From ‘Teenage Dream’ to millennial nightmare – Where did things go wrong for Katy Perry?

When Katy Perry released her comeback single in July, the criticism was brutal.

“Woman’s World” Carl Wilson said it provoked “some of the most savage criticism I can remember in years”. Slate. However, has there been a softening of critical judgment after his new album “143” hit the shelves? Spoiler: none.

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Comparing the material with something created by artificial intelligence, Results Wren Graves said it “gives you the same feeling of nausea in your stomach, even if there’s no AI involved.” Finance Times He called the album “ham”, Business Insider Callie Ahlgrim said there was “no single savior song” and diversity Steven J Horowitz said he “looked disgruntled and uninterested, as if he’d walked into an ‘American Idol’ taping.”

Maybe Perry had his cultural moment. When Donald Trump Wilson said that when she was elected in 2016, her “big-eyed girlish persona instantly became obsolete” and she was “flopping around like a woman.” left shark Jared Richards has said it’s possible there will be “no room for the queen of kitsch” in the “pop world” of 2024. ABC News. Grace Sharkey, a lecturer in gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney, told the ABC that Perry’s sardonic “girl power” aesthetic was “clearly intended to capitalize on our popular investments”. feminist “But people are increasingly resistant to what they perceive as the commodification of feminist politics.”

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