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Katy Perry Struggles to Reclaim Past Glory on the Flat ‘143’: Album Review
Katy Perry struggles to reclaim past glory on the flat '143,' her sixth studio album.
Perry barely explained why she reunited with Luke: “I wrote these songs from my experience of my whole life going through this metamorphosis, and he was one of the people to help facilitate that,” she said on the podcast “Call Your Daddy.” Some fans theorized that she was contracted to continue working with him, but the truth of that is uncertain. Even when her songs are presented in their most simplistic form, Perry has had a cheeky way of infusing specificity and humor into them — “Barbies on the barbecue, is that a hickey or a bruise?” comes to mind — and her work on “One of the Boys” and “Teenage Dream” oozed character because of it. “143” could have been a record that harnessed that exact integrity, the same that punctuated the love-yourself smash “Firework” or triumphant “Roar.” But so much of that has been lost over time, perhaps because of the ever-changing landscape of pop music, or the shifting tide in celebrity culture.
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