In her recent interview to Yahoo she said:“If you’re not gonna write your own music,” she tells me, “you better be able to blow. Because if you can’t blow, there’s no reason to do the job. But then you think about artists that can’t really sing, that have songs written for them, and it’s like, well why are they artists? Why are companies paying money to promote them? Because they’re beautiful and look good on camera and are kinda-sorta singing along? It’s like karaoke for pretty girls. When you’re a singer-songwriter it doesn’t really matter if you’re beautiful. What matters is that you create a relationship with your fans, and they care what you have to say.”
would she be saying this if she was still #1 on the billboard
Nah but I mean she's always gone on and on about how much she doesn't lipsync and how important her relationship is with her fans, so she probably would still be saying that if she wasn't "flopping"
She has every right to be bitter tbh. Expectations for her are ridiculously higher than for other pop girls and she realized it when ARTPOP wasn't what everyone wanted.
Still though, she predicted and based her career on the rise and fall of the blonde pop star. She should remember that it's natural.