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Originally Posted by GoldDustOrphan
They all barely cross the finish line.
Lopez, 41. A barely sung dance song with 8 credited writers and a highly sexualized video and rapper Pitbull, age 30.
Jay-Z, 41, but 30-year Alicia Keys served the hook. How old was Jay-Z when it was a hit.
I'll give you Train since Pat Monahan,42, was 40 when the song was released in 2009. But, he still required the services of Espionage, expensive hitmakers who typically work alongside of Stargate constructing hits for Beyonce, Chris Brown. It's expensive hit-making by committee. They had to order out for a hit.
Hot Dance Club Play represents what reporting club DJs say they're playing but doesn't accurately reflect what they are playing. Cher's song had no longevity, no spins at radio, etc. No consumer awareness; I wouldn't consider that a "hit."
I'm trying to think 50+. Hmmm.
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Well, I think you have just proven the point that it's not age as much as it is the
lengths that artists will go to have a hit song. It is a bit of a factory-manufactured process these days. And the reason why hits appear to fall along age demographic lines is because most older artists are probably not willing to play the game and/or compromise their integrity. I do believe that Stevie could absolutely have a hit if she subjected herself to the process- an army of external songwriters, producers, remixers and focus groups to manipulate each note and beat until it is basically homogenized into everything else you hear on commercial radio these days. Or Stevie could go totally Nashville and churn out countrified adult contemporary garbage like Lady Antebellum. So despite the fact that Stevie clearly wants hit records, she doesn't want them
that badly. And thank goodness for that!