As if it'll even get covered at all. No one outside of those of us here and the rabid stans on Twitter/X will even be aware it's out.
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It's wild in retrospect, thinking of that brief time in 2020 when she had delivered the perfect song for that stage of her career with Daisies while Gaga had lost the plot and was chasing past glories with one of her worst ever singles... and now she's doing just that, four years later.
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I mean, I think plenty of people here could stand to formulate a unique thought about this disaster of a campaign before hitting post on the same regurgitated virtue take that we all established a month+ ago. That's not to say I disagree with the perspective of these posts, but when a topic like 'Dr. Luke is evil for what he did and anyone working with him out of choice is also shitty' becomes a foregone conclusion, the intentions behind posts that don't extend beyond that at this point start to feel a bit why are you talking. It also impedes the more in depth conversations about this industry that I know a lot of people here (not everyone) are capable of. It's not lost on me that Kylie stans are acting like Lifetimes is the worst song ever recorded when its worst offense is how bland it sounds. From what we've heard it could easily slot onto Disco. Obviously you don't have to be positive but can you at least come up with more to say?
Some of the contributions with nothing new to say just start to feel a bit Megami 'protect queer art' entry level when I'd like to think we're all operating a bit beyond that here. This post is not in defense of Katy Perry, just of my own brain cells.
Some of the contributions with nothing new to say just start to feel a bit Megami 'protect queer art' entry level when I'd like to think we're all operating a bit beyond that here. This post is not in defense of Katy Perry, just of my own brain cells.
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With how offensive Woman’s World was, the fact that “limp and lifeless” is kind of a compliment for the new song…
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Not with those nails.
Golden deluxe edition bonus track, at best. How dare you.
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Lifetimes is kinda growing on me, but it is truly baffling how a song like that is the second single from an album by an artist who not long ago was one of the biggest pop girls in the world. It just sounds like something you could get by pairing any random b/c-tier girl with any random b/c-tier DJ. But it'd be easier to enjoy for what it is if it was just a cute throwaway Becky Hill x Nathan Dawe collab or whatever rather than the second single from Katy Perry's big "comeback" album. I mean I'm probably still going to bop to it, but it's just a bit sad.
Source of origin aside people have stanned plenty similar or worse than Lifetimes. It's just not big pop girl standard (god knows what the video has in store)
Becky Hill, that's exactly what this sounds like in the worst way possible. It's also giving Tension-era Kylie album track. I wouldn't say it's bad, but it's the opposite of what Katy Perry needs right now. Anyway the whole era is doomed already, I don't think she'll be able to turn things around for her, at least not during this album campaign.
If you take out the grossness of who the collaborator is Lifetimes sounds...fine? It's the kind of song that you'll hum along to on Capital without having any idea who it's by. But she's Katy Perry not Ella Henderson and she's capable of so much more and it's sad that the collaborator she thought would help her have a comeback is only regressing her sound when we know she can do so much more; 'Never Really Over', 'Daisies', 'Cry About it Later', Harleys' etc prove that. I wish she knew she was capable of more than what she's trying to give us. She could have had her own 'We Can't Be Friends' or 'Espresso' moment with the right collaborators if she wanted.
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Don’t do the incredible Lost Without You dirty like that.
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The good thing I am kinda taking from this era is that I hope it signals to any other of the pop girls or pop people that working with Dr Luke is career suicide and you won't get the big hit you hope for by working with that abuser. Sucks that Katy had to be the sacrificial lamb for this lesson to be learned but she made her bed, so I guess lie in it??
As expected, this departed the Hot 100 after 1 week.
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After Mary says she'll love Jason for life just not romantically, yup!