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Katy Perry, Lorde and Halsey: How to Make a Pop Album in 2017

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Three female pop stars, three different approaches: a conversation about their new albums, on Popcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Swish, wish, bish, another one in the basket.

0:06.0

Welcome to the New York Times,

0:07.0

podcast, your 96-hour live stream to confront your wokeness failures.

0:12.0

I'm your host, John Caramonica.

0:14.0

Your game is tired, you should retire.

0:18.0

Your bad as cute as an old coupon expired and karma's not a liar she keeps receipts so keep calm honey I will stick around for more than a minute get used to it

0:40.1

funny my name keeps coming at your mouth because I stay winning lay him up like

0:48.0

Swish Swish Bish

0:49.9

Swish Swish Swish. No, it's not Kaniy.

0:54.0

It's Katie Perry's back here with your girl Nicky Manage on the

0:58.1

nth single from her new album Witness, which was released last week.

1:04.6

Katie Perry, for those of you don't know,

1:06.2

is America's greatest female pop star.

1:09.8

Yeah, no, that's not true.

1:11.0

But Katie Perry is super famous. And I am joined today not just to talk about Katie, but also to talk about new album from Lord, the last album from Halsey. What exactly is happening in sort of post-gleme female pop?

1:25.0

I am joined today by New York Times Pop Music editor Karen Gans.

1:29.0

Hi John.

1:30.0

New York Times pop music reporter, Joe Coscarelli,

1:33.3

Bonapetit, is that appropriate usage?

1:35.7

That's better.

1:36.9

Why do I think of that?

1:37.9

I'm going to run that past standards.

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