@MOBWIFE re: August 19, 2011 at 6:02 pm

*crossing fingers for you*

You 'bout to catch some arthritis up in dem fingers if you're "holding out for hope" (Real Talk)!! I'm NOT going! No, maam; not I! I'm sitting this one OUT!! Take a pass - I will!!

When "Fortune" drops, I'll buy it. But till then? Well..till then my "discretionary funds" REMAIN in my pockets!

..And that "Think Like A Man" movie ("Terrence J" gets "male lead"?!!! WTF..?!!) Chris should leave that ALONE; matter a fact, he should RUN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-zfCBCq-8I (<--FF to 27-seconds)

Mobwife, I'd like to ask you something, why is Kelly Rowland on this "F.A.M.E" tour? I mean, she was NEVER able to move units, here in the U.S. as a solo artist. She's NEVER had a Platinum single/CD - at least NOT according to RIAA. So what's the rational/logic to include her?

Now some will say: "Oh, but she's H-U-G-E in Europe..!!" But the facts/figures betray that logic. You see, she's, "to date", best sold in 2002 when she released "Simply Deep". It was THEN, some almost 10-YEARS AGO, that she was able to move Worldwide units - 2-Million. So then, her next release was in 2007 "Ms. Kelly" when she then moved 1.2-Million units. Don't you see the pattern of..."diminishing returns"? So now, according to mediatraffic, she's fell off the Top-40 Worldwide charts!

To me, it seems as though she's pinning all her hopes on her being that "X-Factor sitting judge/mentor". She's reasoning that her being a judge, given that platform, with her "contract clause" that allows her to then perform "Here I Am" material, will renew/re-spark interest in that said CD. But there has to be a "synergy" from the U.S. (Buzz/Sales) to that spark/re-spark interest on the U.K. charts, no? I mean, especially since folks don't have to wait for music to be released in different countries - with the 'net, once it's released in one place, it's released at that very instant EVERYWHERE..!!

..Also, just look at how badly she-herself/management/label handled the timing of her "Here I Am" single releases, videos, promotion! I'm NO "industry insider", but the entire "Here I Am" roll-out seemed.."jumbled, bumbling, clumsy and amateurish"!

Less-than 150K Worldwide after 3-weeks speaks VOLUMES! What happened? She had lots of momentum going into this release that should have pushed sales...
1.) The Anti-Beyonce/Matthew Knowles sentiment (guess we can dismiss, and do away with, those "Matthew Knowles held me back arguments, eh?")
2.) The dark-skin sista-gyrls unite - "I have a white man, which finally completes me" sentiments.
3.) "Motivation" being atop the charts for all that time (but just whose song was it: hers or Wayne's?).
4.) That much-hyped BET performance (even her "industry peers" chimed-in and lavished heaps of praise upon her performance).

I mean, she had EVERYTHING going for her... So, what happened? (I'll tell you EXACTLY..."what happened"). (As I'd said) "What happened" was the 'discretionary-spending public's' realization what Matthew Knowles had LONG-ago realized: Kelly Rowland is NOT "star/leading-lady/headline" material! She has ZERO "stage presence" (the harder she tries, to then-prove you wrong, the more it shows)! She can't sing (EXTREME WEAKNESS)! She can't dance (Kelly and Rihanna: "Sisters Of The Broke Feet")! This is why Matthew Knowles kept both her and Michelle Williams: Ladies-In-Waiting( to be seen, but NEVER heard), at DC's Golden Girl: Beyonce's, beck and call!
This why he was FORCED to get rid of Farrah Franklyn and Latoya Luckett: at the very least, Beyonce's equals in look AND talent!

Kelly Rowland adds NOTHING to the "F.A.M.E" tour. If anything, her very presence, as a "non-performing" entity, will detract from the hype, noise and buzz that his tour needs; have you recently looked "F.A.M.E" sales? He needs A-L-L the hype, hysteria, buzz he can possibly carry (ain't never seen Eagles fly with cinder blocks tied to their wings; have you?)..

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