glad how it played out! She is coming was just ok imo. Clara pierce may be another ashley O or Hannah montana 🤯

[@budgetfriendlybabe]

Your videos are always fresh and unique. Love your channel.

[@naomi.cannibal]

Thank you 💕

[@budgetfriendlybabe]

@@naomi.cannibal You're welcome.

[@idkwhatusernametousehere]

I’ve just found your YT and I love how you do what you do. Going to go down a rabbit hole and watch all I can, it’s so good. ☺️✨

[@naomi.cannibal]

Thank you so much 💕

[@dinasilva9263]

Love the new look Naomi🤗💚 Thanks for another vídeo, i love your content and this is a very good theme. ✨ Work it out from Beyoncé is so underrated. I love her style and voice in that song.

[@naomi.cannibal]

Thank you! And yes I actually enjoy the song a lot, can’t believe I hadnt heard it before

[@dinasilva9263]

@@naomi.cannibal i have the song in my international version of the álbum (i live in Portugal/Europe) and it was a little bit popular back then because of the movie that the song is part of.

[@joseeduardo4751]

Please do a video on problematique, kim petra's scrapped album! It had some of her best songs, a collab with paris hilton and great visuals. Some songs are even going to be reused for her newest album...

[@ger2103]

In the fandom, we all agree that Focus it was a clear attemp to copy the succes of Problem, but at the same time I think we all prefere it over the last one, also, the Amas performance of Focus it's always on the tops of Ariana's perfomances

[@porquest]

focus was one of the best pop songs that ariana grande has made . it’s so catchy and i love the focus on me .

[@11mmason]

loved this video!!!

[@tomasreznichenco6246]

Loved the video! Wish you had talked about Lady Gaga's The Cure. That song was so randomly released and then like an year later there were around 5 songs with similar sound and same producers as that song on the A Star Is Born soundtrack. What's weird is that those songs were barely in the movie, I don't know if it's confirmed, but I always thought that they were intended to be part of an album.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Love the green look

[@naomi.cannibal]

Thank youuu 🫶🏾

[@dashiajames1882]

Interesting stuff to know. I love your videos..!! Great video. Have a great day/night..!! Thanks, 🙂🙂👏

[@whocut333]

The false start of Fetish by Selena Gomez WAS A TRAVESTY. THAT SONG IS PURE DIAMONDS. PRODUCTION, LYRICS, VISUALS, VOCALS, RAP. It's easily one of her best songs if not her best song I NEED A DARK POP SELENA ALBUM

[@kwadwothestan]

This is a great video!!

[@bobixx6965]

bad liar , wolves , fetish , it ain't me , back to you are all so GOOD, 😭

[@Kellyeeeee]

PLEASE the way my delusional childhood brain thought "Work It Out" was a smash hit that everybody loved UNTIL TODAY. i made my mom buy me the goldmember soundtrack for that song along.

[@christiano9819]

I’m so impressed u mentioned Work It Out! Not a lot of people know that was her first single. I (personally) love that song. I did read the comments and I agree that Crazy In Love was a better way to introduce her debut as a solo artist… regardless… I love WIO

[@BlkbunniOrg]

I’m not even a member of the beehive and I even remember her episode of “making the video” Work it out is still my favor song by her

[@christiano9819]

@@BlkbunniOrg it's a great song! I'm not a beehive member either.

[@ddjr6673]

LOVED Work it Out - even though I felt it could have done with more bass in the production. It felt like a stand alone single, because Madonna had done Beautiful Stranger as a stand alone for Austin Powers before that. I totally get why Crazy in Love is a way better intro to a debut artist.

[@TigrisAquino]

Weird things to say, but my favorite thing about your videos is your voice 😂. You’re so good girl 🙌❤️

[@sumwherevfar]

First! 😍 Naomi you're looking as beautiful as ever!! The skin is skinning

[@naomi.cannibal]

Thank you so much ♥️

[@TVandManga]

Great video!

[@DerickAuguste]

You are hilarious for the Motivation callout, because I was like where is Normani? 😂. You are right though. There isn’t enough details to figure out what the era would’ve been like. All we got was Motivation and Bad to You I think.

[@naomi.cannibal]

i knew yall would question the lack of Normani mention so i had to get it out there lmao

[@user-fe1gb9uc1t]

Work it Out is Gold. I was 11 when it was released. watching TOTP with my mum 46 and my sister 8 and we all loved it. It was different enough from DC and it had everything. Sounded fresh yet retro, fit in nicely with songs that Christiania A had released around the same time as well as a weird similarity to Boys by Britney, so it did not feel out of place. It was exciting and carried through the feeling from DC that Beyonce was the fun one and would continue to be .. (she isn't as fun now tho, and to me hasn't been fun for about 10 years)

[@yes-ve5hp]

i do wish we could have seen selena’s album as it was first conceptualised and promoted in 2017.. not even a follower of hers but bad liar and fetisy were bangers especially for their time

[@princessgarbage]

tbh i always kinda liked focus. the visuals from it are still something i use as inspo for one of my original characters' design and aesthetic.... god i miss platinum ari sm

[@trxs_pnl]

I still want digital distortion 😭😭😭 mo bounce and switch are 🔥🔥🔥

[@lauraboredom2168]

Slide Away is one of my favourite miley songs its just so good

[@naomi.cannibal]

Saaaame I love it

[@christophernightshade]

I need a 2 one of these

[@AlterrellMills]

This video makes me wonder how many scraped songs or collabs we don’t talk about. I’m still wondering what happened to the Put It In a Lovesong video.

[@mysterycurry]

Can you do a video on the way record labels intentionally shelf artists to lessen competition for their big players

[@fernandoelbrat]

Loveee your channel ❤

[@jasminem812]

Massive attack STILL gets stuck in my head, its so catchy

[@babyjokermonsta]

The fact that massive attack is considered a flop first start is crazy to me. I loved that song, I still love that song

[@naomi.cannibal]

!!!!! You can’t sit still with it on

[@babyjokermonsta]

@@naomi.cannibal the second she says "It's Barbie Bitches" it's only up from there

[@naomi.cannibal]

@@babyjokermonsta right… I’m sat up STRAIGHT 🫡

[@coachwill9584]

@@naomi.cannibal when she says “Tell them Rap bitches that Nicki said this” even till this day I be like “Yes Queen tell me what you want me to tell dem bishes” right through my AirPods LMAOO

[@coachwill9584]

@@babyjokermonsta and the “Tell them rap bitches that Nicki said this”line still make me weak in the knees

[@LawLeeP0P]

Selena just released music (It Ain’t Me, Wolves, Bad Liar, Fetish, etc) and called them droplets so she can experiment with sounds and release songs without having to worry about releasing an album. She said it’s more fun

[@JasmineBurnett-pd8bz]

So why didnt she experiment with the album after like she did there?

[@LawLeeP0P]

@@JasmineBurnett-pd8bz I’m assuming she wants to stick to what she likes and knows for her albums, like other artists they experiment and drop side stuff also to see how it does. Hope that answers your question

[@JasmineBurnett-pd8bz]

@@LawLeeP0P yes thanks, its a shame tho she could really be taken srsly as an artist if she kept experimenting like that

[@understitchYT]

Im so late with a comment, but loved the video (as per usual) but love love that necklace, where’s it from?

[@mariokarter13]

One you didn't mention is Nightmare by Halsey. It was scrapped because it no longer fit her vision for Manic, but interestingly it ended up on the deluxe edition of If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power, along with a new version with different instrumentation.

[@shatteredbeautysumin7413]

there should've been an album for Bad Liar and Fetish, those songs are my favorite from Selena

[@soneselenator3014]

I was there for tinashe album like I used to and throw a fit were SOOOOO GOOD

[@ChronicConditionCrafting]

Made me go search Team immediately ❤🎉

[@MissBerryBabyBaby]

It’s crazy because Kelly was the most successful coming out of destiny child. Her single with Nelly and a Grammy. The sabotage of it all .

[@stannature1984]

I see that 100k by the end of the summer queen 💚

[@naomi.cannibal]

🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾

[@mariefryzelkova7927]

Sorry for offtopic but you look absolutelly gorgeous in that green colour!

[@naomi.cannibal]

Thank you ♥️

[@_max79]

I think Selena was just experimenting at that time, in an interview about Fetish she said that she thinks of those songs as ''droplets'' like standalone singles, but definitely some songs from that era ended up on Rare. Selena performed Feel me on Revival tour a couple of times, she teased kinda crazy in an instagram post back in 2016, rough rare (song) leaked in 2018 so yeah no one really knows about that alleged scrapped album

[@oliviamayer24601]

I wish artists would at least put the songs on a streaming platform somewhere even if they never acknowledged them again. I would love to hear new songs from any of these artists even if they don’t fit their current style

[@Kawailani11]

I love Massive Attack and Focus

[@henrywayne5724]

One word: Normani👀 Also, a lot of people think Video Games was Lana's debut😬😬😬😬. This one doesn't exactly fit in the video but it's hilarious to me.

[@tokyoyoongi5538]

I never knew Focus was meant to be the lead single for DW/Moonlight. I always saw it as a standalone single (made mainly for Samsung).

[@shatteredbeautysumin7413]

I always thought that song was for a Samsung advertisement😭😂

[@Kevin-rg3yc]

It’s crazy focus and work it out are some of my favorite Beyoncé/Ariana songs. I feel Beyoncé works the best exclusively in both traditional R&B and more alternative/experiential R&B folks love talking about her first solo albums from the 2000s being the best but besides the classic masterpiece that is b’day, Beyoncé best music in the 2000s were the hit singles her albums (dangerously in love, I am Sasha fierce) have aged like milk she progressively got better after I am Sasha fierce as a album based artist starting with 4 As for Ariana I always like focus over problem in my opinion but I understood why dangerous women became the lead bc it aligned better musically speaking with the album as a whole than focus does

[@AngeBiampandou]

Dangerously in Love did NOT aged like milk. It sounds timeless if you ask me. Me Myself And I, Be With You, Signs ft Missy Elliott, Speechless, the titled track, The Closer I Get to you with THEE Luther Vandross. That's how you do a debut album

[@Kevin-rg3yc]

@@AngeBiampandouhmmm I’m not sure on my end there are songs that are great and then there are songs that are mid. I feel the album as a whole is incomplete and inconsistent

[@m20047]

i am sasha fierce did age but dangerously in love is timeless

[@skzbabie]

i’m mad more people don’t talk about how amazing b-day is. my favorite album of hers

[@ADyani6]

I thought Jaguar Wright lied about “Work it Out”; I didn’t realize the song didn’t chart AT ALL. Also, I loved Massive Attack. It was my jam.