very true! Perry is very good, not amazing but good for pop culture! She tries hard with her videos especially! Shes done well for herself in the past few years, but how long will it last though……..

Nah. I don’t sing her songs at all. I just don’t like her music period. She don’t settle in my SPIRIT.

I don’t like her music or her voice.

yasss Trent. They don’t hear you tho! *starts sweeping up the wigs on the floor*

Katy Perry makes garbage music and we all have the right to say so. We don’t have to pretend to feel bad for her. She’s making millions even though she has no talent and resorts to shady tactics because she can’t earn anything. Records aren’t made to be broken. They are set and talked about as a way of celebrating a special, unique achievement-katy crapped all over that. Trent, if kp cheats her way to breaking mariah’s record for number ones, will you still think it’s right? I give you the same advice I give kp: do better.

I blame Billboard’s policies,not her.BUT,she obviously doesn’t care about what kind of influence she’s having on trends in industry-which is actually every popstars’ implied responsibility.So I don’t respect her for that.But yeah,you could play few of her songs in the car.And she isn’t totally talentless-she CAN sing and is involved in all her music’s writing process.Generic,but not ‘talentless’.She’s no Lady Gaga though,let alone being worthy of comparisons to legends.

Another thing… Lol. Now things are so instant so maybe it’s easier to reach the top spot and break records. Back then when we liked a song, we couldn’t just go and download it instantly – a lot of times we had to wait for the whole album to come out which meant we would listen to it all but people have short attention spans these days. We want everything right now. I do believe MJ was a genius. He has an entire collection of great music that I can listen to TODAY, decades later and it still has the same effect. Revisit Katy’s album 10-20 years from now and see if you feel the same. I do believe she makes catchy songs though.

Katy perry represents everything that is wrong with today’s music, in my opinion of course. Didn’t kno she wrote her own music and really couldn’t give a damn actually because she cannot sing, her voice really grates on me. Mj’s success is not exaggerated and that’s comin frm someone within the 16-25 bracket. Some of my earliest memories of music were from that Bad album, which I still regularly listen to today. Do u think in 20yrs time people will be referring to the Katy Perry’s album as a classic – hmmm I doubt it! Kudos to katy tho, she’s makin her money, I give her 5yrs before she turns to presenting cos she’s not a credible artist sorry!

exaggerating mj’s worth?are you even serious there?MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON was the man who literally changed entertainment and music industry with his record breaking music,dance and short films.he is the standard everyone looks for.
at the end of it all,katy’s so called songs n talent doesn’t even compare mj’s toenail.she can break whatever records she want but she’s not n never will be comparable to the late great michael jackson.keep him out of the book when ur talking about vapid artists like katy perry.she’s as manufactured n hollow as music gets.

I personally enjoy katy perry’s song. I agree that most of MJ material is great. But to trash katy’s song is not good. If you only listen and interpret well the lyrics of her song you would found out that it is a great track.. created in a catchy way. teenage dream brings back the youth in me.. fireworks is inspirational… california girls is more of a fun song and she have achieved its purpose. other katy perry song like thinking of you is infectious. i guess katy perry alone, set aside MJ comparison, she has a great material too.. to bad in this era you have to stratigize well in order to stay in the game. something that Christina Aguilera needs to learn, she has talent but no strategy.. although she is still part of the game she needs to recharge to perform well again same as what they did on her early years.

pavi says:
January 24, 2012 at 11:24 pm
and yes bad is genius song which is better than every song on teenage dream.20 years later we dance and sing to bad title song.i wonder if katy’s teenage dream will inspire the same reverence that bad album does.hmmm…lets talk then.until then you have no business writing trash articles like this.

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I don’t even know how bad sound like. Im sorry, maybe the problem is with me?! or maybe not (coz some people only exxagerates).

This has to be one of the most shallow and smug “articles” I have read in a good while; full of excuses and assumptions (no, I don’t scream ‘The One That Got Away’ when vacuuming the carpet and think your neighbors can’t hear. LOL! On my life, I couldn’t even hum the melody of that crap.) The bottom line is that Katy’s “music” is unremarkable. It’s plain, simple, cheesy and half the time sounds “unfinished”. Linda Perry’s commentary about it being ‘microwavable popcorn’ was so spot on that no one will be able to assess it better than that. MJ’s “Bad” may not have been ‘genius’ and wasn’t his best work, but it was still better produced, better performed and ultimately shits on the best of what Katy has to offer.

Records and accolades aside, MJ was a charismatic performer whose charisma and talent made him prolific and deserving of every record he ever set. He touched a broader audience, and in his prime no one could argue against his deserving any of his commercial achievements. By contrast, Katy is some random, borderline-forgettable of-the-moment pop star who is as deep as a fishbowl, phony as a pyramid scheme and totally interchangeable with her peers. Her ‘feats’ are the result of strategic marketing that takes advantage of a lazy, apathetic generation that half the time only appreciates music for its ringtone value. 2.2 million albums since August 2010, with 5 #1 singles, is poor. That’s a succinct example of what I’m talking about. Her album sales don’t add up to her hit singles…and the whole point of singles are to serve as a promotional tools to sell the album they’re from. Tell me again why anyone should respect Katy.

MJ scored 5 #1 singles without resorting to desperate stunts (forgettable remixes with tacked on rappers, discounting the songs to the price of a cheap candy bar get them to break records, etc., etc.) *and* still sold nearly over 8 million copies of the album that they came from. When Katy can claim this, I’ll back off…until then, she’ll continue to look both ridiculous and suspect.

Stop acting like behind the bitter skepticism from fuddy duddy’s who dislike a change of guard her music is actually good and undeserving of the criticism, when in reality it is as cheap and tacky as a TV show theme songs. Honestly, it seems like she records these dingy little ditties just so that they can be easily covered by the cast of GLEE.

Yes, someone, some day was going to match/break MJ’s record…but I would have hoped that the one to do it would have been more charismatic than her.

@ Small_Angel

“MJ is Great we all know that. But is there something wrong with katy and her team trying and Dreaming to break a record that may come once in a lifetime? i don’t see any wrong on that. In the first place her album is abou Dream.. “Teenage Dream”?”

The problem is not with Perry breaking a record of MJ (just one record of many MJ records), the problem is rather the hype around it – and articles like this. As long as MJ alone held this record no one even talked about it, it wasn’t considered very important. In fact, the media talked about how “Bad” was a flop, rarely even mentioning the record it held. Now, all of a sudden this record became important and all the talk is about Perry breaking MJ’s record, OMG!

Plus people don’t like her desperate tactics to break this record. I personally couldn’t care less about the record itself, but I find articles which try to put him on the same level as Jackson, annoying and laughable at the same time. And like I said, it’s not about nostalgia and a war of generations – the article is wrong about that. Go to an MJ fan forum and see how many young people, teenage fans he has! He’s not a nostalgia act.

The song “Bad” may not be his strongest song ever (though the video and the dance in it makes up for the song’s weaknesses), but the album also has songs like “Smooth Criminal” (which is still getting covered by other artists – for example Alian Ant Farm scored a hit with it a couple of years ago), “Dirty Diana”, “Man in the mirror” and so on. Will anyone cover anything from “Teenage Dreams” in 25 years and score a hit with it? I very much doubt that.

Hmmm really, Trent? Okay here come my 2 cents…

Katy Perry is like one of those pretty little boxes little girls get as birthday or Xmas gifts. You can put anything you want in there: goodies, paper, fantasy jewelry, garbage…in the end, the box is still pretty. Nobody expect the pretty box to become a practical luggage, or a fancy briefcase, or a secure vault. Nobody puts anything precious or valuable in a pretty box. The box purpose is to be pretty for everyone to see. Nothing less, nothing more.

Katy Perry ain’t doing nothing wrong, seriously. But if she wasn’t around, nobody would really care about or miss her musicality.

I said musicality, because her music is actually good, ‘Teenage Dream’ and ‘E.T’ are two standout tracks on her album. But the Glee kids are the ones who gave ‘Teenage Dream’ the treatment the song deserved. And even though ‘E.T.’ hit #1, it is not considered a solid pop record like Beyonce’s ‘Sweet Dreams’ or Black Eyed Peas ‘Meet me halfway’.

Nobody sings Michael like Michael. Nobody sings Beyonce like Beyonce. Nobody raps Kanye like Kanye. Nobody whistles Mariah like Mariah. Nobody delivers Britney pre-meltdown better than Britney pre-meltdown. Nobody should sing Katy better than Katy, but it turns out that a lot of people can actually. That’s all what this is about.

We got it. You are a Katy Perry fan.

…and even after such a laughably “passionate” attempt to qualify the legitimacy of this pop tart, and to mock her naysayers, I still say that Katy is just a flavor of the month and that her music is no good.

Trent, you…aren’t heterosexual are you?

Trent, I know you want to draw people to your site and to get debates going, but writing absurd articles like this isn’t the way to do it. There are so many things wrong with what you’re saying. For one, I don’t scream along to Katy Perry songs when they come on the radio; I scream AT the radio. If I did sing along, I’d sound better than her…

I’m just glad that that new single isn’t hitting number 1.

But seriously, I am in that 16-25 age bracket and I own that Bad album. Trust me the hit songs from that album separately and together are better than any music Katy has ever released. Honestly, that album had Man in the Mirror. The impact and the importance of that song in itself shows that MJs success from that album is not exaggerated.

PS what was the point of mentioning RIhanna to try to make Katy look better? Loud may have sold 1.6 million in the US but WW Loud has sold 6 million whereas Teenage Dream sold around 2.5 million. Loud is still the more successful album

Trent, for your information, the “Bad” song is about the story of Edmund Perry who was a 17-year-old Harlem kid shot by a policeman in 1985. You can read about his story here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Perry

or here: http://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/edmund-perry/

Though the “Bad” song is a fun, dance song at the surface, but actually it’s much deeper than that. I can’t see any deeper message in Katy Perry’s songs though, sorry.

First of all he was just basically saying that tKaty/Rihanna kinda cater to the same audience. He wasn’t saying that one was better than the other. Although, some of that demographic still buys their albums as well. They just don’t appeal to various audiences, well alot of their songs anyway.

I just don’t like her voice or music…

Hey Trent, I really appreciate the diversity of topics that you cover. I have to say however, that I don’t think Katy Perry makes good music. It’s very cheap sounding, repetitive and annoying. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson and although I wasn’t fully able to understand the Bad song it’s message became clear when the video debuted and was seen in it’s entirety. Unlike Perry, Jackson wrote that and 3 of the other number ones plus Smooth Criminal completely by himself and there’s no doubt that Bad (single and album) serves as one of the sonic, lyrical and visual highlights of Jackson’s career. I applaud Perry for her hard work, colourful image and clever marketing but re-releasing singles as remixes that don’t have the legs to get to #1 is not the same as Michael who released songs that were EXACTLY THE SAME as the versions on the album and saw them soar to the top.

Bad, I state again, is an AMAZING piece of songwriting and production. The evidence of which can be heard better on the extended dance mix which has additional vocals and breaks down the music so you can hear it’s progression. I don’t think Michael ever did a better vocal performance except for Earth Song and We’ve Had Enough.

Michael explained the meaning behind the song in an interview with Jet or Ebony magazine saying that he had read a story of a young man who had won a scholarship to a top school/college and when he returned his “friends” who had resented his escape from the ghetto killed him in a jealous rage when he returned for the holidays. This inspired him to write “Bad” and the influence was shown in the video. he had some credibility behind it.

There’s a reason why Linda Perry blasted Katy Perry, calling her music microwave popcorn that “sounds like sh*t”. However, she does contribute to the songwriting which is more than can be said for Rihanna but I think Rihanna’s music is better, more memorable and has more credibility.

I think this is why Katy Perry is re-releasing her TD album because she wants to be able to say I had 5 #1′s from one album and although that’s true MJ is the only one who achieved it without remixes.