I will continue to follow the waning high jinks of the pop culture figures that emerged in the 1960s. For example, The Who fired their drummer, then rehired him. If Bob Dylan says anything, I care. Meanwhile, that Katy Perry video, put up less than a day ago, has 9 million views.She needs to cancel this tour before it cancels her career I’m so serious pic.twitter.com/BhIOF0sOte
— Mo (@rwylmo) April 24, 2025
April 25, 2025
I don't understand but I have crossed the line where I'm even supposed to understand new pop things.
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Mind you, I believe this video is making fun of Katy Perry for hear lack of effort and enthusiasm plus those dead, soulless doll eyes.
I know why it has 9 million views.
Tom ... by my count her tits would account for 18 million views, there being two of them.
Send her (Katy Perry) back into outer space.
23 seconds in she's putting the ass in astronaut!
Or maybe that's astro-nautghty!
Missile nose-cone breasts were 1950s. Bra makers sell shape.
And make sure it is a NASA launch so she has no possibility of return.
Classical music seems to be pretty stable as to what's good. Maybe the cool stuff is all crap but it's just not discovered quickly.
Ew.
She stole that whole routine from Patsy Cline. For shame.
She's a space cadet alright.
I've seen better choreography and fashion at the average strip club. Yeesh. Taylor Swift she ain't.
Unfortunately, my every thought on the subject pegs me as a geezer. Quoting Detective Shannon Mullins, Her lady business is like an old dirty attic full of broken Christmas lights and doll shoes and shit
- Krumhorn
Yes, her "dancing" is crap, but one must realize that none of her fans could do any better because they're too busy filming the show on their phones so they can post it online to prove to their friends that that were at the Katy Perry show. (Even though they didn't pay a bit of attention to it.).
The excuse for every ounce of humanity and grace being sucked out of that performance is that it's supposed to be a robot motif?
rehajm said...
"Ew."
exactly.
The dance moves look different up close vs from the nosebleed seats of an arena, or even on the jumbotron. Plus the fan's phone is not picking up the music loud enough - when you separate the senses, the experience is not the same. Finally, Katy's shtick has always been to mix sexy/cutesy/nerdy/ironic. "Here I am, dad-dancing, isn't that cute? Oh wait, let me twerk - yes, I still have a tight ass!" Now that she has moved squarely into the gay-icon end of the celebritney spectrum, she's mostly given up on the sexy part of the mix.
I saw Kylie live a few weeks ago - very similar (although Kylie moves more gracefully, without even trying).
BTW, Prof, didn't you have a "celebritneys" tag?
JSM
It could a "reimagining" of 90's tv show Xena: Warrior Princess. Very popular with lesbians.
That video makes me think Bezos beat Musk in the creation of an AI fembot. It still fails the uncanny valley test, but I'm sure it will sell.
O, please, Ann - get your age-goggles off. Yes, there is 5 pounds of wireless transmitters on her back. And, yes, it diminishes the crafted sexual visual image, but the ticket payers can't hear her without it, and a long microphone cord would be unthinkable - it would elicit such on-line mockery, she'd never recover.
She's only in it for the money. Or are you hung up, Ann?
"Mind you, I believe this video is making fun of Katy Perry...."
I realize that many who are sharing it believe that to see it is to participate in making fun of her.
But how does that work? She's the one getting rich using what her people know about what captures attention. She's willing and able to do this difficult work. If it's stupid, the people who watch it are stupid. And I too am stupid to pass it along.
Like two fat, plasticized midgets ensconced in steel jackets.
Shake yo tail feathers, Olive Oyl !
Dagmars are back !
I am the morning blogger on W-O-L-D
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
—— Gump
"The dance moves look different up close vs from the nosebleed seats of an arena, or even on the jumbotron. Plus the fan's phone is not picking up the music loud enough - when you separate the senses, the experience is not the same."
I agree. The dance moves were constructed to read across a vast space. Similar to Hitler's hand gestures. Not really fair to judge them as if they were performed in a small chamber.
Canned music, probable lip synching - give me this;
https://youtu.be/3fceTi-LklI
Auto-tuned and skanky. But who am I to judge?
I grew up in a different musical world, I'm afraid.
As the HypeMachine™ churns.
Material girl. Good luck.
Female pop stars like Katy are boring. and she cannot sing unless the auto-tune is turned on.
Strip club chic'.
Smells like teen Kardashian. Just strip it all off - honey.
Thanks, AMDG. I love Linda. I don't know about the line where you understand pop things but I crossed the line a few years ago when I started seeing commercials featuring music or movie stars and it was clear I was expected to know who they were but I had no idea, and most of the time when I asked some whippersnapper who it was, I got back a name I hadn't heard of either.
If she put a "W" on each butt cheek, you'd all say "WoW."
This is the Mexican start of a 2025 world tour at age 40. Wonder if she makes it to 41 in October. They already cancelled an early May leg.
Wearing a sparkly bathing suit type costume is something that by the 1970s was only done to portray a low-class, dim-witted, benighted woman, maybe in a movie about some remote part of America. Then in the 1980s, Madonna made it work as a big spoof of sexuality. But what can it be now? Who would imitate Madonna 40 years later? It's just thin commercialism combined with the timeless interest in women's bodies.
I'm assuming Perry's performance can be explained by drug use. Think of it in that way and it explains everything.
It's not sophisticated. It's not a big joke. So what is it? You could find a more beautiful woman, a sexier costume, and better singer, a better dancer — and she could perform in a more intimate space with a lower ticket price. But somehow people want to pay a lot of money to sit in a big arena, hear mediocre music, and watch a famous lady go through the motions.
Pop has long had a bizarre, surreal edge. 80s videos. Beatles movies. If we don't understand what pop is up to now, neither did our parents. Antics at concerts for the core fandom aren't meant to be seen outside that context.
"But what can it be now?" Simulacra of simulacra, all the way down.
Nice ass
How dare (some of) you make fun of this great American astro-not.
Progressive performances prosecuted with liberal license have a limited viable lifetime. Enjoy the surreal effects while they last, then grow up, and lose the training wheels. It could be worse, a life may have been aborted to relieve a personal "burden". Losing yourself in self-indulgence is the lesser evil.
I was hoping for a wardrobe malfunction.
It's kind of gross when the audience cheers as she shakes her butt. It's not even a particularly nice butt--she has no hips.
Just watched it with the sound off because my wife is on a call next to me - without audible music, it is pretty comical.
She is so unimpressive.
and of those "9 million views".. how many were from paid centers in China?
much (MUCH!) more importantly, when Twice put out their Heartshaker video.. How long did it take for it to get 200 MILLION views? about 3 days
I was rabbit-holing youtube the other day - and I ended up at Rick Beato interviewing Bill Stings. who is this - I thought?
wow. This kid can play a guitar.
Katy looks tired.
the Hilarious Thing, about Professor Althouse saying that she's out of touch with modern pop music.. is that she thinks that 42 year old Katy is modern.
This is like my (93 year old) mom, always talking about something that happened "about 10 years ago", by which she means: During Clinton's Presidency
Only one line of actual singing in that clip (at the end) and it is out of tune...
Katy found her niche as a pop singer who was also wank material, and she continues to fill those roles as best she can, even as she ages out of the latter category.
This gets millions of views, while excellent new music never reaches the radio airwaves.
It's just thin commercialism combined with the timeless interest in women's bodies.
Welcome to the computer-age music business.
Of course, Twice's video Heartshaker came out SEVEN years ago, and Red Velvet's Wildfire was 3 years ago.
Time flies.. Because I could not stop for Death
(i 1st read this poem THIS MORNING!)
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –
Or rather – He passed Us –
The Dews drew quivering and Chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –
Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity –
.. er Billy Strings.
Turning to alcoholic inebriation, to Fentanyl suppression, to Marijuana illusion, to crude expression, to gender corruption, etc, is not a normal part of human evolution.
Pretty girl - so-so-voice... wealthy husband - wealthy on her own anyway.. can afford to live at the gym for weeks on end.
Boring! all of the pretty females are boring. From Taylor Swift - to Katy to- all of them. Over. rated.
This one is kinda cool.
Shock and duh.
- I just realized she is that skinny white grrrl in the "baby got back" video.
The hippo doing Dance of the Hours in Fantasia had more grace.
Russell Brand pulled out in time.
Katy doing Miley. Poorly, but with tits.
"But somehow people want to pay a lot of money to sit in a big arena, hear mediocre music, and watch a famous lady go through the motions."
But which people? It might be more interesting to see the audience.
Here in SF, seven hundred guys are looking for that outfit.
"Shock and duh" - LOL
It got 9 milllion views because it is basically soft porn. No musical or dancing talent at all.
mccullough said...
“Nice ass“
Thank you very much
Bring back Left Shark!
She doesn't look happy.
Looks like something from a second-rate off-the-strip Vegas hotel revue.
Starring the fourteenth-best Showgirl in town over 40.
You know: when you don’t want to see Blue Man Group yet again, and the Cirque Du Soleil Las Vegas tickets are too pricey.
Something to fill time before going back on the floor and hitting the slot machines.
It’s either this or CarrotTop. Flip a coin.
I am Laslo.
Tick tock. Apropos.
Being attractive requires considerable skill and effort. Women who have this skill are rewarded.
Estimated net worth of $350 million.
Stupid girl.
I think perhaps that the number of views may have something to do with the same phenomenon that compels people to stop and gawk at auto accidents, train wrecks, negro females fighting and similar distopian events. I'm not saying it's a good thing, just that it's programmed into our brains. Also, doesn't Katy have a young daughter? I wonder if she would be happy to have the child in her audience, just so's she knows what mommy does for a living. Kind of "Bring Your Daughter to Work." Never mind; I think I know the answer to that one.
“The dance moves were constructed to read across a vast space. Similar to Hitler's hand gestures. Not really fair to judge them as if they were performed in a small chamber.”
No. Katy’s “dancing” would look dorky from the Andromeda nebula.
Actually, that clip is not the worst, not by a long shot.
I've seen better choreography and fashion at the average strip club. Yeesh. Taylor Swift she ain't.
@doctrev, you saw Taylor Swift dancing in a strip club? Where and when? And did you get her autograph? Dare I ask whether she wrote a song about you?
@Althouse, an attractive, nearly naked woman (albeit 40 years old) prancing around? I’m surprised it’s only had 9 million views. Mostly by teenaged boys, I imagine.
“ the Hilarious Thing, about Professor Althouse saying that she's out of touch with modern pop music.. is that she thinks that 42 year old Katy is modern.”
I’m glad to supply the amusement. To me anything after the 20th century is new. And I’m not embarrassed to say that. I’m proud and I feel lucky.
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