Katy Perry is now on the receiving finish of criticism.
Perry was a decide on American Idol for seven seasons, and through that point, she needed to give suggestions to contestants — good or dangerous. Certainly one of her former contestants, Steven James, posted a video on social media dissing the singer’s track, “OK.”
“This will’t be the identical one that eradicated me on American Idol 5 years in the past,” he wrote over the TikTok whereas he listened to the track with a smile on his face and seemed facet to facet.
The remark part was crammed with extra harsh opinions, which included, “Katy, this isn’t OK,” “What within the PBS Youngsters is occurring right here” and “This isn’t the identical Katy Perry that made the one which obtained away.”
The “California Gurls” singer left American Idol earlier this 12 months and launched her sixth studio album in September — nevertheless, it hasn’t been nicely obtained. On Dec. 20, she launched a deluxe version, which added 4 extra songs, one in all them being “OK.”
The Hollywood Reporter included Perry on this 12 months’s checklist of Hollywood’s greatest winners and losers as an artist who “misplaced” 2024 in leisure. “All aboard the pop lady summer season get together bus — not so quick, Katy Perry. Like a Kevin Costner of music, Perry stop her American Idol day job … to launch a comeback album that some mused will need to have been made by AI.”
It continued, “The album was titled 143 — which could as nicely have been its place on the Billboard chart for all of the blowback she obtained … Lead single ‘Lady’s World’ was a particularly on-the-nose feminism anthem in each respect, besides for that selection of Dr. Luke as producer. Look, this doesn’t really feel nice. We’re rooting for her “dance get together tour” subsequent 12 months to be a hit (in addition to her subsequent comeback album).”
