kayla says summarizes why "woman's world" is as bad as it is

[peddlestools]

Editor's note: I AM READING YOUR COMMENTS AND CHANGED THE EMBEDDED VIDEO SO YOU DO NOT HEAR THE AI VOICE DURING THE INTRODUCTORY MONTAGE WHEN YOU CLICK PLAY

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A few bulletpoints:

• Dr. Puke, "alleged" rapist, produced and co-wrote it.
• The lyrics are bad. Period. That's it.
• It's very male gazey. So was "California Gurls," but that was a better song,

Comments

[theactualworst]

I watched the video today and it was even worse than I expected.

[bostongirl2003]

it's so mindless and stupid-if the only point was "look how toned and shiny I am" it would be fine, but why work with Dr Puke to achieve that?

[squirrels_oh_no]

idk it's almost as if she thinks she's the victim of people forgetting who she is because her quality in music/her level of relevancy has decreased so much, that she went off and found another person who thinks they're a victim of public perception.

Also probably because she clearly is just trying to push buttons thinking that any form of attention is good attention, and by doing this, she clearly is getting a lot of attention, even if it's extremely bad attention. It's getting her name back in the news. But just being in the news doesn't equal sales.

[for_serious13]

I think it’s more that her biggest hits, from teenage dream and whatever the album was after that, she worked with dr Luke

She wanted to go back to that pop success, fuck morals

[espressotorte]

What is this terrible voice in this video

[ty]

THANK YOU. I wanted to listen, but wtf? If she works in TV News, hopefully it is not on camera.

[peddlestools]

it goes away when that montage is over

she puts her videos up ASAP, i guess, so she doesn't have time to get another youtuber to do the VO. maybe.

edit: it is now safe for you to watch if you hit refresh and click play. the AI voice goes away 48 seconds in

[peddlestools]

hit refresh and click play. i fixed it so the video now starts after the intro

[tifag]

How many comebacks can she attempt before realizing people don’t want her. She will always have her fan base but she’s not bringing in anyone new with her dated material.

[squirrels_oh_no]

The last thing I liked - liked, not loved - from her was Bon Appetit, but even that seemed blatantly like some attempt at forcing a ~new era~ just like this is (the Bon Appetit video was basically all about some pretend reinvention of her image with the haircut and pseudo-makeover). It's not organic - and I'm not saying pop music is organic, far from it, but it just screams at some attempt by committee to try and force her into what she THINKS the public wants, but she's generally about 6 months at the minimum to whatever is considered fresh. In this song, she's about 6 years, if not more, behind the times.

[veracity]

She thinks she has longevity but doesn't have the ability to read the business in order to pivot as needed. Which is what someone like Cher does. Nor can she maintain a base like Pink, who has a certain niche on lock, even with similar vocals and styles over the decades. Pink made herself stand out with the aerials.

Perry believes being mid will keep interest. But the age of TikTok audiences want more danceable hits. Back to not reading the audience.

[scheisse]

everything about how this has been received and is performing has redefined what it means to "flop". i don't think i'm being hyperbolic here, but this is quite literally the biggest fumble and bomb in recent pop music history. bionic is a huge success compared to this.

she spent a month promoting this to her 300,000,000+ IG and twitter followers and then when she dropped, less than 1% of those followers on a global scale tuned in for a single stream.

we now know she along with her team thought this was going to be a big hit because she went running back to dr. luke. i just don't understand how you get everything THIS wrong. the song isn't even charting on the spotify global charts after day ONE. oh, my god.

[peddlestools]

i think it's more fair to compare witness and bionic because witness at least had some passably good songs on it and bionic was ahead of its time.

[mayjailer]

you can't expect a formerly virulent racist little monster to have perspective about the bionic era

[peddlestools]

i... did not know that about them

[bloopbloop01]

I can happily say I have no idea what this song sounds like, and I don’t want to! I hope it’s never added to the Target playlist.