PRISM
Considering Katy Perry was born to a couple of Pentecostal ministers and raised without much secular music, it makes sense that her first record, 2001’s Katy Hudson, would be a gospel album. Since then, though, Perry’s taken on a new last name, gotten married and divorced, and made a career as a…
After the gold trucks and burning wigs, Prism - a huge pop record that’s amazingly, admirably honest - finally rolls in to town.
With its five number one singles, the 2010 album turned Katy Perry into a genuine superstar, the kind of musician whose image rivaled her music in popularity, the kind who could topline her own 3-D theatrical documentary, the kind whose name became shorthand for a sugar-pop sensibility.
She may not be the best singer in the world, and has spent an awful lot of her career trading off assets other than her music skils, but when it comes to a believable popstar, there is something about Katy Perry that seems to make sense.
Katy Perry gets confessional on that difficult post-divorce third album, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>
Prism is another collection of three-and-half-minute potential hits that even cynics will find hard to resist.
No matter what you think of her personally, even the most jaded of cynics have to acknowledge that Katy Perry is one hell of a performer -- and that's...
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Katy Perry sounds like an artist who has finally found herself on her fine new album, Prism