Katy Perry performs on stage during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.
Culture critics Amil Niazi, Mel Woods and Sarah-Tai Black join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to discuss why 143 falls flat., already garnered a negative reception, ranging from criticisms of its generic sound to its meaningless lyrics.
There was hope that the pop star might put out an album that's better than the single — but the group chat doesn't think so. Today on, culture critics Amil Niazi, Mel Woods and Sarah-Tai Black join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to discuss why Perry's new album falls flat. We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity. For the full discussion, including the panel's take on Demi Moore's new body horror film,, when it was first released. They called it bland, say-nothing feminism. Now we have the album and I get to ask you this question: does the album get better afterIn my take, no. It falls very firmly into a genre that I often use lovingly and sometimes use negatively — and in this case, negatively — "gay noise.
It feels behind the times. It's somehow both dated and trying to be keeping up with it. And I think it hits even worse than it may have otherwise, on the wake of what a summer of pop music that we just had. It's hard to be like, "Here's my feminist anthem, here's my fun party song, here's my little silly bit.
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