I generally try to avoid any pop music whatsoever; it’s just as bad coming from Korea (K-pop) as it is from the bowels of California. But, for whatever reason, Kay Perry’s new hit single “Woman’s World” crossed my feed, and I reflexively clicked on what I guess would be ultra-cringe virtue signaling about female empowerment or whatever.
It was worse than I could have imagined.
Via USA Today (emphasis added):
At a point in time, Katy Perry was inescapable. Her 2010 “Teenage Dream” amassed five No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, a record held previously by Michael Jackson. The former parts of the 2010s would be hers to own. She crafted an iconography so bright and candy-painted it provided an escape from a post-recession America. She chronicled the frivolous joys of unabashed youth in an era where pop music was expected to be hollow and fun…
Seven years later, Perry has seemingly returned to lacing her songs with empty political messaging with her newest single “Woman’s World.” The dance-pop song is an attempt at a feminist anthem: “It’s a woman’s world and you’re lucky to be living in it!” she blares over pumping synths. But in a post-Barbie (2023) world, the song’s vague notions of empowerment read void. It offers nothing new, or even reflective, of contemporary understandings of feminism or womanhood. It’s mostly just … fine. Inoffensive at best, reductive at worst.
The lyrics — which, mind you, took no fewer than six people to put together — are unreal.
(It's a woman's world and you're lucky to be livin' in it)
Sexy, confident
So intelligent
She is heaven-sent
So soft, so strong
She's a winner, champion
Superhuman, number one
She's a sister, she's a mother
Open your eyes, just look around and you'll discover, you know
Perry tried to claw her way back to relevancy a couple of years ago via the low-hanging fruit of COVID virtue-signaling, when she dressed up like a giant syringe with her actor boyfriend pretending to be a doctor (like most “doctors” on television).
Via Page Six (emphasis added):
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom gave pandemic-themed costumes a shot this Halloween.
The pop star posed as a larger-than-life COVID-19 vaccine, with her fiancé dressing up as a doctor.
Perry, 37, paired her full-body costume with a surgical mask and bright blue sneakers, while Bloom, 44, coordinated in blue scrubs, a lab coat and white Crocs.
He completed the look with a stethoscope and an ID badge featuring his headshot and the name “Dr. Dilf.”
“I vaxxed a girl and I liked it,” he captioned a photo of the look, tagging himself as Dr. Anthony Fauci.
What stunning and brave artistic expression.
Perry recently came out to lambast her critics as not understanding that "Woman's World" was a brilliant and misunderstood satire. But the question is: What was she satirizing? Herself? Perry has been pooping out shallow nonsense radio bangers like this for years.
It’s also not lost on me that Perry is likely incapable of satire. She may have heard the word, but I find it hard to imagine she knew what it meant before her agent told her to tell everyone this monstrosity was satire to stem the bleeding.
