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Originally Posted by truehappiness
Yeah, for me, a new album is enough to satisfy me. I don't want a new I am... or a new alterna, or more CREA, but it'd be nice if that happened.
All new material in my opinion can be embraced by fans, it's just that a lot of fans let their expectations get in the way and that ends up leading to disliking the album. NEXT LEVEL was thought to perhaps be a "next level" for her musically by some people and ended up not satisfying their interpretation of the title, so they thought she 'failed' but I think she succeeded on some level by venturing into a genre she hadn't dabbled in too much during her career. I hope people will be able to enjoy this album and not simply repeat what has gone on for the last 5 or 6 years with people declaring that this album is "her worst ever" and that "her career should be over with this release" and so on. It's just so disappointing to see fans of an artist be such downers about a new release that I sometimes wish I were part of a more positive fandom that actually appreciated whenever an artist released instead of constantly comparing everything to previous works and how much better things were in the past.
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Way to go to make a statement!
Thank you! I'm glad someone bluntly stated this!
There have been occasions were I wasn't totally impressed by the whole of something, but I always knew a part of her was improving and I always had to give her the pat on the back for doing something; something new, something daring, something powerful. Even for just working so hard! I give her all my respect for wanting to try new and better things.
I wasn't thrilled about NL; I loved maybe 7 out of all 14 tracks. But I had respect for her for starting her year as an artist by trying something new. Whether I liked it or not doesn't matter, the fact is that a lot of people still loved it, and realized she could do a lot of styles of music if she worked as hard as she did on NL.
I have a love and respect for her past releases that fills my entire heart, I listen to some old songs and I feel nostalgic. Not because I miss that style of music, or there's something there that I miss, but because those have become songs that touched me in the past. I can listen to an old song and know what I was going through at that time.
In truth, a year from now I'll listen to the present songs, and those songs will be as dear to me as the songs from her older releases.