ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
No matter how celebrated or remarkable a musician might be, there’s that one album in their discography that missed its mark. What stans call the ‘flop.’ But, was their album really as awful as critics and music fans made it out to be?
Mike Queroz, “Bop to This Music” podcast host, and Steve Mariani, former wannabe American Top 40 host turned advertising professional, sound off on that very question in Flopography.
Mike Queroz, “Bop to This Music” podcast host, and Steve Mariani, former wannabe American Top 40 host turned advertising professional, sound off on that very question in Flopography.
Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
35 minutes
English
United States
24 episodes
since Aug. 26, 2020
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Soon after a tragic domestic violence incident, Rihanna returned to the studio to create her darkest album to-date, “Rated R”. As a follow-up to her massive “Good Girl Gone Bad”, the album is the first introduction to an edgier Rihanna, full of dubstep, hip hop and even rock-tinged sounds. It faile…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Following a several year hiatus, Avril Lavigne returned to her pop rock sound for 2011's "Goodbye Lullaby" - and unfortunately, audiences didn't follow suit as electro pop dominated the airwaves. The album is an introspective effort following her divorce from Sum 41's Derek Wilby, while still maint…
Maroon 5 has been hot since the early 2000s...but seemed to have a misstep in 2021's "Jordi" - an album named and dedicated to the band's manager who passed away. While experience moderate commercial success with songs, the album's era spanned over several years before its official full release. Is…
Mariah Carey's "Glitter" is synonymous with the word "flop". Mired in personal and professional controversy, Mariah's eight studio album and movie of the same name got lost in the general public...but has found new life in the late 2010s #JusticeFor movement. Is is truly a flop? Steve and Mike dive…
Switching up positions a little too much? Ariana Grande's 2020 album "Positions" failed to live up to the commercial success of her previous efforts - despite some heavy hitters on the album. Check out our perspective as we direct whether she was "too consistent" in this album and our take on wheth…
Madonna's 2008 album "Hard Candy" did what she hadn't done at this stage in her career - go backwards and catch up with trends instead of setting them. Check out our fresh review of Madge's album and our perspective of where it lands on the flop scale.
Listen here or watch your favorite pop music …
Steve and Mike are back for season three of Flopography! We kick off the season with profiling a recent flop from Lorde. Is "Solar Power" just a blip for the singer or will she soon be back with a vengeance? Check out our take!
Listen here or watch your favorite pop music podcast’s latest e…
What is a flop? In this bonus episode Steve and Mike share the six strands that make up the DNA of a flop...from genre shifts to poor marketing, listen now to hear the indisputable reasons behind a flop as a culmination of our first two seasons. Stay tuned towards the end to hear about new episodes…
Our second season comes to an end with the first artist to have had two (flop) albums reviewed by us...Lady Gaga! "Joanne," the singer's fifth-studio album, was a pivot with a back-to-basis country rock-tinged sound and a big ol' pink floppy hat. Did Gaga come off as authentic, though? Steve, Mike …
We're back after a hiatus that felt (almost) longer than Fergie's from The Black Eyed Peas! Fergie Ferg's second studio album, "Double Dutchess," came out more than 10 years after her first studio effort that blew up the charts. But what happens when you take a long break? You sell a sliver of what…
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