I feel like I’ve watched the death of Katy Perry’s career over the past 24 hours. The whole thing is quite jarring, but when the package & song is this objectively terrible it’s hard to feel bad for her. Katy saying that Mariah is ‘good for a throwback’? She just cemented that for herself with this release.
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The first setup is supposed to be a sendup of girlboss cliches but the entire song feels like it's full of exactly those cliches? I don't get it. And how is the second cybernetic Katy any different or less about the male gaze?
But what if he's right...
What you've detailed in your post is exactly what I mean. I don't think it's supposed to be anything other than a vapid, surface-level mockery of feminism/ideals historically associated with feminism. If people were looking for this video to be a genuine attempt at being meaningfully feminist, then they were bound to be disappointed. Again, the campaign is trash. But the video, to me, isn't as bad as people make out.
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Not PAnon. The deep state of pop!
Even the decay from that song hurts and yes it should have smashed!
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I think the biggest issue with the 2nd part of the video is that she is basically the same in the 2nd half as the first.
@Overdose's explanation of the video seems pretty spot on - her pin-up Rosie the Riveter has since been replaced with a completely different set of gender politics - bald women! women in suits! muscular women! gays in shorts! look at this big-boobed woman in a monster truck! trad wives and tiktokers! And what we're seeing is her trying to explore a new world that she feels alien within.
But Katy in 2024 is just as much sexualized in the way she's satirizing 2012 Katy for being. So it becomes hard to discern what the difference between 2024 and 2012 is actually meant to be? Is she saying she wants to take us back to 2012? ddd I get they probably didn't do a full robot body cause of 365 basically doing the same thing:
But it feels like she could have gone for a Futurama, head-in-a-jar style gag if she was aiming for a commentary on being made to feel un-sexy for not fitting a male gaze. But obviously she's not going to address it in a way that's completely hostile when it's clear she wants the end-product to still be digestible. And not that she owes it to anyone to be political. It's just then a bit wishy-washy / unclear as to what she's actually trying to say.
Like she could have literally put out the below video (from 2012!) and it'd fit the song no differently:
Remember how Marina kind of snapped on a Dr. Luke-produced single of all things? Yaas queen!
The instrumental to this is still incredible and fresh to this day, something like this reworked with the 360 sound would of been an easy hit.
The physicals and radio deal will probably save it but damn...the fact that it could miss the Hot 100 is hilarious. Something about Dr. Luke's Big Pop Comeback being a critical and commercial failure is just so satisfying.
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The most clickable embed! I love to watch it, i do.
I honestly can't remember the last time I witnessed this much universal panning for a pop girl's release. I don't think it was Camila Cabello because she's not that big. I would say it was...Witness? But at least that era still had some people enjoying the music and feeling sorry for her (me!).
All the reviews I've seen have been scathing, but this bit from the P4K review takes the cake for me. The nun reference is just *chef's kiss*.
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Whenever I hear this song's hook play in my head I hear the AI version with that strange accent the technology gave her.
Also the real version feel incomplete without the guitar solo from the AI version. I can't believe this song finally made a case for AI.
Also the real version feel incomplete without the guitar solo from the AI version. I can't believe this song finally made a case for AI.
She's always given off the whiff of a vaguely nefarious, dumbass energy. It's generally been fine as long as the bops were there, held together by a persona that even seemed to knowingly riff off that energy at times. But to see her turn that energy on her whole career by making a series of astonishingly stupid decisions, and realise that the whole enterprise wasn't even remotely ironic, is wild!
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Like, why does the AI version seems more “correctly”/mathematically written than the original? The pre-chorus specifically sounds so satisfying in comparison to the final that seems she’s just adlibing randomly. They did a very good job down to the guitar/talkbox quirk Luke had in 2012 lmao.
Shivering at the thought of the Butthole Cut of “Woman’s World”
Do people really think it's AI??
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The original leak was AI, I believe. Fans had the lyrics from the album mock-ups that leaked about a month ago and trained it off that. There were several similar clips claiming to be from different songs that had legit lyrics too, but they also sounded completely different to what she played snippets of the other day.