katy perry - prism

one of the post-avril songwriters (see also skye sweetnam, katy rose, come to think of it probably katy perry too) from the mid-00s that got about an album each

Skye Sweetnam! i think for the last few years all my vague memories of her started to get conflated with Sky Ferreira

"Dark Horse" is the first Katy Perry single in a long while that doesn't desperately beg you to fall in love with it on first listen; that alone makes it a nice departure. But it's a great song on its own merits, and given how no critics singled it out as an obvious mega-hit, I understand the dark horse narrative

Isn't that sort of a case where critics are being dumb, considering that it was focused-grouped by her fans into being a single? I mean, I don't know the timeline so there's obvious overstatement going on there but when a megastar's large, rabid fanbase says "this is the song you should release as a single" and the artist does, should it take anyone by surprise that the single does well?

I'm flummoxed by the need to make this into a story; as clickbait it appeals to, like, 12 people in the United States.

it's not really a story so much as it just hit no. 1

Yeah, I mean, nobody should be surprised when any Katy Perry single does well, so it's hardly a man-bites-dog narrative. Just seems like people took to this one a little easier and more organically than is usually the case is all

fans only had song titles and 30 second snippets to go on when "Dark Horse" was voted for over "Walking On Air," it's not like it was some powerful mandate. the reason it became a single is because radio stations were playing it without it being officially promoted for weeks and weeks before the label finally gave in and gave it an early release (only 2 months after "Unconditionally" instead of the standard 3 month window).

Also it had managed to sell nearly a million digital copies despite not being the official single being promoted.

it was selling unusually well too even before radio started tossing some spins its way. like, i know all the advance promo singles sold well for like a week or whatever but "dark horse" just kept on selling.

pop radio really does pay attention to single sales now. "Still Into You" would not have become an airplay hit 6 months after it was released if it was not doing steady numbers on iTunes that whole time.

The speed with which Unconditionally plummeted on radio once the next single was announced was funny. It was like programmers couldn't wait to stop playing it.

looool totally

I mean if you're a fan and you're going to be purchasing album tracks early it's probably going to be the one you rallied behind previously (plus, 30-second snippets are basically standard anymore)

xp US radio amazes me. It took six months for a song as strong as Still Into You to become an airplay hit?

now that "unconditionally" has flopped by her standards i've begun to appreciate it

haha i've heard it a couple times in the last week and been like "yup, this was terrible, glad i didn't have to hear this around the clock"

I didn't realize "English speakers who sing English as if it's their third/fourth language" was a pet peeve of mine until I heard "Unconditionally"

unconditionally makes me lol every single time

of all the katy perrys of the world she's the katy perryest

I just can't stop listening to Birthday. It has everything I want from a pop song!

damn this album is so unfairly panned. at least 3 pop gems there.

out of like 16 tracks? how is that not a terrible ratio

depending on your interpretation of "gems" vs. "hits" teenage dream had about the same ratio

"dark horse" is kinda just a more tolerable version of "ET" isn't it

Except with more trap and less aliens and less "All the Things She Sad".

Forget what u said. It's a pretty boring album except for roar, unconditionally, and the second track

*I

i hope to hear "birthday" on the radio sometime later this year but yeah most of the album was pretty forgettable

"dark horse" is kinda just a more tolerable version of "ET" isn't it

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, February 24, 2014 10:21 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Except with more trap and less aliens and less "All the Things She Sad".

― MarkoP, Monday, February 24, 2014 10:24 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dont forget "moments in love"-style synths. shit is the jams.

Spiritual is the real jam on this - love this droney bass during the verses (a bit of a smilar thing in Roar), could be a BoC instrumental.

"dark horse" is kinda just a more tolerable version of "ET" isn't it

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, February 24, 2014

^ this

heard "Birthday" on the radio the other day, pretty glad if that's the next single

http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201433/rs_600x600-140403124855-BkUj2rNCMAAXOQr.jpg

yeah "birthday" is the jam

ridic

Birthday and Walking on Air are the two takeaways for me from this album so I'm not mad I'll be hearing this on the radio instead of Black Horse.

dark horse owns, into it way more than ET

Quite like the new single but the new video is just horrible. Think it's a huge misfire on every level.

http://www.popjustice.com/videos/katy-perry-birthday/126562/

yeah the video doesn't really work at all. it'll be a good radio jam anyway.

tbf even with at least a handful of good/tolerable singles, "Teenage Dream" is still pretty much her only video that isn't embarrassing on several levels

Still can't deal w her voice. Very yelpy

Jeez- first MIA and now Katy Perry, what is his secret?

http://www.eonline.com/news/587471/katy-perry-keeping-her-relationship-with-diplo-undercover-find-out-why

dating someone THAT famous seems like a minefield, i can't really fault anyone for trying to maintain some control and discretion tbh

you have to laugh at grown men sitting around listening to katy perry!

just my $0.02

well consider your invitation to my boys-only katy perry listening circle rescinded

One of my born-again friends on fb is losing his shit today because the choir sang "Roar" in church this morning.

lolol

so i really want to like bonnie mckee but this is excruciating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ6BRY16jHo

"American Girl" was nothing if not excruciating (and "nothing" is a viable option)