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I can’t trust any rate that has ‘Woman’s World’ in the good category :naomi:

 

That’s your opinion, we all have different tastes.

With a score of 35, ‘143’ by Katy Perry is now the worst-reviewed album on Metacritic since 2011.

 

That seems very unfair. It’s not a great (or good) album by any means but it’s not even the worst in Katy’s discography nevermind the worst album of the last 13 years

I actually think this IS her worst album, at least for me :(
I think it’s marginally better than Smile (if you exclude Never Really Over and Small Talk), Wonder is really doing the heavy lifting though.

'Small Talk', now THAT'S the song which killed her career stone dead after she'd managed to rebuild a little bit of momentum with NRO. That has to be the ultimate "what were you thinking" moment in her career.

 

I think Smile had some really good tracks on it, inexplicably none of them were singles whilst she was putting out Small Talk, Daisies and the title track.

'Small Talk', now THAT'S the song which killed her career stone dead after she'd managed to rebuild a little bit of momentum with NRO. That has to be the ultimate "what were you thinking" moment in her career.

 

I think Smile had some really good tracks on it, inexplicably none of them were singles whilst she was putting out Small Talk, Daisies and the title track.

 

Really? Like what? I’m genuinely curious, the only album tracks I saved were What Makes A Woman and Cry About It Later but I don’t go back to either of them at all.

That has to be the ultimate "what were you thinking" moment in her career.

 

Realising now that she's had quite a lot of these.

 

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Really? Like what? I’m genuinely curious, the only album tracks I saved were What Makes A Woman and Cry About It Later but I don’t go back to either of them at all.

 

Sitting on 'Cry About It Later' whilst releasing 'Small Talk' was madness for a start, and if they really wanted a ballad 'Only Love' would have been a much better choice than 'Daisies' (I think it's actually a strong song and believe it could've been quite well received)

 

'Tucked' is a good fun pop track (although I guess fairly standard fare for her), 'Not The End of the World' could've been a good (or better) single for her as well. I can't remember how 'Champagne Problems' goes off the top of my head but maybe that one too from memory.

 

All of these are better than anything on 143 though regardless.

Cry About It Later and Teary Eyes would've been much better singles than Small Talk, Daisies and Smile. Also a proper push for Harleys in Hawaii!

 

I do think 143 is her worst album, mostly because it lacks her identity, not because I find any of it *bad*.

Witness has Tsunami, Deja Vu, Roulette. Chained. Witness and Bon Appetir. With a proper singles campaign, she could have had success with it.

 

Smile, with NRO as lead followed by Harleys, could have been good too.

 

This album has just given me one song, I'm His, He's Mine, and Woman's World ... sometimes.

Sitting on 'Cry About It Later' whilst releasing 'Small Talk' was madness for a start, and if they really wanted a ballad 'Only Love' would have been a much better choice than 'Daisies' (I think it's actually a strong song and believe it could've been quite well received)

 

'Tucked' is a good fun pop track (although I guess fairly standard fare for her), 'Not The End of the World' could've been a good (or better) single for her as well. I can't remember how 'Champagne Problems' goes off the top of my head but maybe that one too from memory.

 

All of these are better than anything on 143 though regardless.

 

I don’t know about that, I think Wonder is her best song in a long time. Never Really Over is the last one that instantly connected with me like that, or, well, connected at all.

I’d say 143 is on par with witness and smile for me. There are 4-5 good tracks on each of those albums. The only difference is 143 is a far shorter album with less tracks. There are an awful lot of filler tracks on both smile & witness.

143 is far worse than Smile.

 

Cry About it Later, Never Really Over, Tucked, Only Love, Champagne Problems and Harleys are all better than anything on 143.

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