Talk:Male Fantasy

Single release
Hey,. Thank you for your work on the Billie articles. About our slight conflict: there's precedent on Wikipedia (e.g. "Kill the Lights") for not confounding a music video with a single release. Correlation does not imply causation: just because a video is associated with a marketing strategy for a single, it does not mean we should treat like so.

Despite the reliability of the sources you indicate, like Dazed and NME, we can't simply take their word for it — the journalists are probably just going with the idea that the video is a signal for a fleshed-out single release. If that is the case, we'll see it going for adds on the radio, released separately from the Happier Than Ever LP on streaming services, or on a physical format; until it materialises, however, we should classify it as an album track. Prism (talk) 17:40, 20 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I agree with Prism. At WP:SINGLE?, there is no mention of NME or Dazed as reliable sources for a single release. If Billboard or Official Charts Company said it if were a single, that would be more reliable according to the singles criteria. A music video doesn’t clarify a single release, and therefore is a promotional tool. Thanks! PopLizard86427 (talk) 21:39, 20 December 2021 (UTC)


 * From one hand, you're right and I was even deleting any edit that suggested "Male Fantasy" as a single before. But after few days, Dazed, NME, and Teen Vogue suddenly called it a single. It's really messy I know and I don't know what to do with it besides waiting since it might still be released to radio after Christmas season will be over. inf sai  ( talkie?  UwU) 22:54, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, and btw here's your Billboard source calling it a single. ;)  inf sai  ( talkie?  UwU) 23:05, 25 December 2021 (UTC)