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Why did Witness flop?


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The album flopped, the stans went away and never came back, what happened?

WAS IT GAGA HA CURSE!?
 

Ok, seriously, why did it flop?

Mrs. Caca's career found dead in a ditch, re-evaluation process started.
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TropicOfCANCER

a mediocre first single where katy was trying to be political. it was still early post-election and the country was still aching from the loss, and katy was pouring alcohol on a fresh wound with her faux-woke, insincere message. The people wanted escapism, and katy gave the opposite. It was probably the best time for her to capitalize on her kitshy-fun image, and she completely abandoned that. 

 

The music was subpar (CTTR is soooo bland, dont @ me) + the wishy-washy political message + image overhaul + not a good market for female popstars. 

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ALGAYDO

Sub-par music + terrible image change + cringey ass antics + not a good climate overall for female pop stars at the moment = Witmess 

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TheFamousLM

Her haircut, the single choices and the album being pretty bad (though it could have done way better if Roulette and Witness were singles). CTTR was ok but Bon Appetit and Swish Swish are just bad. 

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Lord Ryry

when it comes to female artists, something as small as a haircut can mean flop. Where as male artists can literally beat some one, spit on fans and be sexist and still get #1s 

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The music wasn't as good and her fake woke image was awful!

Also Witness was the first album that had seen a bigger evolution in her work, yes Prism was massive but I think Witness would have done better after Teenage Dream. If she had released a new image and style after a smash album I think people would have been more open to hearing and seeing her evolution. You could compare to Gaga, everyone was a bit sick of her over exposure after Born This Way so no one was hear for her different experimental aesthetic during ARTPOP. 

No one wanted a new Katy who spoke about politics, who shaved her head and who tried to do the opposite of her previous image

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Delulu Rogers

Weird Image change, personality came off as cheap and fake, music wasn't the best, poor single choices, bad time for female pop stars in general etc etc 

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