Katy Perry

She had a good run. Aged out of the pop market. Greatest Hits tours & Vegas. There’s not much to say about her.

Forgotten pop singer from the late 00’s / early 00’s Lady Gaga era. She was cool 10 years ago and when I mean cool, she got played on the radio and had a pop career.

She was like Rihanna. If Rihanna or Katy took a break, they would be replaced by someone else and fast. Rihanna went on to sell makeup and beauty products which kept her going but Katy took a break and fell off.

I have never liked her, the only song I’ll give her is “Teenage Dream”. It’s a pretty song and has a timeless feel to it.

The rest were just crap

I feel like Katy Perry never got pass a certain awkwardness she has as a performer. I feel like she never quite committed to being a hot chick with big boobs. She always had to do something weird and awkward to show she can be funny too. It's like being funny was her way of getting cred.

I agree "Teenage Dream" is a classic. In fact, Katy was hard pressed to come up with bad Pop music. If she were to put out a Best Of album right now, it would be a slap.

Didn’t little girls used to like her?

Love Teenage Dream, Firework, Last Friday Night, California Gurls, and Birthday!

Once she started on American Idol, forget it, she lost me. So obnoxious.

and I'm Eldergay.

I think of her this way: little girls were talking about not being allowed to listen to her when my daughter was in kindergarten. Now daughter is off to college in the fall.

Hopefully Katy invested well.

Isn't she married to Orlando Bloom. She won, we lost.

There was a time in 2013 when she was winning the pop star race against Lady Gaga but Katy Perry is a nostalgia act now.

Perry is this generation’s Cyndi Lauper. Lauper is the better singer and managed to win a Grammy.

Katy should’ve found a younger version of herself and wrote and produced for the younger version.

The song "Teenage Dream" is a perfect pop song.

She had a really good run. But she went years in between albums, which allowed other pop acts to steal her thunder. Dr. Luke's downfall also hurt her career, too, since he produced the "Teenage Dream" album and was responsible for shaping her sound.

It's crazy how her career nosedived overnight when she chopped off her hair.

I just discovered that her uncle was Frank Perry, director of Mommie Dearest.

I have to admit that out of all the bland, mediocre at best talent with slutty come-fuck-me outfits warbling auto tuned vocals and unable to play any musical instruments, she was the least offensive to my sight, hearing, and vision.

[quote] "Lauper is the better singer and managed to win a Grammy."

And an Emmy, and a Tony.

Come on, Cyndi! Get that EGOT!

Why did her “career go down the shitter” to use a DL term? She seemed to be top tier for a while. Although I don’t really like her music but then I’m not really into pop.

R16 I think came down to two things. One, there’s a such thing as the fourth album curse. Most people have heard of the sophomore slump but the fourth album curse tends to make most pop stars falter. It’s the album where they make after they have sold the records, done the big tours, won a few awards, made their money — and thus have nothing to prove. So they maybe take a little too long to put it out, the sound isn’t as immediate, they don’t have to do as much promo so they don’t. They decide they don’t have to work with the same team that helped them get famous. And that’s when the diminishing returns start. The savvy pop stars know that’s when it’s time for a rebrand.

With Katy, she waited years to put out her fourth album. No Dr. Luke, very little Max Martin, tried this slinky, refined disco sound (so no big choruses a la Firework or Teenage Dream), the ill-informed haircut wasn’t Rosemary’s Baby but more soccer mom, awkward singles (the one with the food and the one with the basketballs…that’s all you need to know). It just didn’t work.

The other thing is Katy never quite got the live part down. Her songs have always been about a key and a step too high for her, so live she always had a hard time keeping up. She’s an awkward dancer, and she can at times just be corny (look at the performance in SNL where the backpack kid stole the show).

It is crazy how fast she dropped out of favor with the general audience who make pop stars popular. It happened overnight. Black horse was a huge hit then her first flop came with that Olympics song.

Also she's rich asf, literally set for life. I would just retire if I were her and enjoy the fortune.

She’s gotten heavy. In her latest tour, she barely goes through the motions of her dance routines while her backup dancers give it 100%. The contrast is jarring.

Firework makes me want to jam roman candles in my ears. HATE that song so much. However, I also agree Teenage Dream is pretty much perfect.

R17 here. Please watch this video from 2010, which was arguably her peak. See what I mean by she didn't get the live performance part down?

Didn’t her career go down the shitter when she cut off all her hair and had a meltdown? It was around the time of that idiotic Swish Swish song.

I mean miley managed to bounce back from all the hate she got for cutting off all her hair and acting cringey in 2013, weird how katy perry couldn't, the general public abandoned her so rapidly.

I don’t know who’s music aged worse Katy Perry or Lady Fugga. “Firework” is one of the worst things ever and should be used to torture prisoners of war.

She.Can't.Sing.

Haven't you all heard that version of her singing "Firework" without the actual music? I've heard cats in heat wailing away in the alley that sounded better than her. The music didn't help too much either.

All boob, no talent. I absolutely loved that surprise! morning pic what's-his-face took of her when she wasn't expecting it. She looked like Ruth Buzzi!

Why do people like Teenage dream? it’s a repetitive, dumb song. The only song of hers that is halfway decent is “wiide awake” She is a forgotten relic of the 2010’s for good reason!

Teenage Dream sounds very generic, IMO. Firework is awful, sounds like yelling.

Russell Brand must've really grown to hate KP in order to post that photo.

KP's parents are both evangelical ministers. She didn't even graduate from HS.

She reminds me of Jenny McCarthy.

R26 she probably divorced him because of that photo!

I'm happy she and Rihanna are no longer "gracing" our airwaves.

This is music for 12 year old girls? Are there really grownups in here that listen to this garbage?

She had the general publics appeal but no real fanbase. After she fell out of favor with them she was over.

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Teenage Dream isn’t necessarily brilliant songwriting but it has a timeless quality to it. It sounds like it could’ve come out at any point in the last thirty years. Plus Katy manages to evoke a certain hot chick California cool vibe that she never has replicated nor have many other artists even tried.

Oh and the guy in the video is hot AF.

Like most American Evangelical Christians. She worships money and compromises her values for a paycheck. It's okay because the money is "God's blessing." She's from California not Alabama or Oklahoma.

In 2010, it seemed Gaga, Rihanna and Katy were the top three. Katy was always my least favorite because her voice was annoying and her music was generic and sappy. Teenage Dream was a good album but thanks to good producers and writers but it won't stand the test of time.

When you’re a pop singer with little or no talent and your career is dead in the water, is American Idol, AGT the next stop on the clown car ride?

She's got a good voice but unfortunately another manufactured "star" without longevity.

Who?

She faltered because 95% of her appeal was Dr Luke and Max Martin. Her songs found their place on the radio, with the big poppy choruses and catchy lyrics. Songs like "Roar" and "California Girls." When she did that album without them (I actually liked 'Chained to the Rhythm' as a single), the public couldn't care less. And she couldn't fall back on being a great live performer, or an interesting artiste who takes their sound in different directions, because she is neither of those things and was really just propped up to sing their songs.

Her public persona also became very cringe. This was around the time she cut all her hair off, filmed herself for 24 straight hours or something and was constantly breaking down or pulling stunts. Without the poppy hits to go along with it, or any shred of authenticity, the public rolled their eyes and moved on to the next thing. American Idol is the final nail in the coffin, people seem to hate her on that.

TLDR: She was just a puppet for zeitgeisty studio producers anyway. They could have chosen anyone. Rihanna is a similar case - she was just another pretty/sexy teenager snapped up by the industry to sell their R&B songs. Never a great vocalist, dancer, writer, or anything. She fulfilled her record contract, realised she didn't have any musical ambitions of her own, and now she sells makeup and paparazzi pics and probably makes way more money than she did in that awful contract.

Wasn’t a guy who was featured in one of her videos part of some reverse #MeToo scandal? I seem to remember he accused her of exploiting him sexually or something? Or did I dream that up? I’m too lazy and don’t really care enough to Google.

I remember that R41. She also got in trouble for kissing this barely legal teenage boy who was sheltered Christian bumpkin on American Idol. She was the judge and demanded he kiss her to affect her decisions and he actually did. Probably too naive to realize the joke. But people pointed out the double standard and that if she was a man that would incredibly inappropriate even if a joke.

I was once searching for gay porn videos of a guy named Perry so I used the search term "Perry XXX" you wouldn't believe the number of "cum tribute" videos there are out there of guys jerking off on to photos of Katy Perry. I felt sorry for her and frustrated for myself because that really wasn't what I was looking for, or wanted to see.

I liked Dark Horse and California Girls a little but I’m not going to sit around and listen to them.

Liked Teenage Dream, hated Prism, liked a lot of Witness, but the general public couldn't get over her haircut. I did like when she did that weeklong reality show in promotion of Witness, and at one of the dinners Caitlyn got dragged to hell by everyone including Margaret Cho, Van Jones and Anna Navarro.

[quote] Teenage Dream isn’t necessarily brilliant songwriting but it has a timeless quality to it. It sounds like it could’ve come out at any point in the last thirty years.

Sounds very 00s to me. Actually came out in 2010.

Loved Teenage Dream and Prism but now it all seems so dated and cheesy

California Gurls (ugh, I didn’t know it was spelled like that) seemed such a throwback with it’s dated imagery of California as a paradise full of blonde women at the beach in high heels and a bikini. It didn’t reflect the dystopian California of today.

She's not gone. Or heavy. She's married with a kid now. She was in a skintight brown gown (LOL) recently and looked wonderful. (Feb 2022)

She's fine, she and her millions send their love.

She's gone Kardashian now with that bronze skin, painted lips and slicked back wet black hair

During the metoo hoopla, didn't the model who played her love interest in "Teenage Dream" accuse her of pulling out his pinga to show to her friends?

Rihanna had the sense to drop an album every year while she was popular. Once she took a break she couldn't come back with any real momentum.

She's such a broad. As in she's created a broad-ish persona.

I'll always love this tone-deaf whore for hiring Brazilian meme queen Gretchen to be in the Swish Swish lyric video.

Katy is useless. Rihanna and Gaga were able to develop careers beyond pop music but not her.

You can't judge what somebody looks like by People magazine photos and their own Instagram accounts.

She’s very ugly underneath all that makeup

Not a strong vocalist, possessing what I thought was a thin, reedy sound. But at her peak she was fun to watch, had some great songs, and she's part of some good memories of my life at that time.

I thought she looked really hot and sexy in this video. Her voice is ok. I do not particularly like this song though.

She’s so gross

If one must be subjected to a Katy Perry song at least this video features cute young gays camping it up.

This to me is her best song, mature and original catchy pop. Great video too.

wtf?!

^ rather disturbing

I really liked Never Really Over and 365 and Unconditional.

She had a great run and should be proud.

...though Willam kinda ruined Unconditional for me, LOL.

Nah rihanna had a much longer run and never really flopped, she just stopped making music in 2016. And still had hits as a featured artist since. Rhianna hit the scene in 2005 and became an international superstar with Girl Gone Bad. She never looked back. Katy Perry is like the Paula Abdul of this new generation, Rihanna like the Madge or Janet Jackson.

She’s a crook and a liar like her crook crazy shit Christian parents - she probably hates all her gay fans behind their back while taking their dollar.

I presume Russell Brand’s dumping her coincided with meeting her methy folks - and HE’s a junkie…

And there’s something Trumpy about her…she’ll be doing evangelical tv soon

Her most “iconic“ songs could be used to torture prisoners of war.

IMHO "Firework" is a great song, a real power ballad that would have been a big hit if any major artist had covered it. In fact it's a pity that the song wasn't given to a better singer, someone who could have made the most of it!

I always liked her, in a mild sort of way, in an industry where most artists were trying to be touch or sexy, or trying to be the sort of whiny twinks that would appeal to the 12-year-old straight girl market, she tried to be the fun girl! Her videos were fun and frequently quite funny, she was the only major artist who made a sense of humor part of her persona. And of course, her career died when she started taking herself seriously, but it would have gone soon enough anyway. A person can't be the fun sexy party girl for when they're over 35.

She has a great voice honestly.

So what happened to her eye?

She might be a robot.

It's so weird how she touches the side of her face, trying to open her eye. At one point the eye stays closed but for 2 seconds or so she doesn't even seem to mind. Is she controlled by a lizard-alien?

I hate that fkin Fireworks song. It's so fkin schmatlzy and fake feel good. And the vocals aren't strong enough for its corny lyrics. I think Gaga would have killed the vocals.

R72 and r73:

Rather reminiscent of Bieber’s medical problem

Like all young pop tarts, she had great style. I see her now and I can believe how frau-like she's become. The menulog adverts are like someone's tubby mom playing dress ups.

Caruso for da Win

She was a pretty girl with an okay singing voice and excellent producers who made fun, feelgood pop. She's dumb as a rock, so wasn't able to reinvent herself and got rid of her best production team. I'm shocked she hasn't gone back to the Christian market and pander to born-agains, that's some good money. But she's set for life anyway and doesn't need to worry.