SoulAlive said:

17 days

pope

Strange Relationship

Electric Chair

Adore

RJOrion said:

My Love Is Forever U Know Glam Slam Sweet Baby And God Created Woman Private Joy Sticky Like Glue Everywhere Here Blanche In A Large Room With No Light

Glam Slam was released and promoted. MTV played the video somewhat regularly. But it never caught on.

Of all the songs people have suggested, I see Private Joy as being the one most likely to have been a major it. It's not my personal favorite from the list, but it strikes me as being very commericial and accessible (I don't mean that in a negative way), which an amazing hook.

Promoted and with a video, maybe...

-Housequake

-Starfish and Coffee

-Right Back Here In My Arms

PrettyMan72 said:

Sleep Around---would have been an excellent first single from Emancipation.

SoulAlive said:

Sleep Around---would have been an excellent first single from Emancipation.

and we would have had a single edit of it, which would have been a good thing

LILpoundCAKE said:

SoulAlive said:

Sleep Around---would have been an excellent first single from Emancipation.

and we would have had a single edit of it, which would have been a good thing

What Do U Want me 2 Do?

Has a very catchy hook and all the classics sounds in it.

And.....

Fallinlove2nite

was released as single, but lacked promotion. Momentum was there with the new girl episode broadcasted after superbowl.

My children of then 7 and 11, immediately memorized the hook and sang along. Not the best single/track by far....but commercially a potential megahit....

[Edited 11/14/23 1:22am]

SoulAlive said:

SoulAlive said:

so far so pleased

sleep around

cant stop this feeling

housequake

antonb said:

SoulAlive said:

Yea I have always thought that song should have been a single release. Catchy Little number!

It is catchy, but a bit derivative.

love dorothy parker but a single? idk

play in the sunshine should/couldve been a single

rgt17 said:

The FUTURE - given the hype of Batman that summer. A fantastic video and a 12”remix I think would have sent it top 10. SO FAR, SO PLEASED. Gwen Stefani perhaps in a video promo with Prince makes this a top ten for sure LOLITA … a video and it continues his “ comeback”. THE DANCE ELECTRIC. during the Purple Rain era … with a

"The Future" was a single with a great remix, albeit only in the UK.

"So Far, So Pleased" wasn't green-lighted by the record companies, nor "Waiting Room". A shame.

"Lolita" was performed on a

RJOrion said:

Definitely "Housquake" and "Ballad Of Dorothy Parker"

"The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker" was slated as the follow up single.

But, then we got "If I Was Your Girlfriend" with the fake (extended version) on the 12"

nayroo2002 said:

TBODP would not have helped the album anymore than IIWYG IMO, brilliant as it is.

its a sleeper track.

its like releasing somethin in the water as a single.

LOVE from 3121.

Right back here in my Arms (Emancipation)

[Edited 11/14/23 9:23am]

the emancipation singles should have been sleep around (with a masters at work remix), the love we make, in this bed eye scream, and maybe one of us (though that would prob have been too soon as it had just come out the year before).