the worst thing about all this is that for the first time in a minute people were actually rooting for katy to be successful again, a lot were eager for this comeback... and she fucked it all up by working with dr. luke. i just don't understand.

Woman’s World is SO BAD. In the summer of Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter, she chooses to come back with THIS??

the song literally screams “facebook mom” im sorry😭

The fact that Katy Perry actually thought she needed Dr. Luke to give her another hit is crazy. Gurl you only needed Max Martin to make it happen for you & the end result would be phenomenal. She dug her own grave. Katy should've seen this one coming. Tarnishing your own legacy & reputation for working with a disgraced individual is a self-sabotage. No other explanation needed.

The lyrics are so bad in this song that I questioned if it were AI written

I can’t stop thinking about how someone said the music video looks like it was made in-universe by Vaught as a PR stunt

Any kinda hope Katy and her team had for a comeback, or a Taylor Swift Folklore/Evermore resurgence was killed the minute it was announced she was working with Dr. Luke again. Imagine running back to him, only for him to give you this shitty Ava Max reject. If Katy was smart, she would’ve returned to her Pop Rock One of the Boys sound

It’s giving desperation. I think she just has to accept that she’s not the type of artist that has longevity in the mainstream. And she should just make music for herself. Not everyone can be in tune with the culture for that long like Beyoncé and Taylor swift. It takes a level of self awareness and having an ear to their fan base but the current generations while still remaining authentic in what you want to do. It’s a hard balance to strike that most artists can’t. And that’s okay. Katy Perry fit perfectly in her peak. It’s okay to let it go and move on

That song is giving 2015 Buzzfeed vibes.

It's the fact that she has to make a joke out every. single. thing. That Pitchfork review was completely savage 💀😭

Seeing espresso (you pronounced it better) in the video makes me sad bc Katy coulda easily made a song like that and we’d eat it up but she went back to doctor luke 🤡

I’ve never been a fan, personally, Katy is very much not my artist, but even I can easily sit here and say that she’s generally been a much wiser and smarter artist in these regards. I did at least manage to vibe with her self-aware sense of cringe, and at least find it fun, even dunking on her in a light hearted kind of way. This one just… I feel like it just lacks of any real Katy Perry-ness. There’s no cleverly shameless FUN to it, it just feels like a weak attempt at a more old-school pop anthem that she became known for, and it really just feels to me sort of like she’s lost a sense of authenticity in trying to stay as herself, bc that sense of herself is a version from 10 years ago that we know she HAS shown growth past it. Smile isn’t perfect, but I do think it showed a lot of growth from the past, whilst still feeling very Katy Perry. It feels like a regression to me, I guess.

She's still stuck in her "Dark Horse" era. She probably still thinks she's a real underdog in this game too

She’s coming off like she’s really trying hard to cling on to her youth. She reeks of desperation and it shows.

I was expecting WAY WAY more from the music video. I was hoping that it was going to have a really trippy sci fi element to it, like sort of like how Bad Blood by Taylor Swift did, maybe in the woman's world everyone was upgraded that's why she wore those cyborg legs, but instead we got this whatever mess of a video. Honestly, I hate to see her crash and burn this badly because she was really such a famous and good artist, but I have no idea how she just really missed the mark here.

just the irony of the song topic and dr lukes involvement spoils the song for me and when it's not even a good song it's down right insulting

She lost it in 2017

I’m crying the thumbnail😭

Katy, if it's a woman's world, then why does your video pander to the male gaze?

I feel like she really should have worked with Bonnie McKee again if she wanted to recapture her early 2010s electropop perfection era because Hot City is exactly the kind of music I wanted from Katy,

I honestly don't hate the way this song sounds, but bringing Dr. Luke on a "feminist" song is...

I genuinely feel sorry for her. This song even without the dr luke controversy, just absolutely horrendous & soulless song overall. However, I am pleased to see Katycats got humbled immediately after their rampant tweets of bullying kesha saying she deserves to get SA’ed, standing up FOR dr luke, and making transphobic jokes towards gaga.🙂‍↕️

Honestly I was hoping she would go back to her pop rock routes but instead we got the abomination lovechild of HotnCold and Stupid Love 😭😭

Hard to believe that the same woman who made classics like Last Friday Night, California Girls, Wide Awake, Roar & Dark Horse managed to put out one of the worst songs of the year. Girl in all honesty i have no hope for 143 lmao

I don’t got time for Katy’s shenanigans. It’s brat summer.

woman's world is a strange song for me. as much as i dont hate it, there's no way she thought working with luke would be a good look. the song rings as a blatant kim petras reject. luke, aaron joseph, and vaughn oliver? like come on, dont tell me that this song wasnt originally written for kim. the instrumental sounds like problematique to a T. really my biggest issue with the song is that, for some reason, i really do like it

So a woman being strong means being half naked? I generally do strong things without a bikini top!

trisha was the only good thing about this whole thing

Mid life crisis anyone??

The conservative imagery, white feminist dribble on a track with someone who's been credibly accused of assault is a PROBLEM

Katy Perry is not musician. she is a tool to make money. I am glad the world finally wakes up to it ( no hate to katherine hudson though

even if she dosent care about kesha be selfish and care about ur career,she’s not even in contract its career suicide,the song is about feminism too like ???

Seems like they wrote the title of the song first and then think what they actually can talk about

The music video is crazyyyyyyyy, someone said "queen is stuck in 2016" 😭 and another said that the video and song are from a timeline where Hilary Clinton won, lmao, as much as it is sad to see a pop icon release such a bad song I can't help but thank her for giving us something to laugh at

"She's sister. She's mother. She's sweet home Alabama."

K, let me put my two cents in it: One - the fact that two of her best deep cuts, Hummingbird Heartbeat (produced by Tricky Stewart) and Walking on Air (produced by Klas Ahlund in collboration with Max Martin) ARE NOT produced by Dr. Puke, and either of them could be dropped as a single and tagged onto her upcoming record and it still would be its biggest hit, speaks volumes as to why she should have never ever come back to the "alleged" abus3er in the first place Two - Woman's World in its current state and form feels like a deformed fetus of a track, not a fully fledged song - the insipid, tired, brain-numbing lyrics in the verses which feel like generated by the AI after you put the command "write TikTok-ready female empowerment anthem in style of the early 2010s pop music into ChatGPT", the chorus which is catchy but doesn't explore the concept in anyway and repeats itself with the intention of getting drilled into your head, and the uninteresting production which feels dry, sterile and devoid of any pulse... We live in the post-Brat world, this Kim Petres reject dance production won't do anymore, we expect our electrodance pop music to be at least a little more daring. If it's telling enough, I would rather listen to Chillin With You by Britney (i mean Myah Marie) than this song 10 times in a row, as the fomer, while still being an awful track, has at least some sort of interesting production and definitely had a thought put behind it... Ah Katy, you never learn... Anyway, stream Joyride by Kesha, Stupid Love by Gaga AND Walking on Air by Katy. PS. I heard a snippet of her another new song "I'm his, he's mine" and it's even worst, maybe the worst song i've ever heard...

She should have gone dark pop imo or do a sound similar to Harleys In Hawaii, if she had sent that to radio back when it went viral she could have literally had a Cruel Summer moment

The song kinda sounds like a catchy jingle from a TV advertisement for lipstick, hair dye, or feminine hygiene products: "Katy Perry X Tampax - Celebrating 90 Years in a Woman's World since 1934"

i still can’t believe it was made by Dr. Luke

A shame she seemingly hasn't worked with Bonnie McKee on this upcoming record who co-wrote alot of her successful songs on her earlier albums (Last Friday Night, Legendary Lovers, Roar, Teenage Dream etc) and who just released her 2nd album (Hot City) that was planned for 2014 but cancelled by the label back then. Hot City deserves as much if not more attention as 143 will probably get when it releases in September

Apparently people can't have differences of opinion without being called a hater. The song just isn't good, and the visual proposes a mixed message

so i’m not crazy for hearing stupid love like i started singing it when i listened to women’s world

This song feels really outdated. It would've fit perfectly in 2014-2016, but not now. We feel like we're over the female empowerment stuff now. I was so excited for Katy's comeback, but this just wasn't it. Hopefully the album as a whole is better.

THANK YOU FOR SAYING SOMETHING!!! This was supposed to be her big comeback with her long black hair and upbeat pop banger after critical acclaim came back with PLAY and her spotify listeners nearly doubled organically over the last couple years. Me and many other KCs were disappointed at how short the song was. That is very out of touch for her. Also the chorus is very repetitive and loses momentum with the ahas. The production in the verses is recycled from Prisms "This Moment" and you're right it is a rip off of Stupid Love. Sometimes I wonder who allows these songs for big artists with potential to get approved and released. Like, the average Joe could have taken this song and made it slap. It suffers from the some thing WIG did when the 2nd chorus lost momentum and the song ended abruptly. Yes, Zedd would have been perfect to work with as he is probably the most uncontroversial producer in the industry and he and Katy work well together. This song is not bad but not lead single material. Oh well. Let's hope 143 has a later single that hits harder and brings it home.

I refuse to believe literally walking through a glass door part isn’t tongue-in-cheek. As well as the girl-coded items she’s tossing around in this beginning. The satire just didn’t land for some reason.

I’m hoping this was just her seeing if she could work with Dr.Luke or if she has to send Dr.Luke to cell block one with drake

ugh don’t remind me about never really over 😭 the only promo was singing it in the bathroom

Her and Eminem are trapped in their golden era. I want out!!!

I am hoping that the deep cuts of "143" we be better, i hoping for her to do something in the form of "Walking On Air" again. But it feels so Icky that's she's working with Dr. Puke, it feels wrong. The music video is awful, it's Swish Swish level cringe, Did Dave Myers directed this. And really Trisha Paytas?

I just wish Katy had released something like Harleys In Hawaii which was vibey not cringey

She really went back to the wrong person: the one collab that made Katy Perry big was Bonnie McKee, not Dr. Luke.

Max Martin and Shellback could've easily replicated Dr. Luke's sound. I don't understand why she had to recruit him again.

My face was 😀 hoping it would get better

I think the worst choice was her thinking her pop success was because of Dr Luke (which she shouldn’t have gone back to anyways obviously because hes an alleged abuser) and not Bonnie McKee who wrote so many of her biggest hits, including Roar, California Girls, Part Of Me, and Teenage Dream.

the industry DOES hate bridges................ I feel like there's a Bridge on the River Kwai joke in there somewhere but I'm not smart enough to make it .... the bridge is my favourite part

Her trying to salvage by saying "it's meant to be a satire!" is so funny because then that means the satire didn't land on its own, which means it's bad satire. you did a Bad Satire, katheryn!

The lyrics are like something Rupaul would write to pander to his audience

Clinton 2016 song is so true 😭

She's so brave for naming her new album after its peak chart position

Like, We get it Katy: You had a baby , and now are desperate to prove that you were able to have your body " bounce back " ( Likely through expensive trainers, crash dieting, and possible tummy tuck, lipo sculpting and/or Ozempic) You look Great ( Wealth and celebrity status affords you every option and ability/shortcut) BUT this Music video, even if a parody; REALLY missed the mark in terms of championing women past being looked at as a sex object/piece of meat. And overall, the generic lyrics are juvenile and lacklustre. It really seems ridiculous that it took 6 song writers to write this one song. Katy working with Dr. Luke was definitely a bad look and terrible choice. It's sad and disappointing. P.S. Why does the decision to put Katy in a large pair of bionic legs seem more like a way to disguise Slightly thicker thighs; that Katy may have felt look unflattering ??!! Women's talent and ability lies in more than just what your body looks like I think that your critique video was write on the money when saying that Katy Perry appears lost.

also i really hope this isn’t too much to ask, but since we’re talking about Katy Perry, could you please make a video on Bonnie McKee? 🙏 i’d even pay to hear you review her new album ‘Hot City.’ she actually IS bringing back 2010s pop, with a small budget, and entirely independently! her new album is near skipless, and it’s been in the vault for ten years. thank you either way ❤

A gay man saying “she’s a sister she’s a mother” saying it’s slang no the song is about woman so she is a mum or she is a sister not every single thing is about slang

I'll prefer listening to joyride by Kesha then losing minutes listening to that

I was really shocked when watching the music video. She screamed about women power yet sexualized us instead. Orlando Bloom from Miranda Kerr to her. Like hell...

What still annoys me about "Roar" and EVERYBODY oversees this somehow: It heavily grabs from Sara Bareilles' "Brave", which PERRY HERSELF tweeted about beore "Roar". Brave still gets comments about being a plagiate when it was the first one to release. I'm not a "hater" or anything, I enjoy some songs like Dark Horse genuinely, but I feel she was just overhyped for a long time and never that personally involved as everyone thought.

The blow-up doll thing I think was a reference to Kesha and Dr. Luke's history

Everything about this song/video is just lazy. It’s just random feminism sounding words and things smushed together into a blob of garbage. The only thing I really enjoyed was the beginning of the video, I thought it was smart to recreate sort of the beginning of America but instead with women as the [ones] building our society. But then after that it just completely lost me, and even then the song is so bad that it’s hard to focus during the one decent part of the video anyway 😢

she should've just gotten bonnie mckee

Anyways Kesha released her first single as an independent artist after regaining her music from Dr. Luke and it’s pretty good :)

“Your rizz is so slay!” 🤣 Hilarious

It's just so generic!

i think dr luke was bad enough, but when katy perry’s own a$$auł+ proof and allegations came out, i was absolutely disgusted, and knew i’d never listen to her again.

the robot legs 😭😭😭 she wants to be ARCA soo bad 😭😭😭

Her 2022 droplet single, When I'm Gone, was a far superior comeback song to this IMO and everyone slept on it😭. Her comeback was doomed from the moment it was rumored she went back to Dr Puke. I would at least expect the song to be slightly better than Walmart Stupid Love. I dunno why her team thought it was a great idea to go back to him of all people when there are far more competent producers (Max Martin, Dan Nigro, Alesso) who would’ve done a better job

She had her peak and now declining. It's natural. Justin bieber, Usher, Kesha, Britney, Katy all the same. They are not popular as they was anymore.

Roar won the battle in 2013. Applause won the war eventually. Roar aged like milk. In 2024, Roar sounds like a kids' bop anthem while Applause still sounds timeless, which fits any pop era.

After seeing countless videos poping up in my recommended about katy falling off, I didn't know that she had a new song out nor was I interested. But as soon as the music video ended I sat down for a good minute like this 😑. Even if it was claimed to be so called "satire" the poor lyrics that accompanied the stange music video doesn't comply with that vision. It truly felt like women across the world caught a stray bullet because of this terribly executed feature.

I don’t condone ageism but PLEASE RETIRE KATY. Everything since the Witness era has aged like soooo bad.

This is so embarrassing! They even went so far to defend "Women's World" as a "parody" (wtf? what female role model in 2024 would want that?!?) This is approbation of feminist topics (from the 1980s) with the sole purpose of making money - thus declaring millions of fans not smart enough to know the difference. The Guardian review puts it best: "Perry’s solo return is a dated attempt at writing a feminist anthem about how women really can have it all! It’s a song that made me feel stupider every sorry time I listened to it … this garbage has 6 writers."

I think this just proves that Katy Perry was only popular because of her youth and sex appeal and not because her music had substance

I searched up the snippets that she played on live and I’m genuinely worried for her career, this could be her last chance at rekindling the success she had in the 2010’s, and it’s not looking good, as much as I want to like the song and snippets, they suck, she needs to go back to the studio and rework the album.

I'm disturbed by the fact that she's working as a judge for American Idol and release this kind of nonsense song as her comeback. If I become part of the contestant or coming for audition, I won't take her advice seriously since she can't even released a new song that shows her maturity in music industry. Her singing career is over to be honest.

The only thing i want her do to is to use a new instrument 😭 not that same poppy sound....

Shes long gone. People only care about her cause of teenage dream

I'm Katy's age and saying "like, girl, what is you doin'?" So much room for growth!

This couldve been a perfect time for her to return her pop rock roots hut sadly, no

Idk why no one mentions the fact that the robot legs are literally the same as Arca’s. Like cmon even the cover of her album is the same. :\

She thinks she achieved everything with those diamond albums and singles that I don't see any hunger in her to outperform her previous achievements. She has always been a singles artist, so I don't see any hope in 143 ( i love you). This album seems to be a cheap copy of Taylor's Lover but The Man is a superior track as compared to Woman's world.

Her new era is I’m Skinny, look at my flat stomach, oh and girl power? So lame

I'm just so saddened by Kathy's career at this point

Thanks so much for an honest review. As a total Katy Perry fan, I have to say that I was shocked (and not for the better) by Katy Perry's recent deterioration. It's just a mess that screams a lazy cash grab or attention grab. The close-ups on Katy's boobs are cringe. The woman's world empowerment lyrics are cringe. The fact that Katy worked with Dr. Luke, of all people, is cringe, and that's not a kind gesture towards Kesha. The song even has SIX co-writers, and I can't help but wonder how six people could mess up so bad. With Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and others producing their weakest works lately, I can't but think that fame goes to some superstars' heads and that they begin to eventually believe that they walk on water. Why bother to try, when everyone is going to listen anyway? It just feels like superstardom breeds laziness later on. It's a shame. I love Katy.

Song was a campy bop, yall just dont wanna appreciate it

No bridge. Would be crazy if Katy were to release another song that had absolutely NO BRIDGE

The stark contrast is really crazy because it ONLY really hit me when I remembered that Kesha wrote and made the song "I Kissed A Girl" and was in the music video herself to now Katy Perry's lead single being from Doctor Luke himself, first lead single a hit made by kesha latest lead single flopped and made by dr luke

Everyone wants what charli has now 🤭🤭

"A Hillary Clinton, 2016 campaign song anthem that is 8 years too late". Amén.

what you said about Kylie Minogue is so true!! She's still so relevant and still making hits and winning records going down the dance/electropop route. Katy Perry should've done the same thing.

I remember reading that her latest song had tanked. I had a chuckle.

Agreed on her following Kylie Minogues lead on dance tracks.... She should work wirh Kylie be epic 👌💯👠👑

I wondered if she really worked with Dr. Luke doja cat said she didn't work with him for planet her yet somehow his name was on the producing credits and she was mad that he was profiting off her work that he didn't contributeanything to. And I believe doja because she's showed us her making music and beats by herself on her instagram so I wonder if katy was in the same situation were luke came in at the end and slapped his name on it. Katy did say that she signed a bunch of artist and was managing them in the 2010s yet somehow they were also signed to Dr. Luke even though they were her artist's the music industry contracts are just so shady and difficult to comprehend so I'm not surprised katy perry a high school dropout is getting manipulated by the industry