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Teenage Dream
Dark Horse
California Gurls
Birthday

After that I'd just be speculating what I like anymore.

Firework is great, this was an odd result

it's hazy now but iirc ILM really bought into "Hot n Cold" as "pure pop" or something to that effect.

it was the first one she did were I thought it was a banger

I'm surprised how many Katy Perry singles I've ended up loving over the years.

I have a lot of time for Hot n Cold, Thinking Of You, Teenage Dream, Firework, The One That Got Away, Wide Awake, Roar, Dark Horse, Birthday and Chained To The Rhythm. Last Friday Night is probably in my top 10 singles of the decade at this point.

She could have a few more in that list if she'd made some better single choices. The title track from Witness should have been the follow up to Chained. The Prism campaign was just really badly handled in general. Legendary Lovers and Walking On Air should have taken the places of Unconditionally (apparently Katy really fought hard for that one) and This Is How We Do (apparently Katy fighting for Unconditionally and it flopping meant she didn't get to choose any of the other singles and this one was not her call).

xpost tbf it was only her second single! i think there was a bit of excitement/relief that it was a punchy, brassy uptempo pop-rock song that didn't have the forehead-slapping lyric of "I Kissed A Girl." then her next few singles were all more or less instantly forgotten.

firework is one of the worst pop singles of my lifetime

wide awake or dark horse. of these the right one won

surely firework is not worse than "e.t." or "bon appetit."

or "this is how we do"

i can't think of a recording offhand worse than firework

e.t. is at least ridiculous

do you ever feel like a plastic bag

I mean the thing about "Firework" is its like a safe, straight version of an LGBT anthem - nothing explicitly about queer struggles and oppression, just a horribly shrill rote performance of pride signifiers, and I absolutely do not need my hand held and my voice taken by the same popstar who once sang "you're so gay and you don't even like boys." Katy Perry has a huge amount of great singles as kitchen person lists, but she is the least interesting or likeable thing about any of them.