base talk '143' Review Thread | MC: 37 (+2) | P4K: 4.5 | ATRL banner (OUT)

[Galah]

a 4.5 from pitchfork being the second highest rating this album has received was not on my bingo card lowkey generous of them?

[ultraviolence.xx]

"but after one highly scrutinized flop and an entirely ignored one (which is more tragic?)"

 

 

[Blank]

Why does the pitchfork review read lower than a 4.5  

[MonsterTown]

Just now, Blank said:

Why does the pitchfork review read lower than a 4.5  

THIS

[Cloröx]

We lost, KatyCats won I hate to see it 

[Canonical Ensembl]

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 It's worse than awful. At least awful is something you can direct your rage at, deriving catharsis in the process. 

 

[Namiskine]

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How little Perry has to say is stunning. Four decades of female experience (and six writers) yield generic girl-power sentiment like: "Sexy, confident/So intelligent/She is heaven-sent/So soft, so strong."

Edited September 24 by Namiskine

[paperfectdelusion]

That p4k article is so harsh like they basically said they don't get why she was big anyway and said she should just disappear in the end

[punisher]

Pitchfork doesn't really give out low scores anymore, the higher up's boost the raw score all the time

PF2 was originally a 5.2 or 5.4 (i forgot) but they boosted it to a 6.5

[Sazare]

3 minutes ago, ultraviolence.xx said:

"but after one highly scrutinized flop and an entirely ignored one (which is more tragic?)"

 

 

that was the biggest scream for me, i've been wondering that myself

[FameIsForever]

"Drifting through the winds of popular culture and probably wanting to start again at least occasionally, it seems reasonable to assume that in 2024, Katy Perry feels like a plastic bag."

 

"As a key feature, she sometimes cites her own weirdness, as she did in the acceptance speech her Video Vanguard Award. But Katy Perry is weird like Olive Garden is exotic: not really at all, and everything is suffocated in cheese."

 

Edited September 24 by FameIsForever

[SweetTalker]

The 4.5 doesn't sound too bad but OUCH. They scathed her in that review. I was constantly shocked as I got towards the end kskskskks 

[Namiskine]

"This is kiddie-coaster EDM."

 

[KOMH]

I'm sorry but the P4K review reads like a 0

[BrokenMachine]

36 minutes ago, Pikachoo said:

i'm a r*pist.

I'm a sexual assault victim

I'm a racist

I'm discriminated for the color of my skin

I'm straight

I'm gay

I love Trump

I'm a liberal

I love money

I live in a commune

I bleed

I cry

 

I am HUMAN.

and Katy is too.

 

have some compassion for a fellow human being to another.

Oh that's not-

[Shaner69]

I seriously think everyone hates her now and it's odd because she's hot. The music is meh. 

 

 

 

This song makes it at least a 50.

 

[Ryan]

Can someone edit this with the critic outlets throwing panned scores at Katy?

 

[BrokenMachine]

40 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

a dimmed star needs a once-in-a-career single like "We Belong Together" or "What's Love Got to Do With It" to shake her from her funk. 143 has no such undeniable classic. So now what?

[Peak Now]

"Baby you're a firework" reads different now 

[Mendussy]

The way a 4.5 is a major victory for her  

[BrokenMachine]

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In reuniting with Luke, maybe Perry was gambling on faulty public memory or maybe she was just desperate.

[Broken]

Like Witness, 143 is a spectacular flop, but it's a strange one—like one of those restaurants that looks nice and has an expensive menu but serves food so mid as to be insulting. It's worse than awful.

 

It's wors3 th4n awful.

 

[Bends]

Pitchfork will upgrade her score to 39.

[BrokenMachine]

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she's prone to Broadway-ish belting with the slightest, whitest vibrato and emotionally, there's a consistent edge to Perry's voice that often sounds angry or stressed. The causal rage paired well with the guitars that characterized her early hits and gradually evaporated from her sound

This is the first time I see someone pointing out that. The whole album doesn't have Katy's distinctive vocals at all, it's autotune devoided of any emotion 

[Namiskine]

2 minutes ago, Shaner69 said:

4.5 is a win and the album is still better then Joanne

SUFFER!