Katy Perry

[Gagz 2,572]

13 new songs and 9 (and a half) old songs? Yeah, that's definitely more of a greatest hits tour than a standard album tour. I really don't like this current trend of mashing up new songs. Mash-ups are much better utilised by condensing the old hits so that they only take up the space of 1 song and don't overshadow tracks from the new album. When you're a huge pop hit machine like Katy, you're going to have a ton of old hits that your audience will want to hear and you can't perform them all in full or it'll just be like previous tours all over again, which isn't the point. She's performing all 8 singles from Teenage Dream, 7 of them in full and one as part of a mash-up. That is insane. She did so many gigs with that album that I'm sure everyone has already seen them live and don't need the full set again. Yeah, a lot of her fans didn't get to see Part of Me or Wide Awake performed live because she was wrapping up the tour when she released them, so those choices are understandable. But to keep her lesser hits (especially from a worldwide perspective) like ET, Last Friday Night and The One That Got Away is really milking it.

I think it's obvious that this setlist is constructed the way it is because her label realise that Prism is having nowhere near the impact or the memorability of Teenage Dream. Unconditionally was a humdinger of a flop and it's early days, but Birthday is going that way too. Roar is probably going to be the only undisputed hit from this album (Dark Horse was more of a phenomenon in the English speaking world). I think that's why unmemorable filler tracks like This Moment, Ghost, Double Rainbow and Love Me are being mashed-up, so as not to bore the audience. Say what you want about Teenage Dream, but at least it was memorable and all those tracks were designed to be performed live, except Who Am I Living For. I haven't seen any Katy fans gushing about all the tracks that they can't wait to hear her sing this time, they just want the big hits.

But I wish artists wouldn't keep gearing their tours towards the general public. I've always hated this notion of packing setlists with old songs, especially when it means some of the new ones get cut. We're hear to listen to your current album, and every song should be performed from it. Old songs should be kept to a minimum and how many there are should depend on how long your current album is. If you've only got a 10 track album, that leaves ample room for as many as 10 old songs or more. But when you've got 14+ songs on an album, you've got to reserve only the biggest hits to revisit. For singers as old as Madonna, with 12 albums, they've got to be really strict and limit those old songs to the one biggest hit from each album and skip lesser hits preceding the floppier albums. But it seems that artists don't care about giving their fans everything these days and just care about the casual fans coming to hear the hits and it defeats the whole purpose of touring with a new album. Now, I may not be a Madonna fan but it did bug me to hear that one of the biggest complaints from MDNA concert attendees was that she didn't perform enough of her old hits. It's not a greatest hits tour, it's for her current album, what did you expect? I will give Madonna props for still giving a damn about her new album and representing it well on tour, though, because most artists who get to her age and album count realise that their fans no longer care for their new work and just do a greatest hits tour under the guise of the new album.

But she only isn't performing 2 bonus songs. She's performing every song from the standard edition + It Takes Two. How is 14/16 songs a "greatest hits tour?" I mean, Gaga's doing 14 new songs as well, plus 7 old songs.

I agree that artists should perform most of their new albums, but Katy and Gaga are both doing that.

[Guest]

I like both setlist :excited:

[Guest]

There's an acoustic section of the show..

Sooo?

[Versace 7,915]

OK I give this set list a 8/10

 

improvements: Unconditionally acoustic strips away all the vocal power the song has. Not here for it

                         Where's Dressin Up she never preformed it would fit perfectly after International Smile

 

Out of topic but I like ArtRave's setlist would've been better

 

if she added Love Game (one of my fav I know she did it on all previous tours but still why every TF/TFM single but not Love Game)  and The Edge Of Glory tbh , I get that songs like Judas, You&I, MTN and Dope don't fit the theme of Artrave.

[GagaMyBlood95 9,901]

I like the setlist, it sounds okay to me, I just want to see how all this will look live..

[Quark 7,089]

No. ARTPOP alone is better than most of Katy's discography. And dope is probably not on the setlist because it doesn't really fit with the whole Rave/Uplifting theme.

Much better than the art-rave setlist ! And dope is on ARTPOP why is it not in the tour

[Jaqe 37]

Acoustic section + Katy = 

 

At least there's Legendary Lovers

[Ladey Gagz 2,512]

There's an acoustic section of the show..

 

 

 

Acoustic section + Katy = 

[Pierre 10,480]

The Prismatic World Tour is the third concert tour by Katy Perry.

The tour will begin today in Belfast at the Odyssey Arena. 

-Tour poster-

Setlist: 

Act 1  Prismatic

"Roar"

"Part of Me"

"Wide Awake"

"This Moment" / "Love Me"

Act 2  Egyptian

"Dark Horse"

"E.T."

"Legendary Lovers"

"I Kissed a Girl"

Act 3  Cat-Oure

"Hot n Cold"

"International Vogue Smile"

Act 4  Acoustic

"By the Grace of God"

"The One That Got Away"

"Double Rainbow" / "Ghost"

"Unconditionally"

Act 5  Throw Back

"Megamix Dance Party"

"Walking on Air"

"It Takes Two"

"This Is How We Do" / "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"

Act 6  Hyper Neon

"Teenage Dream"

"California Gurls"

"Birthday"

Encore

"Firework"

Stage:

Merch:

[Phoenix 17,395]

Do we really need this?  

[Gagz 2,572]

:legend:

[CalumGaGa 0]

Go kety

[Bellatrix 34,639]

Do we really need this?

[Morphine Prince 103,550]

[Neptune 156]