KATY PERRY: PART 2 (with Variety's Daniel D'Addario)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Chief Television Critic at Variety Daniel D’Addario is back with DJ Louie for part two of our series on Purposeful Popstress Katy Perry! Louie and Dan kick off this installment by talking about the long tail of Teenage Dream and how Katy's highly-publicized divorce from comedian Russell Brand informed both the deluxe edition's hit singles as well as the setting into which she delivered her much-anticipated fourth album, 2013's Prism. They then parse about Prism's disjointed mix of Dream-styled pure pop confections aimed at uplift and more earnest ruminations on the dissolution of her relationship, as well its mixed commercial reception with certain singles like "Roar" and "Dark Horse" topping the charts while a slew of other songs failed to connect, how her celebrated Super Bowl halftime show represented her last moment of monocultural dominance, the career nadir of her 2017 flop Witness which tried and failed at both deepening Katy's on-record persona and updating her sound for a new era without the help of long-time partner Dr. Luke, and how her career as centrist pop figure never recovered, yet her legacy as an emblem of the most unfettered iteration of Pop Stardom lives on. Finally, Louie and Dan rank Katy Perry in the official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite |
| 0:14.7 | pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. This is your host, DJ Louis |
| 0:19.1 | the 14th, and this is our final A-Side episode of the |
| 0:21.6 | year. It's our second Katie Perry episode. Before we get into Katie, I'm going to keep my remarks up top really brief. Please don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe to Potan wherever you get your podcast. Really appreciate everybody doing that. Follow us on social at Pop Pantion Pod and me at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V. |
| 0:40.1 | And check out the Spotify playlist for this episode in the show notes of this episode. |
| 0:44.1 | Check out our merch in our store at Pot Pantheonpod.com. |
| 0:48.4 | And of course, please join our Patreon. |
| 0:52.2 | Patreon.com slash pop pantheon. |
| 0:55.1 | We have a new episode up right now that is a conversation between me and the wonderful Owen |
| 1:01.3 | Myers, who was on our Spice Girls episode and our Charlie XX Crash episode, where he |
| 1:06.3 | and I are digging into Sizz's long-awaited sophomore album SOS, which came out last week. |
| 1:12.2 | Owen and I are breaking out all the themes, all our favorite lyrics, what makes Siza so singular, |
| 1:17.1 | how we feel about this record as a data dump versus an actual album that we're supposed to |
| 1:21.7 | consume as a whole, how this positions her commercially moving forward, all of our favorite |
| 1:27.1 | moments, all of the |
| 1:28.0 | genres she's exploring here. It's such a dense and fascinating album. And this conversation was so |
| 1:31.9 | much fun to have with Owen. And as a treat after this episode, when the song ends at the end, |
| 1:38.9 | I am going to include a little clip from our Patreon episode about SZA's SOS. And if you like what you hear and you want to hear |
| 1:46.8 | the rest of it, you can subscribe, as I mentioned, at patreon.com slash pop pantheon or by clicking the link in the show |
| 1:52.2 | notes of this episode. So without further ado, here is our episode on Katie Perry Part 2. This is obviously |
| 1:59.2 | the sequel to last week's episode, Katie Perry Part |
| 2:02.1 | one. Definitely think if you haven't listened to that, go back and listen to it. We're going to |
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