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The Official Katy Perry Thread; New album "Witness"
Topic Started: May 12 2010, 08:39 PM (14,816 Views)
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The term "Queen of Pop" being used to describe ANYONE other than Madonna is simply ludicrous. I'd expect more from the likes of Billboard.
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The New Queen Of Pop
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funniest thing i've heard this year!!!

why is her mouth always open btw?
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The New Queen Of Pop
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funniest thing i've heard this year!!!

why is her mouth always open btw?
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Katy Perry breaks another US radio record

Katy Perry has broken a US radio record for her new single 'Teenage Dream'.

The song, which is also the title of Perry's sophomore album, has been added to 87 radio stations over the course of a week - the highest number of adds for a song ever.

The track was released on Monday to US iTunes and has soared to number three, two places ahead of her last single 'California Gurls'.

Her debut album One Of The Boys is also on course to return to the US album chart after rising to number five on iTunes.

Last month, Katy Perry broke the US airplay record after 'California Gurls' received 11,816 plays in a week - an everage of 90 plays per radio station.
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oh dear. i've only heard 30 seconds of the song... once.
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Her album still won't sell a lot.
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Jul 29 2010, 05:04 AM
Her album still won't sell a lot.
that's because fat teenage girls and gays with acne breakouts never tend to visit record stores or any other public space generally in case they scare normal people.
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Jul 29 2010, 10:05 PM
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Jul 29 2010, 05:04 AM
Her album still won't sell a lot.
that's because fat teenage girls and gays with acne breakouts never tend to visit record stores or any other public space generally in case they scare normal people.
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8/7/10 Billboard 200

70 PERRY*KATY ONE OF THE BOYS 6,092 136 2,582 1,254,020
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Katy Perry opens up on religious upbringing

Katy Perry sang about kissing girls, and now she's talking tongues: In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Perry reveals that her Christian minister parents spoke in tongues when she was growing up.

The California girl, who has "Jesus" tattooed on her left wrist, tells the magazine, "Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt..' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God." Perry, 25, adds that her dad usually speaks in tongues while her mom plays interpreter. "That's their gift," she explains.

Speaking of gifts, Perry reportedly bought fiance Russell Brand a $200,000 ticket to outer space aboard the Virgin Galactic for his 35th birthday.

But if Perry feels lucky to have found love with the British comic, she'll never admit it. In the Perry household, she explains, "I wasn't able to say I was lucky because my mother would rather us say that we were blessed, and she also didn't like that lucky sounded like Lucifer."

In fact, the quirky brunette reveals, "I wasn't allowed to eat Lucky Charms, but I think that was the sugar. I think my mom lied to me about that one."

The new issue of Rolling Stone hits newsstands on Friday.
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Remember she trashed the "Alejandro" video because of it's "blasphemy."
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But if Perry feels lucky to have found love with the British comic, she'll never admit it. In the Perry household, she explains, "I wasn't able to say I was lucky because my mother would rather us say that we were blessed, and she also didn't like that lucky sounded like Lucifer."
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Entertainment Weekly album review:

One of Katy Perry's chief charms has always been how lightly she seems to wear her pop stardom — as if it's all just some 
crazy cosmic goof that she'll happily ride out as long as we let her. Her latest serving of sonic fluffernutter, the inescapable ''California Gurls,'' spent six weeks at No. 1 this summer, and Teenage Dream, the album from which it comes, seems bionically designed to make her a gurl for all Billboard seasons.

Over the course of 44 rampaging minutes, that can feel alternately like a threat and a promise. To borrow from Mother Goose, when Perry is good, she is very, very good (see the strutting, shamelessly silly ''Hey Mickey'' redux ''Peacock''), and when she is bad, she is horrid. Lyrical prowess is not her forte; neither, in fact, is rhyming ''forte'' with ''foreplay,'' as she does painfully on the druggie-boyfriend takedown ''Circle the Drain.''

She tends to connect best in '80s leotard-lady mode, as showcased on the deliciously glitchy throwback ''E.T.'' — imagine Lita Ford crawling through Trent Reznor's night terrors, Inception-style — and the aerobic, synth-spangled title track. Her Ke$ha-esque party-till-my-parole-officer-calls shtick on ''Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),'' however, just feels hollow. Beneath the fruity outfits and fart jokes, Perry is clearly serious about the business of hit songcraft; that doesn't make Dream nearly cohesive as an album, but it does provide, intermittently, exactly the kind of high-fructose rush she's aiming for. B–

Download These:
Peacock a naughty sing-along at last.fm
Teenage Dream the neon-charged title track at myspace.com

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having just listened to her new PAINFUL single may i wish for her rotten christian cunt to be burned in hell.
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By the way, the booklet of her new album is scented like candy. It's very strong!

Is she the first artist since M to scent her CD in this way?
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EW piece on disappointing album sales...

No matter how they try to spin it, Katy Perry and her label are surely feeling a certain letdown this morning. After dominating airwaves for much of the summer, Perry was only able to move 192,000 copies of her sophomore album in its first week on sale. That’s enough to make Teenage Dream the country’s biggest album in this sleepy late-August frame. It’s much better than her previous album managed in its first week, and it’s obviously worlds away from an all-out, retire-in-shame flop. But it’s also nowhere near the kind of first-week numbers that other radio staples like Drake (447,000) and Usher (329,000), let alone Eminem (741,000), have put up in recent months. Perry’s “California Gurls” is widely considered a front-runner for this year’s Song of the Summer, with her own “Teenage Dream” single not far behind. How come those major hits didn’t translate into equally strong album sales?

The simple answer is that Perry is overexposed. By now, just about every member of the buying public has heard “California Gurls” enough times to commit it to memory. If you’ve grown tired of that song or you never liked it in the first place, of course you’re not going to buy Katy Perry’s album. But even if you love “California Gurls” with all your melted-popsicle heart, chances are you already bought it as an MP3 weeks or months ago. You probably went along and grabbed “Teenage Dream,” too. This week alone, that second single sold 259,000 digital copies. When Teenage Dream the album came out last Tuesday, you had to ask yourself, did you really need to own the whole thing? For 192,000 fans, the answer was yes. Still, it’s easy to see how that purchase might not make sense for everyone else.

Yet dismissing Perry as overexposed risks redundancy. Songs like “California Gurls” and “Teenage Dream” are engineered for maximum exposure. That’s the whole point. Perry led an elite team of songwriters, producers, and assorted studio wizards whose job it was to make sure that hearing these songs once or twice wasn’t enough for most people. Radio programmers couldn’t resist putting these songs on the air over and over again. Kids walking down the street couldn’t help humming them for weeks on end. These songs were perfectly designed advertisements for themselves — and that’s where their pitch ended. In a sense, “California Gurls” and “Teenage Dream” worked exactly as intended. They were too effective for the album’s own good.

This puts Perry in the dreaded “singles artist” category. Compare her first-week sales to those of Rihanna (181,000 last December) or Ke$ha (152,000 in January). This isn’t a category that most singers want to be placed in. They’re legitimate pop stars, with big hits and lots of fans — but not the kind of unconditional fans who will drop double-digit cash for an album out of loyalty. Is it sheer coincidence that so many (though not all) of these “singles artists” happen to be young women? Probably not. Some level of unacknowledged sexism may make consumers more likely to view the work of twenty-something female pop singers as disposable product instead of serious art.

That said, the “singles artist” label doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Rihanna, for example, spun off several more hits from Rated R and ended up going platinum. With the right follow-up singles, Perry might be able to accomplish the same in time. Today, Teenage Dream is looking like a commercial disappointment, but the long game is just beginning.
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I must say I like "Teenage Dream" and "Circling The Drain."

Replace some of the synths on CTD with live guitars and tweak a few other things and it would be a great Alt. Rock track.


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I actually think the album is littered with good pop stuff. No it's nowhere near a GREAT album, but it's surprisingly good and a huge leap up from her debut album.
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love Teenage Dream :shy:
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