Sometimes, a pop star drops a single so soupy and ill-conceived, it makes you wonder if the artist ever had any understanding of their own appeal to begin with. For Katy Perry, that song is “Chained to the Rhythm,” a half-throttle disco ditty that scolds us for dancing our nights away while the republic crumbles: “Put your rose-colored glasses on and party on.
” Somewhere in Donald Trump’s America, the left-shark’s googly eye sheds a single tear.Perry calls this new approach “purposeful pop,” implying that her previous music didn’t have a purpose. Obviously, it did. Her biggest singles provided affirmation (“Roar”), promoted uplift (“Firework”), encouraged abandon (“Teenage Dream”) and embraced goofiness (“California Gurls”). And while the edgeless bluster of her voice often made Perry sound more like a hit-making conduit than an autonomous personality, the songs usually got the job done. Purposeful or not, her music has been therapeutic.
On her new album, “Witness,” Perry is abandoning all of that – her frivolity, her wink-wink sense of humor, that brassiere that shot Reddi-wip. “We’re living in a bubble-bubble,” she sings on “Chained to the Rhythm,” offering to topple our divisive American thought silos. “So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble-trouble.”
Katy Perry is over the rumored feud between her and Taylor Swift, and is going on record to try and say she loves Taylor Swift and wishes her the best.
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But throughout “Witness,” Perry refuses to articulate what that “trouble-trouble” might actually be.
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