SoulAlive said:

vainandy said:

I see several of y'all complaining about some of the slow songs being released as lead singles and while some of them may be great songs, I agree. A slow song should never be a lead single. However.....look at the era in which he released slow songs as lead singles and you'll see why. It was the 1990s and the majority of what was on R&B radio at that time was either slow or midtempo. Hell, why do you think I bitch about that decade all the time? I hate that decade with a passion.

I think the only time that a slow first single worked was with “I Hate U”.I really think that’s the best track on TGE and under different circumstances,would have became a major hit single.

It's a great song and got loads of airplay in my area. It was the right choice for a first single because, by then, if it was a fast jam, radio wouldn't have touched it. If people still knew how to jam in the 1990s, "319" would have been the one to burn up the radio.

'TGRES' and 'Te Amo Corazon'. Though both had classy promo videos, they were too slow and subtle to make strong opening singles.

Very upset Greatest Romance was a first single instead of So Far So Pleased or Baby Knows. What was Clive thinking.

paisleypark4 said:

He didn't have a choice.