By whom? Critics, perhaps. Most fans just wanted mostly "more of the same" with a somewhat linear growth and progression, not wild excursions into a new world. Good for Star Trek, not so much for pop artists.
The album could not sell because it was not finished. A lot of it that leaked out consisted in what were essentially practice or refinement sessions. Two of them did not even want it released at all.
Years ago in Ecuador I had a side business of renting theaters for full week presentations of "thoughtful" movies called "Cine Arte". This included French Nouvelle Vague or a week of Fellini or Antonioni or Bergman. We'd also do early cinema weeks with five consecutive days of the 5 best Carlos Gardel movies, for example.
But there the job was to fill about 300 seats in each of three showings to a group who had bought one ticket for the full week. That was 900 people out of a market of over a million.
Interestingly, we'd only advertise on my first independent FM (also the market's first and the country's first) when FM was brand new there and just developing. This was part of our technique of establishing the station based on an aspirational image.
Today's art films are often so dark you can't see any light at the end of the tunnel, or so confused with social buzz-words and buzz-concepts that they remind me of those photos of lemmings jumping off a cliff.
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