Worse than WW 

This is a bop, but the video... 

18 minutes ago, Nefertiti0 said:

Spotify
#145 Global - 1,426,144
#198 US - 351,259
#95 Norway - 15,686
#144 Brazil - 208,648
#152 Finland - 11,216
#183 Sweden - 22,764

See how it literally did 1,43M global during the first day... I see the pattern here... Katy mastermind

17 minutes ago, BlueBlue said:

I don't understand yall. What numbers do you expect from Katy Perry music. I understand that people talked about her flopping during Witness era because previous era at that time was Prism with 2 huge hits massive tour superbowl etc. But now after witness and smile? Yall just bored or something

Exactly! Why are they expecting a smash? She's been flopping for a while now. This isn't news.

32 minutes ago, KatyPrismSpirit said:

Decent numbers. I genuinely expected much worse

 

53 minutes ago, Nefertiti0 said:

Spotify
#145 Global - 1,426,144
#198 US - 351,259
#95 Norway - 15,686
#144 Brazil - 208,648
#152 Finland - 11,216
#183 Sweden - 22,764

This is better than I expected considering the mediocre playlist reach and that WW already ate up the comeback buzz. 

This song is so boring.

 

I watched the music video and was waiting for something at least a little bit interesting in the production, but nothing

 

With how repetitive it is, the song needed a bridge.

 

She could've got this song from any generic pop producer, there was no point to it 

Well that's a terrible result 

Not 1.43m  

1 minute ago, OrgVisual said:

Not 1.43m  

'143' charting #143 on BBH200 would be very iconic  not saying it should but..

7 hours ago, cyberraga said:

HIH and NRO are not from this decade.

 

Smile? Bomb.

Daisies? Bomb.

Save As Draft? Bomb.
Hey Hey Hey? Bomb.

NTEOTW? Bomb.

When I'm Gone? Bomb.

Woman's World? Bomb.

Lifetimes? Currently bombing harder than Woman's World.

 

 

Joanne? Bomb

Stupid Love? Flop

911? Bomb

Free Woman? Bomb

Hold My Hands? Bomb

Love For Sale? Bomb

The Cure? Bomb

I Got A Kick Out Of You? Bomb

 

Going by your logic

1 hour ago, Hexchromatica said:

Expecting to get downvoted being in the Katy thread but

 

People thinking this would smash if Dr Luke wasn't involved are delusional, both tracks clearly haven't connected with the public, the vast vast majority don't know what a Dr Luke is

The music would also not be this mediocre and dated if Dr Luke wasn't involved though. It's all a perfect sh*tstorm

1 hour ago, Hexchromatica said:

Expecting to get downvoted being in the Katy thread but

 

People thinking this would smash if Dr Luke wasn't involved are delusional, both tracks clearly haven't connected with the public, the vast vast majority don't know what a Dr Luke is

I mean it's SO obvious these songs lack personality and umph. 
 

The personality shows in OOTB and TD should be the goal, not JUST working with Luke. Yeah, the songs may have been overall generic but they still felt like Katy Perry. In Prism you could see things start to get a little too generic.
 

This album feels like she was so obsessed with the idea of working with Luke again for another potential hit that she forgot to put personality into the songs. They're all just sooooooo incredibly dull, generic, with the most brain dead lyrics I've seen someone of her caliber release. 
 

It's just kind of shocking her team can see CG, TD, HiH, going viral every week and then release this crap like  

 

her and her team at capitol are out of touch. I fear she'd need to switch labels and start from scratch. 
 

Maybe lifetimes can make some noise but I don't see it. 

Edited August 10, 20242 yr by Gaia

The music video looked so amateurish and i wouldnt spend money too on this song.Also there is a thing called as too much teasing... by the tiem the song dropped everyone basically knew what it sounded like. Katy need a california gurls for 2024 with the world's current music pop  trend like espresso. The song must be insanely catchy from the get go,verse-prechorus and chorus all need to be on the same level.

THe MV is so perfect. I don't know what y'll are tripping

 

 

i completely agree with pretty much all criticism here or online in general, but...

 

i can't stop myself from bopping to it. i just LOVE a basic, devoid of art or an original idea, playing-in-the-background-while-trying-on-cheap-and-ugly-shirts in h&m ass song

 

 

and the mv slays idc

Edited August 10, 20242 yr by ainadalkaz

1 hour ago, Nefertiti0 said:

Spotify
#145 Global - 1,426,144
#198 US - 351,259
#95 Norway - 15,686
#144 Brazil - 208,648
#152 Finland - 11,216
#183 Sweden - 22,764

So around 1.6M unfiltered for first day

It did way better than I thought tbh… at least it debuted.

 

Hope it can stay above 1M for a few more days, I will listening this time!

People thinking this is flopping because of Dr. Luke's name are so clueless. He could produce Sabrina's next song and she would be #1 because she's a hot singer right now, or he could produce another hit for Nicki Minaj or another female rapper and the GP wouldn't even know what a Dr Luke is.

 

Sadly the GP doesn't care about current Katy's music

This has 33M of playlisting reach 

15 minutes ago, ainadalkaz said:

 i just LOVE a basic, devoid of art or an original idea, playing-in-the-background-while-trying-on-cheap-and-ugly-shirts in h&m ass song

 

 

Imagine having barely any playlisting for your promo single meanwhile your songs from previous projects having more and more playlists reach than your new ones... wait... 

The lyrics aren't the issue, it's just the genre. EDM/dance-pop tracks don't typically have deep lyrics. Like Calvin Harris' Summer is just "when I met ya in the summer", and "One Kiss" is just "one kiss is all it takes blabla possibilities." I Feel Love is just "woooooo I feel love"

 

I think Katy's still the same woman who wrote Thinking of You and Not Like The Movies, she's just been gravitating towards the EDM sound for about four years now – Zedd, Tomorrowland, Alesso, etc. Clearly, she's a fan of the genre and that's totally cool. Lifetimes is solid, but singer-songwriter pop is what's big right now. That still doesn't make it a bad song or even a totally generic song in any way

47 minutes ago, kayliah said:

The music video looked so amateurish and i wouldnt spend money too on this song.Also there is a thing called as too much teasing... by the tiem the song dropped everyone basically knew what it sounded like. Katy need a california gurls for 2024 with the world's current music pop  trend like espresso. The song must be insanely catchy from the get go,verse-prechorus and chorus all need to be on the same level.

The zoomed in shots of her face looked so bad, it looks like they shot it with a potato

I'm sorry, but the problem is not Dr Luke's involvement. The problem is that the songs feel completely lifeless and uninspired, especially with weak EDM instrumentals.

 

The instrumentals alone could be so much stronger. People are disappointed, because we expected much more from the "comeback". 
 

With the right material, like NRO was, she showed that she still has it, but these songs are just weak. That's the problem. 
 

And I'm not saying this as a hater, I want her to do great again, because I'm sure, she still could, if the songs would be stronger. 

16 minutes ago, aotwbys said:

The lyrics aren't the issue, it's just the genre. EDM/dance-pop tracks don't typically have deep lyrics. Like Calvin Harris' Summer is just "when I met ya in the summer", and "One Kiss" is just "one kiss is all it takes blabla possibilities." I Feel Love is just "woooooo I feel love"

 

I think Katy's still the same woman who wrote Thinking of You and Not Like The Movies, she's just been gravitating towards the EDM sound for about four years now – Zedd, Tomorrowland, Alesso, etc. Clearly, she's a fan of the genre and that's totally cool. Lifetimes is solid, but singer-songwriter pop is what's big right now. That still doesn't make it a bad song or even a totally generic song in any way

It's not the genre, it's the song production and the lyrics that are the issue. It's so poor quality for someone of her calibre.

 

Lots of EDM released in 2024 sound amazing, not dated, not boring, and have a dynamic production even if the lyrics are still repetitive.