By Jared Richards , ABC News "Tone-deaf." "Like its author had to have feminism explained to her by the top half of the first page of Google." "Made me feel stupider every sorry time I listened to it.
" "Stuck in 2016." These are just some of the reviews for Katy Perry's comeback single 'Woman's World', which led to a disastrous rollout of the pop star's sixth album, 143 , out on Friday. Perhaps more damning than the reviews was the discourse within the Katy Kats (the pop star's devoted fan group) when a song snippet leaked pre-release.
Some were sure it was an AI-generated fake, if not a complete troll ahead of a real comeback single. Its music video - a parody of girlboss feminism that sees Perry and female dancers wear decidedly non-OHS outfits on a construction site, among other confounding scenes - only alienated audiences further, unsure whether the song was intended as a sincere feminist anthem, a piss-take or both at once. In July, 'Woman's World' became Perry's worst-performing single release from an album in her 16-year career, debuting at #63 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and at #47 in the UK before dropping off both charts entirely the next week.
In Australia - early adopters of Perry, in no small part due to her single 'Hot n Cold' being MasterChef Australia's theme song for more than a decade - the song did not appear on the ARIAs charts at all. Add in follow-up single 'Lifetimes' failing to chart, anger over Perry's choice of producer, early tepid album reviews an.