When Artists Course-Correct!

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[@richmaxmchalliwchester1984]

Reputation´s reception is truly bizarre to me. Right after it´s release people hated it and called it inauthentic, then once Reputation Tour kicked of people started really vibe with Dark Taylor and then when bright and colorful Lover was released people were craving for Dark Taylor´s return. Reputation aged actually pretty well, it´s thought off as one of Taylor´s best eras, once Taylor´s Versions project was announced Reputation immediately was one of most anticipated re-recordings and even on The Eras Tour the Rep Set is one of most hyped out parts of the whole show. What i love and respect about Taylor is that she never abandoned her dark persona completely and she kept including it in all her albums since Reputation.

[@Twink182]

I loved rep since day 1, I remember my friend hated it at first and now it’s literally his fav Taylor album 😂

[@ddjr6673]

Listened to Reputation the other day and the album has really holds up 7 years later imho. And I so agree with this post… there are still moments of dark Taylor on every album, No Body No Crime, Vigilante Sh*t, ThanK you aIMee etc…

[@cityboy2092]

Circus by Britney was marketed this way. I swear all of the promotional material for this album at the time was "Britney is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER!!!" as her team did everything in their power to erase the stench of 2007 off of her. They made Circus out to be the return of 2001 Britney Spears and made it seem like it was going to be nothing like Blackout and instead was gonna be this super bright bubblegum pop record, even though it really wasn't that outside of the singles. You go back and listen to the album and it's actually really weird and even kinda sad at spots. But the image makeover worked like a charm and people got the "Britney they grew up with" back...at least as far as they knew

[@iKETOURAGE]

Yes and tbh. "Circus" was inferior to "Blackout" imo.

[@paninilist4678]

not only was it not similar to 2001 britney but i was also so obviously a bunch of blackout rejects… personally i don’t hate the album and i like a couple of songs but when you binge listen her albums it clear that it so flat compared to blackout which is so full of life

[@iKETOURAGE]

@@paninilist4678 Yes!! "Blackout" was the tea! they had a song from "Blackout" on "Circus" and made it a single? Just ugh. I hate when artist do that.

[@oddieshow]

this comment is very important. this is how it was honestly.

[@aguilerat.b.]

Britney's best albums were the ones she made with love (BOMT until Blackout). It's a shame they ruined her love for music, otherwise she'd be saving pop to this day.

[@fan7708]

The way Rihanna is able to switch it up every era still to this day is unmatched.! Every era is so different yet everything still felt authentic to her. She was the it girl and her absence is being FELT. The industry need her.

[@kpopscenario1406]

ikrrr

[@deadlynightshade4108]

Dont get me wrong i love rihanna but she doesnt write her own songs. She has a whole team behind her -pitching ideas to her and she just says no or yes

[@Twink182]

She literally kept us all on our toes for a whole decade straight, she is forever THAT girl 👑

[@fan7708]

@@deadlynightshade4108 is she a singer or a writer ?

[@kimendable]

@@fan7708she sings on all her songs apart from what you came for im pretty sure & she co writes in her songs

[@shaunhoward6838]

Love how Kylie's still current in 2024 since the 80s what a QUEEN 👑💯

[@EclesysGalaxy]

She's just made to be a pop icon ❤

[@Twink182]

A whole legend 🙌🏼

[@rimeleleu4634]

imo, lover came from a need of lightness and joy from taylor after the rep era. It almost feels therapeutic, to finally set a departure/end from this tumultuous time of her life.

[@Charlie-jl3ur]

Some honorable mentions, imo, include Britney's Circus, Madonna's Bedtime Stories (such a great album), Katy Perry's Smile, Ciara's Basic Instinct, Kylie's Aphrodite (it was a course correction after the disjointed, yet successful [and iconic, I might add] X), Xtina's Lotus, Mariah's Charmbracelet, Nicki Minaj's Pinkprint.

[@nikitarayy]

Basic Instinct is bottom tier Ciara, I’d say the self titled album was the course correction.

[@Charlie-jl3ur]

@@nikitarayy but the aim of Basic Instinct was to course correct what people didn't like about Fantasy Ride - its heavy pop influences. That's why I gave it a shout-out. Unfortunately, it didn't work and the album tanked.

[@Twink182]

Oooooo these are all perfect examples!

[@flreansjukebox987]

Love + fear by Marina

[@miguellozano28]

I would say Pink Friday 2 course corrected Nicki. Queen was a HEAVY rap album where she completely ditched the color pink that she was known for since the beginning of her career and she felt like she had something to prove but Pink Friday 2 was a perfect blend of pink, girly, pop aesthetics and hard hitting bars and rap that we all knew her for.

[@Yeaster]

Light Years is my favorite Kylie album❤ What makes Impossible Princess so special for me is that it's the only one of its kind in her discography. But she wouldn't be who she is today if she kept making music like that

[@Raphael-lu7vj]

My favorite albums from her are KM94 and Impossible Princess. Very indie and 90s alternative, which I enjoy more nowadays. But back when I was a teen I was all about Light Years, Fever, Body Language and X

[@chrisdonohue3843]

Lady Gaga's "Joanne" and Kelly Clarkson's "My December" are also really good examples where they changed their image dramatically for one album, but then went back to the same stuff and found better commercial success. Also Miley Cyrus's entire career is on reinventing herself, so you could really do any (or all) of her albums for this theme lol

[@ryanappleton3653]

In This Skin is an album that's growing on me lately because of the happiness Jessica was radiating throughout the record while she was married to Nick. (He still has me HOT under the collar all the these years later!) The soulful tone is lush with its themes of hope and romance and has aged well yet I'm not crazy about her cover of Robbie Williams' Angels

[@norijean3279]

Madonna had a flop with American Life, that was too ambitious and personal. She followed that with all dance and fun Confessions On The Dance Floor, and that was a major success.

[@ddjr6673]

Was just thinking this - so good to see this comment - not sure how well Confessions did in the USA but in the rest of the world it was a MASSIVE album.

[@soaribb32]

Well, Anti is pretty dark tho

[@crystalcastillo7575]

I thought the villain aesthetic in reputation and the white feminist political aesthetic in lover was two over corrections gone wrong. I definitely get try hard energy from both. like 'oh you want me to be the villain' here is an entire album with that aesthetic and then she got comments about her silence on political issues and she said "here damn that's as far as i'll go" while making majority of that album's aesthetic on that. Her best work comes from when she's not trying to morph herself into what the public wants... 1989,folklore. its sad she can't see that

[@somethingyoudontknow5788]

Most of that energy comes with the singles but the rest of the album is really about love

[@marinadela1361]

Oh the shade...

[@randomuser1887]

i think she cares a little too much about what other ppl say, and when her talent shines the most is precisely when she doesn’t try to proven anything to anyone… ttpd is the best example of trying so hard that you fail miserably

[@LavenderLydia]

reputation is her best album, though

[@BRANDONDEVON]

You spelled folklore wrong.

[@beckybecky9643]

@@BRANDONDEVON you both spelled Speak Now wrong.

[@ahmarindungu9010]

I didn’t know that this was called course correcting. This is great tho I feel like some artist go to far out of their image they get lost and people don’t care anymore. A lot of these new artist are not doing this they are either staying the same or something so different it’s stupid. Take notes ladies and gents!!!!

[@everydaymarvin2490]

I love Jessica Simpson's In This Skin album. She sounds happy and you can hear it in her voice. There is something very sincere about her singing and you can feel it when you hear it. I enjoyed her Irresistible album to be honest but I feel like overall in this skin is a stronger overall album with nearly no filler tracks. Irresistible album suffered from being a little loop-sided at times. You made another great video. Keep it coming 😊

[@ColinsCity]

The taylor swift changes are quite drastic and i never understood why people say she has no eras when it's quite clear she's had 5 big changes, the original country girl, synth pop girl, villain, bubblegum princess, folklore superstar. I'm so glad Kylie didn't give up music, i think after the intimate & live concerts she didn't feel like leaving because she started work on a new project but then deconstruction folded and she signed with Parlophone in 1999, the demo for Butterfly was recorded in 1999

[@fan7708]

I disagree Taylor swift eras are not all that different. Yes each era is different but i wouldn’t say it’s drastic. When you look at Rihanna’s catalog now each era was DRASTIC. Taylor Switt albums don’t feel like eras they feel like chapters to her life. Which is okay and it’s fitting considering that she’s a storyteller first. The way y’all give Taylor credit for things that have been executed way better by other pop stars. Like she got this grip on you ima need yall to release free.

[@jiruld]

​​@@fan7708lol only Rated R had made impact and resonate of her changes and most of them are just singles and collaboration by other artists. Yeah she's change drastically but Madonna, Lady Gaga and Britney Spears are the perfect example. and yes Taylor deserve to give a credit. Each of her eras are different yet feels like a chapter of her life because she's a singer/songwriter. It's evident that every era she made, she change her sound and her aesthetic. Reputation era had made drastic comeback and considered as one of the best comeback. It's not important if other artists did better than her because her comeback made mark on pop culture and that makes her era more iconic. Y'all just discrediting Taylor's impact in music industry.

[@fan7708]

@@jiruld what? What is yall obsession with constantly discrediting and overlooking the contributions that black pop stars made to pop music? Good Girl Gone Bad & Unapologetic made huge impact as well. For starters Good Girl Gone bad is one of the best selling pop eras of all time and Unapologetic is one of the most influential albums of the 2012. It literally popularized pop stars blending rap/trap into their music which is a trend STILL being seen till this day by acts such as (Ariana, Sabrina, Chloe & Normani) Also Talk That Talk by Rihanna had We Found Love which is the EDM song that CHANGED the way POP EDM sounded for 5 years. Rihanna is and will always be the perfect example of an artist who creates eras.

[@jiruld]

@@fan7708 I'm not discrediting Rihanna just because she's black, I know she's one of the influencial artist had made a lot of contribution and marked an impact in 2010 but that's the truth. But she's not only the artist who made perfect eras and there's a lot of female artists made better eras. It's just my two cents. It's not an obsession of discrediting her but rather a truth, again I acknowledge her impact in music.

[@Kaizen121]

​@@fan7708What a weird thinking process you have

[@Hi-se6jq]

Reputation is probably the most timeless album on here.

[@shelbyswindall9192]

The irony that Rep is her most consistently feel good album without any (really) sad songs. The closest to being sad is DWOHT and maybe Getaway Car

[@shelbyswindall9192]

And both are very romantic albums. Lover just mixes it with politics and Rep mixes it with villainy.

[@sjtv1000]

Reputation is my favorite from her after Speak Now which I think is her best & most authentic work.

[@aziatix1168]

Jennifer Lopez also started to lose her prominence in the music when she decided to go more ballad, jazz and funk with records as This Is Me...Then, Rebirth and Como Ama Una Mujer, nowhere near close to the global success of her first 2 euro-pop infused records On The 6 and JLo (1999 & 2001). She tried to redeem herself and get back on the track of her first 2 albums with 2007's Brave, but it wasn't until 2011's Love? when she re-gained her rightful place on the global dance club charts, following more entertaining and euro-electro-pop vibe of her debut two albums. All the singles from Love?- On The Floor, I'm Into You and Papi- became the notable hits of 2011 and JLo was named by Billboard the biggest musical comeback of 2011. Not being quite satisfied with the Love? results, she decided to benefit from that era as much as she could so for the next pair of years she had been releasing heavily energetic latino-dance infused songs with most of them gaining a lot of KZbin views, such as Dance Again, Goin' In, Follow The Leader, Ain't Your Mama, We Are One (Ole Ola) (all of them gained +500 million views on KZbin), Goin' In, Live It Up, Booty, El Anillo (+200 million views). Unfortunately, her luck on the charts came to an end after her collaboration with Cardi B on the song "Dinero" in 2018 which tends to be the last song that managed to breakthrough into Billboard Hot 100 list. Nevertheless, the course-correction of JLo in her early 40s made it possible for her to successfully go with her music career for the entire 2010s...unitl the SuperBowl happened, and people in large part lost totally interest in her music career, leading to the nightmare of her last studio album This Is Me...Now- where she came back on the road that cost her in the 2000s almost the expulsion from the musical career. Bad move, JLo. Worth noting that Jennifer Lopez's course-correction in 2011 helped her to soldify her place as one of the must successful female singers on US Dance Club charts- she has alltogether 18 hits #1 on the charts, starting from 2007's Brave she peaked with singles: Do It Well, Hold It Don't Drop It, Louboutins, Fresh Out The Oven, On The Floor, I'm Into You, Papi, Dance Again, Goin' In, Live It Up, First Love, Booty, Medicine and Baila Conmigo. If it ain't iconic for y'all then I don't know what is.

[@karinasnooodles_]

Finally someone who doesn't shade Jlo

[@aziatix1168]

@@karinasnooodles_ we in Eastern Europe actually respect Jennifer Lopez a lot and do not give in into this whole hate train on her and pathetic rumours that Ashanti or Christina Millan sang all her songs (Ashanti was a background in JLo's two songs choruses only in 2001, whereas Christina gave her voice in the chorus of only one Lopez's song). Christina Millan herself stood decisively in the defense of JLo against these all accusations claiming that when Britney and Michael Jackson used heavily background voices no one ever said a thing. Christina herself uses at times background voices in her songs and she says that most artists do to make their songs feel better and make them complete. She doesn't inderstand the whole selective hate on Lopez. Neither do I, especially that Lopez really isn't the rudes nor the shadied dova out there, we all have in mind few big names but somehow people allow them to be so, but only not to JLo- most of her bad behaviours are only empty words with no video proof no nothing. When you think about it people adore women beaters or women abusers in music and sport industry and ignore it about them idealising the shit out of them but cancel the shit out of 55 years old Lopez for having background voices in some of her songs ignoring totally that big part of industry does that...what is wrong with people? I think that when people adore openly satanic/illuminati artists and women beaters but hate on one woman so much (no, her career wasn't superficially crafted for her to destroy Mariah Carey, lambs are so egocentric not everything revolves around Mariah, even if Mottola had hidden intention by giving Lopez record deal to sabotage Carey projects, Lopez in fact didnt need him neither she needed Diddy- she had other record labels interested in her, she actually had it promised in another record label since the early 90s to record an album had she only be ready, besides before Selena she already was playing in movies with Jack Nicholson, Robbie Williams, Woody Harrelson and was offered the roles with Tom Cruise or in The Green Mile)...people really want so much to hate on her, they repeat all the time the same hypocritic untrue shit all around without even thinking logically and analysing the source of all these lies going on her. jLo is her own source of success, no one else did that for her. Unfortunately, lies that everyone bekieve in eventually become the truth...

[@cip6292]

Rihanna’s Loud album will always be my all time fave.

[@hiroshikiyan]

For me ‘Loud’ was when I started thinking of Rihanna as an album act.

[@Bazibishop]

Reputation was incredible I’m sorry. I was neutral on Taylor as a tween. But reputation made me a swiftie: I did have a swiftie hiatus with lover… couldn’t stand it. But love her

[@Twink182]

1989 made me a Swiftie and rep solidified it! I still remember going Black Friday shopping while bumping that album and feeling like a bad bitch 😂

[@Bazibishop]

@@Twink182 1989 was my intro to Taylor and I watched all the music videos: loved blank space and wildest dreams. But I was a loyal Katy Kat and little monster. But Taylor came through. I love an underdog

[@MrFlameboy15]

Pretty much same. I was neutral about her during her country girl days n her light pop days. She won me over with 1989 n locked it in with reputation. I liked her during her lover era, but I was still itching for bad girl Taylor to come back. Then once she completely switched it up and did slow folk music, she lost me n I haven't even checked on her since. 🤣 I need bad Taylor back lol.

[@TheBoomerang32]

Gaga done this too with Joanne/ASIB to Chromatica.

[@connor_1x1x1x1]

Very interesting topic

[@hexmaniacciaran]

Rated R was one of Rhianna's best albums, sad there was a course correction but Loud was a banger

[@NicolasPetrosLanning]

**Rihanna**

[@joshuamendiola7635]

I feel like maybe looking at what their peers were doing at the time could also have some influence to this bridge of albums for the mentioned artist.

[@TheeCheAnthony]

I can’t wait for Dojas course correction

[@nathanlevi89]

Thought Jewel was going to get mentioned in the vid!

[@Twink182]

Oooo she’d be a good one too!!

[@nathanlevi89]

@@Twink182yes! I’m hoping she blesses with another pop album soon. She talks about it on IG but dunno if she would go for it again.

[@MrFlameboy15]

As a die-hard britney fan, I LOVED when Jewel jumped on the "try to be like Britney" train. I know there's probably a number of reasons why she didn't commit to that sound, but I wish she would do it again because "Intuiton" was and still is a BOP!!

[@RoddyChannel]

Even thought I love teenpop era between 99-01, I really don't like the album Irresistible. As a Jessica fan, it's by far her weakest album for me. But some songs are great great there. In This Skin and A Public Affair are my faves by far :') About Lover... I can say the same among Taylor's pop albums. It has some of her greatest songs, and some of her worst songs ever. I rather listen to ME! a thousand times than to listen to I Forgot That You Existed and I Think He Knows once hahaha

[@inmyrestlessdreams.]

Im surprised gaga wasn’t mentioned

[@amandaduerk5866]

This was a great watch!! I feel like Jessica’s Irresistible album became much more appreciated, further down the road. But I ADORE her In This Skin album soooo much. All the whimsical, and romantic lyrics and tones, gives me all good vibes!!! 🪄✨💕🥰

[@MrCheesecake1928]

I was expecting Maneater by Nelly Furtado

[@thomasespas3990]

You should keep in mind that your tone sounds very inauthentic, you always have an upturn end of your sentences.

[@ddjr6673]

Disagree - I think he sounds just great

[@DuffyFanclub]

Madonna is the queen of pop

[@NicolasPetrosLanning]

Are you spamming?? Your comment looks suspicious Please tell me you aren’t spamming, we know Madonna is the Queen, she’s not in this video

[@DuffyFanclub]

@@NicolasPetrosLanning he called kylie the queen of pop

[@NicolasPetrosLanning]

@@DuffyFanclub thanks!

[@glucosime2120]

WHY DO YOU TALK LIKE THAT!? STOP THOSE INTONATIONS

[@DA_7]

Taylor swift is effing boring one way or another.

[@Jays6926]

So sad Taylor is again a political 🇵🇸

[@oxoxoxoxo1155]

Why you talk like that ???🤬😡

[@beckybecky9643]

why do you care?

[@crystalcastillo7575]

i don't know how Jessica got that far in the industry when she couldn't dance, sing, no stage presence, nothing....

[@iKETOURAGE]

Jessica could definitely sing. She was the most consistent blonde bombshell vocally upon debut. She was the middle area between Britney and Christina. People say Christina was better because she could do vocal runs.However,she wasnt consistent live like Jessica and rarely hit her notes as she recorded them.

[@Yeaster]

Jessica can sing. Sometimes the way she sings is weird, but she definitely has a voice