Is Teenage Dream the only good album from Katy?

[SimonBaetens 4,616]

No, Prism is also good and so is One of the Boys. Witness and Smile have some good moments as well.

[Didymus 33,477]

31 minutes ago, plane jane said:

wait, i thought you liked her music... are you being sarcastic? 

I like Katy as an act, especially live. She puts on a darn good show and she has a great discography in terms of fun, varied bops. But imo she never put an album together in a compelling way. It always sounds like a compromise between 5 producers who all mixed their tracks separately and just vomited them all out onto a random tracklist. Not my jam.

[Kitana 1,797]

I can listen to OOTB without a single skip. its my fave of hers

[plane jane 63,668]

3 minutes ago, Didymus said:

I like Katy as an act, especially live. She puts on a darn good show and she has a great discography in terms of fun, varied bops. But imo she never put an album together in a compelling way. It always sounds like a compromise between 5 producers who all mixed their tracks separately and just vomited them all out onto a random tracklist. Not my jam.

oh, I completely agree with you. to me, her albums always felt like those greatest hits/best of compilation records. there's no clear vision or cohesive theme to an album, even with Teenage Dream imo. I think you're as good (as an artist) as your deep cuts are, so when it comes to Katy, most of her non-singles are straight up unlistenable or just plain boring! 

that being said, I think Witness is her strongest attempt at crafting a decent body of work so far. 

[SS77 1,646]

Katy as a songwriter with her guitar is top tier perfection (“Thinking of You” / “Lost” / “I’m Still Breathing”), and it’s a sound/songwriting style I wish she would revisit one day. 
 

Instead of constantly chasing for a pop banger.

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[NATAH 36,660]

40 minutes ago, Didymus said:

But imo she never put an album together in a compelling way. It always sounds like a compromise between 5 producers who all mixed their tracks separately and just vomited them all out onto a random tracklist. Not my jam.

 

31 minutes ago, plane jane said:

oh, I completely agree with you. to me, her albums always felt like those greatest hits/best of compilation records. there's no clear vision or cohesive theme to an album, even with Teenage Dream imo. I think you're as good (as an artist) as your deep cuts are, so when it comes to Katy, most of her non-singles are straight up unlistenable or just plain boring! 

that being said, I think Witness is her strongest attempt at crafting a decent body of work so far. 

this is exactly how i feel about her albums too! like the put all the effort in crafting a good song for the singles and then just filled the albums with whatever they had leftover!

[Smother Em Eh 6,876]

No, half of Prism is solid if it was cut in half it would be perfect. Also OOTB was a wonderful debut and Witness has some great tracks like the title track, Chained To The Rhythm and Roulette. 

[HelloHangoverz 9,513]

1 hour ago, plane jane said:

oh, I completely agree with you. to me, her albums always felt like those greatest hits/best of compilation records. there's no clear vision or cohesive theme to an album, even with Teenage Dream imo. I think you're as good (as an artist) as your deep cuts are, so when it comes to Katy, most of her non-singles are straight up unlistenable or just plain boring! 

that being said, I think Witness is her strongest attempt at crafting a decent body of work so far. 

hummingbird heartbeat is a bop though

[Bronco 3,123]

OotB is great, Teenage Dream is her absolute best, Prism has a mix of smashes and passes. And then its a pretty steep downward curve

[Jigglygoth 2,569]

I wouldn't say it's good 

[ActualPatient 767]

There's some good content on her first three albums. After those three, I only really liked Chained to the Rhythm. 

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