Perry! Perry! Katy Perry!

[Corpsey]

I guess people said the same thing about disco, though?

Discovered this one the other day (which will probably seem wild to you)

 

[sufi]

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag? is a great line, it's a shame that the rest of "Firework" is utterly wretched. Empty, meaningless and ultimately useless platitudes, with a subtext of "I want the gays to like me the way they like the other divas." The only thing more obvious than the drop is the pandering, and I think that's why she's never really acheived the status of other big pop stars of this millenium like Lady Gaga or Ariana Grande. Even worse is "E.T" - it sounds plasticky and unfinished, the drums particularly cheap, and West's rap sounds grafted on from a different song altogether.

Empty Meaningless Platitudes

 

[Corpsey]

Is it third who argues this music is fascistic? There's a kind of clobbering stridency to some of it.

 

[boxedjoy]

I guess people said the same thing about disco, though?

Discovered this one the other day (which will probably seem wild to you)

this is like if Kompakt had ever made the big disco pop crossover they should have in 2007

 

[Murphy]

She married Russell Brand, how fucking minging is that? Gross

To quote Hicks, sucking Satan’s cock too (for the exposure and £££££) like a Marvel version of performance with tits spilling over everywhere

There’s bubblegum and then there’s psychic, parasitical cancer

 

[line b]

Boxedjoy always brings it for the pop star discussions

 

[Corpsey]

She married Russell Brand, how fucking minging is that? Gross

To quote Hicks, sucking Satan’s cock too (for the exposure and £££££) like a Marvel version of performance with tits spilling over everywhere

There’s bubblegum and then there’s psychic, parasitical cancer

Who is Satan in this cocksucking analogy?

 

[Murphy]

The pizza franchise bloke. With the horns and hooves. Monarch of Lies. Dispenser of cultural abominations

Wanted to say Brand but didn’t want to cheapen this exchange, except



Bauhaus meets read a Jung book on the bog

 

[sus]

other Katy Perry thoughts:

"Hot N Cold" and "Part Of Me" are truly excellent songs, and I wish there was a world where they'd been sung by Kelly Clarkson instead.

In the video for "Roar" she's basically the singer from Aqua in the "Doctor Jones" video.

"I Kissed A Girl" is a truly awful song: lesbianism as male-gaze posturing, but also just really thin-sounding, the drums have no weight and the guitars sound like presets.

Boxedjoy! I was so with you until the very end! Take it back, IKAG is amazing!

 

[boxedjoy]

Nah it's got a definite lack of crunch and urgency. There's a bar after the chorus where the drums are phased that kills the momentum

 

[Woebot]

i thought some of those singles around teenage dream were fantastic.

when my children were little they loved kitty purry. we even went to see her as a family live at the O2 around dark horse. was great fun.

my fave katy perry moment is probably this though - candidate for one of the top ten bootlegs:

 

[Woebot]

what! no one has posted this! the next best surely... pure new wave stylings



a pastiche of this - lead to gold innit

 

[william_kent]

A former colleague of mine commented that with Katy and Russell you would "double bag" and to be honest I could never work out which one I'd be protecting myself against...

 

[Murphy]

Haven’t heard double-bag in a while