katy perry - prism

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well consider your invitation to my boys-only katy perry listening circle rescinded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

I mean it's a holiday song

/special

with karmin and that violin star and etc. its like now that she went indie after not breaking on a major she's hanging with a whole bunch of youtube-famous viral ppl. i like the california winter single itself, but also generally bonnie mckee is a very boring lyricist.

the karmin performance is even by the standards of karmin performance something.. else

don't like the treatment of the vocals on that holiday song, otherwise I would have dug it (if I'd heard it at the appropriate time)

why new kp single debuts at no. 76 on hot 100

NEW JERSEY

Doesn't a New Jersey require its singles to be hits though?

Or did you mean Prism is a New Jersey?

Prism=New Jersey, yes

why new kp single debuts at no. 76 on hot 100

Cause its gross.

it will probably fall off the chart next week then re-enter for one more week after the video drops before falling off again. i wonder how embarrassed and/or panicked the ppl at capitol are right now.

"The track is a dance-pop song with sexual double entendres involving food. "

pop music wikipedia makes me so sad

it's sorta crazy anyone involved heard that and was like "this is the song we need to save our suddenly flagging new album rollout"... maybe it was just the migos feature

This really was an odd choice for a single but I did think it would still do fairly well based on her name alone. I still think Chained To The Rhythm is a great song.

Love the music, but the vocals and lyric are TERRIBLE (and I really liked "Chained to the Rhythm" overall). The Migo rap is the best sounding vocal part.

that migos song is good as hell

beat's great, melodies great, its a hit record

>>>>> t-shirt

i mean.... it's not gonna be a hit record lol

you can stump for it as a song for whatever reason but it's already a flop basically

idk sure sounds like one to me

has radio even pushed it yet? katy perry isn't exactly the kind of artist whose songs hit no. 1 out the gate right?

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are we talking about the same katy perry?

idk i dont follow her shit, i usually dont like her songs and then sometimes i do (teenage dream or w/e), this seems like a perfectly good summer record to me, but then im not invested in katy perry as a 'star'

maybe her star is falling cuz its the woke era or something, i dont really get what the problem would be w/ this single though, shit is catchy as hell

for comparison, "chained to the rhythm" debuted at #4. "bon appetit" debuted at #76.

i wonder if its similar to that effect w/ albums where people judge your single off the success of the last one

Katy Perry, a real dark horse on the Billboard charts.... not

the song is good enough imo that it feels like momentum would *really* have to be moving against her career in general for that not to do something

that's possible, but "chained to the rhythm" was only a flop in the context of katy perry insofar as it didn't hit #1 and stay there for weeks. it did fine otherwise tho.

another aspect is that they're going w/ the old school model of choosing specific pre-release singles w/ the album still months away, whereas i.e. bruno mars had a little trouble finding a second single after "24k magic" but the album was timed to where they were able to look at streaming data while "24k magic" was still on the charts, which led to the elevation of "that's what i like" as a people's choice pick that the label eventually got behind

"that's possible" is re the idea that this single is flopping bcuz "chained to the rhythm" also underperformed

i mean the obvious difference is: chained to the rhythm is a bad song, and this is not

many songs just take time to break regardless of who made them, 'thats what i like' was also not a hit out the gate even if it was a streaming fav

well, i disagree entirely that the song is any good... it struck me immediately as really generic from the beat to the concept, and the hook is muted, doesn't grab you at all. i'm stunned it's something that came from max martin frankly.

it's a retread of this song off her last album which is like 100 times better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4D5egXVqSg

there's no real history as far as i remember of a pre-album katy perry single taking any time whatsoever to climb the charts, but maybe this will be the one

it's currently #142 on itunes, which is two spots behind "slippery"

i dont hear the similarity between those two songs at all! walking on air is straight edm

I typically don't care about Katy Perry's chart success or failures all that much, but I guess I'm maybe 1% curious to see if this is her first album without a #1 or if she'll continue the streak.

I can't see her getting a number 1, particularly given the general scarcity of women in the upper echelons of the charts at the moment who aren't featured vocalists - see Maura's post on this in the New Jersey thread