It’s just a straight-up pop song that’s so effortless it feels like a warm summer breeze. From the ’90s-tinged guitars to the hyperbole (“You and I will be young forever”), Teenage Dream is a rom-com wrapped up in 3 minutes. There are very few pop songs, if any, that capture nostalgic love as well as this one. Cheesy guitars, cheesier vocal adlibs and an even cheesier sax solo. It’s served best when it’s joyous, anarchic and a little theatrical.
Last Friday Night is a slippery, colourful track that captures the very essence of pop. We’re talking sonically, of course, she might be a nightmare hungover in real life but we’re getting off track. Perry is at her best when she’s a hungover mess.
We’ve said it once and we’ll say it again. It was Hot N Cold – a pulsating, chaotic song that took every bit of Perry’s outlandish personality and unashamedly put it on display. One Of The Boys was a rock/pop record but there was one track that signaled Perry’s electro/pop aspirations. A solid reminder to never count Perry out. The Zedd-produced track captured the nostalgia and euphoria of Teenage Dream, going against the trap-pop aesthetic of the time to take us back to the dancefloor. In the summer of 2019 she popped with little commotion but the song made its own waves. No one could’ve ever predicted after Witness that Perry had a monster single left in her. It may have been an ode to the West Coast but California Girls went global providing a summertime anthem that’s still just as sticky today. California Girls kicked it off with a candy-coloured world that explored every pocket of pop’s outrageous possibilities. One Of The Boys showed us Perry could bring the aesthetic but Teenage Dream took it to a new level. A wasted opportunity to send ’90s euphoria back into the charts and, quite frankly, an act of homophobia. It’s difficult to understand what was going through Katy Perry’s record labels’ heads when they decided not to promote this a single. Perry is a master at colouring the past positively and The One That Got Away is both sad and uplifting. It’s a simple toe-tapper but it doesn’t need to do much to feel good. There was a strong element of nostalgia to Teenage Dream and The One That Got Away captures that best. She gives an intense performance that not only gets it across the line but sends it into space. One that hits with extreme weight but vocally, Perry is able to match it. There are few popstars who could pull of a song that moves at a glacial pace like E.T. It may have been the weakest single from the Teenage Dream era but given the context, it carries an extra power.
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Part Of MeĪfter the whole Russel Brand debacle, Perry released a concert movie and rose to the top with this militant breakup anthem. It rolls on with ease and circles the head for days. This One Of The Boys highlight does exactly that. The best Perry songs fall off the tongue like they took no thought at all. It’s one of the most soaring Perry ballads in her collection with that chorus showcasing her voice in a way it rarely is. UnconditionallyĪfter power ballad Roar, fans may have been expecting something more upbeat as the second single from Prism.
As we near #KP5 and her new single Daisies, let’s take a look back at her biggest wins so far. Some have been triumphant, others have been catastrophic. A student of traditional pop, Perry knows that each album must be an era with new worlds, sounds and characters. No other pop career has been quite so entertaining to observe as Katy Perry‘s.
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