What Happened to Katy Perry’s Career? A look at one of pop music’s most abrupt downfalls

[Speed X]

5 hours ago, Curious said:

I think TS bad blood affected her too

 

This is a very good point that hasn’t been brought up yet.

Taylor painted her in a bad light for stealing her dancers and it contributed to the GP turning on her 

[bas che]

Her career had an above average length. She did alright imo. Other basic pop stars barely last a year or two before they expire. 
 

not many could claim what Katy has achieved. To this day, she holds so many records.

[stanLOONA]

"I Kissed A Girl" and "Hot N Cold" were HOT  and then the Teenage Dream era? OH MY GOD 

But since PRISM I started to 

And it wasn't because of the songs, it was about... her  And by Witness... 

and Smile? 

It's weird because I never liked Taylor, (I don't know if I do now) but I still listened to her songs  Not a fan and I listened to folklore like I was  and I expect the TVs

It is SO weird tho, how can she fell so hard kinda fast, in her second decade she was out and entered her third even worse. I hope she can come out with a BOMB album or a collection of BOMB singles, she still has the aesthetics and not everybody has that 

 

[SJK]

There’s a reason she’s still doing American idol. 

[Bo da toe]

I became a fan of Katy right before I Kissed A Girl blew up. The more pop/rock sound of One of the Boys really appealed to me. Then with Teenage Dream she said she wanted to make a “perfect pop” album, which she did exactly that. However, the success of that album went to her head and she 100% lost her artistry(imo, allegedly and for entertainment purposes only).

She was going to go in a different direction with her third album, after her divorce. We were hoping for something more mature and “dark.” But something happened and we got TD 2.0 with Prism, that was the real beginning of the end. There was no more evolution or growth and Witness era felt like it our 16yo preaching to you about politics because of that.

Her problem is constantly regurgitating the same **** thinking people are going to go crazy about it. I think rereleasing TD and those songs also being massive kinds sent the wrong message to her and the label of just keep doing more of the same. Never Really Over was trying to recreate the TD feeling and the whole Smile era was throwing **** at the wall and seeing what sticks.

She needs to forget about the charts and the gays and the kids and stop talking about Britney (PERIOD) and make something authentic. Because that’s what her appeal was in 2008, she seemed authentic and now she doesn’t. At least Gaga and Taylor still feel authentic to the artists they started out as.

(side note; Xtina has the same problem)

[Kaitlyn Johnson]

Her whole shick was very much a rip off of Gwen Stefani, down to her current Vegas show. She was a big Gwen fan and even opened for No Doubt. She was never an unique artist. She got lucky and her ego got in the way.  

[Applejack]

I don't think she's a very interesting and mysterious artist. She never touched me or told me anything with her music and visuals. She always felt kinda dull to me. Her music was catchy, but it's nothing that really I thought "wow this is epic". It was either "I wanna see your peacock", or "teenage dream" or "your love is extraterrestrial", "youre hot and youre cold youre a lot of contradictions" all wrapped up in catchy melodies perfectly engineered to climb the charts, but not necessarily touch someone's heart or to stand the test of time. Her visuals were the closest thing to interesting but they never evolved. She also seems kind of a bully with the Ur So Gay stuff... and some other stuff throughout her career. I'm glad she's better off than her depression times, but she's not the kind of person inspiring me. She trying to push the "purposeful pop" angle is really funny to me, because she rarely has something purposeful to say.

[everybodygoesdown]

She seems to have zero personality. Like you wouldn't want to be friends with her.

She's like the celebrity you would run into and instead of feeling that "oh wow I'm meeting a celebrity" you would just feel like "oh I wish it was a different celebrity" you know. Nobody is impressed by you meeting KP.

[overprotected_leo]

Everyone got tired of her I guess 

[ynot8000]

To me , when she came out she took Kelly Clarkson and pinks spot in the music charts, they had the same sound to me, but Katy was the flashiest, ***iest of the three and came out on top. Now, newer acts like dua lipa have taken katy's  spot in the music scene

[UncutJamz]

Dula peep took her spot tbh. It’s like the old rich daddy preferred a younger more catchy thing.