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From recent comments Katharine indicated that 20 songs were chosen for the album and she did not want the ballads 'ordinary world' and maybe 'home', and that 8 of her choices were left out.
What was the thinking when the album was made...usually selections are included with the expectation that singles can be done later on. If Katharine did not want the songs on the album why were they included since she would not want to perform these as singles or have them released later. She already had a top 20 single for over 20 weeks at that time for the fans that like her ballads. She must have said the same thing at meetings that she did on TRL when she mentiioned that the ballads were 'part of her' but that she was only 22 and did not want to do these for now.
The comments at the AI final were surprising as well ..her album starts at #2 so why was that not mentioned. That is like saying that she did not meet Clive's expectations, when he made the wrong choices for the album.
The history of AI with first albums has not been a great one and here is another example where they should have listened to the artist, especially given Katharine's musical background, her success already with SOTR, and her desire to have a change in the direction of her career. Kelly Clarkson's and Carrie Underwood's first AI produced album both did not do well and by now after 5 years they should have learned from past mistakes.
The second produced CD without AI input will certainly do far better.
I still see it as a good wake-up call for both of them.
If they produced CD's that were selling as good as Daughtry's, he wouldn't have needed to say what he did. He just gave the pat CEO style of talk he always does. He was looking at the numbers and based his speech around that. I've known plenty an executive that wouldn't have been nearly as kind as Clive when presented with similar numbers.
He wasn't been purposely cruel, just stating the situation as it now exists. I see nothing wrong with that at all.
Let's all focus our energies to get Love Story moving up the charts instead all this talk about Clive Davis.
Kat has a misson for all her fans to get Love Story played over the airwaves and help sell more CDs. She needs all our help to make Love Story successful! So I urge all you to phone or email in your requests to your local stations and other stations to get Love Story played. Remember each spin counts making movement up the chart faster.
KAT NEEDS US TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!!!
I'm trying to find some positive spin to put on this since everyone seems to have decided that Clive neglected and disrespected just about everyone but Daughtry
I think the positive spin on this is that Clive did not really "diss" Taylor and Kat, he simply said "maybe Love STory (and taylor's 2nd single) will do it for them". Meaning that their 1st singles didn't do it for them - but he did not say that.
He's flipping the bill - so he has a right to expect that the TOP 2 idols CD's would perform and sell. Without actually saying it on national TV, he simply stated he hopes that the next singles will do it for them (and him). You can't compare Kat/Taylor to Elliott/Paris because they were not the winner/runner-up and in the past idols that came in 3rd/5th did not get record contracts. Clive took a chance by giving Daughtry a CD and it paid off. That has not been the case with Taylor and Kat - yet. He's hoping this changes and there's still life left in both their CD's (which there is, I'm sure).
But on a different note - with regards to Kat (since I don't know the circumstances surrounding the making of Taylor's CD) - he might have been right to want Kat's first CD to be a Celine-type of album because he knew/knows what audience's want, after all he's been doing this for more years than Kat has been alive....
Daughtry stuck to his genre and gave his fans/audience exactly what they wanted. This is not exactly the case for Kat. By choosing to go 'off track' of what the fans might expect or want she took a risk. So - there's probably a little bit of "I told you so" (by Clive). But, that doesn't take away from the fact that she is gaining a whole new audience and appealing to an entirely new group of people, which I think is being accomplished. The die-hard fans like us, will stick with her - she probably lost, however, the audience or group of semi-fans that voted for her, but don't care for the pop/r&b genre (like I've said before - everyone at my work - they do not like her CD because they don't like that kind of music).
Well, we are where we are and we all need to continue to support Kat's efforts by requesting, voting, buying her singles, CD, etc as much as we can. There will be many 'bumps' along the road of her career, this is just one of them. It's not a mistake, it's simply a bump in the road.
I hope and believe that Love STory WILL do it for her and that her road to success is just beginning.
very good point here that daughtry stayed in his genre and Kat took a calculated risk.