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According
to The Sun, Katy Perry wants to write
darker material for her new album. I mean I’m all up for reinventing yourself
as an artist but let’s be real. Can anyone take the California Girls singer seriously if she ditches her candy pop
style for more of a darker and edgier look?
If
she wants to step into that direction, she’s going to need to improve
drastically on her song writing skills or find someone who knows how to write
interesting songs for her. Let’s face it, if you look closely at some of the
songs she sings, you would understand why she needs to find a new lyricist.
Firework
Perry’s
third single, Firework, became
another successful hit back in 2010 with her Teenage Dream album. I mean what’s not to like about a good
inspiration song that deals with having good self esteem? Then again, what good
is it to have a song full of metaphors that makes people wonder if you’re trying
too hard to make a feel good song?
“Do you ever feel like a plastic bag/drifting
through the wind, wanting to start again/do you ever feel, feel so paper
thin/like a house of cards, one blow from caving in/do you ever feel already
buried deep/six feet under screams, but no one seems to hear a thing…”
Do
you ever feel this? Do you ever feel that? She puts in so many metaphors into
this first verse that it’s a little too much to process at times. Hey one
question, what does a plastic bag feel like? Recycled? I don’t think anyone
could say they’ve ever felt paper thin either. I mean I know Perry is trying to
get her listener’s attention by trying to understand what their emotions are
like but with these metaphors it’s pretty hard not to laugh at the thought
someone could feel like a house of cards.
Pearl
Pearl
is another song from her second album, Teenage
Dream. It’s basically about being in an abusive relationship and how the
one who’s getting abused feels useless and wants to get out.
“She was a pyramid/but with him she’s just a
grain of sand/this love’s too strong like mice and men/squeezing out the life
that should be let in…”
So
according to Perry, the theme Of Mice and Men, the same one that John Steinbeck
wrote and got a Nobel Prize from, is about being in an abusive relationship
where one of the lovers wants to get out. I still don’t know or understand why
she would even reference Of Mice and Men
in her song Pearl. Did she even read the
novel at all?
You’re So Gay
Even
though this song is a bit old since it’s from her first album, One of the Boys, this tune is the
ultimate, classic example of why Perry needs a new song writer.
“You’re so gay and you don’t even like
boys/no you don’t even like, no you don’t even like, no you don’t even like
boys/you’re so gay and you don’t even like boys/no you don’t even like, no you
don’t even like, no you don’t even like…”
So
apparently the guy she’s singing about is so gay that he’s not even interested
in the same sex. That totally makes sense in Perry’s world. Throughout this
song, she basically complains about how dumb he is because of the way he acts.
This is supposed to be a break up song by the way.
Ms.
Perry, if you do indeed go on in a different music direction of being more dark
and edgy, please spare your listeners of putting up with another song full of ridiculous metaphors and out of whack
references.
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