base talk Half of Katy's discography are bombs. Surprised?

[Roberto]

Katy and bomb together in an affirmative sentence will never surprise me, tbh.

 

3 hours ago, swiftawaywithme said:

No. Teenage Dream singles were a picture-perfect playlist. The rest of the album--like her discography--fails to make a significant splash.

TD is an awful album, even some singles (LFN) are bad. She did a great job with such a mediocre material tho.

[TedMiracle]

Isn't as bad as The Fame (Monster) > Chromatica 

 

 

LMAO

[TedMiracle]

24 minutes ago, sciencemagic said:

Which albums are these? 

 

I'll give you Artpop (but even that had at least one successful single), but Joanne and Chromatica are certainly not flops. Each had at least two top 20s, something Katy hasn't had since 2013. Chromatica even had two top 5s!  

Joanne and Chromatica are FLOPS. Point. Blank. PeriodT 

[sciencemagic]

3 minutes ago, TedMiracle said:

Joanne and Chromatica are FLOPS. Point. Blank. PeriodT 

saying this but not providing any evidence as to why... you're really not making a great point! 

[dumbsparce]

The saddest thing about Katy is that she didn't manage to build a reliable fanbase that could keep her relatively afloat once the hits stopped coming. She keeps trying to recreate TD without realizing that a) we grew up and b) 15-20 year olds in 2025 are not into that type of fantasy, especially if it's coming from a 40 year-old

 

That's why she and Gaga will never be boatmates.

[manuelalex9810]

1 hour ago, sciencemagic said:

Each had at least two top 20s, something Katy hasn't had since 2013

Chained to The rhythm (witness) was a top 5 and Never Really Over (smile) was a top 15, if those albums are flop even if your mesure is having at least a top 20s then Gaga's are also a flop 

[babyforlife]

2 hours ago, manuelalex9810 said:

Chained to The rhythm (witness) was a top 5 and Never Really Over (smile) was a top 15, if those albums are flop even if your mesure is having at least a top 20s then Gaga's are also a flop 

Witness 200K daily streams lets not

 

All of gaga's studio album has at least 1 top 5 single

 

 

[SharGaga]

Not really. I've always seen her as a one trick phony. Beautiful girl with an upbeat personality, a voice  that works well with melodyne and fits perfectly with catchy pop songs. But underneath there there's nothing of real substance to make her stand out from her peers. In a way she was a great vehicle for these catchy pop songs to thrive but without the people BTS doing the heavy lifting the hits stopped coming overnight.  I've always felt like she oversells herself as a songwriter and hasn't been an authentic one after her debut album. Just radio bubblegum pop that has aged horribly. Not that I ever was a fan to begin with. 

Edited 10 hours ago by SharGaga

[MonsterNavy]

no she's never had a good solid album. she's always been talentless, corny and tacky everything just looks 10000x worse now that she's 52

[Pop Fan]

 

Katy and Gaga are birds of a feather, 

two massive flops tanking together!

 

Edited 9 hours ago by Pop Fan
Grammar

[Zaram]

5 hours ago, TedMiracle said:

Joanne and Chromatica are FLOPS. Point. Blank. PeriodT 

An album which went #1 with a #1 hit single is a flop?

If that is the definition of a flop, I have bad news for Miss Perry's discography 

[Smarticle]

Let me stay on topic, unlike others in this thread bringing up Gaga, and say no i'm not surprised!

[Jay07]

Not really. I don't mean this in a rude way but she's never had a great album and she did really well with what she had. 

[sciencemagic]

5 hours ago, manuelalex9810 said:

Chained to The rhythm (witness) was a top 5 and Never Really Over (smile) was a top 15, if those albums are flop even if your mesure is having at least a top 20s then Gaga's are also a flop 

But it's not, it's two top 20s, something Katy hasn't been able to achieve in a while! 

 

Compared to Gaga who had at least one big hit and one moderate hit per era? 

[sciencemagic]

the way the Katy Kats in this thread are going back to my posts about Katy from 2021 to react to them instead of streaming Ms. Perry's 3 flop albums (as a reminder: ½ of her discography).... I have to laugh 

Edited 7 hours ago by sciencemagic

[burninredhot]

10 hours ago, sciencemagic said:

Are there any other boatmates of hers with this ratio of flops:hits in their discographies

Gaga

Hit: TFM, BTW, ASIB

Flop: Artpop, Joanne, Chromatica

[Prodigal Self]

9 hours ago, KatyPrismSpirit said:

its actually more than half since her trew debut album was a chopiana as well chi

[sciencemagic]

8 hours ago, Walk_Away21 said:

Her discography aged infinitely better than Lady Gaga. Even if 143 (and half of Smil) is absolute unlistenable garbage.

Yeah, that's why has NO non-singles with 100m+ streams on Spotify, right?  (hint: Gaga has a handful excluding ASIB, and many including ASIB!)

Edited 7 hours ago by sciencemagic

[burninredhot]

@Prodigal Self You don't have to downvote my whole post history just because I called Gaga a flop (which she is undoubtedly)

 

[FabForAThrowback]

8 hours ago, sciencemagic said:

What am I not supposed to believe? I'm confused 

I mean, honestly I don't see the point of the thread's title. Most artists have also commercially bad eras, yet Katy's peaks are really high. I think the problem of Katy's last underperformances is mostly limited to US due to the bad image gp has of her. I understand her style isn't all's cup of tea, but other than that I always find the critisism about her exaggerated and biased. 

[Mariano]

10 hours ago, manuelalex9810 said:

More than half of Kesha's discography is a bomb.

And half of Gaga's discography is also flop/bomb 

katy is not the only one 

Actually Gaga has 0 flops. If the standard for flopping are witness, smile and 143, Gaga doesn't have a single studio album perform that badly   
 

I guess I can give u Harlequin - Gaga's jazz album for Joker which did bomb as bad as those 3. But it's still not enough hihi
 

9 hours ago, Walk_Away21 said:

Her discography aged infinitely better than Lady Gaga. Even if 143 (and half of Smil) is absolute unlistenable garbage.

Lmfaoooo not OGH being back to arguments from 2015  

[Mariano]

8 hours ago, TedMiracle said:

Joanne and Chromatica are FLOPS. Point. Blank. PeriodT 

Nope. Compared to Katy Perry's witness, smile and 143, Chroma and Joanne are huge! 

[dzwiekolubny]

imagine calling Witness a BOMB  it underperformed compared to her previous albums but it didn't even flop lol

[Solaria]

11 hours ago, ArtForFreedom said:

She's like Christina in my opinion and failed to evolve and used the same old producers or trending ones. She is also a woman over 40 now and lets be honest we all know how that goes for the majority of pop gals 

Put some respect on Legend X ha name  Christina has experimented far more and took way more risks than Katy ever could.

[Katy.Kat.23]

Why do people think that just because Katy flopped harder, that means that their fave hasn't flopped  like you really think the average person remembers Joanne or even Artpop?  two things can be true at the same time. Like Meghan Trainor's last album or Kesha's Gag Order both did worse than 143. Does that mean Katy's last album was a success? 

Edited 5 hours ago by Katy.Kat.23