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Celeb News: The Prismatic Tour - Reviews - Katy slays NZ
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Other pop divas — Britney, Beyonce, Gaga — desperately, obviously scrabble after hype.
They do anything, everything to maintain their fame, unaware constant career calculations undermine their aim at icon status.
Meanwhile Katy Perry succeeds by being herself.
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this is how we slay!
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6 more days until i see ha
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Pitchfork has been her only negative review, and they just sounded pressed. Katy is dominating and December can't come too soon!
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Katy Perry in full force at TD Garden by James Reed
Katy Perry is the perfect Top 40 pop star because she understands the form’s chief rule: It should always appear to be fun. Countless hours of hard work and calculation surely go into her persona, but when she presents it live, you walk away with a renewed appreciation of both her talent and her character.
The proof was in the teenage screams at TD Garden on Friday, for the first of two sold-out shows there. They came often and at increasing volume:
“I love her!”
“That dress! Oh, my God, I love it!”
In a two-hour show that was generous and relaxed, Perry played her part with precision. She’s the ultimate cheerleader for the down-and-out, with muscular odes to self-empowerment (the opening “Roar” and “Part of Me,” also the name of a recent film that explains her appeal). The hitmaker was in full force, too, with a handful of radio catnip both new (“Dark Horse,” “Birthday”) and older (“I Kissed a Girl,” “California Gurls”).
Her real genius surfaced during an intimate set of ballads near the tip of a triangle-shaped catwalk. Under an illuminated canopy with a sunflower print, Perry held court with her flock, at one point bringing two young fans onstage, giving them a pepperoni pizza (from local chain the Upper Crust), and instructing them to share it (“with 14,000 people”). On guitar, she then led her band and two backup singers in an acoustic and affecting rendition of “The One That Got Away.”
Perry’s new tour, in support of last year’s “Prism,” is a juggernaut production full of whimsy and technical wizardry. Where her peers play up the raunch, Perry is more attuned to cutesy thrills (two words: cat videos). Her costumes and set design veered from Egyptian motifs (see a whip-wielding Perry as Cleopatra for “Dark Horse”) to Broadway pomp (with the cast of “Cats” prancing around her during “Hot N Cold,” reimagined as a slinky James Bond theme).
The sight gags alone were worth admission: Perry’s glow-in-the-dark jump-roping (in heels, no less), giant inflated props (a taco, champagne bottle, and the emoji pile of poo) during “This Is How We Do,” and fireworks that erupted onstage for the closing “Firework.”
During “Teenage Dream,” her effusive 2010 hit that will go down as a classic, a video montage of Perry in all her goofy glory played almost like a blooper reel. It reiterated the point Perry has worked so hard to achieve on her albums and in the spotlight: She’s a star, but she’s just like you.
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This is how she do 
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the best part of her tour are the outfits
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You guys better not come for Lindsay. Of all their writing staff, she's actually the most open minded and progressive about pop acts, whilst still having a really good compass for taste. I wanted to see the show, but this piece swayed me  |
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Katy Perry keeps fans high, dry and happy at The Palace.
It’s probably safe to say that none of the fans who jammed The Palace for Katy Perry’s Primsatic World Tour stop on Monday night, Aug. 11, were sorry it was an indoor show, even in the middle of summer.
The day’s nonstop rain — or as Perry herself called it, “crazy-a** weather” — certainly would have put a literal and figurative damper on things if the concert were held at, say, the DTE Energy Music Theatre. As it was Perry went on 15 minutes after start time in order to accommodate late arrivals due to traffic, but that didn’t at all impact on an unhinged and enormously entertaining spectacle, even if it was at times too much of a good thing.
During her two hours and 10 minutes onstage, Perry — supported by an entourage of 10 dancers, five musicians and two background singers who did a lot of the show’s vocal heavy lifting — delivered an unapologetically excessive pop diva display of choreography, costuming (a dozen outfit changes), visual effects and hits, with 10 No. 1 singles among the 21 songs Perry played. You got the sense Perry would do most anything to please her Katy Cats, an all-ages audience that could just as easily been coming to Disney on Ice, save for the colorful costumes. She gave a pizza pie to one very poised 12-year-old fan, took selfies with several others and brought a birthday girl named Amber onstage for an extended stay during, of course, birthday.
And then there were the prism glasses distributed to fans as they arrived, which were designed for use during the finale, “Firework,” but actually enhanced the show’s already jazzing visual impact at any given point of the night.
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Katy Perry: Hardworking pop star big on visuals.
Germaphobes are hereby advised to avoid Katy Perry concerts like, well, the plague.
“You might get some stranger’s sweat on you!” our tireless hostess thundered early in her show in a screechy, jam-packed Nationwide Arena last night. “Are you OK with that?”
Oh, sure. Especially because that sweat was most likely Perry’s own. For two solid hours, the chart-topping, taboo-flaunting, stupendously tacky, undeniably entertaining pop starlet worked harder than Springsteen.
She’s not the best at anything, necessarily, but she’s better than anyone at making you forget it.
Song quality varied. Last year’s disco-heavy Prism is no match for 2010’s titanic Teenage Dream; the latter’s sweet, sweltering title track was the night’s peak. But the goofy-workhorse approach papered over any and all goopy inspirational duds. Give her credit: She takes not taking being a pop star too seriously..
Kudos to Perry also for bringing along a shrewdly counterintuitive opening act: phenomenal young country star Kacey Musgraves, who sang arch, pointed tales of cheerful subversion (Follow Your Arrow) and rural desolation (the soft, sublime Merry Go Round).
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Katy Perry roars into Quicken Loans Arena with pals Kacey Musgraves and Ferras for a colorful, entertaining show.
When you open with a song that everybody in the known world associates with you, as Katy Perry did Thursday night with "Roar,'' you'd better have a lot in your arsenal to back it up.
She did, as the sellout crowd at Quicken Loans Arena learned over the course of a two-hour-and-10-minute costume- and dance-fueled extravaganza.
But always, always, always, there is this dynamic presence that's able to walk a fine line between camp and tramp. That's because Perry, who grew up wanting to be "the next Amy Grant'' and sing gospel, is able to mesh sexy with innocence, and it comes off as genuine.
In the meantime, Perry is serving as sort of the next logical step in a bridge that began with the Wiggles, slid to Hannah Montana before Miley Cyrus went nuts, and then segued into Taylor Swift. The end of the line will be a new Madonna, and Perry gets my vote for that role.
The thing about it is that it's impossible to see the show and not recognize her talent as a singer and dancer. And she's just so darn cute and LIKABLE.
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Katy Perry’s tired old ‘kid’ act hits the Garden
Katy Perry is 29 years old.
It’s worth remembering that fact, because during her Wednesday-night show at the Garden, it was easy to think you were watching a pubescent girl in action.
The “Prismatic” tour is ostensibly where the singer’s arrested development is laid out in plain sight and, to be frank, it’s weird to see a fully grown
divorcée acting like a fourth-grader. At various points during the two-hour show, she played Egyptian dress-up, skipped with a neon rope, devoted a whole section to her love of cats, and flew around the arena while hanging from a bunch of giant balloons.
Perry seemed less like a pop star than a schoolgirl after too much soda.
If a 29-year-old male singer went on stage every night and danced around in his Superman skivvies and decorated the stage to look like a giant Thomas the Tank Engine track, there would be nowhere to hide from the ridicule. So it’s inexplicable and embarrassing to see that, six years after her breakthrough single “I Kissed A Girl,” Perry is still peddling the same grating bubble-gum act and no one seems willing to tell her that it’s time to grow the hell up.
There were brief and unconvincing moments in which she tried to put her supposed maturity on show. A mid-set acoustic interlude saw Perry address her separation from Russell Brand with “By the Grace of God,” although any sense of emotional weight was swiftly undercut by her irritating Nickelodeon presenter routine.
“I have blue hair now, kids,” she screamed at one juncture. Even the kids knew that this was not much of a reason to get excited.
If the spectacle was flimsy, then the music was practically translucent. Perry’s big individual hits such as “I Kissed A Girl” and “Teenage Dream” are hummable in their own right, but having to hear them spread thinly across a set of awful dance-pop fillers like “Walking On Air” and “International Smile” felt like a modern version of cruel and unusual punishment. By the time she rounded off the night with “Firework,” it felt like an act of mercy rather than the big celebratory finale it was meant to be.
Perry plays at the Prudential Center in Newark on Friday and Saturday before returning to the area at the end of July, when she’ll perform at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. You have been warned.
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Ryan Dombal: The show was heartbreaking: a Vegas-ready jumble of ancient Rome, mummified Egypt, a drug-free '90s raveworld, a shelter for fancy life-sized cats, and a looping, fuzzy jazzercise VHS. It was pure spitball. As we saw on Miley's Bangerz Tour, which turned Life As We Know It into a hyperspeed "Adventure Time" hallucination, this approach can work. But Katy simply isn't working on Miley's level when it comes to ADHD entertainment in 2014—everything felt lumbering, like a relic. Nothing gelled. And there was a palpable feeling of the zeitgeist evaporating before our eyes; rather than capturing the hearts and minds of the most powerful force in America—teenage girls—the crowd seemed largely made up of tweens, toddlers, and parents. It was an audience for Ice Capades, not a potential bellwether 29-year-old pop star.
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Omg. That was ruthless, indeed.
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Congratz at reposting the only 2 negative reviews to derail the thread!!
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Congratz at reposting the only 2 negative reviews to derail the thread!!
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Expose ha!
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Katy Perry is a pop star in every sense of the phrase. She sparkles. She shimmers. She glows in the dark. She's a blast of color and energy and spirit.
It makes sense, then, that Perry has reportedly been tapped to perform at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show. Few current performers have such ease amid so much eye-popping extravaganza.
She emerged from inside a large prism for a continuous kickoff mix that included monster hits "Roar," "Part of Me" and "Wide Awake."
The songs were punchier and more aggressive than on record.
Perry's vocals were impressive and sat easily above the groove. She's commanding onstage but approaches every moment with a sly, sweet wink. "Let's be honest. I just learned that pose from Beyoncé," she quipped during one particularly steely gaze.
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More praise. 
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Omg. That was ruthless, indeed.
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The NY Post is trash
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Katy Perry is a pop star in every sense of the phrase. She sparkles. She shimmers. She glows in the dark. She's a blast of color and energy and spirit.
It makes sense, then, that Perry has reportedly been tapped to perform at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show. Few current performers have such ease amid so much eye-popping extravaganza.
She emerged from inside a large prism for a continuous kickoff mix that included monster hits "Roar," "Part of Me" and "Wide Awake."
The songs were punchier and more aggressive than on record.
Perry's vocals were impressive and sat easily above the groove. She's commanding onstage but approaches every moment with a sly, sweet wink. "Let's be honest. I just learned that pose from Beyoncé," she quipped during one particularly steely gaze.
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More praise.
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mother of monster hits. 
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★★★★★
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Perry’s two-hour ten-minute straight through show is as relentlessly busy and as generously entertaining as it is chaste.
The American pop singer is like a friendly, but firm sports teacher leading a pack of ten athletic and exuberant male and female dancers. When her dance team are not dangling from aerial trapezes, operating a mechanical life size horse (just like the one you saw in War Horse, only gold) or grooving down a catwalk in an inflatable convertible, they are efficiently scurrying over the massive set (dominated by a projection of a prism) and deploying oversized props.
The show’s friendliness is delivered by Perry’s extended monologues. From the “I love Melbourne, you are so chilled!” to her attempted Oz accent “Thanks heaps!” to her self-deprecating “Thank you for still liking me”, to plucking a nine year-old from the audience and getting down on her haunches to interview him about school — she is as nice and approachable as a pretty kids’ television host.
What’s not to like?
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In the context of her live show, Katy Perry's appearance at a girls' school yesterday makes perfect sense. Yes, she was there to award the students a prize, but she was also connecting with her biggest demographic – primary school-age girls.
The props, outfits and pyrotechnics were undeniably impressive, if a little laboured.
It was a show comparable to Cyrus's in terms of colour, energy and spectacle, but unlike Cyrus, whose unaffected (and expletive-laden) banter between songs connected her to her audience, Perry at times felt sanitised and over-rehearsed to the point of detachment.
The kids didn't seem to notice, or mind, giddy with excitement for the duration and deservedly so during the triumphant final sequence of Teenage Dream, California Gurls, Birthday and Firework – songs good enough to send fans young and old home on a sugary high.
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The second one. 
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The Prismatic World Tour is aptly named, because Katy Perry's two-hour performance last night was like being inside a prism, a sensory explosion of light, colour, and sound that starts huge, and never lets up.
Morphing through seven different phases, with a total of 20 songs, when Katy is on stage, every song is a hit, and every song feels like an encore.
Each phase had different outfits and lighting, and different flying and twirling gizmos. The lighting show is the best New Zealand has seen in the past five years, and the production surpasses most other megastars'.
But apart from the many spectacular visual elements, Katy is a true entertainer - she know how to work a Kiwi crowd with a little homespun slang, and sharing a pizza with the audience.
Her vocal performance during the ballad part of the evening - By The Grace Of God, Unconditionally, The One That Got Away - proved why she got noticed in the first place, and got singalongs just as recent hits like This Is How We Do, Dark Horse, and Walking On Air.
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KATY PERRY glows - like, literally. She also glitters, sparkles, razzle-dazzles, commands a giant gold horse, boasts life-sized emojis, channels the house in 'UP' AND hosts pizza parties on-stage (but more on that later).
Last night, the popstar brought 'The Prismatic World Tour' to Auckland’s Vector Arena and within a more than two-hour-long show she delivered theatrically produced sets, orchestrations and costumes during seven different segments, that were expertly presented as if lifted right from the pages of Perry’s (and her fans’) pumped up dream-diaries.
It’s become a sad fact of life that quite often, New Zealand shows lack the icing on the cake that other countries get. I am of course, talking about FLYING. Too many times now have I had my heart broken by a lack of flying that all other non-NZ dates receive, but Katy Perry of course, did not disappoint. During an already solid performance of 'Birthday' - that featured a fan being invited to sit atop a revolving birthday cake - Perry took to the air, adventuring around the entire arena thanks to a balloon swing. She was, quite literally, the house from 'UP'.
But as the end of our night together drew nigh, Perry asked her fans, "What if I don’t live up to your expectations?" She needn’t have even asked, as 12,000 adoring fans screamed back at her in appreciation of the real value-for-money musical spectacular she’d just bestowed upon them as a pre-Christmas treat. When Katy sung, "You make me feel like I’m livin’ a Teenage Dream" from the title-track of her 2010 album, one couldn’t help but feel like she wasn’t singing about a romantic love, but in fact a more profound and immeasurable love - the love between a KatyCat and Katy Perry, and Katy Perry and her KatyCats; those that are enabling her to truly live out all her wildest teenage dreams.
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Katy Perry an early Christmas gift for fans.
There is a lot to be said for a gig where a Led Zeppelin-shirted Dad can dance alongside his daughter.
If there ever was a family outing to be had at Vector Arena, last night was it. Mum, Dad and the blue-wigged and leopard-skin clad kids were all along for the bubble-gum coated ride that is a night with Katy Perry, one of the world's biggest pop stars.
From the moment she emerged from a giant prism, Perry was calling the shots – and the world she creates is a technicolour extravaganza that both young and old want to inhabit.
In terms of production values, I haven't seen a gig like it. I think there's a possibility I might see it again, in my dreams.
And underneath the theatrics and those pop hits – of which her fans, the cutely-named Katy Kats, know every word – Perry really does have an amazing voice, showcased the best during Unconditionally.
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