The long-in-the-can album by the songwriting team The Matrix, which features Katy Perry and some British guy singing songs written by the people who brought you “Sk8er Boi” and that really dreadful Liz Phair album, was released to various digital-music stores last week via Let’s Hear It Records. (Which seems to be the Matrix’s very own label.) The question is: Who wants to hear this thing?
The Matrix, “Broken”:
The Matrix feat. Katy Perry, “Damn”:
The material on this disc seems close enough to Perry’s befuddlingly popular recent work that people who weren’t quite satisfied by the twelve tracks of One of the Boys, but aren’t willing to head all the way back to her Christian pop days, can hold out until Perry makes her way to the studio again. At least she’s still “completely outrageous and [she'll] do anything for attention!”
The Matrix, feat. Katy Perry, “You Miss Me”:
How on earth did Columbia Records pass on releasing these gems for six whole years?
Let’s Hear It Records [Official site]
[HT Music Is The Heart Of Our Soul]
That Liz Phair album is really quite good. I know I’m defending the indefensible, but still.
Why do you guys keep writing about Katy Perry if every person who writes for this site seems to detest her?
@AquaLung: this record has been in the works for-ever. it’s kind of interesting that it’s coming out now. the cash-in would have been a lot more crassly well-timed if it came out over the summer, even!
@Nunya B:
Are you talking about the one with Why Can I? Cause if so, I too was a fan of many a track from that album. Yeah I said it.
@Nunya B: @Tauwan: IAWTC.
Everybody loves that Liz Phair album but you, Dan. Everybody.
@ChrisWillman: I definitely hate it. So not everybody.
And I loooooove her first two records (and even that third one kinda).
@ChrisWillman: I might be willing to accept the premise that someone who had heard nothing else by Phair might enjoy her naked album. MIGHT.
Funnily enough I was going to ask that you be more specific when you say “that really dreadful Liz Phair album”
wrong!
@Lucas Jensen: i will rep for whitechocolatespaceegg forever.
@MhS: Yeah, besides the first one, was there anyone afterward that was even, you know, good? I mean, Whip Smart is okay-ish, but at the time everyone I knew thought it was a huge disappointment.
@Maura Johnston: Word up on Whitechocolatespacegg.
Wow, these song make me want to go murder someone, BTW. As much as I just LOVE the pop of the early aughts, this is just … horrid. Though, to be fair “You Miss Me” has a certain earwormy quality, but ooof. So stale.
@Maura Johnston: I mean, it’s good, I guess? I haven’t listened to it in years and have no overwhelming desire to do so.