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Discussion: Why you all call Katy basic?
Member Since: 1/1/2014
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It's just an excuse to undermine her success
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by MissedTheTrain
Can you guys not make this about Gaga and her fans? I don't understand why she's apparently always on your minds.
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Ikr. It always has to be something about Gaga right? it has been years since Gaga's slayage stopped, yet these people are still pressed. how sad for them.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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I like Katy a lot. I guess people say she's basic because, compared to her peers, she isn't really as bold or daring. She doesn't stand out quite as much as people like Gaga, Rihanna, Beyonce, etc. She hasn't really pioneered any trends in Pop music. And again, I like Katy, what she does is working for her, but that's just my opinion.
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Member Since: 5/14/2009
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Everyone knows i don't **** wit Katy, but she is basic. I'm not gon front tho, tha bitch is successful and she's workin that **** out, no doubt. Slay. But she never goes out of her comfort zone, she's entirely too safe. I at least took her more seriously during tha One Of Tha Boys era. & Thinking Of You slays both Teenage Dream & Prism. All of her songs don't need to be as serious as TOY, but tha amount of Barney & Sesame Street 'hits' she wastes her time on recording and releasing just don't fly
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Member Since: 5/16/2011
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How are you gonna criticize a basic one if you're not basic?
People are just pressed because she always wins.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Lazerbeamz
Ch, please
Don't compare Katy to Rihanna, who can't catch a break and releases every year . I love me some Rih but katy has NINE #1 at only two albums, while Rihanna has 13 with 3-4 times more albums than Katy (sorry lost count).
Also do you even know the meaning of the word replaceable? If Rihanna would have replaced Katy in the singles department, then nobody would have cared/bought Katy's singles, which surely is untrue.
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Now, sis.
We're not about to sit up here and act like Rihanna hasn't had the same amount of number ones as Katy in the same span of times. & she hasn't released in over a year, the basic shade
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Member Since: 2/20/2012
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AS much as I stan for her,
I feel like it's largely because she doesn't take risks with anything.
Her music and her music's edge has become so watered down she no longer has that pop-rock edge she had in the beginning.
She has embraced younger fans more than any other pop girl, and her performances are usually themed, and do not focus on just her as an artist, it is Katy doing Egyptian, Katy doing Medieval stuff, Katy doing CandyLand, Katy doing Alice in Wonderland, Katy dressed as a giant butterfly, Katy dressed as a power ranger, Katy dressed as a soldier, Katy dressed as popcorn, Katy dressed as fruit, Katy dressed like an alien, Katy dressed like a snowman, Katy dressed like a witch (and the list goes on and on).
I love her but that is in my opinion why she is considered basic.
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Why do we call the sky blue
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Member Since: 4/23/2012
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Originally posted by MadMagical
They're unprofessional? And what is you?
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Not claiming to be? What kind of baseless comeback was that? You're the one tryna pass off Buzzfeed and Gawker as actual credible sources and not stans with Tumblr gif sets in their bookmarks. A mess really!
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Member Since: 4/26/2012
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She can't help what she is, being basic isn't a bad thing.
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Member Since: 2/2/2014
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Originally posted by Toxicity.
Not claiming to be? What kind of baseless comeback was that? You're the one tryna pass off Buzzfeed and Gawker as actual credible sources and not stans with Tumblr gif sets in their bookmarks. A mess really!
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Member Since: 9/1/2013
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jesus christ this thread is already such a mess
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Member Since: 11/27/2008
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Its only because she's worked with Dr, Luke quite a lot.
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Member Since: 9/9/2012
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(No T no shade. Just my opinion)
I'm saying this as a former Katy stan.
OOTB era I was a complete stan. Her sound was to die for. One of my favorite albums of all time <3
When she came into the scene, she brought a new and interesting sound.
For me, she's yet to deliver like she has on OOTB. Teenage Dream and Prism were very standard, common albums that were very basic imo.
A lot have artists have taken big risks in the progression of their careers.
Ke$ha wanted to go more rock. Gaga experiments on each album. Rihanna went urban.
Katy is just... Katy. Very plain and simple to my ears.
When she said she was going "really dark" for her next album I was so excited to hear a new Katy sound. Then Prism happened and let me down.
She's a nice person and has good intentions but not my type of music at all...
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Member Since: 9/17/2012
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Her lyrics are mostly either cliched or weak and the production of her songs is not very inventive sometimes, which gives some people the impression that she's basic.
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Originally posted by Grumpy Gills
Why do we call the sky blue
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Because it's not?
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Member Since: 8/22/2011
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Originally posted by Grumpy Gills
Why do we call the sky blue
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because our retinas in the corner of our eyes see that way but it could be different to other animals
(dont come for me if a human retina isnt in the corner of an eye )
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Originally posted by accelgors
also in response to your previous post, electro pop isn't even that different from dance pop, how is that an experiment??? not only that but if we want to include things that aren't that different from pop here katy has done disco, pop rock, urban, trap, and soft rock. see? i can pull out her interpretations of genres that are pop-influenced and barely different from regular pop too, which is exactly what most of rihanna and xtina's so-called experiments are. they all do some experimentation but they mostly stick to regular pop formulas.
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Trap? I need receipts.
And how the hell did Xtina stick with 'regular pop formulas'? The woman released a JAZZ album ffs.
The same with Rihanna. Since when was reggae or rock a 'regular pop formula'? Your point is flawed.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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I don't understand. People want her to "take risks" and release an R&B album or something? All of my favorite artists whether they are hip-hop, R&B, pop, alternative, rock, country, whatever, have been in the same genre their entire music careers. What is so bad about that
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Fred Perry
Please post a song that sounds exactly like Firework then IF IT'S SO BASIC
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To name one, Viva La Vida by Coldplay! Like Firework is so generic, of all the songs you could've picked, you pick Firework
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