While some are trying their hardest to NOT pit Gaga and Katy against each other/compare each other, the rest of the world is clearly buying into the competition.
But let's look at the similarities;
Katy right now is in the same situation Gaga was in at the height of her career.
Gaga had just come off the almost universally loved TFM era, the album that solidified her as a global force and huge household name.
Surprisingly, as we've seen by the performance of Roar so far, TD really did push the once local "Cali Gurl" into global super-stardom. Teenage Dream, like The Fame Monster, was almost universally loved and really put Katy Perry at the top of the competition.
So of course, Gaga coming off a widely successful era, slayed with her comeback single. Breaking many records and becoming a worldwide hit, BTW set the feel for, what almost everyone thought, would be the album that slayed the earth.
Right now, Roar is currently demolishing everyone except for Robin Thicke, and is doing amazing worldwide. It's over-performed what most chart analyzers were assuming it would sell. As it seems, Roar has really set the stage for Prism to slay.
But as we all know, while BTW did end up being a highly successful album, it was critically panned and the era as a whole fizzled out faster than Carly Rae Jepsens career and ended on an extremely negative note.
Katy just released two snippets from Prism, and the reactions have been very underwhelming. It seems very few people really like them so far and the only people giving them high praise are Katy Kats (of course.)
So my question to y'all is, do you think Prism could end up performing similar to Born This Way? Commercially successful but critically panned with no longevity?