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Richie on the other hand is in a position to do what he wants and he does not owe the World a single thing. As for me, as a seemingly the only person somewhat liking Ori around here (edit: another overstatement but the point stands), I think that's pretty much all she wrote, as far as her career is concerned. It's time to move on and look forward to having reasons to expect Richie's solo stuff. It all ended inflating for what there was to inflate to begin with. It dragged on some more and then something took place. Instead, the guitars on the record are just there in the background.īut in the end. What I really mean is, I was expecting thunderous power chords, screaming guitars and truck loads of finesse in between. I tend to overstate things online, it's a personal flaw, and I did just that again. It's lighter on solos than I thought but if anything it's mainly power chords. While you make a lot of points I agree with I really disagree with the no-guitars sentiment. That could include those who haven't heard it at all, as well as those who don't know or care, or who may have stumbled on it by accident and I was referring to those who actively disliked it. Having expectations of any kind, assumes they knew about the album so most of them probably would fall into groups i, ii, or iii of your analysis.Īs others have said, most Spotify listeners probably don't know RSO existed and had no idea an album had even been recorded, which would account for the biggest part of your group iv, as well as most of "the potential and existing audience" outside of Spotify.Īll that said, I did just realize that "those who didn't like it" may have been misleading. Maybe I was wrong in thinking Seb referred to a subset of those people who had expectations, one way or the other but in response to that, it was the other subset of that group I talking about. Like the people who expected to dislike LH because it was a Nashville-influenced record or thought THINFS was going to suck because Richie wasn't a part of it or didn't expect RSO's album to be fit to listen to because AOTL didn't rock hard enough for them, or because they'd decided Richie was a washed-up drunk who couldn't deliver anymore. And that's the same whether you're talking about music from Jon, Richie, Bon Jovi, Ori, or Elvis Presley. The only "prejudice" I had in mind was the kind that causes narrow-minded people to decide, before they hear something, that they aren't going to like it. In fact, I'm pretty sure what I said has nothing to do with Jon or his fans. No, I'm not at all sure this is about prejudice from Jon's fans. Just another mistake in the clusterf*** of mistakes they made with this project. If they had listed it as "RSO (Richie Sambora + Orianthi)" it would have turned up in searches relating to them, and would therefore have resulted in more listens. On Spotify it's listed as "RSO" - no one is going to search for that unless they are specifially looking for it, which they are obviously not doing as they don't know about it (see above).
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Not many post on forums such as this, where the info is readily available. The same can be said for the majority of Bon Jovi fans. There are people out there that love Richie's solo albums, but have no clue that this record even came out. The promotion for the album was pretty much non-existant. This tells me that i) Bon Jovi fans did not like RSO (unsurprisingly, I guess) ii) Richie solo fans did not like RSO iii) Orianthi fans did not like RSO, and iv) the mainstream/casual audience did not notice or paid attention to RSO.Īre you sure this is about prejudice from Jon's fans and not about that album simply sucking for every segment of the potential and existing audience?Īll it really tells us is that most people don't know about RSO. Since none of these acts has released new music recently, these numbers do not have recency bias.Ģk monthly listeners worldwide is absurdly low. Richie Sambora as a solo artist had 100k monthly listeners Out of curiosity, I went to Spotify to check some numbers.
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That's a bold statement to make about an album that pretty much nobody liked. That's not surprising considering that's exactly what most of them had assumed, at least on some level, would be the case long before the songs were ever released. Some people just didn't like the final product. Those who claim "it's all the same" failed to see the diversity probably because they only listened for the similarities they'd expected to be there before they heard the first note. In general, those who didn't like it weren't going to like it regardless.