Most audacious lead singles/comeback songs

Inspired by Rosalia leading her new album with THIS

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At the time

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I do like it, and its ambition, but something about the video and the orchestra make it look like an extended perfume advert.

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…and after Sea Within A Sea the music press spent a good 12 months trying to find something in a similar vein and then decided this was it probably because it was over 4 minutes

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“Hello, Jarvis. You’re the unlikely but meaningful spokesman for the Cool Britannia generation, reflecting our social and subliminal mores back to us. Also, you told Michael Jackson where to get off and that’s made you (eventually) an almost universally popular folk hero. Anyway, this new album. Exciting, isn’t it? What have you been up to?”

“…not gone well, then?”

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“…anyway, Thom, what about your lot? More melodic angst for a post-grunge comedown, I shouldn’t wonder!”

“Fuck it, I’m going to listen to the Seahorses instead.”

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I was just about to post this!

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Maybe only audacious in length, but I thought “ok, now that’s a way to launch a solo career”

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A single so long I went to a special screening of the music video

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Stone Temple Pilots coming back with an upbeat, sunny song full of handclaps where Scott Weiland had a brand new voice. It was really shocking at the time.

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Who You Are as the lead single for No Code was pretty audacious for the time.

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Don’t know but that Rosalia song is incredible.

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After black midi’s album of disjointed and uncomfortable noise rock:

Wasn’t expecting that groover.

And in a similar vein, imagine announcing your solo career with this

Very similar intros. He knows how to go ‘stop what you’re doing and listen to this’.

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I imagine this was a bit of a shock after The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum.

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