katy perry - prism

the idea that someone who popped up like 2 years ago invented that look is ridic

i would classify myself as a charli xcx stan these days so seeing boob tube + tartan skirt set off a fairly deluded alarm bell

obvs she is going for a super 90s look here which is obvs also charli's schtick (charli is kind of 80s/90s mishmash i guess)

Dark Horse was a promo single to promote pre-orders of the album, not an official single to follow-up Roar. The fact that it's selling so well means it will probably be a single down the line though. This same thing happened last album with E.T. btw, released as a preview to hype up the album, ended up becoming a single later in the campaign.

Birthday sounds good, as does International Smile and I can get over her terrible vocals to appreciate the other parts of Waking on Air, but she always has been and remains the worst part of her own music. The lifeless vocals on This is How We Do combined with her "teehee sex" references are cringe, plus the back half of this is very easy listening Christian Contemporary meets "songs people might play at The Bronze". Even the better pop songs just seem like "ok, cool, so you've heard a Robyn album."

shannon doherty xcx

is she really singing in this? i thought she was supposed to be a bad live singer but she sounds like a house diva at times here O_O

She is almost always hoarse when singing live, which made people think she couldn't actually sing.

Doesn't help that she seems insistent on making songs which highlight all the worst parts of her voice when performed live.

i like most of these... with reservations

Even the better pop songs just seem like "ok, cool, so you've heard a Robyn album."

yeah i would agree with this

the only part of "roar" i am super down with is the "hey!" sometimes i will wait for that part b4 i switch the station

this might be her best album since a day without rain

lol

this song is SO GOOD http://andrewpresents.com/post/64206072416/katy-perry-birthday-major-tune-alert-from

i lol'd at the bridge tbh

Birthday sounds SO MUCH like Betty Who.

i rly like it, surely this will be an album highlight (or single??)

Andrew Presents also posted International Smile. I like the vocoder solo inna Daft Punk stylee.

I think being raised Christian gave me a soft spot for CCM or something cause I kinda like this one too. http://poponandon.com/single-premiere-katy-perry-uncondtionally/

"international smile" does something that i believe the pitbull/chris brown song did, which was put "international" in the title and then shout out primarily new york, los angeles and miami

the vocoder solo on this is hilarious/insane/amazing

this comes out on friday apparently?

came out today in like Germany, hence the leaks.

The whole thing (incl. bonus tracks) is out there now btw.

the guitar tone in "roar" is the best thing in the world, i want it everywhere

apparently stargate and benny blanco had yet to write a song called "this moment"

i would like to edit katy perry entirely out of this album

So far, most of the album is going through one ear and out the other but I'll this much, that "This Is How We Do" is a lot better than AlunaGeorge's awful and disastrous cover of the similarly-titled "This Is How We Do It".

Also, maybe because I was distracted during listening, but this album seems VERY front-loaded.

It is.

yea 'this is how we do' feels really calculated, moreso than the degree to which all of this & all pop is calculated, but i dearly love it

<insert Katy Perry 'front loaded' joke>

only just picked up on mariah carey-okoe

this album is much stronger than the last one IMO but still mostly 4 amazing songs and a buncha shit i don't ever need to hear again

the vocoder solo though... there's no reason for something that good to be in a katy perry album cut

There was actually a pretty similar vocoder solo on an album track from Ke$ha's last LP.

roar sounds like a children's song to me. maybe she can perform it on sesame street?

(nb that is not a bad thing)

International Smile is basically a lift of Daft Punk's Discovery-era sound anyway, so the vocoder solo is almost there by necessity.

Gave this a play today and it's basically a Robyn album without any discernible personality.

so... it's a Robyn album?

i don't even feel an urge of duty to listen to a new katy perry album, like...you guys, c'mon, look at your lives and choices etc

lol

is katy perry blacklisted from sesame street?

maybe if she wears something a little less revealing they'll let her back? i didn't think her outfit was so bad tbh

She is almost always hoarse when singing live, which made people think she couldn't actually sing.

― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:39 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Case in point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pytq1JrQQwk#t=141

"Unconditionally" stinks of death.

birthday is like janet jackson meets Wham!

( ... which is fine obviously)

ha that's an interesting description

I'm not kidding when I say Birthday sounds exactly like Betty Who. You may be into her, surm, if you aren't already.

yeah the bit where she goes into her head voice and says "youUUU should call" is v v v Betty Who

hmm i should take a look!

okay on "Dark Horse", is that an Art of Noise sample or a pastiche?

"This Is How We Do" better not ever be a single, what a shitshow