Katy Perry – Smile

Pops Queen Weeble, Katy Perry has made wobbling but never falling down her MO, belting out her chin-up, grin-on anthems tirelessly. At first it seems shes bounced back undaunted: galvanising opener Never Really Over thrums with fizzing electro synths; Daisies pushes back against detractors with brio. Yet theres a creeping lethargy, sense that, at 35 and about to become a mother, Perry kitschy shtick of old doesnt quite fit any more, but that she hasnt found a way forward she can connect with. The cool, sultry Cry About It Later and the housey Teary Eyes aim at the sort of sad-party-girl pathos owned for eternity by Sias Chandelier, but feel forgettable, anonymous, as does the by-numbers trap pop of Not the End of the World.

Katy Perry – Smile (2020)
Electropop, Rock, Funk, Soul, Vocal, Dance, Tropical, Synthpop, Nu-Disco | Capitol / EMI Music Australia
320 kbps | MP3 | unmixed | 28-08-2020 | 00:36:42 | 441 Mb
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