my pet hypothesis is that the radio-format landscape is so divided along implicit gender and racial lines nowadays that you end up with one of two scenarios: when mainstream/top 40 pop is popping, (white) women can thrive and men temporarily take the backseat. when crossover hits are favored*, men dominate to an obscene extent. (women of color who aren't already established stars lose no matter what.)
(* from any direction; most non-pop radio formats are even more heavily male-dominated than pop is. adult contemporary is the only exception. however, mainstream ac is, with the exception of adele, virtually unable to break new singles nowadays, and for each rachel platten/p!nk single that hot ac manages to break, there'll be like 3 white-guys-with-guitars making the same moves.)
― dyl, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 07:56 (six years ago) link
Really liking the music/production on this but the vocal lines/hooks are increidbly plodding.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 08:01 (six years ago) link
i really hate the lyric you're 'bout as cute as an old coupon expired
― crüt, Friday, 15 September 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
Witness; officially a flop. But she has a cunning plan. Supposedly..
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/katy-perrys-label-boss-says-shes-planning-a-comeback-after-a-disappointing-response-to-her-latest-album-witness__21456/
― piscesx, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
Not sure this will get Katy back on track commercially, but I really dig her new collaboration with Zedd. The video is great too and oddly moving. The whole thing kind of feels like a more successful attempt at what she was going for on Witness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrbgUtCfnC0
― kitchen person, Sunday, 17 February 2019 05:12 (five years ago) link
I liked Ex Machina in music video form better when Bjork did it twenty years ago and the tone of the song and visuals matched
― mh, Monday, 18 February 2019 05:12 (five years ago) link
new single, co-written with dagny! it's...good?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEb5gNsmGJ8
― monotony, Friday, 31 May 2019 11:25 (four years ago) link
that's surprisingly nice, certainly the most i've ever liked one of her singles
this sound would have been a good fit for Taylor actually lol but alas
― ufo, Friday, 31 May 2019 11:40 (four years ago) link
This is pretty good
― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Friday, 31 May 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
it's funny taylor beat her to the pre-chorus marching band snares lol but this chorus does go to an unexpected place. not sure i would call it good exactly but it is something
― J0rdan S., Friday, 31 May 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
the chorus is quite good imo
― ufo, Friday, 31 May 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
I really wasn't expecting that chorus. It's very I Want You by Savage Garden.
Really love this. Just the kind of single she needed to put out right now.
― kitchen person, Friday, 31 May 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
this song is fine but almost literally any other pop singer working today would deliver it better. (my first thought was carly rae jepsen, but I could easily imagine halsey, kelsea ballerini, even someone like sabrina carpenter)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 31 May 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
Well Dagny already had a go at it
― abcfsk, Friday, 31 May 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnQBqinwlwQ
I'm not particular about technical skills or talent in pop music but her voice is distractingly bad on this, sometimes she is a great pop star and sometimes she is just a pop star but it still amazes me that she's managed to have such longevity given how obvious her strain in her voice is
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 2 June 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
i think it's pretty good. certainly an improvement over the single that led off witness.
― dyl, Monday, 3 June 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
Her new single isn't bad either, and this might bode well for her upcoming album whenever it'll come out, but Katy Perry will still be the worst thing about Katy Perry songs
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 10 August 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
major label artists aren't permitted to release albums anymore unless they score a big hit single (a 'bullet') first, unless they have an adele/swift-like track record of pushing units in the past. maybe she'll get to put out an ep.
― dyl, Saturday, 10 August 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
it's pretty boring to me but perhaps the charlie puth stans will like it given his involvement
― dyl, Saturday, 10 August 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
Small Talk is nice enough, but it's too slight to give her the big hit she/they want to launch another album.
Never Really Over remains one of the best songs of the year. I'm shocked it wasn't massive.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 11 August 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
i grew to love it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 11 August 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
"never really over" i mean, not the new song which i haven't heard
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 11 August 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
lol so now i've heard it and when she sang "small talk" i was like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZdC7vvUCo
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 11 August 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link