| re: Loaf Feature Story | |
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Vin 07:24 pm UTC 02/28/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Loaf Feature Story - Smeghead 05:04 pm UTC 02/28/07 |
| I'll disagree with that. Most recording artists suffer from the law of diminishing returns as they get older and less and less relevant with the driving market of the industry, which is youth. I don't believe the lack of Steinman is the main reason the album performed relatively poorly (relative to its forebears, that is.). I think it has much more to do with the public's perception of Meat Loaf, which is largely negative or else non-existant, and with Meat's age, and with the disastrous choice of lead-off single. I'm not saying a Gold Record is great for Bat III, I'm just saying that anything less than a Gold Record would have been a crushing humiliation for Meat. Now he can at least say it went Gold, which is, after all, a number that the industry considers a success. > > > > Bat III went gold in the States? Fantastic. At least > > that's some small shred of dignity preserved, or at least > > the illusion thereof. > > > > Bad For Good went Platinum. If the first sells 40 million > the second sells 14 million and this one sells 500,000 > that's not much dignity. It just proves Meat's nothing > without Jim. | |
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