base talk 'Katy Perry is speedrunning the end of her career right now'

[sunbathinganimal]

 

I came across this video essay by popular YouTuber D'Angelo Wallace, which has been viewed more than 1.2 million times since being posted four days ago. It's a comprehensive breakdown of how Katy has fumbled her comeback at every single opportunity, detailing why she has only herself to blame for the unprecedented backlash. Some choice quotes:

 

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I truly believe the last two months have done more to harm her reputation than Smile and Witness ever could.

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I think Katy Perry has a really serious Katy Perry problem.

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If Katy Perry is not careful, then the term 'Witness era' that we use to refer to flops, one day it's just gonna be 'Katy Perry era'.

What are your thoughts?

Edited August 24 by sunbathinganimal

[Nico Robin]

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If Katy Perry is not careful, then the term 'Witness era' that we use to refer to flops, one day it's just gonna be 'Katy Perry era'.

omg 

 

Poor Katy, it's all on her tho so I'm not feeling any kind of pity for her

[opticalillusion]

As long as these f*gs keep talking about her, her career is fine

[jesus del rey]

6 minutes ago, opticalillusion said:

As long as these f*gs keep talking about her, her career is fine

Is it? The f words still talk about Britney and Xtina 2 decades later, doesn't mean any of them are relevant. 

[KatyPrismSpirit]

grown ash man talking about speedrunning the end of careers…. yuck! katy perry will probably make more money with 143 then he ever will in his life so who gives af 

 

also not him doing this to more people

 

Edited August 24 by KatyPrismSpirit

[KK_Lover]

ok d'angelo 

[Mordecai]

Yeah we know the music is mid and she keeps clowning herself but do we really need the same thing to be said by some youtube nobody for the 1283228345th time?

[Yelero]

[Tistotal]

Thanks for your opinion D' Angelo. You told us what we already know. She is in the Jlo level now.

[Pavement Princess]

The way she could have avoided all of this if she just made a bop. 

[Brooklyn Baby]

17 minutes ago, opticalillusion said:

As long as these f*gs keep talking about her, her career is fine

This reply is giving "Twitter likes translate into streams/sales"

 

[Burn]

[єѕℓαм]

I saw the video a few days ago and was screaming 

he dragged her to filth and rightfully so

[fa77ot]

[KatyPrismSpirit]

8 minutes ago, Tistotal said:

Thanks for your opinion D' Angelo. You told us what we already know. She is in the Jlo level now.

even if shes on Remy Ma levels of tanking who gives a flying ****. she had and still has an amazing career behind her that most people on earth could only dream of. i never get the drags. especially coming from people who dont have careers themselves but just talk crap everyday online 

[Rabbit]

that loser makes a living from "taking down" public figures and will be replaced and forgotten in a matter of years whereas katys music will live on whether he likes it or not  

[MerveAksak]

D'angelo spilled as usual 

[Princess Aurora]

Maybe someday 

 

[alexrex]

42 minutes ago, opticalillusion said:

As long as these f*gs keep talking about her, her career is fine

[TipToe]

I don't believe in the idea she only has  "herself to blame". The most puzzling thing to me about Katy Perry situation is that somehow there's a full team of smarter people allowing her to make all those bad decisions. She most likely don't have the autonomy to give the last word on things, even Madonna had to follow label orders time and time again during her career... so it seems like Katy is being mismanaged on purpose.

[MerveAksak]

5 minutes ago, TipToe said:

somehow there's a full team of smarter people allowing her to make all those bad decisions. She most likely don't have the autonomy to give the last word on things

According to your logic, those smarter people could say the last word if Katy is not at liberty of making her own choices at the end though... see the contradiction here? 

[JO1s]

56 minutes ago, opticalillusion said:

As long as these f*gs keep talking about her, her career is fine

I mean we talked about normani and her album probably hasn't even done 100k units ww

[Riverbank]

I still can't believe how badly she and her team fumbled this era  Especially since it was so easy to root for her because of the recent 2010s nostalgia revival. Witness was different because there was a bunch of other factors that left long term damage to her public image. I always felt that backlash was ill-intentioned because they didn't have a legitimate reason to dogpile on her. But they did anyway because it was cool to do so and you could still feel sympathy for her. However she's literally giving them a multitude of valid reasons to hate her this time  She's always made questionable choices in her career but working with an alledged abuser on an female empowerment anthem that's supposed to get your career back on track really takes the prize. It's like she's addicted to self-sabotage

[Rihinvention]

Will she ever have an #1 single again? Most likely no.

 

Will pop culture enthusiasts still check out her material over the coming decades, regardless of how much 143 flops? Most likely.

 

I don't see how someone could achieve that level of success and then be completely forgotten. Even though the GP didn't really care for Madame X and Glory, pop culture fans still checked them out because we're invested in their careers, flops and all.

 

Katy's turning 40 in a few weeks, so I definitely think younger people see her as being "too old" now, and I doubt she'll have a 'Believe' or a 'Hung Up' moment, but most of us will probably still follow along — including to troll her.

 

That being said, I was reading the 'Lifetimes' lyrics today, and if you don't listen to the song, and just read the lyrics, it's actually insane how repetitive it is.

 

Just read them, all the way through, without singing whatever you know of the melody. It's actually kinda insane.

 

Spoiler

 

I'll love you for, I'll love you for life
Lifetimes
I'll love you for, I'll love you for life
Lifetimes

 

I know you feel it
Can you believe it?
I'm gonna love you 'til the end
And then repeat it

 

I know you feel it
Can you believe it?
I'm gonna love you 'til the end
And then repeat it

 

Like the sun is always rising (rising)
Like the stars are in the sky
You and I will find each other (each other)
In every single life

 

Baby, you and me for infinity
My eternity (my eternity)
Baby, you and me for infinity
My eternity (my eternity)

 

I'll love you for, I'll love you for life
Lifetimes
I'll love you for, I'll love you for life
Lifetimes

 

I know you feel it
Can you believe it?
I'm gonna love you 'til the end
And then repeat it

 

I know you feel it (feel it)
Can you believe it? ('Lieve it)
I'm gonna love you 'til the end
And then repeat it

 

For life
For life
For life
For life

 

Baby, you and me for infinity
My eternity (my eternity)
Baby, you and me for infinity
My eternity, yeah (my eternity)

 

I'll love you for, I'll love you for life
Lifetimes
I'll love you for, I'll love you for life
Lifetimes

 

I know you feel it
Can you believe it?
I'm gonna love you 'til the end
And then repeat it

 

I know you feel it (feel it)
Can you believe it? ('Lieve it)
I'm gonna love you 'til the end
And then repeat it (I'm gonna love you)

 

For life
For life
For life
For life

 

 

[suburbannature]

Ok we get it