Popular songs not popular with the artists who recorded them

[Tusk]

Lots of artists have said that their bigger hits have sometimes been a song they didn't like or were going to leave off their albums. In some of those cases, it was at the behest of the Label or Mgmt, they put out the songs anyway, and they became huge hits for the bands....

Phillip Phillips is the most recent example... he said how much he didn't like/feel comfortable with "Home", but look where it's taken him? To be fair, "Home" wasn't written by Phillips, but the point still stands that an artist's hit song might not be his favorite.

So yes, "Undone" appears the most popular, at least, tweeted about, song on LU, I'm not saying she shouldn't put it out, as like you say, "The Customer is Always Right" in the business world.

It's only become an issue because "Undone" never got to see the light of day as a single. If Interscope decided to use it as Haley's first single instead of "Free" (no royalties for Haley makes this a suspicious choice , although the reason, more likely, is "Free" was the first song Haley recorded), she would have been happy to perform it at all the radio stops and this would be all a moot point, even maybe having a hit with it, well enough to get another single or album... But of course that's way off in Fantasy Island, unfortunately

(BTW... I have no answer to why Gangnam Style is popular ... I have, for the most part, ignored this particular societal "Pet Rock" and only know 'of' it)