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Celeb News: PRISM Reviews: 61/100
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USA Today – 75
Original score: 3/4
Katy Perry's 'Prism' honors spirit and flesh
New album finds feel-good pop diva reaching for higher ground
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The last place you might expect to find Katy Perry is lying on the bathroom floor, apparently contemplating suicide.
Yet there she is, in By the Grace the God, a surprisingly stark, stately track on Prism (*** out of four, out Tuesday), Perry's follow-up to Teenage Dream, the 2010 sophomore effort that secured her status as the reigning queen of feel-good pop.
"Thought I wasn't enough/ Found I wasn't so tough," Perry sings. But then the tone shifts to something more inspirational. Perry picks herself up; "I looked in the mirror and decided to stay," she declares.
That pretty much sums up the message of Prism, which finds Perry stretching herself beyond the sugar-coated sparkle of Dream in search of higher forms of empowerment. There is a self-consciously spiritual vibe to some of the material; on the sitar-laced Legendary Lovers, she asks a new partner to "say my name like a scripture."
Love Me and Unconditionally suggest electronically enhanced self-help manuals. The former advocates self-love as a prerequisite for any successful relationship, while on the latter she pledges to accept a love interest's "insecurities" and "dirty laundry," urging him to "open up your heart and just let it begin."
Perry turns pensive on the more subdued Ghost, plainly haunted by ex-husband Russell Brand. But the heart of Prism lies in more upbeat tunes — most written with Dr. Luke and Max Martin, the album's chief producers — that often build from airy verses to dense, pounding choruses.
There are also straight-out party anthems such as This Is How We Do, a breathless ode to "ladies at breakfast in last night's dress." In her spiritual quest, Perry clearly hasn't forsaken the flesh: On the sultry Dark Horse, she purrs to guest Juicy J of a love that "will make you levitate."
On Birthday, a sweetly naughty Perry vows, over lithe grooves and funky horns, to give her lover "something good to celebrate," and on the '90s house-music homage Walking On Air they "go deeper and harder than ever before," she sings ecstatically.
What strikes us most on Prism, though, is Perry's lust for life itself, a quality that's genuine and endearing enough to redeem a few pop cliches.
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Counts for Metacritic. Nevermind.
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Will it be weighted more since USA Today is def one of the more relevant publications?
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Originally posted by Apocalypso
USA Today – 75
Original score: 3/4
Katy Perry's 'Prism' honors spirit and flesh
New album finds feel-good pop diva reaching for higher ground
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Excellent! I don't think they did a review for Teenage Dream so that's good!
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No, because the review is genuinely an amateur mess. Prism is OK but let's not get ahead of ourselves, that reviewer isn't even a real person, it's another of Jemuel DaSilva's various identities.
The review is full of mistakes and digs at Gaga, and the reviewer's other articles highlight an obvious bias.
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You would not be saying that if it was the other way around. Stop being so transparent. I am embarrassed for you.
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Originally posted by h.u.r.r.i.c.a.n.e
Will it be weighted more since USA Today is def one of the more relevant publications?
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Excellent! I don't think they did a review for Teenage Dream so that's good!
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Never mind. Their music reviews are not counted.
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that sucks 
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Mess at all the positive reviews not counting. 
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Billboard, New York Times and Tiny Mix Tapes are coming to save us 
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Why ain't some counted? 
EDIT: Nvm, saw the post here
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I'm not seeing enough to justify that accusation. Some writers were critical about Lady Gaga and then someone gave Katy's album a good review. The fact that you're inventing conspiracy theories to avoid the reality of the situation is kind of concerning, to be honest.
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I don't really love the album at all, but I definitely think a mid-60s final score would be the correct one.
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Metacritic is stupid. They try so hard to not give a clear indication of what the GP likes. Teenage Dream is my top album ever and I could go on and on about why it's so good, and on Metacritic it gets a fifty-something because the snooty reviewers they count don't consider it "real music". They need to fix their **** and make more count for Prism.
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I already said that I was in another thread  but that was in 2010 when I was 12/13 and listened to Katy and Rih, but then I grew up and found much better, more professional music and performers
im only replying to oneandonly's flamebait tbh
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Heard your boyfriend was away this weekend
Wanna meet at my place
Heard that we both got nothing to do
When I lay in bed I touch myself and I think of you
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Congrats Katy 
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I'm so sorry to tell you that USA Today is not counted
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Originally posted by Teen Idle
I already said that I was in another thread but that was in 2010 when I was 12/13 and listened to Katy and Rih, but then I grew up and found much better, more professional music and performers
im only replying to oneandonly's flamebait tbh
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Oh so now you're 15/16. The DEFINITION of maturity. 
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there might be a few strands of hair you know where That's the real definition of maturity.
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They count for movies and television but not music.
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Originally posted by Retro
Metacritic is stupid. They try so hard to not give a clear indication of what the GP likes. Teenage Dream is my top album ever and I could go on and on about why it's so good, and on Metacritic it gets a fifty-something because the snooty reviewers they count don't consider it "real music". They need to fix their **** and make more count for Prism.
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What the GP likes doesn't have to be what you call ''real music'' , the GP hears a song and if it's catchy they'll use it, albums are different though, and more nowadays, when people just don't buy music anymore
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I don't really love the album at all, but I definitely think a mid-60s final score would be the correct one.
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Huh?  That post was in response to someone accusing a writer of having multiple identities, but okay.
Most fans don't expect this album to do better than mid to high 60s. People have said that many times in this thread.
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