Anonymous wrote:She’s a try hard that no longer makes music that people enjoy listening to. She’s also supposedly quite mean.
Anonymous wrote:Katy Perry is fake and awful. She punches down, and has made cruel, sly, public references to Britney Spears’s mental breakdown at least twice, and to her ex-husband’s addiction. She sells herself on sexuality, not more, and is vicious. She’s not a try-hard outsider only, though that is true. She is a bad person.
Anonymous wrote:It’s ok OP, I heard her music and I liked it. You can be the one that got away.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's the weirdo artificial persona without talent to back in up (ie, Gaga).
Da fuq? Gaga has a LOT of talent.
I think they meant Gaga is an example of an artificial persona WITH talent to back it up.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's the weirdo artificial persona without talent to back in up (ie, Gaga).
Da fuq? Gaga has a LOT of talent.
Anonymous wrote:It's the weirdo artificial persona without talent to back in up (ie, Gaga).
Anonymous wrote:I feel like I also have this instinct towards her and I think it comes down to two things.
1) Her schtick is very artificial. On purpose clearly, she has a very clear aesthetic and it isn't about natural genuine beauty it is about looking kind of doll like and creating replicas of time periods. I think in today's world that is seen as a little off putting.
2) She is a try hard. This one makes me feel bad. But I feel like she is like, the Christina Aquilera/Jessica Simpson to Taylor Swift's Britney Spears. The slightly lesser female celebrity pop star du jour that people take pleasure in cutting down. I don't think that metaphor totally works on a talent level because xtina is a way better singer than spears but in their heyday spears was WAY more famous and mainstream popular.
But intellectually I think it is really unfair to feel pained by her efforts to be THE female pop star. She is working hard and trying and that shouldn't be off putting. But seeing someone, particularly a woman, trying so hard to be something and not necessarily completely succeeding I think sets off some primitive feeling of repulsion in human social cues. And its compounded by the fact that she has this artificial schtick that just makes the try hard stand out more.
It is the feeling you get when a not quite perfect polished outsider girl is trying out for a cheer leading squad and not doing it quite right. Some swirl of sympathetic embarrassment that just makes you recoil in your core. But that is a cruel and unfair instinct and like I said I try to actually suppress it because she's just a hard working woman who is trying to build a career. And I love some of her songs.