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SurvivorFanGP wrote:

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ProbstFan123 wrote:

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Sorry SurvivorFan, but there's a reason Carly flopped the first time around (and why she has been in the bottom 2 twice already). She just has no ability to connect with people. Kristy can light up the room with her smile. Carly doesn't have that ability. Charisma is something you either have or you don't have. It's not something you can teach a person.

Carly's album didn't flop because she lacked charisma. Artists like Carrie sell like hotcakes despite not being the the most colorful personality at all. It tanked due to poor promotion, for the most part, and the album in general probably sucked ass.

Responding to this ancient post because I finally snagged a copy of the album this weekend for the I-paid-way-too-much price of 99 cents. Not because I cared to know what Scarly was up to before she became Randy's bitch, but because it was largely helmed by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois, whose defunct band's (New Radicals) album most certainly did not suck ass.

The main reason it flopped is even simpler than that. There isn't a hit on it. Alexander wrote the first single and Brisebois co-wrote the second, but neither of them are hits. (Alexander's track especially so.) They're both certainly capable of writing hits. New Radicals had a sizeable one with "You Get What You Give." Brisebois was partly responsible for the biggest radio hit of 2006 - Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten." Nothing on the album comes close to either of those. It's as if the two of them didn't think any more of Scarly than we do, and just unloaded all their "C" material on her. They would have been better off giving her the failed New Radicals single, "Someday We'll Know." I'm sure she could've done more with it than Mandy Moore did.

The filler is no better or worse than the filler you'll find on albums that don't suck ass, but without a grabber, there was nowhere for it to go but directly into the cut-out bins. I must say even without any standout tracks to recommend it, I certainly enjoyed listening to Scarly being Brisebois' bitch much more than I did listening to her screeching and caterwauling on the AI stage. Being realistic here, if Scarly had won this season, and "Ultimate High" was the resulting release, it would have gone platinum, same as all the other Idull winners' albums (with one exception) did. It's on par with those.

MCA did bungle promotions, most notably in the fact that "Beautiful You" should have been the lead single and not "Blow Your Mind." "Beautiful You" was the closest thing to a hit on the record, and with a big promotional push behind it, the album certainly would've done better than the laughable 300 copies it sold the first 3 months.