katy perry - prism

don't let big song-of-the-summer thinkpiece industry fool u, drake was an inside job

i remember when "Drop It Like It's Hot" was released just before Labor Day and just instantly got played in every DJ set that whole weekend, that was kind of an end-of-summer jam (xp)

I think summer blockbuster songs replaced summer blockbuster movies this year. I mean, what's Man of Steel compared to "Blurred Lines"?

i recall mariah carey releasing "fantasy" with the intent of supplying a good "end of summer" song.

"Bust A Move" was definitely August into first semester.

fantasy is ultimate summer jam

"California Girls" was definitely timed for the summer very deliberately, and then the singles campaign ended up lasting so long that "Last Friday Night" was a big song the next summer. so i wouldn't be surprised if when her label decided to release the album in October they were like "let's save the summery song for the 3rd or 4th single next year and release 'Roar' for the fall."

i remember when all the girls where making that ohhhohohoh sound in california gurls in the clubs all summer

I dunno, to me "end-of-summer song" implies wistfulness. the song I always think of (which is shit but) is "Stereo Hearts."

I think of Boys of Summer

that too; basically anything that acknowledges "the end of summer" is a bit loaded

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/86799045/August+And+Everything+After+Counting+Crows++August+And+Eve.png

Heard "Roar" for the first time. Not bad! Could have made a nice Pink song.

So who is this Bonnie McKee person? She doesn't get talked about as much as Dr. Luke and Max Martin.

songwriters don't get as much press as producers

Looking at her songwriting discography, I came away with the impression that she pretty much *is* pop music songwriting for the last 3-4 years.

I remember seeing McKee in one of those Blender mag "Teen Pop WS 20" lists circa 2004.

Her first album cover is very 2004 Blender WS:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517A1JVZBSL.jpg

She's got a second album coming out, I guess.

we talked about her a bit on the rolling pop thread. i'm super keen on american girl.

Yeah, "American Girl" is p good.

the sort of more explicit vicious irony in the song casts a fair amount of light on the 'intentionality' behind her hits for perry

by which i just mean that its hilariously self-aware and it makes it easier to see that perry's stuff is also maybe moreso than we give it credit for

The writing of "American Girl" http://www.americansongwriter.com/2013/08/how-did-they-write-that-bonnie-mckee-american-girl/

"American Girl" is so awful that it makes a fairly frightening case for how much better Katy Perry pulls off these kinds of songs than anybody else could.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5646340/singles-lady-bonnie-mckee-is-looking-out-for-number-one

harrowing profile that reveals she did meth after her first album flopped and as a teenager was the 'Fergie' in a rap group with Macklemore

it's kinda past awful into a special hypnotic realm tbh

like just... that poor old woman won't somebody help her

i think cos the name is like a subconscious mashup of bonnie tyler and maria mckee as well you're just thinking wtf ur not showing me heaven anymore

when "five-inch electric-teal Christian Louboutin stilettos, Daisy Dukes, popsicle-pink hair, baseball cap with 'Loser' scrawled on the bill, eyes hidden behind cat-eyed Prada sunglasses" is what you wear to a print interview, you're trying too hard.

left out the best part: "A half shirt emblazoned with the phrase 'As If' bares serious midriff"

smh that i mean wtf does this woman have to do so ppl will recognize she's in on the joek

maybe tell a better joek idk

i think if she wore a shirt that said "As If" oh wait

bonnie mckee + ester dean + sean garrett supergroup

in a game of strip poker where they remove an article of clothing each time they get a year closer to turning 40 without dropping an album

"thematic fans"

when you put your hands on me in my demographic niche, be my thematic fan tonight

we pulled up the livestream of katy perry doing the red carpet for the VMA's. she's a profesh

verses of that bonnie mckee song sound a lot like "video killed the radio star"

i'm sure there was an early draft that went 'i was raised by a television that killed the radio star, oh-wa-oh' that was deemed too subtle

lol

https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/375956149004414976/photo/1

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Baffling that you wouldn't change the title of the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vknABmlOPwU

kinda like that

Trying her hand at 90s house:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4D5egXVqSg

i dunno, this album sounds kind of incredible

http://www.justjared.com/2013/10/15/katy-perry-prism-song-previews-listen-now/

like

https://soundcloud.com/francislctorres/katy-perry-birthday-snippet

good Weird Katy Perry

https://soundcloud.com/francislctorres/katy-perry-this-is-how-we-do

lyrics are crazy dumb but

https://soundcloud.com/francislctorres/katy-perry-international-smile