[QUOTE] [b]PrimeJiveUSA wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]PrimeJiveUSA wrote:[/b]
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[QUOTE] [b]k-m wrote:[/b]
^^ Cool, you made your point. Obviously, this strategy backfired anyway in terms of album sales, so it might have been the case the single was picked up by people who wouldn't normally listen to Queen, while the real fanbase made sure the album tanked, lol.[/QUOTE]
At that point, Queen fans had gotten used to Queen's bent for "novelty" singles and it wouldn't of failed as badly if Body Language was the only "electro-dance" track but when word got out that the whole first side was made up of that and the second side was kind of boring and unremarkable...well...the album kinda killed itself. I mean the first song on the album was in-your-face funk/ dance with horns! DJ' s on album rock radio were saying bad things about the Album on air..
I don't know what else could have been released off of that album that would have been a successful single in America. Calling All Girls couldn't even crack the top 60. When Play the Game couldn't even crack the top 40 previously I don't see how something like Las Palabras would have fared any better. Put Out the Fire wouldn't have even got out of the gate.
An unruly beast that Hot Space album was.
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