Katy Perry

[MarcsARTPOP 1]

Honestly I loved the video, I think I'm gonna be a Katy fan

[Chinosky 1,984]

The video is not meant to be taken seriously. Yes it's her worst video in terms of artistry, production, etc yet I find it enjoyable. IMO it's more enjoyable than Roar and DH.

[BLACKOUTbritney 22,359]

She's going viral with this!

[lego 44,165]

The official video for Katy Perry's "Birthday" dropped today and let's not fool around: it is an abomination. Why can't she stop making awful music videos?  Is it time for the tough love and hard truths?

The "Birthday" video is one of those high-concept productions where Katy Perry crashes five different "real life" birthday parties (you know, like the way Taylor Swift crashes bridal showers). Only she's not Katy Perry, she's one of five characters: an elderly stripper, a Jewish comedian, an animal trainer, a clown, and a princess. It's supposed to be funny – because when aren't cultural stereotypes hilarious? – but it ends up just being really, really dumb. There might be a better word for it than that, but she gives an old man a lap dance, so "dumb" is about all this video deserves.

To add insult to self-inflicted injury, this mess of a video comes out the same day her contemporary (in the broadest sense of the term) Beyoncé is making headlines of a good (albeit complicated) kind. Unlike Beyoncé (and Miley Cyrus and Carrie Underwood), Perry was not included on TIME's 100 most influential people list. And on top of all that, the video tied in with Beyoncé's TIME cover, "Pretty Hurts", was originally intended for Perry to record, but she missed her chance. Yeesh.

What happened to Katy? She conquered the world with Teenage Dream –which had it's share of perfectly fine music videos, from the straightforward to the high concept – but everything from Prism has been a disappointment at best or this "Birthday" video at worst.

Is it just us, or is every video from Prism so far a lighter, dumber version of a video from the Teenage Dream era? The "Roar" video is basically the same as the "California Gurls" video (Katy explores an unfamiliar enchanted land), and today's "Birthday" video uses the same "Katy Perry pretends to not be Katy Perry" gag as the video for "Last Friday Night", only without Kenny G. She's doing the same sorts of things, only this time as spiritless retreads. And then there is the video for "Dark Horse," which vomits Illuminati references while making absolutely zero sense.

Katy, talk to your creative department. These music videos keep getting worse, and you're starting to make headlines for the wrong reasons. And that post-Russell Brand sympathy grace period appears to be expiring, if Twitter is any indication (it always is). There's still time to save Dream-era Katy, the entertaining pop star who had a veritable litter of number one hits. But if you keep up with this "Hey, what if I played an old lady stripper!" schtick, people will be rolling their eyes more than they're singing along. So maybe tone down the next video, just a tad. Unless, of course, you have an ulterior motive:


http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2014/04/after-birthday-katy-perry-needs-a-music-video-intervention/361185/
 

Katy Perry's New Music Video Is Just a Candid Camera Compilation of Her Ruining People's Birthday Parties

The various atrocities committed in Katy Perry's music video for "Birthday" include making a group of children cry, stealing a child's birthday present, destroying several strangers' birthday cakes and forcibly removing a senior citizen's prosthetic foot. It's a rollicking good time for almost no one. But she takes pictures with some fans at the end, so I guess it's all okay?
The basic miscalculation behind the premise for Katy Perry's "Birthday" music video is that it's fun to watch a famous pop star in costume ruining innocent strangers' birthday parties. It's not. And just because she takes off her wig at the end doesn't mean she didn't traumatize some young children by staging a car crash outside the park in which they're playing.
"Birthday" is, perhaps, the campiest song on all of Prism and could have easily been translated into a very entertaining music video. This song has everything Katy Perry needs: sweets-related body part puns, balloons-as-breasts double entendre and the opportunity for a whole slew of brightly-colored outfits. She should have stuck to what she knows.


http://www.celebuzz.com/2014-04-24/katy-perry-birthday-music-video/

[lego 44,165]

You might be right.

 

 

 

 

The official video for Katy Perry's "Birthday" dropped today and let's not fool around: it is an abomination. Why can't she stop making awful music videos?  Is it time for the tough love and hard truths?

 

The "Birthday" video is one of those high-concept productions where Katy Perry crashes five different "real life" birthday parties (you know, like the way Taylor Swift crashes bridal showers). Only she's not Katy Perry, she's one of five characters: an elderly stripper, a Jewish comedian, an animal trainer, a clown, and a princess. It's supposed to be funny – because when aren't cultural stereotypes hilarious? – but it ends up just being really, really dumb. There might be a better word for it than that, but she gives an old man a lap dance, so "dumb" is about all this video deserves.

 

To add insult to self-inflicted injury, this mess of a video comes out the same day her contemporary (in the broadest sense of the term) Beyoncé is making headlines of a good (albeit complicated) kind. Unlike Beyoncé (and Miley Cyrus and Carrie Underwood), Perry was not included on TIME's 100 most influential people list. And on top of all that, the video tied in with Beyoncé's TIME cover, "Pretty Hurts", was originally intended for Perry to record, but she missed her chance. Yeesh.

 

What happened to Katy? She conquered the world with Teenage Dream –which had it's share of perfectly fine music videos, from the straightforward to the high concept – but everything from Prism has been a disappointment at best or this "Birthday" video at worst.

Is it just us, or is every video from Prism so far a lighter, dumber version of a video from the Teenage Dream era? The "Roar" video is basically the same as the "California Gurls" video (Katy explores an unfamiliar enchanted land), and today's "Birthday" video uses the same "Katy Perry pretends to not be Katy Perry" gag as the video for "Last Friday Night", only without Kenny G. She's doing the same sorts of things, only this time as spiritless retreads. And then there is the video for "Dark Horse," which vomits Illuminati references while making absolutely zero sense.

 

Katy, talk to your creative department. These music videos keep getting worse, and you're starting to make headlines for the wrong reasons. And that post-Russell Brand sympathy grace period appears to be expiring, if Twitter is any indication (it always is). There's still time to save Dream-era Katy, the entertaining pop star who had a veritable litter of number one hits. But if you keep up with this "Hey, what if I played an old lady stripper!" schtick, people will be rolling their eyes more than they're singing along. So maybe tone down the next video, just a tad. Unless, of course, you have an ulterior motive:

http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2014/04/after-birthday-katy-perry-needs-a-music-video-intervention/361185/

 

Katy Perry's New Music Video Is Just a Candid Camera Compilation of Her Ruining People's Birthday Parties

 

The various atrocities committed in Katy Perry's music video for "Birthday" include making a group of children cry, stealing a child's birthday present, destroying several strangers' birthday cakes and forcibly removing a senior citizen's prosthetic foot. It's a rollicking good time for almost no one. But she takes pictures with some fans at the end, so I guess it's all okay?

The basic   miscalculation behind the premise for Katy Perry's "Birthday" music video is that it's fun to watch a famous pop star in costume ruining innocent strangers' birthday parties. It's not. And just because she takes off her wig at the end doesn't mean she didn't traumatize some young children by staging a car crash outside the park in which they're playing.
"Birthday" is, perhaps, the campiest song on all of Prism and could have easily been translated into a very entertaining music video. This song has everything Katy Perry needs: sweets-related body part puns, balloons-as-breasts double entendre and the opportunity for a whole slew of brightly-colored outfits. She should have stuck to what she knows.

http://www.celebuzz.com/2014-04-24/katy-perry-birthday-music-video/

 

 

 

 

 

[SKANK 14,288]

She is criticized for being a comically cookie cutter pop star, but when she releases a video that is different from her normal kitsch formula she is ripped apart by the press and social media stans. She can't win, no one can win in 2014. 

 

It's far from great, but it's not as bad as you guys wish it was. It's not like Avril's Hello Kitty. It aimed for something that it didn't achieve, much like the G.U.Y. video. 

[Batwings 12,886]

That was the most awkward thing I've ever seen. 

[mic 1,415]

It is sad that multiple pop stars support the idea of being yourself. Gaga really should be the only one. Unfortunately, Katy seems to want to make people feel good too. How dare she.

Ok but what's so freaky she represents? My point was that she doesn't seem to represent that. She is contradiction I would say.

[Guest]

The video is so cute though

[HANZ 4,380]

WE WISH

[Valextra 58]

I don't get it. Everyone was so offended over Avril Lavigne and her Japanese references, yet Katy acting as these characters is okay?

Oh America, you so silly. Love the song but I wish the video wasn't so hokey.

 

This.

[Knife 6,897]

This is really fun and silly music video, I'm glad she doesn't feel the need to be so serious all the time. 

 

 

some katy perry fans are calling it the next Thriller 

 

Well she is the female Michael Jackson, so..

[SKANK 14,288]

I don't get it. Everyone was so offended over Avril Lavigne and her Japanese references, yet Katy acting as these characters is okay?

Oh America, you so silly. Love the song but I wish the video wasn't so hokey.

 

 

 

You don't get it? But you said it yourself, one is portraying a character and the other isn't. #CancelColbert

[HANZ 4,380]

Well, I already posted a comment of how funny this video was for me, but that only lasted for a few minutes, I am so over it now

[ryhanna 3,507]

Points for originality. I was pretty certain when the promo featuring those characters came out that she'd just make a Last Friday Night 2.0, but nope, she tricked me! 

 

Having said that though, I feel like more could have been done with her characters than some pranks. They were actually pretty fun characters and Katy aced them, so I don't know. I think it would have been nice to have seen more of them.