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

[NoAngelus]

6 minutes ago, MAKSIM said:

Music reviewers aren't doing combat journalism in Gaza. Pop culture reviews have always been shady. Roger Ebert built a whole career over the way he could word how disastrous a movie truly is. This song is getting the professionalism in reviews that it deserves. 

None of these reviews were shady. They were pop forums type of draggings. 

[Maroonx]

wow they rly tore her to pieces yikessss 

[Bewitched]

6 hours ago, PlERRE said:

I wonder if her team is considering removing the song once the album is released, changing the album, cancelling the album, starting again... 

that depends on on how many songs Dr. Luke worked on.

 

if he did like 3 or less they could scrap them and add some rejected tracks

 

but if he's all over the album they're probably just gonna go forward. 
 

but we'll see. I'm perched if Katy is even gonna respond. 

[Bewitched]

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Katy Perry's new single is a depressingly retrograde racket, a faux-feminist pastiche paying tribute to the "feminine divine". Titled "Woman's World", it would have been mortifying enough in its natural habitat of a Hillary-for-president fundraiser in 2016. But now, in 2024, it sounds little more than alarmingly antiquated.

 

With its Rosie the Riveter visuals and dreary lyrics about sisters, mothers and sexy confidence, the track also marks Perry's return to music following two poorly received albums and several years manning the judge's desk on American Idol, a show that rivals only Tony Blair and the mice in my kitchen cabinets in its refusal to go away.

 

It's been more than a decade since a Katy Perry album release has gone smoothly, with 2013's Prism – which featured hits including "Roar", a track built for supermarket aisles and BBC Sport montages – the last gasp of the singer as an unflappable chart titan.

 

The wheels seemed to fly off soon after. Witness, in 2017, saw Perry tease a shift into "purposeful pop" – an ambiguous term that didn't align with the radio-friendly but chronically basic boppery of the record itself (remember "Swish Swish"?). 
 

Perry does seem to enjoy what she's doing, and there is something fascinating about someone who steadfastly commits to the bit long after many have grown tired of it (just look at the anvil that crushes her, Looney Tunes-style, in the "Woman's World" video). It does make her deeply uninteresting as a pop star, though. 
 

Perry, because of her collaborators, is returning to a hostile populace on the defensive, her motives unclear and her sound unchanged. Who is Katy Perry now? I'm not even sure she has the answer.

[frankvert]

Kesha getting her licks in 

 

[Bad_vocal_technique]

 

[Bewitched]

2 minutes ago, Bad_vocal_technique said:

 

Is she talking about SMILE here?

[AccioMiley]

Currently ingraining every single lashing shes getting into my brain. Its honestly glorious that the majority of us can come together like this. I AM SOBBING

[PlERRE]

8 minutes ago, Bewitched said:

Mess

[Starshine]

Her evolution over the years was insane to witness.mp3. She was one of the biggest sex icons of her time, maybe even more than Rihanna pre-Talk That Talk.. only for her to get a lesbian pixie cut. Her music videos to this day always has her cosplaying some quirky underdog in a grandma wig with a humiliation kink when all she needed to do was serve girl next door. Mix that and the constant generic Pink-esque white millennial FB group mom music without the vocal talent and circus tricks and you get a bomb.

[Raiden]

Another incoming roast:

 

https://themusic.com.au/features/katy-perry-womans-world-review-feminism/nCAijrGws7I/13-07-24

 

"Apart from the abysmally underwritten chorus, this is all the content we are given. 'She' (referring presumably to all women in general) is confident. She is intelligent. 'She' is soft. 'She' is a sister. 'She' was born to shine. 'She' is all the non-specific, positive adjectives and vague cliches we associate with womanhood from tampon and razor commercials...

 

It's already unfair that I have spent more time writing this opinion piece than all 6 (yes, 6) people spent writing this song...

 

 

[Bewitched]

 

[Patient Zero]

[OnlyManInTheWorld]

[Sprite]

Katy has bad taste in music now or smth (hasn't always).

Edited July 13 by Sprite

[BrattyBottom]

28 minutes ago, Bewitched said:

 

Maybe all of the bad press did something. It shouldn't be debuting at all. 

[istersay]

On 7/12/2024 at 7:11 AM, Sugden said:

 

 

 

With its pulsating synths and steamroller chorus, "Woman's World" is clearly modeled on Lady Gaga's 2020 single "Stupid Love," a brazen return to form that successfully launched Gaga into the second act of her career. There seems to have been a miscalculation, though: "Stupid Love" worked not because of its sound but because it took the core elements of Gaga's music—slightly nonsensical lyrics, acid-trip concept, a general struggle with vowels—and turned them up to 11. It's mystifying why Perry would have chosen to mount her comeback with a vaguely political song—you just get the sense that she just doesn't really like or care about this stuff.

 

 

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/katy-perry-womans-world/

 that's brutal

[Thor]

8 hours ago, Komet said:

https://themusic.com.au/features/katy-perry-womans-world-review-feminism/

 

Katy Perry 'Woman's World': Is The Feminism in the Room With Us Right Now?

"She is all the non-specific, positive adjectives and vague cliches we associate with womanhood from tampon and razor commercials and nothing more."

 

 

At 2 minutes and 42 seconds, a bridgeless verse-chorus-verse-chorus, it is an easy digestion. Sure, it sounds a lot like Lady Gaga's Stupid Love whilst attempting to create the same global movement as Born This Way, but the thing that Woman's World reminds me of most is actually Barbie. No, not Aqua's Barbie Girl (Katy could only dream), but Barbie the doll and titular character in the recent movie. [...] Ultimately, Woman's World suffers from the same shortcomings as the concept of Barbie: devoid of any substance, an artificial trivialisation disconnected from reality created for and by the male gaze. 

 

 

 

 

 

If the Barbie comparison wasn't evident enough, we move to the accompanying, overtly sexual and ham-fisted music video. Katy has been hitting the gym and/or the Ozempic and has a rockin' bod to show for it. She has always been smoking hot, but the way that she can look so sexy whilst also making you cringe should be studied. She dances around, scantily clad on a fake construction site brandishing a bedazzled drill and a sex toy before being crushed by an anvil…um…yay feminism!!??

 

 

 

 

 

[...]

 

 

 

 

 

Katy Perry's legacy used to be a Teenage Dream but now it's more of an early mid-life crisis nightmare. Unfortunately for her, Katy Perry is a Barbie Girl in a Woman's World. Come on Barbie, let's go retire.

 

 

akakak Not a single functioning braincell in that vile woman

 

Truly the idiot of pop

 

[BrattyBottom]

Everyone go watch Bela Delgado's TikTok. They WENT FULLY IN and it's exactly the same way the whole world feels. 

[Burn]

[toast]

The song is mid, but giving it 1 star is dramatic. It might be basic/boring, but it's not unlistenable.

 

Clearly this is more about dragging Katy herself/possibly the Dr. Luke connection than the actual song. Not defending her/saying this is wrong, but let's acknowledge what this is really about.

[Paragon]

I thought we were classy 

[Pikachoo]

the song itself is catchy. If dr luke wasnt involved it would have been well recieved 

[Bewitched]

1 hour ago, BrattyBottom said:

Everyone go watch Bela Delgado's TikTok. They WENT FULLY IN and it's exactly the same way the whole world feels. 

Not me searching their name on tiktok to find out I have them blocked 

[scheibe]