ONTD Original: 🔥 10 Flop Singles That Still SLAP Regardless 🔥
So, what's the deal with airplane food, am I right? It's like 2020 is already a gigantic flop of an year, the least we can do is make airplane food taste good? [beat] Alright, that was my quirky intro. Don't like it? Me neither. It's a flop, everything this year has been a flop. "WAP" excluded.
It's sad, but tragedies, and its related floppage, do not exist in a vacuum. People like you and me, normies-- we flop. We sometimes flop. We flop with having enough money to live, with forgetting to text anyone back for two weeks at a time due to depression-xiety spirals, and sometimes we use 2-in-1 shampoo conditioners because we have accepted that it is the love we think we deserve. Popstars sometimes have flop singles, and that sucks too. Maybe even worse than everything I described up there. Definitely worse.
But that doesn't mean these songs are flops to our ears-- just the charts. It's 2020, and the category is... floppage. Grab yourself a glass of rosé, and let's celebrate this weekday afternoon with some contentiously fire FLOP-POP singles
Click to view"Loverboy (Remix)" - Mariah Carey feat. Ludacris, Da Brat, Shawnna, and Twenty II (2001)
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #2
The Citizen Kane (1941) of gauche pop singles, 2001's very own musical Showgirls (1993). What else but the magnum opus of all flop singles to start off this playlist?
Before Academy Awards®
attendee Mimi emancipated herself, she starred in the critically-snubbed Glitter (2001). Her film debut unfortunately saw its theatrical release come after the week of 9/11 when no one was rushing to go outside, and even more tragic, the soundtrack was released a week before-- on the day of 9/11. It goes without saying that "Loverboy" wasn't the success that Mariah came to expect. Not everyone has the amount of Billboard Hot 100 #1s she has.
The single peaked at #2 behind "Bootylicious" by Destiny's Child on the Billboard Hot 100 because of its massive physical single sales (it ended 2001 as the year's best selling) due to a heavy discount and push by Virgin Records. It flopped in every other aspect, performing poorly outside North America. Thankfully, in the past few years, people have started to celebrate Glitter. It was late to bloom, but it is definitely more beautiful for it. Yes, Loverboy is a flower. FIGHT ME
"My Prerogative" - Britney Spears (2004)
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #101
I thought about using a single from Britney (2001) because all its singles outside of "I'm A Slave 4 U" were technical flops, but a whole lot of that had to do with Clear Channel (now iHeart Media) and the petty nationwide radio ban they enforced on Britney's music in the early-2000s for not using them to promote her tour.
In her classic breathy, Monroe-inspired baby doll voice, she tells us, that, “people can take everything away from you, but they can never take away your truth.” She challenges us to immediately respond to that truth- her truth. She asks “Can you handle mine?”
This iconic single deserved so much more. Britney, in genral, deserves all the flowers
"Say I" - Christina Milian feat. Young Jeezy (2006)
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #21
Poor Christina Milian. Sis was literally dropped by her label after this song underperformed in comparison to the insane hit that was "Dip It Low." Mess. This slapped. At least she and her baby's bag are firmly secured by The-Dream
"Confident" - Justin Bieber feat. Chance the Rapper (2013)
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #41
Okay, okay, okay. I like this song and Journal, the "album" that spawned it. You can't hate me more than I hate myself already, so that's that on that. This was from a Justin's 'Black white man of colour phase,' as opposed to the 'white man of colour' flop thing he's doing now. At least we got Purpose out of this
"This Is How We Do" - Katy Perry (2014)
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #24
Okay, okay, okay. AGAIN. This is another problematic white bop of colour that I will secretly sing along to on public transit. It was the rightful beginning of Katy's downfall on the charts. Let me bop in shame
"All Nite (Don't Stop)" - Janet Jackson (2004)
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #119
If that crusty unidentifiable white-ish stain of an entertainer we call Justin Timberlake didn't do Janet wrong, then this song, and Damita Jo would've followed in the success of All For You and performed so, so, so much better than it did. No one is as good at making nasty magic in the studio like Janet
"Powerless (Say What You Want)" - Nelly Furtado (2004)
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: N/A
The lead single from Nelly's sophmore album, the better Folklore, and its follow-up singles went way underappreciated because of its less pop-oriented sound. Sucks because Folklore > folklore. It's performance led to the iconic album that was Loose though, so there's that
"If It's Lovin' That You Want" - Rihanna (2005)
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #36
Y'all remember when people called Rihanna "budget island Beyoncé?" God bless her come-up, but even before BadGalRiRi blew up, she was delivering us boppity bops like this
"Into You" - Ariana Grande (2016)
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #13
This song gave so much, and Ariana gave it so little in return. #13 isn't terrible, but for the industry's fave white woman of colour, it was. Especially coming off a huge era My Everything. Imagine this single with simple choreo? This coulda been a real, real hit. Imagine if she released "Be Alright" as a single. Imagine if we weren't in a pandemic
"G.U.Y." - Lady GaGa (2014)
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #76
I think the Koons has said everything. I have nothing more to add
SOURCE: Wikipedia, my spirit; Hey Britney (you say you wanna lose control? Come over here, I've got somethin' to show ya)
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ONTD! What are some of your favourite flop-pop, flop, floppity-flop-flop, flop singles! Keep in mind that flop does NOT equal bad lmao just missundaztood!