Former media journalist reveals Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera’s downfalls were inorganic

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Former Observer & HuffPost journalist claims Katy Perry’s career decline was planned by “some people,” similar to how Christina Aguilera’s career was sabotaged.

They then alleged writers “trashed” Katy to generate clicks, more money. Last year, former Pitchfork writers alleged… pic.twitter.com/DSeaYxgmp6
- Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) April 3, 2024
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[bttrsondaughter]

katy perry got a bad haircut, went on a disaster pr tour for Witness (does no one remember how self-indulgent and weird Witness Worldwide was? that was an ego trip), picked bad singles, and her styles of music went out of date. if you watch the Todd in the Shadows episode for Witness, you'll see what happened, and what he said was true. she's not a person who has super die hard stanbase.

her falling out didn't need to be orchestrated lol. the most obvious orchestrated anti-katy thing that happened that era was taylor making her music available on spotify again the same night katy's album dropped.

a similar thing happened to christina. pop music passed her by, it wasn't connecting to an audience anymore bc that audience had stars like gaga, someone that was doing interesting stuff, or like rihanna who was putting out stuff that set trends.

[waffletaco]

Justice for CHAINED TO THE RHYTHM.

[bttrsondaughter]

genuinely a great fucking song, one of her best! if she hadn’t tagged it as like a political song, w/coining “purposeful pop” or performed it wearing a resist armband in front of a projection of the constitution (god the first year after the 2016 election feels like a fever dream) I feel like more people would’ve rushed to embrace it!

[euraylie]

Sans the weird pronunciation of “Zombie”

[frejasface]

It's like the public and her label decided it was a flop for debuting at number 4, even though it was still a solid song.

[egalitarianmuse]

I forgot that song! I was obsessed with it and now I am again bc it's genuinely good.

[crystal_daze]

* we must never forget that Katy also had some dodgy business practices which lead to the death of a nun.

[bttrsondaughter]

true and also she supported Caruso for mayor of LA and as someone from here I cannot stand with that!

[evett]

wait what dodgy business practices? she's a terrible person for a lot of reasons but not in those real estate deals

[totteringg]

She waited way too long to follow up Prism which despite its success was probably the worst album of her career, tied herself too closely to Hillary Clinton and then apparently scrapped her original album because she was having a meltdown over Trump’s election and then made a bizarre decision to have a completely different and unflattering look when she came back even though she needed people to remember her because she’d taken such a long break.

The Witness promo tour was insanely bad but I actually think the one exception was the Witness Worldwide house thing. I thought it was one of the best and most interesting album promo I’ve ever seen and I wish it was the type of thing that happened more and wasn’t just a one-off thing. I might be biased though because I’m a big Big Brother livefeeds fan.

[euraylie]

she's not a person who has super die hard stanbase.

I think this was mainly the issue. She was the definition of bubblegum pop. Most of her concert-goers were really young kids. But no one was really into her ans an anrtist.
And that’s all right. Not everyone is meant to stick around forever in music.

[insomniachobs]

I think this is a case of both things can be true.

There are a bunch of legit reasons why those albums didn't hit with the wider public, but the media response wasn't about any of them. It was totally disproportionate and co-ordinated to drive clicks, because in that Perez Hilton landscape hate and especially misogyny was what sold. (And that little turd was incredibly influential, don't ask me why - his personal beefs often set the tone for what coverage of a celeb followed). I wouldn't characterise it as some huge purposeful conspiracy to bring down their careers, but at the same time the press knew what they were doing and it wasn't organic

[icetypejim]

The only reason I could partly buy the Christina bit is because we know Perez Hilton has used his clout in the past to try and spread false info about female celebs for their slights against him. Like didn't he end up ultimately being the one behind that Angela Cheng account that posed as an entertainment journalist to write up completely false negative stories about Artpop that real news sources ended up running with? Like it obviously wasn't THE reason, but I could believe that a worm like him was trying to do a coordinated takedown campaign at the same time as her album was flopping.

On the other hand, there's no universe in which it makes any sense to claim that Pitchfork "took down" Katy Perry. The average radiopop listener likely doesn't know P4k even exists, much less care what they've got to say about a mainstream popstar. That's the sort of thing stans overly invested in album reviews and metacritic scores would think.

[screamingintune]

Artpop was a much better album than it got credit for. Gaga was just really annoying with her promo for it.

[sorryeden]

Witness Worldwide was an iconic event. It was ahead of its time.

[marzipanism]

Perez admitted himself that he actively tried to destroy xtina, no? He claimed it was together with gaga