Why Katy Perry is 2024’s biggest pop flop yet, with her comeback slammed as ‘generic’ and having ‘no personality’

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fallen spectacularly on its face.Critics have pointed out how Perry appears to be attempting to combine her early career nod-and-a-wink slapstick persona, best exemplified by her album title “One of the Boys,” with her later all-powerful fem-pop girls-are-the-future “Roar” era – but ended up failing on both fronts.“It’s as if she was trying to cash in on [2023 movie] ‘Barbie’ and women power.

She missed the mark by so far.“It’s like you want to empower women, but then you fall into the old misogynistic tropes of, ‘I can’t do music videos without showing my boobs or ass,’’ a music video producer who asked to remain anonymous, told The Post.

The “Woman’s World” video features Perry as Rosie the Riveter in an American flag bikini, flanked by all an all-girl cast on a construction site drinking “Women’s Whisky” and using a urinal.However, it takes less than a minute for the video to include a gratuitous slow motion shot of Perry’s breasts in a revealing bikini – hardly what progressive females would see as striking out at the patriarchy.Perry herself even seemed confused about her message, saying in an interview with Apple Music: “We’re kind of just having fun, being a bit sarcastic with it.

It’s very slapstick … ‘ooh, we’re not about the male gaze, but we really are about the male gaze.” The lyrics, she said in the same interview, were inspired by becoming a mom after giving birth to her first child, daughter Daisy Dove, with fiancé Orlando Bloom in 2020; but they have also attracted criticism for their overly simple nature.Perry sings: “Sexy, confident / So intelligent / She is heaven-sent / So soft, so strong,” before repeating the chorus line: “It’s a woman’s world and you’re lucky to be living in it.”Online posters.