the whole marketing and release schedule around Force was a clusterfuck. I saw her show in Columbus Ohio with her tour but you couldn't get the album yet!! there was some delay with getting it out there and so the tour schedule didn't sync with the cd release

then in Randy's book he talks about the fact they would release a song then abandon it and release another one.

i completely agree with you regarding WO. MAYBE had the used Bottom Line as the lead single, the project could have been somewhat salvaged. it's still a bad album but she probably would have at least charted with BL. I definitely think top 40, maybe squeak into the top 20. and dance and r&b would have done well. She wouldn't have been enjoying chart hits like in 1980 and 81 but at least she would have bombing.