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I chose "no, even though the album was designed for it", and this is precisely why I hope it doesn't get even a nomination.
If they got an award, or at least a nomination, for an album they have created with the sole purpose of mass communication, then I can't see why they would stop doing it, and so success for the album will just lead to more of the same (assuming the critical plaudits haven't already assured that happening). They need to see that albums should not be written with sales figures in mind, they should be written because you need to write those songs and need to make those statements. Otherwise it's not "art", it's just a product.
Still, I'm not sure just how much they really intended it to be super-marketable - I wonder if Nicky just heard the finished product and thought "ooh, we might have another EMG on our hands here, let's talk it up as being our last shot at mass communication, as if we purposefully wrote a bunch of radio-friendly hits."
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