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[KatyPrismSpirit]

I'm so happy Katy always gets to the other side no matter what. She made hundreds of millions with spreading love and light. These "music journalists" writing hateful reviews from their basements for minimum wage can't stop her and never will. 

Edited September 20 by KatyPrismSpirit

[BrattyBottom]

I actually feel bad for Doechii tbh. She did what she needed to do on that career low track but I hate that she's connected to it. 

 

Her craft is actually great and I don't isn't you OKH to dismiss her because of this colossal failure.

[Velvet]

Just now, KatyPrismSpirit said:

I'm so happy Katy always gets to the other side no matter what. She made hundreds of millions with spreading love and light. These "music journalists" writing hateful reviews from their basements for minimum wage can't stop her and never will. 

I wish they would

[fa77ot]

1 minute ago, KatyPrismSpirit said:

I'm so happy Katy always gets to the other side no matter what. She made hundreds of millions with spreading love and light. These "music journalists" writing hateful reviews from their basements for minimum wage can't stop her and never will. 

[Venice B]

Guys I wish I was joking... you can clearly see atrl open in my computer screen like what the hell 

 

 

[ICLDXU4HS]

 

[JO1s]

Just now, Venice B said:

Guys I wish I was joking... you can clearly see atrl open in my computer screen like what the hell 

 

 

Very shaky indeed

[Sugden]

I'll spare you any more lyrical quotations except to point out that the best Perry can do in "Artificial," which wants to make some kind of point about the encroachments of technology, is to describe herself as "a prisoner in your prison."

A prisoner — in your prison.

 

[Bends]

Just now, BrattyBottom said:

I actually feel bad for Doechii tbh. She did what she needed to do on that career low track but I hate that she's connected to it. 

 

Her craft is actually great and I don't isn't you OKH to dismiss her because of this colossal failure.

This is reminiscent of the rapper Da Brat, who was in the film and on the album Glitter, and his failure hit her in terms of bankruptcy. Everyone associated her with this failure.

[Riverbank]

2 minutes ago, Sugden said:

counts to metacritic

 

In a year of great pop music, Katy Perry's latest is pop trash

 

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-09-20/katy-perry-143-review

First paragraph and they're already breathing down her poor daughter's neck  

 

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Like a copy of a copy of her decade-and-a-half-old "Firework," "Wonder" has Perry exhorting Daisy to stay innocent in a cynical world — to keep the fire lit in her heart, to keep the weight of reality off her wings, to resist letting "the envious ones say that you're just a weed." (No, really.) By spotlighting her child's untrained warble, Perry is attempting to demonstrate the human stakes of that undertaking while showing us that, as a record maker, she's living by her own advice.

[Velvet]

1 minute ago, Sugden said:

counts to metacritic

 

In a year of great pop music, Katy Perry's latest is pop trash

 

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-09-20/katy-perry-143-review

Whew...

 

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The problem for Perry is that these songs are bad, and not even in a fun way. "143" is an oddly cold dance-pop album with boring melodies, utilitarian grooves and vocal performances that feel vaguely AI-derived; Perry writes and sings with none of the genuine emotional yearning or the sharp sense of humor that defined classics like "California Gurls" and the title track from "Teenage Dream," which is probably why 21 Savage felt entitled to show up in "Gimme Gimme" and rhyme "I heard you gotta jump just to put on your jeans" (OK) with "I'm like Amazon 'cause I got what you need" (jeez).

 

"I wanna know the truth, even if it hurts me," she sings in "Truth," so here it is: "143" isn't a failure of circumstance — it's a failure of imagination.

 

[State of Grace.]

3 minutes ago, KatyPrismSpirit said:

I'm so happy Katy always gets to the other side no matter what. She made hundreds of millions with spreading love and light. These "music journalists" writing hateful reviews from their basements for minimum wage can't stop her and never will. 

Not the "at least she's rich and reviewers are poor" angle. And you're still a broke ***** too so now what sis

 

[KatyPrismSpirit]

1 minute ago, Velvet said:

I wish they would

Your wish is not coming true unfortunately. Katy will be performing for over a 150k people celebrating love, giving out positive energy, making people's day better. And here you are wishing a meaningless review somehow will stop her 

[Diet Pepsi]

Stream Diet Pepsi to cleanse your ears after that horrible album

 

[FlyPirate]

2 minutes ago, Venice B said:

Guys I wish I was joking... you can clearly see atrl open in my computer screen like what the hell 

 

 

oh my god babe are you okay?

[Amaranth]

12 minutes ago, CovalentBondage said:

They put in the same effort as Katy and her team. 

Lady Gaga can't act.

[Talento]

4 minutes ago, Sugden said:

counts to metacritic

 

In a year of great pop music, Katy Perry's latest is pop trash

 

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-09-20/katy-perry-143-review

"I'll spare you any more lyrical quotations except to point out that the best Perry can do in "Artificial," which wants to make some kind of point about the encroachments of technology, is to describe herself as "a prisoner in your prison."

 

A prisoner — in your prison."

 

[FameIsForever]

This thread.. fabulous for a throwback

[MonsterTown]

2 minutes ago, Riverbank said:

First paragraph and they're already breathing down her poor daughter's neck  

 

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Like a copy of a copy of her decade-and-a-half-old "Firework," "Wonder" has Perry exhorting Daisy to stay innocent in a cynical world — to keep the fire lit in her heart, to keep the weight of reality off her wings, to resist letting "the envious ones say that you're just a weed." (No, really.) By spotlighting her child's untrained warble, Perry is attempting to demonstrate the human stakes of that undertaking while showing us that, as a record maker, she's living by her own advice.

 

oh NAURRRR, its getting harsher and worst each review.  


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Edited September 20 by DockDock

[RideOrDie]

1 minute ago, Amaranth said:

Lady Gaga can't act.

oh uh, the kitkats are starting to lose it

 

[Venice B]

1 minute ago, FlyPirate said:

oh my god babe are you okay?

yeah it was just a scare, thankfully i wasn't that close to my desk 

 

guess i'll just start praising 143 so the rest don't collapse as well 

[Riverbank]

4 minutes ago, Venice B said:

Guys I wish I was joking... you can clearly see atrl open in my computer screen like what the hell 

 

 

THIS THREAD

[hallucinate]

5 minutes ago, Venice B said:

Guys I wish I was joking... you can clearly see atrl open in my computer screen like what the hell 

 

 

[anastaciabby]

how is an artist celebrating love and light by working with THAT man? A man that took advantage of your friend? A man you tried to bring back into the mainstream? Nah, after all the lashings every other girl gets for less, I can't feel bad

 

[Spark]

It's still crazy to me how hard she fumbled this era. The vibe when that initial Woman's World single cover dropped to now is so crazy. She and her team ****** up royally. 
 

At least before 143 she flopped with some level of dignity with Witness and Smile. Witness was embarrassing but at least she was at least trying something new with her music. Speaking on new themes, trying new sounds etc. Smile wasn't that embarrassing, nobody with a brain expected a pregnant Katy Perry during a pandemic to dominate and the music wasn't bad if not predictable. 143's rollout literally makes you question if Katy even has basic morals, it's really bad. You can't even do the whole "separate art from artist" thing cause the music sucks too.
 

I can't believe her team couldn't have predicted this, I remember ATRL predicting this when those rumours of her working with Luke dropped a year before WW. You're Katy Perry, one of the biggest pop stars of all time with pretty much unlimited resources and you choose to make your "dance record" with has been Luke and not the plethora dance producers who actually know what they're doing?
 

I don't even know how she'll recover for this. This era has honestly hurt even her viability as a legacy act.