Perhaps that song was Still Feel Like Your Man, Mayer's new single from earlier this year, which he publicly admitted was inspired by Perry. "Saw your picture on accident / Your face has changed, the lines are sinking in" she sings on Miss You More, before pressing play on one of his songs. She spies his SUV on Sunset Boulevard on the poignant Save as Draft, an of-the-moment ode to busy schedules and electronic communication wreaking havoc on love. While these previous tracks addressed Perry's divorce from Russell Brand, Witness sees Perry haunted by the high profile of another famous ex, likely her former beau John Mayer. Many of Perry's best tracks have been revealing postmortems on her previous relationships, from her triumphant 2010 hit Part of Meto the revealing piano ballad By The Grace of Godfrom 2014's Prism. Part of the reason for Perry's soured mood may be the current political climate, with tracks like Witness and Bigger Than Me hinting at the socially-aware pop Perry promised her fans.īut the album's most salient narrative isn't one of protest, but one of heartbreak. Witness finds Perry in a troubled mood,dominated by gloomy synth-pop that's sonically cohesive but rarely joyful, a departure from candy-colored singles of her earlier career. Arguably, it's one of her most personal records to date, and yet the marketing focused on everything but. The album Perry actually released is sonically coherent and entirely uncontroversial, its decent songwriting mostly focused on her wounded heart. Despite everything its lead singles and marketing campaign led listeners to expect, Witness is neither Perry's political manifesto, nor an album of embarrassing hip hop appropriation. The biggest shame of all? Perry didn't have to do any of this. Both singles subsequently underperformed on both the charts and the Internet, with critics mocking her for dabbling in hip hop and dabbing on Saturday Night Live. Then, she switched gears and released the ill-advised Migos collaboration Bon Appetitand the maybe-Taylor Swift diss track Swish Swish, dredging up her exhausting feud with Swift in an interview with James Corden that nobody asked for. First, she positioned her album as "purposeful pop," releasing lead single Chained to the Rhythm and promising a political album in interviews. Negative headlines have plagued Perry throughout her album cycle for Witness, her fifth studio album out Friday. Katy Perry's Witness album was in trouble before it was even officially announced.
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