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Katy Perry - Witness Reviews
*** of 5 Rollings Stone Fourth album Witness surfs on gentler throbs of house music and lets ballads smush into art-pop soup. It's all a perfect fit for a Hot 100 dominated by the subtle, nuanced, EDM-informed music of artists like Halsey, Camila Cabello and Troye Sivan. But subtle and nuanced was never the calling card of the artist behind songs like "I Kissed a Girl." Perry has replaced the eye of the tiger with the heart of a contemporary night owl, making an album of mostly moody, dreamy, reserved music – and one double-entendre-filled, AC/DC-ready food fight in "Bon Appetit." In turn, a pop icon blends into the rest of the radio.
C+ Cleveland While most of "Witness" focuses on dance pop, Perry goes into breakup mode on powerful slow burners like "Save as Draft" and "Into Me You See." "Witness" could use more of those personal touches, as Perry gets lost in the rest of the album's generic material.
Wiki Graves from Consequence of Sound gave the album a rating of C. He listed "Swish Swish", "Power", and "Déjà Vu" as essential tracks, but felt that most of the other songs were more of a "filler", and that a lack of cohesiveness with Perry's output made Witness inferior to her previous material.[27] Kevin O'Donnell of Entertainment Weekly gave it a B rating stating, "Perry is reflective, anxious, and fired up on Witness", highlighting "Déjà Vu" and "Swish Swish" as the best tracks.[28] USA Today's Maeve McDermott commended the album for being "sonically coherent" and noted it as a personal record, rather than the politically charged marketing campaign it had received.
Its just ok from what im hearing on Tidal now. Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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I'm just glad she finally dropped the album. She could only release so many singles. | |
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Is that the all seeing eye?  if it was just a dream, call me a dreamer 2 | |
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Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. |
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Katy Perry is in some house, a la big brother, and is live streaming for the last 18 hours. Much like Big Brother live feeds, you can choose one camera to stay on, or a 4-cam multi-stream. I think she's about to do some interviews, because she talked about people coming in. Her chef, a manager possibly, and someone else is in the house. Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. |
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They misspelt 'witless'. "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin | |
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Awesome album. . All of her albums are growers so at least they pass the test of time. . All the singles so far have been awesome and fit in well with the album. .
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TrivialPursuit said: Katy Perry is in some house, a la big brother, and is live streaming for the last 18 hours. Much like Big Brother live feeds, you can choose one camera to stay on, or a 4-cam multi-stream. I think she's about to do some interviews, because she talked about people coming in. Her chef, a manager possibly, and someone else is in the house. I saw that yesterday morning. I was watching her sleep and her manager get things ready in the kitchen lol. Then I had to go. While I was at the gym watched her have interviews. It was kind of cool to see this semi reality room Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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I'm skimming it on Spotify. The only thing other than CTTR that has grabbed me is Tsunami (freaky n catchy). I'm on Save as Draft atm. It's ok. As was most of it For all time I am with you, you are with me. | |
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Tsunami is a bonafide jam For all time I am with you, you are with me. | |
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. I can't stop blasting it on repeat 
. Beat is the best part, but she sells the rest quite well. Very sexy... 
why is she suicidal??? | |
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According to the National Review (not me), Katy Perry's new phase has seemingly made her hated by everyone:
Check the link below:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448691/she-definitely-not-playing-her-strengths
She has a few songs that are ok, but not a fan of her overall art. This era does seem a bit strange. It is almost as if she wants to set a new narrative of being this "rebel", but it seems contrived. She has been uber successful and the whole phase seems forced.
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Complete garbage from start to finish - and the critics agree. This album is getting horrible reviews for a reason [Edited 6/17/17 8:46am] The greatest live performer of our times was is and always will be Prince.
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