And it's embarrassing how well it works. Like the GP doesn't know ****. I can feel the deprivation of oxygen as my brain cells slowly die while watching her videos, it is literally painful.
Roar
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#1 Canada
#1 Fiji
#1 Indonesia
#1 Ireland
#1 Malaysia
#1 New Zealand
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Katy stays winning and y'all stay obsessed.
Nnnnnn funny how Katy will never be able to stand alone as an artist. She'll always be pinned up against Gaga, even when Katy is winning, people will still only compare her artistry to Gaga and nothing more.
Rolling Stone also gave the song a positive review, saying, "With its easy poppy beat and repeated refrains of 'You held me down but I got up,' and 'You're gonna hear me roar,' the lead single strikes a determined note for the new album."
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James Montgomery of MTV News described it as "undeniably genuine", writing: "It is personal, it is powerful, and, with its combination of sonorous hooks and searing sentiment, it is certainly one of the more perfect pop songs to come down the pipeline in quite a while.
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Michael Cragg of The Guardian called it "a massive single from a massive pop star who knows exactly what she's doing".
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"bold, infectious and empowering similar to her previous single 'Firework.' It is a breath of fresh air to listen to and it should be the song that will bring her back on the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts where she rightly deserves to be."
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PopCrush gave the single 4.5 out of 5 stars, saying "The song has epic, room-filling melodies and qualities, and it feels cathartic and perky at once.
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Andrew Hampp from Billboard had a positive response to "Roar", claiming it was a "stylistic return to the arena-sized singer-songwriter formula that made her debut on One of the Boys"
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Jon OBrien of Yahoo! praised the song for its "bellowing chorus" and complimented Perry for "steering clear of the EDM scene the rest of her peers have succumbed to
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Charley Rogulewski of Vibe called the track a "sure-to-be radio hit with an empowering theme similar to her track 'Firework'".[29] Katie Aktinson from Entertainment Weekly also compared it to "Firework", claiming that its lyrics "will likely make the song a fall-football anthem", and jokingly said that "the Bengals should send her a check now".
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James Shotwell from Under the Gun Review said the song takes a "more powerful approach" than Perry's previous material
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Chiderah Monde from New York Daily News referred to the chorus as "catchy" and said the song was "another certified anthem" for Perry.
The one thing I will never understand is how Kitty was a gospel singer. I thought gospel singers were supposed to be able to sing. HEW let her in the choir?
I do think this will be a terrible era for Gaga, you kinda know how an era is gonna go based off of the first single and the overwhelming feelings you get.