I’ve always loved Katy so much, the Teenage Dream tour at the 02 was one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen but I’m not keen into the new music. Everything is so bland so far. It still surprises me the music industry, how can supposed professionals of the business didn’t see that Woman World was a suicide? Sooo bland, dated, similar to Gaga’s Stupid Love which wasn’t a hit … how much money they may have lost with this release? Incredible.

 

Regarding Dr.Luke I understand that she wanted a hit album and in her prime all the hits came with him, so her decision is reasonable. To all the people criticizing her I would like to say think for a moment that you have the responsibility to create a new album and can be one of the most important of your career, what will you do? Work with people you don’t know and take the risk or collaborate with people who you had magic on the past and was massive ? I think probably most of us will go with people with been in the past, know what we like, understand our ideas, etc. So she has the right to work with she wants and she shouldn’t be judge mainly because there isn’t a sentence against Luke.

 

Last thing I want to say , and I don’t want to create drama, but why she seems to the people like the devil to supposedly betray Kesha? I mean Kesha accepted the money instead of fight till the end to prove her truth!! But Katy is the one that doesn’t have moral. Listen, I believe more in Kesha than of course Dr.Luke but if she was the one that accepted the money instead fight for a sentence, the rest of the people shouldn’t be taken any responsability. It’s insane the level of hate that Katy is receiving for this reason while Kesha decided “Ok, the money”. “Oh Katy you don’t have moral working with Luke for what he did to Kesha” meanwhile Kesha “ok the money and let’s move on”. It’s insane!!

 

Kind of crazy the world we live these days …

Edited September 4, 2024Sep 4 by Joshnat192

Above everything that everyone has covered (and I agree with bits and bobs from all of you), what I find most striking about that response IS... she will 100% have been briefed that that question was coming before it was asked. So, somewhere, her team and her have sat down and written out what they think her first comments on this fiasco should be, and that's what they came up with? A whole lot of... not really answering the question? :kink:

 

I assumed the approach was going to be "bury head in the sand for as long as people" and honestly, whilst it's not the most noble of moves, it's probably a better PR move than whatever that response was which has just REARED the topic back up again and done zero to win anyone back on side.

The thing is, even the question was presented in a vague enough way to fully allow Katy to steer it in the way that she ultimately answered it.

 

Q: "I do wanna ask you about one collaborator in particular. I know a lot of people have expressed disappointment and were really upset that you decided to involve Dr Luke on this album. Why did you choose to work with him?"

 

The interviewer wasn't specific about the reasons for the disappointment and upset - there was no context to frame her question with. As viewers in the know about the whole situation, we're applying the context to the question, but that wasn't actually asked. So, Katy wasn't required to answer it from that perspective. She chose a very specific angle - that being, that the disappointment/upset was regarding a man contributing to a female empowerment anthem. Even then, completely skirting around that it was the optics of that specific man that made it problematic. Thus, the answer she gave:

 

A: "Look, I understand that it started a lot of conversations and he was one of many collaborators that I collaborated with... but the reality is it comes from me. The truth is, I wrote these songs from my experience of my whole life going through this metamorphosis and he was one of the people to facilitate all that - one of the writers, one of the producers - and I am speaking from my own experience, like when I speak from... when I speak about Woman's World, I speak about feeling so empowered now as a mother, as a woman, giving birth, creating life, creating another set of organs, a brain, a heart. I created a whole-ass heart. And I did it. And I'm still doing it, and I'm still a matriarch, and feeling really grounded in that. That's where I'm speaking from. And so, I created all of this, with several different collaborators, people that I've collaborated with from the past, from Teenage Dream era, all of that."

 

Regardless, I find it bizarre that Team Katy clearly must have approved of the question to be asked... like, they wanted this to happen. They could have chosen for Dr Luke not to be raised. It's not like the Call Her Daddy podcast host is a hard-hitting journalist that wouldn't have given Katy an inch, this was a deliberate choice in a controlled environment. I have no doubt Team Katy stipulated exactly how that question would be posed, and drafted how Katy would answer it. If they geniuinely thought this was going to be effective damage control, well... it's bewildering. Because the result of this is now a widespread reaction of "she didn't answer the question, she has no shame" etc and fanning the flames even more.

Correct me if I'm wrong - didn't Kesha allege in court that Dr Luke also raped Katy? And then Katy had to provide a deposition denying this?

Unfortunately, I think the harsh reality of the situation is Katy, who has been friends with Luke and Kesha for a long time, has chosen to believe Luke over Kesha. And that kind of honest answer is never going to fly under any circumstance. In fact, I don't think there's a single response that anyone would be satisfied because the damage was done when she chose to work with him. She obviously saw Nicki getting a #1 with Luke a couple years a go, the gays going wild for Kim Petras and a few others and expected it not to make as much noise as it did. Which was dumb, and poorly thought out, regardless of her stance on the whole situation. People always care more with Katy.

Edited September 5, 2024Sep 5 by 365

Katy Perry’s A&R Claims He’s to Blame for Singer’s Work With Dr. Luke on ‘143’

Fans of Katy Perry might now have someone to point fingers to for her recent work with Dr. Luke. In a recent The Manager’s Playbook interview, the singer’s A&R manager Chris Anokute said that it was his “desire” to reconnect Perry with the disgraced producer for her album 143.

“I think there was some backlash on her reuniting with Dr. Luke, which was my desire,” Anokute claimed. (Skip to 1:30:00 into the video below.) “[It was] my recommendation for her to get back into the studio with Luke because Luke is a dear friend.”

“I thought it was a good time to reunite them after 10 years of not working together,” he continued. “Every single he’s ever done with her has gone Number One. The press just didn’t react favorably and they tried to assassinate him and her.”

When Rolling Stone reached out for comment via Instagram, Anokute wrote back, “You must be bored. God bless you.”

The backlash to the singer’s reconnection with Luke on the album came quickly after Rolling Stone confirmed last summer that Perry worked with Max Martin, Dr. Luke, and several others for the album following the release of single “Woman’s World.”

At the time, a Capitol Records source told Rolling Stone that “Katy knew exactly the album she wanted to make and put together the team to make it happen.”

Music fans, especially those on X, have long expressed their dislike for Luke given the sex abuse allegation from Kesha years prior, even following the settlement of his defamation lawsuit in 2023. In the new interview, Anokute claimed to believe that “all the stuff he was accused of is actually not true,” seemingly in reference to the Kesha allegation.

Years before 143, Luke and Martin worked on many of Perry’s biggest hits, including smashes from her first three albums like One of the Boys‘ “I Kissed a Girl,” Teenage Dream‘s title track, “Last Friday Night,” “California Gurls,” “E.T.,” and “The One That Got Away” along with the vast majority of Prism, including “Dark Horse,” “Unconditionally,” and “Roar.”

Despite the success of Perry’s previous work with Luke, 143 was poorly received by many fans and most critics. Anokute also said he believed 143 had “massive hits” despite the negative reaction. A Rolling Stone review called the record a “failed attempt to rekindle her glory years.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/katy-perry-dr-luke-album-ar-manager-blame-1235305370/

Edited March 28Mar 28 by Jessie Where