best track is dark horse.

 

closely followed by unconditional

 

actually her best album yet

^^

 

did you miss her last album?!

As a whole I prefer Prism actually. Teenage Dream has higher highs but lower lows, Prism flows better and is a LOT more consistent. The first half or so is pretty much perfect also.

Agreed, Joseph. As an album, 'Prism' is better and has a nice, consistent flow to it. But 'Teenage Dream' most certainly has the massive hits/"higher highs".

^^

 

did you miss her last album?!

 

 

no. i have it.

 

i like it but not as much as this one- i guess because on her last album, so many of the songs just got overplayed. last friday night, firework, teenage dream, california girls, and the theme was diffrent. to me anyway, the last album sounded more like it focussed on summer themes. at least a few of those tracks focused on summer

 

with this album, i can relate more to the lyrics so i like it more. i like to think of roar as like her statement of freedom, you know, it does not matter what you do to me, how much you break me down, i'm going to come back even stronger than before!

 

another song i forgot to mention was this moment, gives an important message.. tomorrow is not promised to any of us

 

and i love unconditional. it does not matter how you are, you will be loved unconditionally an that's how it should be

One Of The Boys beats both albums in a big way though.

I'd say Teenage Dream is pretty much a perfect once in a career era for someone like her, very solid album. Prism is decent but very "7/10" throughout mostly, a few fillers in there too.

 

The first album is unspeakable.

I think Teenage Dream is the strongest set of individual songs, but as a whole body of work, I think One of the Boys is her best album. Although it has fewer outstanding songs than TD has, at the same time it has less filler and a lot more personality and distinctiveness.

 

Prism is a step back in both respects really: pretty generic like Teenage Dream was, but with less outstanding songs and even more filler.

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I'd say Teenage Dream is pretty much a perfect once in a career era for someone like her, very solid album. Prism is decent but very "7/10" throughout mostly, a few fillers in there too.

 

The first album is unspeakable.

 

Exactly right.

 

Teenage Dream is an amazing album, I love it, and probably her peak. Everything, the styling, the music, the highs just all worked so well for her at that point in her career, too. I doubt she can match it again. Prism is nice but not close to Teenage Dream.

One Of The Boys beats both albums in a big way though.

 

 

i admit their's a lot of songs on that album which are really good

 

i do like mannaquin- my whole point to getting that album, i think.

 

that and waking up in vegas

One Of The Boys beats both albums in a big way though.

This.

 

'One Of The Boys' is one of my top albums of all time, I like it's pop-rocky feel. :wub:

OOTB is an awful album, like vocally, she sounds bad. It's missing melodies. Bar the hits, it's like a Linda Perry or Cathy Dennis album that never hit the shelves, rightfully so.

She'll struggle to top Teenage Dream for me; Circle The Drain is the only one I'm not as bothered about, aside from that, I'd have been happy for ALL of the others to be released and I'm not really one to just throw careless 09.5 / 10 ratings in every 'artist rate'. Prism is pretty good and does flow better, but I don't listen to it as much as an album anymore, instead just picking out my selected favourites (basically just the first half of the album).

OOTB is an awful album, like vocally, she sounds bad. It's missing melodies. Bar the hits, it's like a Linda Perry or Cathy Dennis album that never hit the shelves, rightfully so.

 

This. I can't listen to it, especially Thinking of You. Those vocals are Pink-esque screech. My least favourite Katy song. But that's ok as it was her first album, improving vocally, etc, I just won't listen to it.

 

This. I can't listen to it, especially Thinking of You. Those vocals are Pink-esque screech. My least favourite Katy song. But that's ok as it was her first album, improving vocally, etc, I just won't listen to it.

 

Oh, it's things like "Fingerprints" and "I'm Still Breathing" that are intolerable for me. I like "Thinking Of You".

'This Is How We Do' is the next single in Australia!

 

And hopefully it remains exclusive to Australia. Easily the worst song on the album ('Spiritual' aside).

For me that's one of the album's highlights, I'd say 'Walking On Air' should be released first (and probably end the campaign on that) but that would be my next best choice. Catchy and fun.

WOA would be a perfect single for summer.

I'm still unsure about Walking On Air for some reason :( I'd still personally prefer Legendary Lovers or Birthday, and since Unconditionally, I'm really unsure how she'd fare as I wouldn't have predicted that flopping.

I know I keep saying but I really am struggling to see what makes 'Birthday' so "single worthy"? :( It's average to me and I think it'd do worse than 'Unconditionally' did. 'Legendary Lovers' is also overrated and "meh" at times too, but for some reason I can see that doing fairly well for her.