Jay-Z’s “D.O.A.” has been out for about a month now, but one pop star has just heard it—and upon being exposed to it for the first time, she decided to embrace its anti-technology, go-hard message. That person? None other than the pizza-loving fake bisexual Katy Perry, who apparently felt Jay was speaking to her when he laid down lines like “My raps don’t have melodies / this should make jackers wanna go and commit felonies” and “This ain’t a No. 1 record / this is practically assault with a deadly weapon.” No, for real, I’m not kidding:
Yes, Katy Perry is saying that fewer artists should pitch their wares to the Z100 crowd, and also that processed vocals are completely 200-late. So is this a sign that her next album will be prefaced by her spitting freestyles on Funk Flex’s show, or is she just blowing off steam because the storming chart ascent of Lady GaGa has caused “Waking Up In Vegas” to stall out on the Billboard Hot 100? I guess we won’t know until her mix tape drops!
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She’s going to pull a KLF and perform a trash metal version of “Hot ‘n’ Cold” on the MTV Movie Awards. Complete with fake machine guns.
The best part about D.O.A. wasn’t in the song. It was that it got to number three on iTunes top ringtones. Irony!
Someone needs to remind her that her own songs sound like an auto-tuned recording of a kitchen sink being put through a metal grinder.
I’ll be shot for saying this, but I really like Hot n’ Cold and Waking Up in Vegas.
I should qualify my comment by noting that the only song of hers I’m really familiar with is I Kissed a Girl Because I want Frat Boys to Like Me, or whatever it’s called. And once I saw a really bizarre video for a song of hers I don’t remember. The video was set during WWII for no apparent reason.
I like Hot n’ Cold too. Still haven’t heard Vegas.
@Kate Richardson: I Kissed a Girl went a long way in putting me off her forever, but Hot n’ Cold seduced me back (as did the songs she co-wrote for Kelly Clarkson’s album).
@brasstax: yeah, ‘long shot’ and ‘i do not hook up’ are still really good.
katy’s performance of ‘long shot’ is here. kelly’s (superior imo) version is here.
I’ve heard the Katy performance of Long Shot before. YUCK. And her version of I Do Not Hook Up is just as bad. Not having heard her whole album, I’m pretty sure the goodness of both song & performance on Hot n’ Cold is probably an anamoly.
Hot ‘n’ Cold is good, and Ur So Gay is well-written, I guess. But Waking Up, I Kissed a Girl, and much of her album is gahhhhbage. (Thinking of You sounds like a mule doing Mariah.)
And even worse is her cover of Use Your Love.
@Kate Richardson: I saw that video too, that was weird. Katy Perry sucks.
Oh crap, I just watched the video for Waking Up in Vegas and now I like that song too. Okay, so that’s two.
I enjoy “Hot ‘n’ Cold.”
@drunkwithpower: @KateRichardson: That’s the Thinking of You video.
I just looked up Hot ‘n Cold. I’ve DEFINITELY heard that song, but being the old coot that I am I probably assumed it was Aly & AJ or Taylor Swift or Cobra Starship or something. Or Avril. Or the chick who sings the Keep Bleeding Love song, which is way way better than Hot ‘n Cold IMO. My general point being that I seem to not have the energy or will to differentiate between any of these people.
For some reason this diatribe ignited a yearning for Sum 41.
At least they had the decency to write a good bridge.
There’s meant to be a link to the Fat Lip video in that post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6SxSOO7bWI
Also I know I’m a jerk. I know.
I still find her generally horrid, but I didn’t hate “Hot N Cold” and I am fairly fond of the chorus to “Vegas” (but nothing more). The Kelly songs make me hope that just maybe she can just do like the other Perry and disappear into production and songwriting.
@Jerkwheat: IAWTC
Considering autotune is the only thing that makes her sound tolerable and every one of her songs outside of IKAG (which was its own brand of horrendousness) has sounded like a P!nk offcut, I think she should quit trying to be the totally-non-pandering-to-commercial-radio pop princess that she isn’t.
Are we sure Katy isn’t talking about her career when she tweets about D.O.A?
My hatred for Katy Perry is second only to my hatred for Fergie. The idea of her pointing out anything wrong with the music industry is like a serial killer preaching about the sanctity of human life.
@LostTurntable: You mean like Dexter?
I sort of reluctantly liked “Hot N Cold” for awhile, until I realized the chorus (the main bit of it I actually enjoyed) sounded way too much like the chorus for “U and Ur Hand.”
Katy Perry might actually benefit from more processed vocals. (The rest of us would benefit from no vocals from her at all.)
The first track I heard from Katy Perry was an awesome remix to “Ur So Gay.”
I’d think the only thing worse than pretentious hipster pop would be faux-hipster pop, but I LOVED that track. Yeah, she was manufactured, but she had a team of writers with a sense of humour who also knew how to show off her raw, non-digitally altered voice.
But then we got whatever it is she is now exactly.
The problem with pop is not the melodies, it’s ‘artists’ like Katy Perry who can’t sing for s.h.i.t. I blame this on Madonna, who made it possible to succeed as a performer first and a singer second. Katy, if you want to solve what’s wrong with pop, go back to songwriting and leave the singing to people with actual talent.