Why did "positions" fail to make its mark?

[fab 21,387]

this album came and went  it already feels totally forgotten, like is it even charting at the Billboard 200 anymore?  probably not   

[Luca 54,888]

because it's just not memorable & too lazy for an ariana album, she's feeling too comfortable with the trap sound which makes the music feel cheap!  

[V For Vendetta 7,183]

The music is a complete downgrade from "thank u, next", although I do like some of it, plus she barely promoted it 

She made like 2 music videos in the beginning, did a couple of performances and then went on The Voice. 

She used pretty much the same genre/style that she did for "sweetener" and "thank u, next", when she should've gone down a different path.

If her next album has the same production, I will flip out  

[Autumn Variations 4,825]

I think it's because it was the same thing from the last album (TUN), but with features

[Kyoteki 10,169]

Not much of a huge change from

albums, the yearly release thing, no promo, she started going into other ventures

[jrdn 26,660]

Because it wasn't an experimental cultural reset like Lotus. 

[Lukas 3,964]

To go from Sweetener to TUN , to that was tragic  

[Tama 5,675]

Funny how I had said the same thing regarding the poorness of Positions' quality, or rather, lack of quality for a lot of years but only now you all follow suit. Very funny, mi muchachas! 

[BreatheeOnKnee 480]

Ariana is just not an impactful artist period, she relies on stan twitter and tiktokkers to put out quick lil hits. And her last 3 albums follow the same formula and sound so eventually they begin to blend together and sound the same. 

[Sabrin 81]

Nobody cares about new music anymore.

[Chris 57,843]

15 minutes ago, Sabrin said:

Nobody cares about new music anymore.

[Shego 36,739]

50 minutes ago, BreatheeOnKnee said:

Ariana is just not an impactful artist period, she relies on stan twitter and tiktokkers to put out quick lil hits. And her last 3 albums follow the same formula and sound so eventually they begin to blend together and sound the same. 

She had hits before tiktok was even a thing

[Miss Icon 900]

Idc, it's her best album 

[Lynk 10,362]

It wasn't because of it's quality, she's just lazy with promo. (Which is saying a lot seeing because positions and 34+35 were decent enough hits).

[Entea 34,997]

Wasn't she releasing back to back albums every year back then

[fab 21,387]

8 hours ago, Lynk said:

It wasn't because of it's quality, she's just lazy with promo. (Which is saying a lot seeing because positions and 34+35 were decent enough hits).

Both positions and 34+35 were #1 on Pop Radio for weeks, and even POV was #3 on that chart. So the singles received a huge radio push, in addition to heavy Spotify playlisting. This form of promotion is way more important than doing award or talk shows, so I disagree that it received little promo 

[fab 21,387]

10 hours ago, BreatheeOnKnee said:

Ariana is just not an impactful artist period, she relies on stan twitter and tiktokkers to put out quick lil hits. And her last 3 albums follow the same formula and sound so eventually they begin to blend together and sound the same. 

maybe you made points  

[Princess Aurora 30,854]

It was low-key boring  

[Disco Darling 4,537]

I never really get why she did pretty much the same genre in her last three albums. Sweetener was an alright album, TUN is her best and Positions just felt....boring.

I hope that in her next album, she'd do something different, like a reinvention of aesthetics and sound, maybe a Back to Basics like album, or a Disco-Dance oriented album like Light Years or COADF.

Maybe even 80's post disco like album or new wave along the lines of Katrina and the Waves or maybe even a Blondie-esque sound. 

 

[Disco Darling 4,537]

14 hours ago, Butterfly said:

Funny how I had said the same thing regarding the poorness of Positions' quality, or rather, lack of quality for a lot of years but only now you all follow suit. Very funny, mi muchachas! 

Whut? A LOT OF YEARS?

 

Positions was released like just a year and a half ago.