ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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I think there is a version of this somewhere with the vocals slowed to a normal pitch.

Basically confirming its Hannah Diamond. PC Music seems an insular world of anime otaku shutins whose teen social outlet was shopping malls, but that's a growing demographic.

i thought i read in a newyorker essay about popular fm radio formats that katie perry had died some time ago and was replaced by a hologram or a lookalike or a clone or something. anyway cool to see that her simulacrum is still releasing music for people to enjoy

I like the dink-dink-dink bits of "Dark Horse," but lyrically and melodically it's kind of a mess. Part of my problem with her is that she has no dynamic range at all -- everything is sung at the same overbearing level, she is vocally a blunt force.

I don't know what kind of distinction this is, but I'm guessing it's the first #1 hit to namecheck Jeffery Dahmer.

in my car, a teachable moment to explain who Jeffrey Dahmer was to the kids

i just remembered katy perry is doing this year's superbowl. enjoy that americans.

:(

her concert was pretty fun, she'll do a good job

Katy Perry's wild success is or was a sign that we were lacking pop stars with personalities / anything to them, although yes there's a point to a bland anonymous artist doing pop songs sometimes.

― abcfsk, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 6:26 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is actually what baffles me about perry though - it's rare that you find a megastar of this level who represents so little. i don't know what her personality is! or what her core points of identification are. yoncé, taylor, nicki, rihanna - you KNOW what they, and their brand, represent instantly. perry...uh? she p much exists as a vehicle for singles of varying quality on a case by case basis as far as i can tell, and her cultural footprint seems very small compared to her sales...

it's too bad bruno mars was last year and not this year though

she p much exists as a vehicle for singles of varying quality on a case by case basis as far as i can tell, and her cultural footprint seems very small compared to her sales...

― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:30 PM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i've always taken it as someone needs to sing songs that will be hits on a couple radio formats and why not her

this is actually what baffles me about perry though - it's rare that you find a megastar of this level who represents so little

meghan trainor is threatening to challenge for this position sadly

i like katy perry, i rarely turn her songs off in the car, they are pretty great in their own limited way

She seems deliberately constructed for halftime shows. Do you think maybe there will be fireworks during "Firework"?

Meghan Trainor isn't going to place now is she?

Hooray for all pop stars who don't "mean" totally boring culture studies talking points.

ha my friend was aghast that her grade school students were singing abt dahmer too

in the bubble of criticism rihanna (for instance) represents a lot more than katy perry, but out in the irl world that's not really the case

If nothing else, Katy Perry has introduced legions of teenage girls to Kacey Musgraves and Robyn.

i sincerely regret not putting meghan trainor at #1

I liked Katy Perry a lot more after I watched her movie, which I guess was the point of it.

i've felt for sometime that katy perry is this generation's paula abdul (like i guess gaga is cyndi lauper). but that does a disservice to paula who was an all time great dancer. katy perry fails at every level of being a good pop star. i guess her appeal is that she's sexy but also an all american girl next door like some 50s pin-up which makes her safe for parents and kids to like? idk surely her expiration date is approaching.

you'd probably be surprised by how many people find katy perry and nicki minaj to have the same sort of appeal

katy perry is a garbage person but I like this song and it makes me feel bad

her complete cultural appropriation/naivety act is the thing that really grates, and I really think she doesn't understand why it's bad

ironically, the friend I spend the most time explaining certain types of cultural baggage to went to the same high school as katy perry. something in the water out there.

if katy perry had a video with mc skat kat all would be forgiven

i guess her appeal is that she's sexy but also an all american girl next door like some 50s pin-up which makes her safe for parents and kids to like? idk surely her expiration date is approaching.

― prolego, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:34 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark

this is sort of her appeal -- it's an edginess that's not *too* edgy, but it's also weaponized sex appeal in the same vein of rihanna and nicki minaj

at EMP last year somebody delivered a fervent defense of Katy Perry as singer-songwriter and Christian escapee. It wasn't persuasive.

whats the relationship between pc music and vaporwave

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:06 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

Vaporwave >>>>>>>

otoh I hate the terms used to dismiss her

katy perry and nicki minaj to have the same sort of appeal

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, January 20, 2015 6:34 PM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

neon wigs and funny faces?

it's not just cultural talking points, it's character as well - with most megastars you get a sense of who they are as a person (doesn't matter how much of this is artifice). katy perry is just...chameleonic but not in an interesting way, if she wasn't so famous she'd be forgettable

Start w/ Lookin Ass and not Anaconda
― 龜, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:33 PM (54 minutes ago)

i did!

Cultural appropriation, puh-lease. Nobody is not a cultural appropriation. You are born neck deep in culture and it all came from everywhere and everybody took it from everybody.

I do recall Ann Powers on NPR saying a few years back that Katy Perry meant "kooky" or "wacky" or some other situation comedy type adjective. So, there's your deep meaning.

still hoping that Meaghan Trainor track appears, i gave it a high vote!

i sincerely regret not putting meghan trainor at #1

― example (crüt),

Hooray for all pop stars who don't "mean" totally boring culture studies talking points.

― Vic Perry, Tuesday,

Not what it's about though - she doesn't have to 'mean' anything but the issue is she 'isn't' anything either. Voice? Presence? Performance? Visuals? Can't really describe her at all without pointing to specific singles. It's not a problem per se but it's surprising to me how huge she is in the history of selling records.

prism & teenage dream are pretty decent albums

Katy Perry's being ex-CCM is definitely a part of her "thing"

if she wasn't so famous she'd be forgettable

― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:36 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Almost zenlike

neon wigs and funny faces?

shooting shit from their tits, for instance

music nerds can split the differences between nicki & KP but when you start to talk about global stardom the similarities begin to blend

theoretically pro-"dark horse" bc it's a false "moments in love"

When my son was very young, he found a copy of RS with Perry on it and fell in love with it, kissed it, kept it in his toybox for a while, was embarrassed when I brought it up

That's kinda the extent of my opinion of Katy Perry I guess

if meghan trainor has a song that sounds like art of noise i'll prob like that too

i just remembered katy perry is doing this year's superbowl. enjoy that americans.

― prolego, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:29 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

with special guest star lenny kravitz lmao

i'll also say that prism & teenage dream get bad raps around here -- neither is a great album and she doesn't have the point of view of carly rae jepsen or charli xcx, but there are some pretty good non-singles across both albums

When my son was very young, he found a copy of RS with Perry on it and fell in love with it, kissed it, kept it in his toybox for a while, was embarrassed when I brought it up

Hope he doesn't know how to use google, because your name is right beneath that post.

http://i.imgur.com/oHEK7Tr.jpg

48 JESSIE WARE "Champagne Kisses" [286 points, 10 votes]
http://youtu.be/8qAp5g5keUA

she doesn't have the point of view of carly rae jepsen or charli xcx

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, January 20, 2015 6:39 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty good shade

YAY xp

ayo look at this gorgeous heartbreaking song i did not vote for

voted for this but totally didn't expect this to place. nice :)