BUtterfield 8 40,718 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 (edited) The sense, going into her seventh album era, is of a 2010s pop star now very much on the back foot – one compounded by pre-release visuals that seemed nakedly inspired by the warped futurism of next-gen stars Arca and Charli xcx. At least the imagery suggested some kind of attempt to embrace pop’s present; then the credits for her new album 143 were revealed, heavily featuring Perry’s old collaborator Dr Luke. Muddled in with all this turbo cheesecakery are blatant grasps for gay standom. “She’s a sister and a mother,” Perry sings, winking at drag culture so hard you suspect she’d pop a hernia if her abs weren’t hard as armour. Later in the video, as bionic horse Katy strides through some sort of apocalyptic scene – having rebooted as a sexy equine cyborg after being crushed by an anvil – two men kiss in the windy maelstrom. This clumsy expansiveness stumbles in a later bit when Perry rides in a monster truck with a sparkly uterus hung from it, an inadvertently apt symbol of all the essentialist, pandering nonsense going on here. Not to sound like one of those men (actually I’ll take Perry’s insistence that it’s my goddess-given right as a woman to be essentialist, OK!) but: this garbage has six writers. Granted, it is infernally catchy, but it is the Bic for Her of pop, the pink Yorkie for girls (get your lips around this!), a song that made me feel stupider every sorry time I listened to it. As well as sounding like reheated Gaga, it also sounds brazenly like Chappell Roan’s Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl. Roan – along with Sabrina Carpenter and Charli xcx – is modelling how to be a pop star in 2024: they’re inventive, self-aware, silly, deep, some of the qualities Perry had at the peak of her promise but seems to have lost for ever. Charli’s Girl, So Confusing (and the subsequent remix with Lorde) drew on the complexities of jostling for supremacy as a woman. Woman’s World is more girl so confused. At the end of the video, Perry encounters a teenager doing a TikTok dance in front of a ring light shaped like the ♀ symbol, which Perry steals and brandishes as she flies off in a helicopter. “Who areyou?” the girl asks, perhaps in some sort of self-aware nod to Perry’s absence from pop’s upper echelons in recent years. “I’m Katy Perry!” she yells in slow-mo. It sounds less like a roar of triumph than the echoing cry of someone falling down a large ravine. Edited July 12 by BUtterfield 8 6 48 4 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borisapillar 8,186 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 itswhatshedeserves.gif Katy always gave mean girl vibes. She came for Gaga and her comments about Britney over the years were downright cruel. Glad the world is finally seeing her for what she is. 11 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borisapillar 8,186 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 reheated Gaga is wild 29 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nATAH 42,205 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 reheated Gaga mother, what must i do? 16 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
palma 7,416 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 2 minutes ago, Borisapillar said: reheated Gaga is wild no lies were told in that review though I would feel sorry for Katy but she dug her own grave with this Is there some reason my LG7 isn't here? Has she died or something? 4 6 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUtterfield 8 40,718 Posted July 12 Author Share Posted July 12 38 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teletubby 134,071 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 ⸜(• ◡•)⸝♡🐀💨🚽 13 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorcerer 12,044 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 16 minutes ago, BUtterfield 8 said: It sounds less like a roar of triumph than the echoing cry of someone falling down a large ravine. HELP this is why music journalism is essential 2 12 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blahwhatever22 8,091 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 24 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanjo 1,925 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 Couldn’t agree more! Also, the gay kiss was so unnecessary! I was like, girl, you are trying waaaaay too hard! She was totally like, “Here, f*gs, I guess this is what you want, right?” 5 5 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nATAH 42,205 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 14 minutes ago, Teletubby said: edit the word flop onto the anvil mother, what must i do? 10 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edonis 28,590 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 well? did they lie? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 94,433 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 g0000rl someone did not drink their morning coffee If you see me posting like crazy, I'm either bored or procrastinating. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco 5,699 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 Damn a paper like the Guardian, which simps for every problematic white woman possible these days, is saying Katy is ****. She really is over 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlaeUrAnus 15,552 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 “Reheated Gaga” NOOOOOO In my messy era. 4 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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