celeb news Critics pan Woman's World: The Guardian 1/5, Pitchfork: "A monumental catastrophe"

[BrattyBottom]

When is Food Network going to give their lashings?! 

 

Pulverize her like some white peppercorns!

[PlERRE]

10 minutes ago, Junlin said:

What's the last song being massively lashed this hard? 

Probably something by Meghan Trainor or Jennifer López. But I can't remember someone getting dragged do5 bad. 

[PlERRE]

Waiting for habbo hotel's review. 

[gloamingtheplain]

the press she's getting is terrible  

 

what was she thinking 

[Apolonio ₃₄]

[hawx23]

The insanity of comparing Break My Soul to this tragedy of a song…

[Smarticle]

I admire her for being a pop martyr in the name of "camp"

[AmandaHP]

8 hours ago, Sugden said:

Katy Perry & Dr. Luke's Take on Feminism in "Woman's World" Is as Bad as That Sounds

The half-hearted empowerment anthem fails on just about every front

 

There's always a bit of an off-kilter edge to Katy Perry when she's at her best, which is when she gets campy, frothy, and over the top. We know she's capable of true pop greatness — revisit "Teenage Dream" if you need proof — but lately, as she gears up for a September album titled 143, things haven't been looking so good.¹

Perry's 143 chapter kicked off with "Woman's World," a release that just might have been doomed from the jump. The moment the first clips hit the internet, teasing lyrics that genuinely felt AI generated, the comeback was on shaky ground. Then came the reveal that the song, an attempt at a feminist anthem, was co-produced and co-written with Dr. Luke, a producer who has been accused of sexual assault, harassment, and gender violence in a lengthy series of lawsuits from singer Kesha. (The suits were dismissed, and Dr. Luke denied the allegations.)

But beyond the pitch-black irony of creating a women empowerment song with someone tied to a disturbing accusations, the song is just plain bad — and the music video is worse.

We start off with Perry in Rosie the Riveter glam, as she and a crew of ultra-toned backup dancers insert themselves into what could traditionally be described as "men's spaces." They recreate the iconic Builders of the City Enjoy Luncheon, drink whiskey, and wave around tools. They stand confidently at urinals. Do you feel empowered yet?

What's so head-scratching about this set of visuals, which Perry never fully commits to as satire, is that this is not how feminism should ever feel. Perry told Apple Music² that her decision to focus on this theme was because "this is the first contribution I have given since becoming a mother and since feeling really connected to my feminine divine." Connecting with the feminine divine doesn't mean co-opting traditionally masculine spaces; ideally, it means celebrating the unique joys of womanhood. Feminism isn't about proving we can do everything men can do — these days, the road to empowering women shouldn't be centering men at all. Plenty of women drink whiskey and know how to operate power tools, but that's not even the core of the issue here. It's that this is the most baseline, tip of the iceberg, generic attempt at feminism, and the result is Perry never actually saying anything of substance.

Everything about the focus of the track feels 15 years too late to be interesting, and the music video doesn't help. There's obviously something to be said for escapist pop or harkening back to the sounds that dominated charts through the early 2000s, but "Woman's World" is a nothing burger served on a chrome plate. Take out any of the fun arena energy of "Roar" and you've got this chorus: "Celebrate! 'Cause, baby, we ain't goin' away/ It's a woman's world and you're lucky to be livin' in it." Doesn't the visual of jade rollers on Perry's face make you feel lucky to be alive? This isn't camp; this is boring.

In a world where very few structural or institutional systems make us feel like we're strutting sexily through a "Woman's World," no part of me wants to turn up the volume on this one. The timing is bad, and so is the song. This reality might be something Perry tries to touch on in the muddled second half of the video, when an anvil crushes her and turns her into a reanimated, inflated version of herself that wields the gender symbol for woman in the form of an influencer's ring light — before, bafflingly, linking up with YouTuber Trisha Paytas.

But whatever her intentions were, the song never comes together. This release falls as flat as the bottom of the anvil that crushes Perry halfway through the music video.

 

 

https://consequence.net/2024/07/katy-perry-womans-world-track-review/

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Feminism isn't about proving we can do everything men can do — these days, the road to empowering women shouldn't be centering men at all. Plenty of women drink whiskey and know how to operate power tools, but that's not even the core of the issue here. It's that this is the most baseline, tip of the iceberg, generic attempt at feminism, and the result is Perry never actually saying anything of substance

[Kavish]

I was looking forward for my Katy Perry era, but I'm so disappointed. The song is generic and the video is a cringefest. It amazes me how she killed her hype and the little goodwill that she managed to acquire in prior months.  I really thought she would evolve and have both critics & the GP by her side this time.  Well that's on me.  She's sadly a one trick pony. 

[Peak Now]

The way this proves Katy is no longer an MPG because the major publications don't dare to lash MPGs that hard 

 

Anyway idk how she thought releasing a lead single that reuses the same concept that Taylor got panned for in 2019, with the same vocabulary that Meghan got panned for in 2023, with the cherry on top of Lukasz ******* Gottwald on the credits would be a good idea 

 

By the way can someone link the CTTR 45k thread? For academic purposes of course

[Spooky Mulder]

Damn! She's getting whacked from every side. Tomorrow's Spotify turn

Edited July 16 by Spooky Mulder

[Funnyfatty]

 

[Apolonio ₃₄]

7 minutes ago, Funnyfatty said:

 

[Apolonio ₃₄]

2 minutes ago, Aurora said:

Seeing so many adult men on here frothing at the mouth at the takedown of a woman is disturbing. Imagine proudly sporting avatars of women while actively getting excited about the public tearing down of an innocent woman and holding her to the alleged actions of one sixth of this song's production team. Misogyny is alive and well.

Hush up 

 

[Sugar-Rush]

2 minutes ago, Aurora said:

Seeing so many adult men on here frothing at the mouth at the takedown of a woman is disturbing.

A woman who chose to work with an alleged rapist and known body shamer of women, ironically on a song about female empowerment. Sit down.

[Bewitched]

8 minutes ago, Aurora said:

Seeing so many adult men on here frothing at the mouth at the takedown of a woman is disturbing. Imagine proudly sporting avatars of women while actively getting excited about the public tearing down of an innocent woman and holding her to the alleged actions of one sixth of this song's production team. Misogyny is alive and well.

Lol @ you thinking Dr. Luke only worked on one song off 146

[Ethereaaal]

9 minutes ago, Aurora said:

Seeing so many adult men on here frothing at the mouth at the takedown of a woman is disturbing. Imagine proudly sporting avatars of women while actively getting excited about the public tearing down of an innocent woman and holding her to the alleged actions of one sixth of this song's production team. Misogyny is alive and well.

The attempt to deflect when you yourself also partake in stan culture (but it's not like you were ever given the chance to do so in a literal decade already, and it seemingly is going to stay that way).

 

 

 

"Innocent woman". Girl, Katy is an MPG (or ex MPG atp) supporting Dr. Rape, releasing dog ****. What do you expect?

[Into The Void]

11 hours ago, IBeMe said:

I know music is subjective or whatever but like I CANNOT BELIEVE there are fans saying they enjoyed the song or mv…both are horrible

I genuinely think it's a bop 

[JO1s]

Surprised no one brought up them predicting her downfall 

 

[BrattyBottom]

2 minutes ago, JO1s said:

Surprised no one brought up them predicting her downfall 

 

I posted The Cut's review! 

[Chris]

This thread.

 

 

Some of you aren't ****.

 

[StayFrosty]

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Even if "Woman's World" didn't sound like its author had to have feminism explained to her by the top half of the first page of Google,

HELP MEEEE

[PlERRE]

This thread is a mess we are lucky to be living it

[EnigmaticAndroid]

[BrattyBottom]

8 minutes ago, EnigmaticAndroid said:

 

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