![]() ![]() ![]() It’s this type of remark - an olive branch extended to a rival who’s actively working to undermine her - that exemplifies how Perry’s new efforts to be both woke and sweet are out-of-touch and really downright grating. “Watching Katy Perry Struggle For Relevance This Year Has Been Painful,” Stereogum’s Chris DeVille wrote. “And I think she’s a fantastic songwriter, and I think that, you know, if we, both her and I, can be representatives of strong women that come together despite their differences, I think the whole world is going to go like, ‘Yeah, well we can do this.’” “I love her, and I want the best for her,” she said. In an interview with The Huffington’s Global Thrive Podcast during the livestream, Perry said she was ready to bury the hatchet. Schwarz is of course referring to the actions of Perry’s longtime rival, Taylor Swift, who released every single one of her songs on Spotify to upstage the livestream and disrupt the “Teenage Dream” singer’s album sales. Katy seems stuck in 2016, promoting an album with love and kindness even as critics pan the record and her pop rival plays petty, dropping her entire discography on streaming services to steal the spotlight. ‘Stronger Together’ didn’t win an election, and Clinton these days is often throwing punches and willing to pick fights. I’ve previously called Katy the Hillary Clinton of pop, and this seemed like a continuation of that, hyper-focused on Clinton’s campaign message of ‘stronger together’ and ‘love and kindness.’Įven as Katy copies her political icon, Hillary Clinton, Clinton herself has moved on. The Washington Post’s Elahe Izadi wrote a piece titled “All the things we learned (and wish we didn’t learn) from Katy Perry’s weekend-long live stream.” CNN’s Hunter Schwarz had this to say in Monday’s edition of CoverLine, the e-mail newsletter he co-authors with Kate Bennet. You’d be hard-pressed to find a favorable take on her live stream. She attempted to stoke some anti-Trump fervor by wearing a white pantsuit and a “persist” armband while projecting text of The Constitution behind her and Skip Marley as they sang onstage. But these social justice warrior tendencies as exhibited in her livestream probably won’t surprise anyone who caught her performance at the Grammy Awards. She also hosted a politically charged 10-person dinner party where Caitlyn Jenner was the lone Donald Trump supporter. Throughout the livestream event, Perry hosted a number of “socially conscious” segments, “including an electrifying slam-poetry recitation by Zariya Allen and an interview with DeRay McKesson, during which Perry expressed regrets about the racial insensitivity of some of her previous performances,” The Atlantic‘s Spencer Kornhaber writes. Perry is wiping her makeup off with a wipe post-workout as she takes questions from the 5,887 people watching her. Fans could witness (ha, get it?) Perry sleep, eat, cry, laugh, meditate, and talk for four days via a livestream broadcast on her YouTube channel.Īs I write this, I’m watching the final day of her 96-hour long video, which she will conclude with a concert for her fans. Last Thursday, Perry moved into a Los Angeles apartment with 41 cameras throughout the inside of the home, documenting her every move - except for bathroom breaks. ![]() Man, everyone was so hype for this era, and then it sucked.Everything Perry has done to promote her dud of an album - including her recent wokeness - seems like desperate attention-grabbing from a woman undergoing an apparent identity crisis. "Maybe I'd like to make a film in the future finally, doing a kind of separate thing. "I'd rather stay home and clean out my sock drawer than go to a party right now." I'll literally be in there for two hours." "I love going to Trader Joe's and walking down each aisle to catch up on the products since I've been gone. Now, Katy says that she wants to go to Trader Joe's: My heart was broken last year because, unknowingly, I put so much validity in the reaction of the public, and the public didn't react in the way I had expected to." She admitted that the album's floppage gave her depression: Her highest-charting single, "Chained To The Rhythm," charted at #4 in the U.S., and the album has sold just under a million copies worldwide. If you'll remember, Witness came out in June 2017- barely a year ago, though it seems so much longer- to meh reactions. She gave an interview about her new life now that she has (finally) ended Witness: The Tour, her world tour that started in September 2017. Katy Perry's Witness era is finally, mercifully dead. ![]()
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