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Frisky: Katy is the "crusader" of pop
"In Praise & Defense Of Katy Perry"
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Katy Perry, lost her top spot like the other Boleyn girl—and I’m here to tell you that you’ve been bowing down to the wrong divas.
Obviously Katy Perry is still exponentially popular in the way that mega stars are, but she’s been cast out as a cartoon, and as quirky so often that she’s somewhat lost her credibility in the conversation of who has the most import. Which is ridiculous. Katy Perry resurrected pop from the early aughts doldrums, and we give her no thanks. She was shooting whip cream from her ****, and giving us the freshest pop anthems since Mariah, while Taylor Swift was still pretending to play the banjo, and Beyoncé and Rihanna were just coming into their most recent incarnations as envelope-pushing, secret of the universe-knowers.
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Katy Perry didn’t need to manufacture romantic failures and cat fights for Teenage Dream to get off the ground. And Katy Perry arguably also reinvigorated the idea of a pop record being more than just that, but also having cohesive branding behind it so that it becomes a complete experience—something Beyoncé didn’t really try out until 2013’s Beyoncé
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And that’s why Teenage Dream is arguably one of the best pop records of all time, and yet somehow Katy Perry gets labeled as ditzy and detached.
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But there’s one area in which Perry wins over stars like the contrived Swift, untouchable Beyoncé, edgy Rihanna and hard to connect with Grande—it’s with fans. Obviously all of the aforementioned stars have dedicated legions of fans that will most likely declare fatwas with me on Twitter for this whole Perry-festo, but whereas Taylor seems to feed off fans like the PR-succubus she is, and Beyoncé is so high up it’s almost hard for her not to condescend downward, Perry has an honest-faced accessibility.
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More than anything, the whole weekend encapsulated what is true about Perry, and only Perry, as a pop star: she isn’t afraid to be somewhat transparent with us. Yes, Taylor took on Apple. But that was arguably a power play in the midst of her rise to being “the most powerful 25-year-old on the planet.” This posits something different, a genuine desire to use fame as not a platform, but a probe.
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