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Post by kcdawg13 on Feb 26, 2019 23:16:00 GMT -5
I'm so addicted to 365, Katy always delivers bops. Her career has been so interesting, I think even if she doesn't have a place in pop music or the charts anymore she'll still deliver quality content. Her first album showed that she can write and do more stripped back songs.
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Post by Gary on Feb 28, 2019 15:38:34 GMT -5
Katy Perry's Muted Chart Return: What Does '365' Tell Us About The Superstar's Current Place in Pop?
2/28/2019 by Jason Lipshutz
The Zedd collaboration debuts on this week's Hot 100, but may lack the momentum to return Perry to the top of the chart.
Here’s something you may have missed on this week’s Hot 100: the return of one of the most dominant pop stars of the past decade.
Katy Perry has made her way back onto the chart with “365,” a collaboration with dance-pop mastermind Zedd. Outside of a Dear Evan Hansen song that Perry re-recorded and an Amazon-exclusive holiday track released last year, the single is Perry’s first new music since the 2017 Witness era, and Zedd’s first A-list collaboration since the world-conquering, Grammy-nominated song “The Middle” with Maren Morris and Grey.
Zedd has proven adaptable to modern pop trends, updating his sound since breaking through a half-decade ago in order to survive the EDM bubble bursting, and scoring his biggest hit to date last year. Meanwhile, Perry returns as a judge on American Idol this weekend, with “365” presumably teed up for a performance on this season of the revitalized show. Throw in a gaudy sci-fi music video that coincided with the song’s release, and we should have a high-profile pop track designed to rule the spring!
Except “365” just debuted at No. 86 on the Hot 100, a notably quiet start given the star power involved. Maybe the single needs time to catch on at radio, gradually becomes a hit and sends Perry back to the top tier of the Hot 100. Or maybe it becomes one of the lowest-charting singles of Perry’s career.
For other pop artists, the underperformance of a stopgap single in between album eras would not be a cause for alarm. But for Perry, the low debut continues a somewhat worrisome trend. The arrival of and initial reception to “365” have been so muted that it’s worth wondering what the single, with its seemingly low stakes but high production value, signals about Perry’s next proper full-length. Following the tepid reception to Witness, with its political overtones and thinly veiled swipes at a certain pop rival, Perry could use a win. Based on early returns, “365” might not be it.
At the beginning of this decade, Perry was the most bankable pop singles artist in the country. The most memorable of her many statistical achievements: the five No. 1 Hot 100 singles achieved from one album, 2010’s Teenage Dream, matching the record set by Michael Jackson with his Bad album decades earlier. Yet Perry’s Top 40 radio popularity was not lightning in a bottle, and lasted well longer than one full-length: She scored two No. 1 singles before that Teenage Dream run, with her 2008 debut One of the Boys, and has had three more chart-toppers since Teenage Dream; every single released from its follow-up, 2013’s Prism, at least reached the Top 40. Witness was largely considered a misstep upon release, but still scored a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 chart, and featured a lead single, “Chained To The Rhythm,” that debuted at No. 4 on the Hot 100.
In between, she’s headlined the Super Bowl halftime show, played arenas around the world and been the subject of one surprisingly moving tour documentary. Perry’s sound has not evolved a dramatic amount over the course of her career -- buoyant radio-pop, with detours into pop-rock and dance, and room for occasional melancholy and guest rap verses -- but it hasn’t needed to. With a knack for delivering rousing choruses that Top 40 radio can spin ad nauseam, Perry has watched her hit singles achieve a long-lasting ubiquity, and power her various album eras. To understand Perry’s run over her first four albums is to consider a type of pop culture omnipresence that never sags for too long; even when you’re not paying close attention to her, she’s often playing on the radio in the background.
So what happens when a hit streak like Perry’s faces a potential dry spell? “Chained to the Rhythm” may have cracked the Top 10, but it plummeted shortly after, while the follow-up singles from Witness -- including “Bon Apetit” featuring Migos and the Nicki Minaj-assisted “Swish Swish" -- never took off, each missing the Top 40. As streaming has become ever more crucial to chart success over the past half-decade, dance-based pop, Perry's bread and butter, has had a more difficult time climbing to the upper reaches of the Hot 100, taking a backseat to hip-hop. On this week’s chart, for instance, “365” was outshone by the debuts of hip-hop artists like Cardi B (starting at No. 5 with her latest Bruno mars collaboration, “Please Me”), Juice WRLD (bowing at No. 27 with “Robbery”) and Offset (a No. 49 start with “Red Room”).
Here’s the silver lining for Perry: “365” is not the slam-dunk that necessarily would be expected to return the singer to her previous chart heights, anyway. Over a restrained collection of rhythms from Zedd, Perry unleashes a nondescript story of romantic devotion that culminates in a catchy, surprisingly downbeat hook. It’s a well-constructed single that wouldn’t crack either artist’s individual Top 5. On paper, “365” is a much-ballyhooed collaboration with a proven hitmaker, but the song never takes off in the way that made Perry’s biggest hits resonate for weeks on end.
Instead of focusing on the lackluster start for “365,” Perry fans should hope that another recent collaboration provide the starting point for her post-Witness era. “Feels,” the 2017 Calvin Harris track that featured Perry, Big Sean and Pharrell Williams and climbed to No. 20 on the Hot 100, found Perry at her most playful in recent memory, stretching out over an island-funk beat on the song’s chorus.
Granted, Big Sean and Williams provide the heavy lifting on “Feels,” but Perry’s breezy hook anchors the track, and undoubtedly turned it into a hit two years ago. In retrospect, the levity of “Feels” was curiously missing from Perry’s heavy-handed Witness album, which was released concurrently and, with its sporadic forays into political themes, didn’t particularly play to the singer’s natural strengths.
At this point, Perry’s legacy is safe if she never records another inescapable hit, regardless of how well “365” performs in the coming weeks. If Perry channels the chill vibes of “Feels” into the foundation of her next album, though, she may be able to end the current drought and pick up some new momentum. Enjoy “365,” move on from it if you’re so inclined, but don’t count out Perry’s ability to survive and thrive in the next decade.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 15:54:04 GMT -5
^ That was an oddly shady article that ended in them trying to mask the shade. I agree with the gist though -- whether or not she gets any more smashes, she'll be fine.
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Post by wjr15 on Feb 28, 2019 16:04:28 GMT -5
Not here for the Katy shade that Billboard has been throwing lately...
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Feb 28, 2019 16:24:09 GMT -5
Trash ass article.
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Post by pcg4 on Feb 28, 2019 16:26:09 GMT -5
Looks like nowadays it's trendy to shade her for anything. Anyways, I think it's true that she has not transitioned well into the streaming era... The Witness videos at least had good Youtube numbers, which 365 lacks (surpisingly) at the moment. And spotify...
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Post by Caviar on Feb 28, 2019 16:43:50 GMT -5
Katy I believe is becoming more at peace with her level of success now. She's focused on family which honestly took a backseat to her success and now she's repairing it.
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Post by Anticonformity on Mar 1, 2019 4:24:35 GMT -5
"'365' is not the slam-dunk that necessarily would be expected to return the singer to her previous chart heights, anyway."
I love when an article states how pointless an article about said subject is unnecessary...
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Post by balletgirlmom on Mar 2, 2019 21:51:28 GMT -5
The media is always harder on female artists. They love to build them up and then rip them down. I think Katy will be more like Cher. That would be an artist who does their own thing DESPITE what critics or the media says and outlast everyone. Katy is successful and talented and seems to be having fun. I would love 365 to do well and would love to have future hits from her but if that does not happen, we have great songs from her so I guess that's all that matters.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2019 22:17:36 GMT -5
She may not ever be a chart force again and I don’t think she would even want to be if it meant resorting to her 2010-2014 image to do so, going off what she said in her live therapy session. She was clearly masking a lot of inner turmoil while she was technically “on top”, and sounds completely over that phase of her life.
At the end of the day she has the chart records, she has the man, and she was still the highest paid female singer on Forbes during and after her flop era. I think she’s at peace with her life lol
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Post by Enigma. on Mar 3, 2019 3:11:47 GMT -5
She's highest paid mostly because of the tv show, not much to do with her recent music.
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Post by wjr15 on Mar 5, 2019 19:57:31 GMT -5
I randomly heard Roulette when I was out over the weekend and I really think it would've worked well as the 4th single from Witness. I'd put it up there with WOA as her biggest missed single opportunity.
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Post by kcdawg13 on Mar 29, 2019 23:50:18 GMT -5
^ Good plan, go behind the scenes and negotiate a hit
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Apr 1, 2019 15:08:48 GMT -5
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Post by Caviar on Apr 1, 2019 15:14:14 GMT -5
This would be the best duet in HISTORY of the charts.
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Post by wjr15 on Apr 1, 2019 15:35:49 GMT -5
I would be here for a Katy x Taylor collab. With those lyrics and the palm tree background, it might be a very summery song.
Also, there's rumors that both Katy and Taylor have new music coming soon, so it would be awesome if it's a collab.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Apr 1, 2019 19:44:33 GMT -5
I randomly heard Roulette when I was out over the weekend and I really think it would've worked well as the 4th single from Witness. I'd put it up there with WOA as her biggest missed single opportunity. absolutely agree. Imo, the best from Witness. Powerful drums and a true banger. Those lyrics slay “Have a few rounds and just let go”
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Post by gabe on Apr 1, 2019 20:00:44 GMT -5
GRRRRRRRRR
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Post by Glove Slap on Apr 1, 2019 20:01:29 GMT -5
That's a parody account.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Apr 1, 2019 20:04:23 GMT -5
I randomly heard Roulette when I was out over the weekend and I really think it would've worked well as the 4th single from Witness. I'd put it up there with WOA as her biggest missed single opportunity. absolutely agree. Imo, the best from Witness. Powerful drums and a true banger. Those lyrics slay “Have a few rounds and just let go” Thank for you inspiring me to blast this Final Countdown-sounding jam. For some reason, that reference FINALLY hit me. This song is definitely one of her bests.
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Post by wjr15 on Apr 1, 2019 20:15:34 GMT -5
Twitter outdoing Pulse on the April fools.
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Apr 1, 2019 20:17:56 GMT -5
Well I guess it is appropriate for today🙃
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Post by wjr15 on Apr 9, 2019 20:18:08 GMT -5
I wouldn’t mind a Vegas residency for Katy. She has the discography for it and she could even release new music for it. Katy said she likes making music but doesn’t like how touring takes a toll on her. This would be a compromise.
Also, a live performance of 365. Too bad it wasn’t on TV:
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Post by Soundcl🕤ck on Apr 9, 2019 20:26:35 GMT -5
Shut up and put your money where your mouth is!
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