I think this wins. Others mentioned still had albums that charted pretty well or continued to work in music and play to audiences. This was a case of bombing after four pretty massive albums and being TOTALLY bounced out of the music industry afterwards.
I loved this album and don't think it's a career killer at all. they just tried the comeback too early, pre-nostalgia revival for turn of the century pop groups.
Singles wise maybe but they are still a huge albums act.
Career killed but brought back to life like a Phoenix/FIREBIRD with Shiver
Good point, though it seemed only to have arisen again for the one single
It was very embarrassing at the time!
If they’d have stuck with the original idea of the album it might have stretched out her career a bit longer.
Final nail in her chart coffin.
Hardly.
I was going to say "Head Music" - it sold well enough to start with but word soon spread it was a donkey. A New Morning suffered from that, as well as being as limp as Jacob Rees-Mogg's bromide-ridden cock
Head Music was not a career killer per se - it still produced some hits and I must admit I do like some of the album tracks like 'He's Gone'.
Unfortunately there is already a revisionist tiny corner of the interwebs trying to say this album was underrated
Might sound like a strange call for a #1, million-selling album but it sold about a quarter of its predecessor and their sales never recovered. They would carry on playing the big venues to people who wanted to hear songs from their first 2 years but they would never shift units in the same way again.
For the UK anyway. I guess it was the single, and I nearly see where they were going with the ‘see, I’m still quickly and relatable!’ angle. But it sure as shit did not pay off.
But they’ve always packed out their gigs so I wouldn’t say it killed their career.
It really did at the time - the venues were the smallest they'd played since the first album. We had to start missing them for their live audience to come back.
No it didn't, more's the pity.
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For the UK anyway. I guess it was the single, and I nearly see where they were going with the ‘see, I’m still quickly and relatable!’ angle. But it sure as shit did not pay off.
