Bad Singles Choices Thread

[★R★]

Losing Grip- Should have been Anything But Ordinary

When You're Gone- Should have been Runaway
Hot- Should have been Innocence
The Best Damn Thing- I'm sure nothing else would have been too much more successful, but I would have gone with Hot instead. TBDT sounds like a b-side for the Girlfriend single.

Smile- Should have been Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here- Should have been Everybody Hurts

Hindsight is such a beautiful thing

[Presley5]

Let Go :

perfect choices although I wished "Naked" to be a single too

UMS : "Take me away" "Together" "Fall to Pieces" or "Forgotten" instead of "He Wasn't"

Best damn thing : "One of those girls" instead of "The best damn thing" (song)

Goodbye lullaby :

- "Push" instead of "What the hell"

- "Darlin" or "Everybody hurts" instead of "Smile"

[curdey]

Single choices SHOULD'VE been:
LET GO - No Changes
UNDER MY SKIN - Don't Tell Me, My Happy Ending, He Wasn't, Fall To Pieces
THE BEST DAMN THING - Girlfriend, Runaway, When You're Gone, I Can Do Better
GOODBYE LULLABY - Stop Standing There, Smile, Wish You Were Here, What The Hell

[HBK-79]

Here's how the singles discography should've been-

LG:
1) Complicated
2) Sk8er Boi
3) I'm With You
4) Things I'll Never Say

UMS:
1) My Happy Ending
2) Who Knows (sue me, okay?)
3) Don't Tell Me
4) Fall To Pieces

TBDT:
1) Girlfriend
2) Innocence
3) When You're Gone
4) Contagious

GL:
1) WTH
2) Wish You Were Here
3) I Love You
4) Stop Standing There

[Annie Was Here]

Replace When You're Gone with Runaway
Replace The Best Damn Thing with I Can Do Better

Hot was a magnificent pop single selection. It was played on the radio all the time here and I'd catch people at school singing it non stop. Hot ftw!

Also, boo to Smile and basically boo to the whole Goodbye Lullaby era. Except maybe What The Hell and Wish You Were Here...

[Devon]

Hot was a magnificent pop single selection. It was played on the radio all the time here and I'd catch people at school singing it non stop. Hot ftw!

Thank you! It was also played on the radio nonstop in my town! I know so many people that love Hot, and in my opinion, it was a great single!

[Av2005]

1. Nobody's Home (Replace with Slipped Away)

I knew her with the nobody's home music video, was the right song in the right moment so I totally disagree with you, I bought her album for this song and since that moment I'm her fan.

[HBK-79]

Hot was a magnificent pop single selection. It was played on the radio all the time here and I'd catch people at school singing it non stop. Hot ftw!

Thank you! It was also played on the radio nonstop in my town! I know so many people that love Hot, and in my opinion, it was a great single!

Hot actually got airplay on mainstream radio?? Really???? I NEVER heard it played on the radio where I live.

During the TBDT era, the only songs that I heard played on pop radio were WYG and Girlfriend. Even Girlfriend wasn't played that much.

[Annie Was Here]

^ Girlfriend, When You're Gone & Hot was played constantly on the radios here in '07

[Mental Heartbeat]

For TBDT, everything after Girlfriend was a damn mess. This is what should've happened:
Girlfriend
Runaway
Innocence
After these three, the era would've been solid and it wouldn't matter what came after.

For GL:
Smile
Push
Everybody Hurts
I Love You

I think the other eras were fine. Like, I don't see anything else other than Don't Tell Me opening the UMS era.

[★★Caro★★]

Hot actually got airplay on mainstream radio?? Really???? I NEVER heard it played on the radio where I live.

me neither.
what i heard that time was girlfriend and then what the hell...
nothing in between.
the hardly play and avril over here though..

[how does it feel]

Generally, I agree with the single choices because they choice a certain song for a reason. But, if I had pick I'd say -
- I Can Do Better should have been a single. I know people will say it wasn't radio friendly but it is, and it's stupidly catchy.
- When You're Gone was a good single choice, but I would have put it third, after ICDB.
- Innocence would have been completely wrong. People here say WTH and Smile didn't represent Goodbye Lullaby. Well, to release When You're Gone AND Innocence from TBDT is the exact same thing, and contradictory. Don't get me wrong, Innocence is gorgeous, but When You're Gone was the Pop Ballad, not innocence.
- I love everything about Smile, the video etc. But it was probably not the best choice considering some stations refused to play it. But then WYWH wouldn't have been a good second single, it would have contradicted WTH too much.
- Mobile should have been a single!
- Stop Standing There also should have been a single!