Exploring Katy Perry's DISASTROUS New Era

[@uncarley]

hello! it had been brought to my attention that the katy perry wiki is INCORRECT (this is on me i really should have checked) so i incorrectly attributed some singles to incorrect albums - im just a 25 year old girl with a dream so stop being mean to me please!

[@bcbeasters]

Girl, you ain't gotta apologize to no one! 😋

[@RenatoKlisman]

go stream Cry about it later

[@Aloho3mora]

If there's one thing the internet is great at is berating someone that made an innocent mistake

[@AlbertoTrivizo]

people shouldn't be as mean as they're being in the comments but next time improve your research, misinformation spreads easily nowadays.. great video tho!

[@-eliaplayz-5766]

@@belloutdoors5217 women can still do things that other women disagree with...

[@ang1885]

Someone on tiktok had a theory Katy made Woman's World for the beginning of the Barbie movie but it was rejected and now I can't unsee it

[@Izzywildflowerr]

stop why did you have to tell us that 😭😭

[@bridget663]

​@@Izzywildflowerrmisery loves company lol

[@Spac3bab3]

😂

[@littlewyzard]

ever since i first heard it i can’t stop thinking that it sounds like it belongs in the barbie movie. like it feels like it’s specifically describing barbieland. which would explain the whole “satire” thing she was going for. it feels like a parody song almost

[@ang1885]

​@@littlewyzard Yes! I didn't even know she said the satire quote till this video.

[@shinihernandez9985]

Meanwhile, Kesha made her comeback with a banger and is getting harrassed by Katy Perry's fans on tiktok. Yay, a womans world 😶

[@daniboy4153]

Oh the irony of it all!

[@highland_persuasion]

To be fair, the harassment goes both ways. On Katy-related promotional posts, you'd also see dismissive comments only to promote Kesha's Joyride.

[@farnesetbh8487]

@@highland_persuasion yeah because the money going to Katy's pocket is also going to Kesha's abuser's pocket

[@dust8236]

The best part about Woman's World existing is that it made people go back and listen to "Man's World" by MARINA again, which succeeded at literally everything Katy failed at.

[@schueggi]

Yes Man‘s World was so good and definitely the blueprint for this (together with Run The World obviously) (and this failed so hard to achieve even a fraction of what those originals did)

[@frank6551]

the comment i was looking for!!!

[@bennyandthetops]

it definitely feels like katy is trying to have her "ancient dreams in a modern land" era rn

[@nbdjz1058]

katy wants to be marina so bad but she never will be

[@eliasclark2354]

Yesss I was just about to mention that! I love Man’s World, it’s a bop AND actually discusses things?? That matter???

[@ilovedilfsandbaldmen]

The way you explained it all in “I don’t think you have an interest in feminism, I think you have an interest in benefiting from it.”

[@s0upc0r3]

your username is a chefs kiss

[@pochaccocino]

"women can do anything!" "women are sisters and mothers" just put them back in the box why don't you

[@uncarley]

women can do anything (be sisters and mothers)

[@tjenadonn6158]

Women can do anything men allow them to set their minds to.

[@rileywrite2327]

@@uncarley DONT FORGET WOMEN CAN ALSO HAVE A BEDAZZLED UTERUS ✌

[@cee_ves]

@@uncarleywomen can do anything! (have uteruses)

[@felipeveloso1578]

"Men can only perceive women as humans if they are related to them" The fact this song was fully manufactured by men makes the line so ironic/tragic

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

How can anyone claim to be a feminist but not care about intersectionality? If you only care about the issues that affect you and ignore the issues that affect other women, you aren't a feminist

[@Froggele]

I would understand if that was her vibe when she came up, intersectionality and what it means was not really talked about back then (I guess as a white woman myself most white women at the time just assumed they were feminists for all women, not really understanding how their privilege was still helping them to not face issues that other women had to face - say women one more time oh my gawd…) and she was also very young but to still be like that now?!? But tbh I‘m not really surprised since I know that she votes for Republicans😒

[@CrankyB1tsch]

like....most of the feminist themselves lol

[@sertiana2512]

"women can do anything" amirite

[@welephantsoup]

It's exclusively terfshit

[@l0s3rb4b3]

frrr

[@genesiszine]

i genuinely believe there was no better way to describe the 2010s other than, "dynamite by taio cruz was a great song". i mean he came to dance, he's wearing all his favorite brands, it goes on and on and on.

[@genesiszine]

side note: never really over sounds like closer by the chainsmokers and halsey's older sister.

[@kseni_vely]

I love you, random stranger on the internet 😆🫶🏻

[@samanthadelahunt3698]

My sister forced me to learn that song in sign language

[@katrandall1802]

But dynamite came out in 2009…

[@allisonelizabeth6596]

@@katrandall1802 🤫

[@Courtney6]

Katy will be 40 in October. As someone a year older I fully believe this is her mid-life crisis moment.

[@cozeydaze]

OMG same! It pains me to think she isn't relevant because of her age but this new music....so dissapointing

[@bybdbp]

She has been experiencing a mid life crisis since 2017 lmaoo

[@Beach_flower]

I’m 44 this year. Definitely seems like a mid life crisis moment to me. I’m a mom too and it’s like when you have a kid you’re like who was I before again? And that’s weird enough, but if who you were before was a POP STAR… like … what do you do!??

[@luckyspurs]

I still find it funny she made Teenage Dream when she was 25 and I was 20.

[@sertiana2512]

​@@luckyspursshe was a sheltered Christian teen, let's say she knew outside world a little too late

[@joannaalhijjaj9289]

woman’s world is literally the definition of “go girl give us nothing” 😭

[@ben-nw1re]

I feel like “the man” did what woman’s world tried to do and failed miserably

[@hoordeyah]

hot take: you find it cringe because she's old and you're ageist. I guarantee Olivia Rodrigo or Sabrina Carpenter can make a song just as uninspired and brainless, but people will approve of it simply because they're younger, and they "still have their time".

[@theroyaljules39]

@@hoordeyah can't speak for Sabrina cause I haven't listened to any of her music but Olivia blew up because her lyricism on driver's license was so good and so painfully relatable for a lot of people. Katy has never been known for her lyrics. Well, at least not in a positive light

[@somedragonbastard]

​@@hoordeyah you have half a dozen comments on this channel and it seems like all of them are bitching about supposed ageism when that is not what that word means

[@user-os2rp5mg5b]

Nah this is a garbage take. Both of those artists would make a song about nothing and tell us that it's about nothing. Katy Perry doesn't have that integrity. Maybe she did at one time but now she's just chasing a number one no matter what. ​@@hoordeyah

[@malloryk5237]

What’s kinda sad and explains a lot is Bonnie McKee was a main writer on many of Katy’s top hits in teenage dream, and even helped write Roar, Part of Me, and Wide Awake. She’s also responsible for Britney’s “Hold it against me” and some of Kesha’s hits and several other artists. Not that it accounts for everything but I think it explains why some of her music went down hill after not working with Bonnie as much when majority of her hits are attributed to her.

[@sewerrat8096]

This just shows that Katy really didn't have to work with Dr. Luke if she wanted to bring back her old sound. Bonnie McKee released a new album this year and it has all the qualities that make teenage dream era pop music fun without sounding dated. Bonnie is an excellent songwriter and I feel like very few people do recession pop as good as her.

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

Yes finally somebody else who is willing to give Bonnie her well deserved credit! Like she did finally have her album come out this year so she was a bit busy but like when I heard her talking about how they wrote Last Friday Night those two were like drift compatible or something

[@RenatoKlisman]

well, not at all, since Bonnie new songs are total garbage lol

[@Fuzzysea693]

This actually explains so much. Bonnie’s song “American Girl” reminded me so much of Katy Perry’s music and it’s such a great song!! I love hearing this but I’m sad for Bonnie because she isn’t recognized for her talent :((

[@luckyspurs]

Now I feel sad that I've never heard the name Bonnie McKee before.

[@Psykells]

There is no better way to describe the 2010 recession than “the vibes were bad”

[@uncarley]

vibes were, in fact, bad

[@kulacute]

FRR honestly its like everyone *knew* that things were Bad but we didnt actually know what exactly so we all tried to just ignore the vague unease and dread looming over us the big difference now is that everyone is so much more hyperaware of Everything going on *everywhere, all the time* that it's impossible to even try to ignore it

[@cardiganweather]

*2008 recession

[@Aeunax123]

I mean😂

[@Taporeee]

With a recession likely ahead, Is Katy Perry responsible for a decline in world finance? ​@@uncarley

[@thatdeadmeme]

her album cover is giving AI-generated MARINA and it’s driving me crazy. like, i think if you combined Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia, MARINA’s Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land, and the AI-generated promotional content of Pink Friday??? It’d be exactly what Katy is doing right now

[@manifestationsofasort]

If you told me ten years ago that Katy Perry would fade out of the spotlight and remembered as a relic of the past I would've laughed in your face, yet here we are

[@sinestesianestesia9079]

Omg I know right? Same for avril lavigne

[@dustrose8101]

@@sinestesianestesia9079 Avril's still here going strong tho.

[@sideshowmob]

everyone fades from the spotlight

[@ismael4237]

​@@sinestesianestesia9079 yeah, but Avril is actually unproblematic, so she is still very respected and has a strong fanbase.

[@yukikanegawa7470]

There's some controversy regarding the people she hangs out with but Avril herself i think is fairly clean ​@@ismael4237

[@elizabethwood2063]

In 2025 I want artists and creators to understand that simply doing The Thing (the sexualization, the racist joke, the slur) is not commentary, it's just a quote.

[@lindseystein9676]

Her “it’s satire” is like when people claim they were “taken out of context.”

[@439801RS]

It's just a prank bruuuuhh

[@bigbearkat2010]

And odd how her satire looks weirdly similar to the thirst trap videos she was doing a decade ago unironically

[@brandoncole5533]

It feels like the time where you woukd be playing with someone and then you absolutely destroy them and then they clearly lie and say that "they werent trying"

[@JaysieeisyaJ]

Katy's "It's satire" is definitely giving Schrodinger's Douchebag vibes.

[@marys3738]

Or that it was a “joke”

[@plushdragonteddy]

i’m honestly a little devastated that when making the point that “it’s not called horse divine” you didn’t call it “feminine equine”

[@mocath8671]

firework came out while i was a very bullied seven year old and that shit was my anthem. oh my god katy sometimes i DO feel like a paper bag… what if…. what if i DID let it shine 🤯

[@uncarley]

in a way we're all plastic bags floating in the wind

[@lesbiangoddess290]

Why am I reminded of paper bag by fiona apple rn?

[@idoitforchina]

@@uncarleyI thought this to myself on the way to work the other day like bruh I really get where she was coming from with that one. I DO feel like a plastic bag, floating through the wind, wanting to start again, thank you very much 🥲😂

[@rx500android]

Omg so true

[@AngelineProductions]

A great satirical feminist anthem already exists. It’s called “Hard Out Here” by Lily Allen and it came out over a decade ago.

[@danica5235]

Omg so true!!!

[@AngelaBruns84]

Love that one!

[@heatweve]

i really never understood how people did not realize it was satire when it came out it was always so obvious to me as a literal child 😭 pop culture seems to have a problem recognizing satire lately i.e. starship troopers, which suffered from the same

[@satousays]

​@@heatweveYeah, I was really surprised by the backlash to the music video for "Hard Out Here" because it is so obviously satire and if anything highlights some of women getting to look more natural than usual in music videos. She spells out "Lily Allen has a saggy pussy" (or something similar) in balloons - of course it is satire. The song also says something, and with the laundry list of injustices makes me feel more confident and validated, (as a female person).

[@hayleycakes3435]

Yessss God I miss Lily Allen tho I'm glad she's happy in her new life she deserves it. LDN was another banger

[@katagenesis]

She still has the potential to make cute songs like Never Really Over & Harleys in Hawaii but instead she just keeps on releasing live laugh love mom songs.

[@uncarley]

yes!! just make fun songs stop trying to feed us girlboss feminism girl

[@bigbearkat2010]

@@uncarley Especially not in 2024. I thought the whole girlboss feminism thing died out with Theranos

[@davidkonevky7372]

Tbf yall let Harleys in Hawaii flop tremendously

[@migoym6079]

@@davidkonevky7372 I'm not a Katy fan, so I only heard of it way past its release and I love it. It's my favorite song of hers. Her marketing really failed Smile.

[@belloutdoors5217]

Why don't you just let her do what she wants? Seems weird. ​@@uncarley

[@lilliputianhitcher3808]

i said katy perry was racist on tumblr in 2012, and i got unfollowed by a lot of people. i just needed to get that off my chest

[@themistressofminerals]

I hear you I see you 🙏🙏🙏

[@comehometheyremykidstoo2678]

omg context plss why am i hearing about this now??😭😭

[@dismurrart6648]

I was right there with you, idk why people think she's a good person or act shocked by this but she's always been sus. Russell brand being more sus than her doesn't make her better

[@eliomust_die]

not trying to disprove anything, but what made you believe that? genuinely curious! :)

[@Profsona]

Playing wii sports bowling while your parents fight upstairs was too close to home 💀

[@Profsona]

Also I appreciate your videos so much I hope you're well 🙏

[@tinniesealjiji]

I was looking for this comment

[@llianneolivoreyesmusic]

Same here

[@1-800-hcbrigs]

That was uncalled for actually 🫠

[@jacforswear18]

DR Luke IS a threat to women. It was just found that his behaviour isn’t criminal. Because the legal system makes it possible to be a violent horrible person and have it not be a crime. So cute so fun 😊

[@abbied]

😭😭😭😭

[@Bluestarferies]

@@abbieddo you hear yourself? I hope he goes to jail for what he “allegedly” did to Kesha. It has to be proved by the court of law that he harmed someone in order to go to jail. As long as it’s alleged, you can’t have expectations of someone going to jail lol

[@Bluestarferies]

@@abbied no the case was settled out of court and there wasn’t enough proof to prove what Kesha claimed. There’s no ongoing case anymore. The fact that you literally lack basic knowledge about the topic yet are so bold to throw accusations is what’s wrong with people nowadays. Sheep mentality and lack of critical thinking at its best.

[@oranges7706]

​​@@abbied​ It's not being a rape apologist to point out that you can't (and shouldn't) throw someone in jail based on an unproven accusation. 😒 Note that I'm *not* saying he didn't do it or that he's a good person - I'm saying it hasn't been proven in a court of law, and therefore, *in the eyes of the current legal system* he's not guilty.

[@abbied]

@@oranges7706 Ok

[@Mila-Rosa]

4:00 dont forget DJ Khalid randomly shouting out 'DJ Khalid' and 'another one' That was also a touchstone for 2010's music lmao

[@uncarley]

hahaha yes

[@clawud]

To this day I still don't know a single song from DJ Khalid or Pitbull, but they were in EVERY girl bop of like 2011

[@Lovelyclarii]

@@clawudhalf their discography is them being featured but sometimes I forget which ones are theirs and which are their features xD

[@ActuallyAnanya]

​@@clawudgirl, Timber? Give Me Everything? You definitely know some Pitbull songs lol

[@haleymist09]

DJ Khalid had the keys! 🔑

[@asagotchi]

Meanwhile, Kesha's switch to deep, personal music was a success (Gag Order is a masterpiece of an album) and funnily enough people begged her to do trashy pop again... and JOYRIDE is a BOP

[@andyenglish4303]

That's because Kesha actually gives a damn.

[@Bluestarferies]

And no one cares ❤

[@EF-kk3vh]

I loveee Gag Order! it was so underrated

[@user-os2rp5mg5b]

I listened to gag order shortly after getting sober and it FUCKED ME UP royally

[@frank6551]

“she was robbed in daylight by horse legs katy perry” i cannot-

[@lizsmith1018]

She said that just as I read your comment and made it 10x funnier 😂

[@abigaileldritch]

My favourite key about men writing it is “she’s a sister, she’s a mother” her value is defined by her relation to a man

[@AničkaVavrušková]

You can be a sister or a mother to a woman as well..but yeah men writing about women is not my fav

[@ohimdying]

​@@AničkaVavruškováIt's more about how some men can only sympathise with terrible stuff happening to women when you tell them "what if someone did that to your mother/sister"

[@pandas4evr123197]

The trajectory of Katy Perry's career actually pisses me off. Teenage Dream is one of the best pop albums ever made (fight me) but now she makes music that sounds like it was exclusively made for suburban white moms who enjoy talking down to service workers and posting passive-aggressive Yelp reviews for small businesses. She makes Meghan Trainer music in a slightly different font. The wasted potential will never not make me sad.

[@kseni_vely]

I like Meghan Trainor as a person, at least of what she presents of herself as her public persona and whatnot, but I cannot stand her music in the slightest and I don't know why, it actually has been a point of contention with my friends through the years 😅

[@mchjsosde]

​@@kseni_velyrespectfully her music sounds like acrylics on a chalk board.

[@dayzedandconfuzed]

i would also say the wasted potential makes katy’s music arguably worse than meghan trainor bc meghan has only ever made meghan trainor music but we KNOW katy could do better

[@ExploringTheTube-fd1oo]

honestly you nailed it! She makes "Karen" music. And it's so sad cuz I bet in a different timeline she couldve been the music for fun party moms or something like that. But she just didnt want that. The potential was thrown in the trash and spit on. Im sad with you.

[@Moon0525_]

I think the saddest thing is your comment is exactly right because so many of the Core Millennials are........ Exactly that lol I'm here as a 28 year old Zillennial with crushing mental health issues, chronic pain, a scary world, and I just wanna have a good time. A fun dance. A drop of bubblegum in a shitty world. That's what the Teenage Dream album was and that's why it was so good because as an early-2010s teen battling stuff like eating disorders worsened by Skins and SH scars with pretty Insta filters on top, we knew we were having a bad time but we wanted to just *feel good* despite it. This, though, doesn't appeal to that. This is for the over-30s who are suburban white mothers and post passive-aggressive Yelp reviews. It's not a having a good time bop, it's a punchdown. It's EXACTLY the kind of 2010s feminism that made so many of us teens who once proudly held up "I'm a feminist" signs to put them down and go.... Okay sure but can we please not be that level of cringe? I don't want to be yelling at men for their leg positions on public transport, I want affordable mental health services. If I have to think of someone who can nail empowering songs that speak about real things whilst being a bop, Miley Cyrus is the one. Hot damn that powerhouse is an icon for us early-2010s teens for a reason. Pop bops and "I'm an incredible, real human" lyrics. We really did get the best of both worlds.

[@judas.isariot]

"Doing your job poorly is not satire" should be the name of the video.

[@yurisama9]

Regreadless of weather she cares about Kesha and the allegations against dr.Luke, why would you work with someone whose image in the public eye is a predator? Like they’re so many good producers out there who will help her get a comeback, she’s an A-lister singer it’s not hard for her to work with someone great other than dr.Luke.

[@bigbearkat2010]

Because her biggest hits were made working with him and when she tried working without him the first time her career faceplanted. She wasn't satisfied being a well paid legacy act in Vegas and wanted to go back to what got her on top to begin with, integrity be damned. Now it's looking like she's well on her way to neither.

[@anothermiddleschoolburnout8816]

Didn't she also side with Kesha during the lawsuit? It's not as if she doesn't know he's a creep.

[@call_rickey]

I feel like if the song wasn’t supposed to be a feminist anthem people wouldn’t care either. like doja cat and kim petras have both worked with him post-kesha case. not saying that it would have been better for her to work with him and just be quiet about it or something, just that making a girlboss anthem with dr luke OF ALL PEOPLE is going to draw attention to your collaborator in a way a different song just wouldn’t have

[@mariokarter13]

Why would hundreds of actresses work with Harvey Weinstein for decades?

[@butterscotch2730]

honestly, til today, i didn't even know dr luke existed. she's an international artist so i would bet a lot of her fans don't know bc one particular man in the music industry being a predator is not necessarily top news around the world. so i genuinely think it doesn't have that much of an impact on her image.

[@neckpeck2738]

I think Katy Perry wants to be P!nk. It's been about ten years since P!nk made her shift from bratty provocative pop-rock to softer, wholesome, all-age-appropriate motivational pop because she turned 30 and became a mom and wanted to inspire the youth. P!nk is kind of in the same ballpark of vague milquetoast "you go girl" philanthropist liberal feminism, but at least her songs seem to come from a genuine place of heart. When you listen to her, you get the feeling that she genuinely cares about things. Katy doesn't have that depth. Katy only knows how to do sugary dance pop - which is fine! Except she couldn't keep up with the shift in culture brought upon by the Trump years. So now that there's another big resurgence for hyperfeminine dance pop, she just doesn't get it - because these younger artists are bringing in new ideas and a new depth into pop music.

[@chrysantheimum]

I feel like Katy Perry has been in a flop era since, like, 2017. Anyone remember Swish Swish?

[@uncarley]

hahahaha i forgot about swish swish!

[@Izzywildflowerr]

swish swish might be my guilty pleasure. i would never choose to put it on but if i hear it i vibe 😭

[@bigbearkat2010]

Which is what makes this comeback attempt so cringey. Witness already dug her in a big enough hole and now she's just digging deeper.

[@the-berries-and-cream-dude]

It’s a catchy song but horrible music video, it’s so cringy and this was when the whole “how do you do fellow kids” thing started. The only good part is when Nicki Minaj comes in.

[@triz00]

I love swish swish just because of nicki’s verse, she ate that fr, but the song as a whole kind of sucks 😅

[@emdawulf]

I graduated high school in 2012 and when I tell you I was treated to FOUR SEPARATE RENDITIONS of “Firework” sung by our school’s Glee Club during my grad week - I still get flashbacks to splitting raspberry Sour Puss from a flask we snuck into prom every time it plays

[@tamara10]

She just released another song produced by dr luke. Yay feminism

[@uncarley]

girl can't stop releasing "feminist" songs by sex pests

[@tamara10]

@@uncarley but it's all done in a satirical way of course

[@RP-ws8fl]

Isn't she fighting with Taylor Swift so she probably can't even work with Jack Antonoff if she wanted 😂

[@tamara10]

@@RP-ws8fl where has she said that she wants to work with jack?

[@dr.little7311]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@RP-ws8flSince that whole beef, she made up with Taylor Swift though, they were in the You Need to Calm Down mv. Unless they got in another fight, she can absolutely work with Jack. She’s Katy Perry, she can work with anyone she wants, a lot of her older hits were tied to Dr. Luke though, that’s probably why she made the idiotic decision to work with him again.

[@livelollobotomy]

currently working on another sewing project and if it turns out shitty… it’s satire babes 😂

[@birdenthusiast5421]

I've definitely tried to cope with a failed knitting design like this before :P It being completely uneven and not fitting was the point!

[@oztippetarius]

In that case, my whole life is satire

[@contemporarydncethot0382]

Very 2010 of you 😂❤ you remember how people would wear a terrible outfit and be like ," oh I was being ironic" 😂

[@ninja_boy]

I was in college from 2009 to 2013. "Dance like it's the last night of your life" perfectly encapsulates that vibe. Every song at every party I attended was itself about partying and dancing. The 2012 Mayan calendar "end of the world" obsession was part of it too (i.e. Britney Spears "Til the World Ends" was straight out of that vibe). There was very much a sense of "this is it, so party it up". Man, I miss those days. :P

[@AmeerahMuhammad]

The great recession actually started in 2008. Right when she came on the scene. 2010 was the tail end of it. I know this because I’m old and was in the corporate world when it happened

[@dalen5220]

Was 10 in 2010 and was also like the recession was 2007-2009 mainly attributed to 2008 and 2010 was definitely the upturn of the world and but feeling the reprochassions of recession of 2008

[@marys3738]

The vibes were bad from 2008-2010

[@StephanieLouise]

I graduated in 2007 & it was like getting hit by a bus.

[@oztippetarius]

Graduated HS 2009. We all knew we were fucked

[@ChardeeMacdennis339]

Thank you. I’m old too. 😂

[@kseni_vely]

The "take a picture in time square with a Kodak" gets in me the Pavlovian reaction and I start singing Tonight, give me everything tonight ... I'm not even joking 😅

[@Blasho950]

I remeber the great recession because my family had spagetti week where like the name suggests we only ate plain spagetti I also remember the katy perry CD we had that we would just play on repeat wherever we drove anywhere for a whole year

[@uncarley]

okay spaghetti week is iconic

[@Blasho950]

@uncarley Shoutout fellow spagetti lovers !! (It may be prudent to mention that the spagetti week wasn't a one time thing, and from my pov it always happened spontaneously. unfortunately.)

[@Chibbykins]

​@@Blasho950 damn, no butter or anything? my condolences, that sounds like a legit nightmare

[@bag.of.bones.]

what kesha did with joyride was what katy thought she did with this song

[@Alice-ql4vh]

her new album is giving Justgirlythings 😜

[@uncarley]

hahahaa YES

[@ActuallyAnanya]

@@Alice-ql4vh Justgirlythings is a lesbian icon, leave her out of this

[@mariokarter13]

The title is pretty good, even if no one under 40 knows what it means. It's pager slang for "I love you."

[@Alice-ql4vh]

@@ActuallyAnanya ugh you’re right… i’ll put some respect on her name

[@cthulhucult3230]

The Bo Burnham song is actually a commentary on roar, and pop culture's wider misunderstanding of depression.

[@MeekReviews]

posted 59 seconds ago. im chronically online

[@uncarley]

congratulations!

[@tinniesealjiji]

Unfortunately I relate

[@slutfortttt]

Forever and always online.

[@All-yg3wb]

​@@uncarleygirl, we love you

[@Tw0Dots]

ok

[@theoneandonlyjulietlove]

One of the best examples of this concept done right is Dove Cameron’s music video for Breakfast. You can tell she put a lot of time and energy into telling the message she wants to tell and highlighting how bad sexism is. Katy Perry and her team could have made something amazing if they took notes from Dove Cameron.

[@morganhill643]

Part of me is from the teenage dream era.. it was on an extended version. Prism has roar, dark horse, this is how we do, etc.

[@uncarley]

you are a katy perry historian!!

[@sainttheresetaylor2054]

those were all bops!

[@heatweve]

wtf how does roar and dark horse are on the same album 😭 i remember the clip for dark horse dropping but roar i feel like it existed forever 😭😭

[@hs.1653]

everything about Katy just feels superficial and shallow. I'm old enough to remember when she became "weird", coincidentally right when Gaga blew up. it's always been for commercial appeal without any real authenticity

[@cthulhuhoops]

Exactly! She chased attention and mirrored what was unique without ever having the spirit of it.

[@laurasmith9784]

queen carley I need an it ends with us movie review so bad 🙏🙏🙏

[@uncarley]

I'm seeing it in like an hour I will report back

[@urfriendhannah]

@@uncarleyoh my god… it’s happening as we speak

[@cobwebharkermusic]

@@urfriendhannahhistory will be made

[@Izzywildflowerr]

somehow my friend adores this katy perry song and is very excited to see the it ends us with us film. it makes me wonder whether she’s mentally stable 😂

[@laurasmith9784]

@@uncarley good luck 🫡🫡🫡

[@kate287]

18:07 I think it’s a reference to how a lot of men call cars a she, or that woman are metaphorically compared to cars. Specifically the “price drops as soon as you leave the dealership” metaphor comes to mind.

[@tamara10]

Never really over is actually on Smile (the clown album) 💀

[@uncarley]

naurr

[@Izzywildflowerr]

every time i hear that song i can’t tell if i love or hate it. the lyrics are dumb but it’s kinda catchy 😭

[@HazyCosmics]

The criticism that teenage dream wasn’t personal enough is crazy to me bc Taylor swift got so much criticism at the time for doing the opposite? Women could not win

[@1989TaylorsVersiom]

14:55 the music video has me thinking of fifth harmonys work from home which now is stuck in my head. Thank you lol

[@uncarley]

OH MY GOD

[@zarinaromanets7290]

This is actually perfect, bc now I'm reminded of the video where one of them is pretending to drill into a tire, like...??? 😂 as if their producers just wanted to show them trying to do something while clearly not knowing how; man that group was done dirty from the start. Still a bop though.

[@alisonmercer5946]

Its a womans world and your lucky to be livin in it 😂 thats so phony and boring .lordy

[@positivevibesveda]

i thought of that too!!

[@michelleriley5297]

"You know how sometimes you just see a video on your like homepage and you're like 'well gotta watch that'" *exactly describes how I found Carley's channel*

[@Sophia-rq6oo]

Haha exactly, it was Carley promising to tell me the horrors of Prince Harry’s Memoir that unexpectedly showed up on my home page and reeled me in 😂

[@Moon0525_]

Same I literally found her TODAY because of this video making it on the algos thanks to all my deep dives on Kesha LOL

[@alesamaa]

hahahaha EXACTLY

[@MoonShadowWolfe]

Like me, this morning.

[@alpal-pb6rv]

the Big Bang theory video is by Pop Culture Detective if anyone was wondering. it’s a great video essay

[@jaduspeaks4754]

I think it's specifically the one called "the complicity of geek masculinity" as opposed to the "adorkable misogyny" essay, although both are great essays.

[@doomnoises]

Excellent channel

[@SamuIise]

I was really worried that 8:53 ("I want to dance and feel good, and that's important") was going to be a terrible transition into a Better Help advert 😬 and glad it wasn't 😆

[@snack2851]

Pretty sure the Big Bang Theory video essay you were referencing at about 15:15 was by the Pop Culture Detective youtube channel. I remember that video explaining the concept of lamp shading like what you said and using the main characters’ status as “non threatening men” to allow them to get away with saying and doing egregiously sexist shit. Definitely worth the watch.

[@toecutterjones]

WAP is more of a feminist anthem than Woman's World.

[@Alice-od3bw]

I’d argue that it sounds better too.

[@eibhilinor7712]

Ok but WAP was genuinely an important and trailblazing song 😭

[@b.k8051]

It's crazy to me how Carl is a grumpy old man name but the minute you an add an -ey to it and it's suddenly this young peppy contemporary name

[@katie8881]

I saw that video on the Big Bang Theory, too. It's called "adorkable misogyny" by Pop Culture Detective for anyone interested. It really sharpened my eye to what's actually satire and what uses "satire" as a get out of jail free card.

[@lexiekimm]

i was in a barn shovelling horse poop the first time i heard i kissed a girl because i wanted to spend the summer cosplaying horse girl at sleep away camp and it was revolutionary (the song, not the horse camp)

[@ninipanini11]

relatable

[@frank6551]

at least the horse legs make sense for someone!!!

[@FleaÉire]

@@frank6551I’m weak 😂

[@inarushloldontreallycare]

Also the fact that a song called woman’s world already exists by Little mix, it even has the same “living in” hook and is just 10 times better vocally, instrumentally and lyrically

[@rfldss89]

"Please please please" has far more replay potential than "espresso". Espresso is nice, but please please please is just so much more interesting, both lyrically and melodically, and I feel like it's getting snubbed

[@FleaÉire]

I think her not having a clean version for the first couple weeks might have affected it maybe? I love the song itself without the lyrics, as you said it’s so melodic and fun

[@somstan]

Nah Espresso is more fun

[@reeofsunshine92]

They are both fun.

[@MarlopolyGaming]

Ah I prefer espresso, mainly due to it's "No thoughts head empty" vibe which I needed at the time.

[@walliam5506]

Yeah tbh I love Espresso but I’d put Please Please Please over it in a ranking, if not just for the way she sings “prolifically” in the bridge lmao.

[@capybaracake]

The Teenage Dream album was in fact the backdrop to me playing the Wii while my dad and my step mom fought. Love that it’s a ubiquitous experience.

[@96iceshell]

I didn't have a Wii so I used to go round to my best friends house where we'd listed to Teenage Dream, play Wii Fit and listen to her parents argue in a different room instead

[@MorganVsTheInternet]

10-year-old me WORSHIPPED 2010 Katy Perry! AND they would've died for her new song! 24-year-old me is disappointed in Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson!

[@StellaBella488]

“…robbed in daylight by horse legs Katy Perry” *chef kiss* 😂

[@CJtheAtiny]

tbh katy's "it's a woman's world" almost feels like a worse version of taylor's "you need to calm down"

[@famemosterrrrr]

They both are actually cringe

[@drawingsticks5333]

@@famemosterrrrr I hate "You need to calm down" with a passion and now I have to say... "It's a woman's world" WISHES it was that. But also I think it's a poor man's version of "Man's world" by MARINA

[@minirth.maggie]

OMG YES!

[@elliesrubies]

Honestly both are bad and performative as hell lol

[@famemosterrrrr]

@@drawingsticks5333 marina is unmatched with her lyricism. Taylor and Katy wished they could write songs like that.

[@fancyflautist]

Silicon is an element (what we put in computer chips), silicone is a compound (baking trays, mold-making, cosmetics, etc). The more you know 🥰🌠

[@awkwardatlas5623]

Ladies and gentlemen, the event we've all been waiting for, the Carlympics!

[@uncarley]

hahaha

[@oztippetarius]

I gotta be honest, that whole falling from cloud nine song was the soul reason I got through the worst break up of my life.

[@satousays]

Wide Awake helped me get through some rough emotions as well. Plus the track is beautiful.

[@cee_ves]

this song felt like something even megan trainer would reject

[@the-berries-and-cream-dude]

27:27 I genuinely think Katy came to the conclusion that her last 2 albums (Witness and Smile) did bad because she didn’t worked with Dr. Luke, not because of her antics or cringey behavior and promo she did. So now with Woman’s World we get the cringe plus Dr Luke. 🤦

[@norwhals.norwhals]

19:42 JKR wouldn’t have a monster truck she would ride in on the Hogwarts express

[@uncarley]

truck nuts on the hogwarts express

[@regulusarcturusblack13]

@@uncarley that's a visual 😂

[@aduckofsomesort]

Her fans kicked her off of that train long ago

[@spibsy]

i can't believe you don't have more subscribers!! you're so funny and engaging, you make it feel like you're just having a conversation with someone in a way most youtubers would pay money for, and you have a great balance of humor with genuine nuanced, thought-out commentary that's so refreshing. also idk if you do your own editing or if you have an editor but all of the transitions were so so funny lmao

[@djonan]

THANK YOU for the rick caruso thing. That speaks to so much more...she's so out of touch but wants to play in working class pool

[@uncarley]

EXACTLY! like katy, you told us exactly who you are babes

[@user-jz8fw8xb3o]

If y’all really want an album that talks about the experience of being a woman that’s not just …whatever’s this is, I absolutely recommend listening to Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land by Marina. Y’all this is album is so good and I personally loooveeee love love Goodbye on the album 😩🫶🏽

[@xhypiseepyx]

marina ran with that album so katy could follow behind, trip, and fall

[@user-jz8fw8xb3o]

@@xhypiseepyx This is literally one of the most hilarious things I've ever heard regarding this topic 😭

[@AyeitsAJ167]

This song genuinely felt like it was made by AI. I know it probably wasn’t, but I know I’m not the only one and that’s embarrassing for Katy.

[@merpderpyerp]

all I'm gonna say is justice for the song Chained to the Rhythm... UNDERRATED, and I think it really fits post 2016

[@Izzywildflowerr]

YESSS

[@NisarKhan-jm1uh]

Yes. It is such a great song. One of my favourite Katy Perry songs

[@appeasing]

I’m 36. Teenage Dream was absolutely inescapable when it came out. Hit after hit, and when I hear some of those songs they still sound fresh and fun! I feel for Katy living in the shadow of that era forever, but the amount of cringe she has achieved are next level 😂

[@itsbeyondme5560]

Really. That album was trash. I'm 35 years old. There were better albums at the time

[@Emma-2029]

I agree with you. I love Katy Perry’s music so much specifically the teenage dream album. I have a 2000’s playlist that I play and it has a lot of her on there. I feel bad that her music will probably never reach that level again. But I’m pretty mad at her for working with the guy that abused Kesha

[@eightmillionmaddies]

For context at 10:25, I looked up how many albums Sour by Olivia Rodrigo sold in 2021, considering how popular it was, and it sold 911,000 copies in the US alone

[@Sjp977]

Accidentally buying Part of Me for $10 not knowing that it cost money and witnessing the divorce scene as a 10 year old in 2013 will forever be ingrained into the fabric of my mind

[@TalentedTeensOf1998]

the way you explained how this song, that's supposed to be about feminism and sexism, feels shallow and disingenuous because it wasn't written by women is the same reason why i could never really get into euphoria. all the commentary on what it's like being a teenage girl, queerness, and feminism never sat right with me because it was mostly written and directed by a white (presumably straight) cis man and just made the show feel off. at least with that show it had good music and was pretty to look at so you could kinda forget how bad the writing was but with woman's world there's none of that unfortunately.

[@louise7202]

that’s why the best episode is the one written (and I think directed/produced or at least co directed/produced ?) by Hunter Schaffer. Even though I don’t know any trans person or am not trans myself I got really into the episode and it touched me a lot. Whereas the other episodes seem out of his pure fantasy and imagination

[@Milkpastasoup]

this is why i will always love the Netflix 'reboot' of heartbreak high. it feels so much more genuine as the 2022 reboot was written by a woman. which for the themes, is necessary for the writers to properly grasp. It has that same visually loud with the fashion choices aesthetic but it feels a lot more real. the characters just feel more believable.

[@blue______]

​@@louise7202yeah I think the same. Sam Levinson writes good stuff only about addiction because of his own experience. But the other topics just feel super empty and shallow. I also love Jules special episode. It felt super personal and real. But what he did to all the characters in season two omg disgusting

[@goodbher9244]

That song was like if you asked chat gpt to write a woman empowerment song.

[@StJimmy-hj1bo]

people are saying “haha the way people dont realize its a parody” how can it be a parody when its co produced by a r*p*st

[@hajaratk5217]

the MV reminds me of the « not your barbie girl » trend thing on tiktok like it’s SO 2010s feminism 😭😭

[@silvermay9026]

It's honestly tragic that this was posted 10 whole minutes ago, it's not ok that this was posted for that long before I got to see it. Work harder algorithm

[@uncarley]

what matters is we're here now

[@hollykent979]

“your parents are upstairs fighting over the mortgage and you’re playing wii sports” is the most terrifyingly accurate summary of the 2010s

[@brightestblue19971]

Todd in the Shadows has a great video breaking down Katy's album Witness. It's even takes a look at the PR tour, the music videos and her infamous performance on SNL.

[@kenjinpiniteu]

I searched up Woman's World and it redirected me to the Cher music video and I infinitely enjoyed that a lot better than SHEKSHII CONFIDENTTTT

[@papercutinjune3213]

you grew your hair outtttttt looks so elegant on youuuuuuuu

[@uncarley]

thank you!

[@Stapler42]

silicone (pronounced like "own" at the end) is the soft plastic, silicon (pronounced like "on" at the end) is the element Si which is used in computer chips and stuff 🙏🙏

[@sillylizard3]

ok but your comment about stalin promoting your gulag song had me in stitches

[@anastasia408]

idk where i saw it but i remember the discussion of 'giving women manly traits is the wrong approach for empowered femenism'...its something pop culture constantly falls into that if a women is portraying the same traits men portray in digital and film media (those traits somehow always being crude, arrogance, overpowered, over controlling etc.) they are 'empowered' and 'in control' of their identity' and its like???

[@livrose3567]

“Before when we were in Jean shorts it was bad. But now because I have horse legs it’s feminism” was not on my 2024 bingo card

[@rosieroo538]

FYI the hook/cane thing is a Theracane, it's to massage painful trigger points/knots on your neck/shoulders/back that you can't reach yourself. The person who had to source props probably searched "self massage" as a euphemism not realising this is a legit tool that helps a lot with chronic back pain lol. I mean if you use it for other purposes, you do you, girl.

[@1989TaylorsVersiom]

Yas Queen on time for another Carley drop. IMO Katy is still in her flop era post Teenage dream. Like you said shes so rich that album did amazing chart wise and still does on streaming. The worst was when the music video swish swish came out she was done, beyond. He music videos have billions of views Taylor Swift level. Katy will live on forever but swish swish nope she was done. I did love the documentary she released it was really sad especially the way her husband was letting her know he was divorcing her. Isn't her new album produced by Dr. Luke as well? I cant support anyone working with him at all. No time. Keshas gag order definitely says enough about what dr. Luke did to her.

[@editaudioaesthetic]

I agree but I think Katy is working with him because she's working with every single person from Teenage Dream. She's obviously trying to recreate it. This tells me there is so much more to the flop beyond Dr Luke's crimes against Kesha, like it wouldn't be beloved if it was all the same and he hadn't done that or was not involved with this.

[@uncarley]

true she never left!

[@ligamentleg]

using the censored version of teenage dream at 4:25 is killing me 💀💀

[@allyroberts6727]

The commentary on the horse legs TOOK! ME! OUT! 😂

[@lyraavdeeva5819]

her robot horse legs look is obviously inspired by arca's kick i album cover look yet she makes no mention of any intersectionality in her woman's world ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@BlackWizardClub]

12:13 Instant thought for me: Xtina. She's serving Christina Aguilera dirty era but updated for the 20s.

[@linasayshush]

It breaks my heart because Katy Perry has one of the best songs about an abusive relationship I've ever seen - Pearl. She clearly CAN do actual feminist songs.

[@Emihasdreamstoo]

I thought the song came out like this week because I haven't heard of it, but apparently it came out a month ago? Damn

[@uncarley]

hahahahaa

[@zoekm]

You were literally the last person on the planet to get infected by this song! Our last hope.. gone!