Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Takin' It Back

Takin' It Back

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 21, 2024 by SchroCat (talk) 14:18, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Meghan Trainor

Takin' It Back is the fifth major-label studio album by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor. Epic Records released it on October 21, 2022. Trainor worked with producers including Federico Vindver and Gian Stone, and featured artists like Teddy Swims and Natti Natasha. Takin' It Back is a doo-wop and bubblegum pop album about motherhood and self-acceptance, which Trainor conceived as a return to the sound of her album Title (2015) after its title track went viral on TikTok. Trainor promoted the former with televised performances and two singles, "Bad for Me" and "Made You Look". The latter peaked at number 11 in the US, and reached the top 10 in several other countries. Reviewers thought Takin' It Back showcased Trainor's maturity, growth, and musicality, but they were divided on whether it was a progression from her earlier work. The album debuted at number 16 on the US Billboard 200. Its deluxe edition was supported by the single "Mother". (This article is part of two featured topics: Takin' It Back and Meghan Trainor albums.) (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): Weezer's Pinkerton is scheduled for September 24.
Main editors: MaranoFan
Promoted: June 11, 2023
Reasons for nomination: 2nd anniversary of release. The album shares its release date with Midnights, which I expect to get the date next year, so that is why I am interested in getting it to run this year. It feels fair at a five-month gap from the last Trainor TFA and it is not feasible to space these out by a year.
Support as nominator. N Ø 20:21, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Unfortunate that Red and this album have release anniversaries within 1 day of each other (albeit 10 years apart)! Still going to support as you're both the author and nominator, and of course on the basis that this is a great body of work. Decision of promotion will ultimately be at the discretion of the coordinators, but I thought it'd be worth it to back this regardless. joeyquism (talk) 20:36, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Both running would be the best case scenario imo. I figured one of these would not stand a chance if only the other had a proper nomination.--N Ø

Oppose - 2nd Anniversary is nothing special, plus and there's already been two Megan Trainor albums on TFA already this year . Recent pop-culture articles are more likely to have a fanbase to make FA and to get them onto TFA versus older music which might be forgotten. That represents a systematic bias towards recent events and pop-culture, which we should be aware of and try to counter-act by balancing out recent pop-culture against the greater history of pop-culture. Albums should aim for 10th, 20th, 30th, etc anniversaries which also naturally help space articles out and balance them out more. Harizotoh9 (talk) 06:10, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We allow articles to re-run after five years but albums should wait for 10 years to go on the main page for the first time...? There is something wrong with that and it seriously disincentivizes improvement of pop culture content. Should they just never re-run then? Are you going to oppose Pinkerton already scheduled in September, which literally already ran in 2011?--N Ø 07:22, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support Having articles only able to run on specific anniversaries seems like a bad precedent to start. -- Zoo Blazer 00:08, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with running the article on the 2nd anniversary of the album's release. In fact, I think it's impressive that this article was brought to FA, and added to two FTs, less than a year after the album's release.
As to the oppose !vote, if there were more eligible potential TFAs about older albums, then they should definitely be nominated for TFA. However, there aren't that many eligible potential TFAs to begin with, so we can't be that picky as to whether we run a Meghan Trainor album or a much older album. Epicgenius (talk) 18:51, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]