katy perry - prism

i got some inside bits about Gaga bc she is working with one of my friend's art studios for the album art. she sounds kind of like a dummy

gaga's projected numbers are surprisingly low

xp gaga's last lead single combined universal-to-banal empowerment with shrill meta electro and shifted huge units

katy's coming off 8 straight songs

following her two bi ones

I'm curious what her first week album sales will look like coming off the back of 8 (soon to be 9) hit singles. KP is basically where Gaga was going from The Fame Monster into Born This Way in terms of public good will and chart success.

The timetable they're on is interesting though. Perry has no time for a second single in-between now and the album date, so her label must have had a lot of faith in this song doing well. Whereas Gaga has enough time to release another if this one doesn't take before the album's out.

i don't think KP has nearly the public goodwill Gaga had at her peak, in terms of non-stans generally agreeing on her talent/importance. Teenage Dream outsold Born This Way, but there's still this big disconnect between how Teenage Dream was kind of had steady but unspectacular sales relative to its Thriller-like singles campaign.

Yeah, but non-stans might still like her songs even if they agree she isn't particularly noteworthy talentwise. But most importantly, after 8 hit songs, radio definitely likes her.

And do you mean in the US, because a quick google search says Born This Way outsold Teenage Dream by a big margin worldwide, which is why I was curious about her album sales this time around. Will Katy be a Rihanna with hit after hit but surprisingly mediocre album sales, or will she be able to convince the public, especially the global public to invest in an album from her now?

i might like this one more than any of her other songs, which isn't saying much, but i came around on "teenage dream." and i like this a lot better than the sara bareilles song, definitely, so w/e about that. "brave" doesn't have the swooshy gigantic guitar sound in the chorus, and that's the whole hook of "roar" for me

THAT SWOOSH MAKES ME DRUNK

the way she pronounces the word "past" in the first verse irritates me every time, most of all because it should be impossible to pronounce that word weirdly

but yeah i meant in the US specifically Teenage Dream outsold Born This Way. Gaga def has more international appeal.

Good song!

roar is a total earworm.

if you took a songwriting robot and programmed in "girl on fire" "stronger" the recent p!nk catalogue and some shit by the script you'd get this basically, right?

so awesome how katy perry is overcoming the haters, way to go katy *yaaaawn*

this will sell a zillion copies but this is strictly mid-range, "wide awake" level katy perry song

every time i accidentally hear this song it horrifies me

if you took a songwriting robot and programmed in "girl on fire" "stronger" the recent p!nk catalogue and some shit by the script you'd get this basically, right?

mmm thanks I love the taste of vomit in my mouth

seriously though, the lyrics, i'd have loved to be there during the songwriting process: you CANNOT pack this many clichés into a song unless you're being self-aware, but there's nothing in perry's delivery to suggest this

perry is always self-aware i think, and her delivery always isn't. that's like her thing.

i feel like it's the opposite; she's always got an audible smirk but every time she's tried to be funny on purpose she's totally blown it

yeah i don't think she really pulls off self-awareness or humor that well... rebecca black was so much better at both of those things in the "TGIF" video

"roar" strikes me as the baldest pop grab imaginable, i don't think there's anything ironic about it. straight shamelessness imo.

yeah...she's probably been told how inspiring "Firework" was by so many people that she's trying to uplift the human race all over again.

yep

but it's working so c'est la vie

i kind of like the shouts on the verses. reminds me of miguel's WHHAP more than the lumineers or whatever.

oh come on, pretty sure a chorus beginning with "i'm the eye of the tiger" is a bit more tongue-in-cheek/self-aware than y'all are making it out to be

the whole thing's basically (purposely) a series of arranged motivational poster cliches, just a fun harmless late-summer anthem -- no gravitas detectable imo

the wide awake chorus is actually really beautiful but the verses are shit

p much the same with Roar

Katy Perry gives the impression that she believes "I'm the eye of the tiger" is an affirmation like the St. Francis prayer.

just a fun harmless late-summer anthem

rock bottom standards

what makes something a "late summer" anthem

coming out in august?

basically

rock bottom standards

― lex pretend, Sunday, August 18, 2013 5:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

plus DELICIOUS GUITAR SWOOSHES

coming out in august?

― 1staethyr, Sunday, August 18, 2013 5:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

basically

― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Sunday, August 18, 2013 7:18 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

so that makes "blurred lines" a... spring anthem

blurred lines really is so weird, it sounds like it would be in a commercial for kohl's

hahahahahaha

apparently katy and john mayer have a new song on his album - crossing my fingers it leads to something like this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_the_Hard_Way

all of these songs are coming out in winter for me

so that makes "blurred lines" a... spring anthem

― J0rdan S., Sunday, August 18, 2013 7:27 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sort of? i think there's a difference between songs that come out in spring and get play throughout the summer and songs that come out in august/september. less expectation and "event"ness

(regardless of the massive ad campaign involved w/this)

Late-summer anthem runoff:
"Roar" vs. "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

there is not a summer blockbuster season for music like there is with movies, much as the 'song of the summer' thinkpiece industry wants to will one into being.

OK IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER

it's still summer wtf
end-of-summer jams are still summer jams IMO

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSJKUJtB7_wZG2jmfAOPj7Ep7zzE5EBh8der-9hx7stguxSJ-2J

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