Thread:Quickrydina/@comment-4919485-20170414170102

Hey! I've been listening to the three singles from Places, and I'm annoyed. Pissed, even. Several problems... Several.

1st. If she wanted to come out with a ballad, her first single should NOT have been Love Is Alive!! It's too dead. I get the whole opening the album with a story to tell, but the public doesn't care if she's opening up to love, and us fans know how she is, so, we don't need her to be announcing it all the time. Run To You is obviously the better single AND it's a ballad! It should have been the opening single, instead.

2nd. The production is not right. The songs are too slow, or too dragged. Love Is Alive is so slow and dead that it literally sounds like she's singing out of rhythm for the verses. The first record was too burried in production, the second is way too naked. She's out of balance. Like Celine Dión, her vocals are too piercing... If the production isn't booming as well, their belts just sound overwhelming. Listen to All By Myself, The Power of Love, My Heart Will Go On etc, the song always goes up before Celine's big belts, to match her voice, otherwise is pierces through the music and feels like a slap to the face. Besides of that, Run To You is a song that NATURALLY asks for a crescendo.

Run To You should start with the pulled back music, the first bit is correct. But then, after the first chorus, it should pick up, not only in speed, but in production too. The percussion should be heavier here, kinda like an Out of The Woods effect. So, by the time the second chorus came along, it would be growing, so that when it went softer for the bridge, it wouldn't sound exactly like the verses. The song needs to be DOWN - UP - UP - DOWN - PEAK. Finally, the tempo needs to be a bit faster, because the last chorus is very powerful, and it can be very overwhelming to the public ears; slower, it takes longer to get through. If it was faster, it'd be more dynamic.

3rd. Instead of burning off all of her songs, why doesn't her label get her songs on the radio? THERE IS NO PROMOTION WITHOUT RADIO! Songs play on the radio, that's how people get used to them, by hearing them everywhere, by not being able to escape them. Like the Ellen Show is gonna get her a hit! She needed touring, so, they gave her now. She still needs radio play and she needs smart promotion.

Somebody should be putting up billboards. Oh, don't have money for that? No problem! Somebody should anonymously pull up posters all over the city, promoting Run To You and Anything's Possible. Someone should be picking random places around LA to set shop and invite passersby to listen to the songs. Someone should use Twitter to anonymously send big celebrities, like Adele, links to the Run To You video, and Gaga, and Katy Perry, and Sia!! If one of those girls like it, they'll definitely retweet it and talk about it, and that will get their public's attention. THAT'S how you get the word out. Lea is friends with Rachel Platten, whose hit song sounds a lot like Anything's Possible... Rachel should be tagging the shit out of the song. She could use Emma Roberts, she could use Ryan Seacrest... All of these people who can talk about her and get other people talking about her. She could put one of her songs up to be used on a TV show, like Chord did. It's nothing, but it's a way to get her noticed...

So many smart, fairly inexpensive ways to promote and expose her music. Until it gets the the point in which people are making remixes of it. Can you imagine a remix of Run To You? The song has so many possibilities! It works amazingly as a ballad, but pick up the pace, add an EDM beat to it, and you got a summer hit. It would be even better, because people tend to devalue EDM songs, but they are cactchy. It would be mindblowing when they heard this Remix song performed live, by this amazing vocalist  