Worse voice.

I'm not so thrilled by her look either.

Unfortunately when you have Axl, all things are fucked up, or close to a fuck-up. The reason this album will flop is mostly Axl and not the music. The management promoted the shit out of this record, nothing more can be done. Without Axl telling the world he's back or the band playing great gigs who would anyone but the diehards be really interested?

It's not a damn shoe when it's enough to put out some posters and make some tv ads. It's art and when it comes to art three things motivate a buyer: past experience (it's doubtful in this case since many knows it's not the classic band), live shows (there wasn't any this year, so nobody got excited and told his friends how great Axl/GN'R is) and the artists personal views on the album (there was no interview, not a single word). I remember that reading interviews made me excited a lot of times to listen a new band/artist. But there isn't anything.

I said a thousand times that I'm more interested in the music than in the number of sales. I said it when Axlites were dissing Slash's 5 O'clock, which is one of my favourite albums, and I said the same when Axlites said how less(!!!) sales Contraband had and how CD will rule the world. Although Chinese Democracy isn't a great album in my mind, it has a lot of problems, both music and production wise, but it's still a good enough album to sell a lot more than it does.

The reason people don't buy it isn't that the music isn't good enough. The millions who streamed MySpace were mostly the hardcores (doing it again and again) and some downloading motherfuckers. The majority of potential buyers haven't heard a single note off this album. They're just uninterested cause Axl is still in his cave, there is no real band promo, not even a video for this album, and even the 'opinion leaders', the dedicated GN'R fans aren't excited enough (by the lack of happenings and the 'All the leaks CD compilation) to tell their friends Axl is back. Cause he's not back, just released an album.

If CD doesn't sell three times more copies than Contraband, then it'll be a failure. It has the Guns N' Roses brand name, unlike the other record. It took 12 years to complete that album. Contraband took 1. CD costs around 15 million bucks, Contraband is under a million, I think. CD is the comeback of the lead singer, Contraband was the an effort of some ex-GN'R musicians. We all know that people tend to be tied more to the singer than anyone, including an iconic lead guitarist. Robert Plant doing bluegrass sounds more Led Zeppelin to the masses than Jimmy Page doing an album with Coverdale.

I don't here it. On the other hand the "skip" in Scrapes was intentional, for sure. Anyone who listened some industrial music can tell it. It's another question if it was a good idea.