Behind the hate: WITNESS

Why was Katy Perry so attacked on her fourth studio album? She deserved it?

Interpreting every song with the hardest moments of Katy Perry's career
I changed the order of the tracklist to give it a cohesion according to the events in her life.
Keep in mind: Before the album Katy had been politically involved in the elections against Trump. So some people stopped paying attention to what she was doing. Many other people started sending hate to her.
Trump and social injustices won. She was disappointed.
Witness
The song that opens the album is quite clear. Katy senses that chaos is coming and she knows that if she uses her voice again she could lose everything. As if it were a crime to fight for social problems, she looks for someone to accompany her.
Roulette
The song talks about surrendering to the unpredictable and changing habits. As an act of personal liberation Katy decided to take a risk and change her look. After 9 years of black hair Katy cuts her hair and returns to its natural color the blonde.
Déjà Vu
Her romantic relationship, her friends, her family, and her fans. Everything falls apart and they become toxic relationships in a loop. To such an extent that she begins to act strange in public and cannot prevent her record company from making bad decisions.
People hate this song because of the overdone autotune but that's the joke of the song. I mean She uses this effect to imply as the lyric says that she is going through an identity crisis. Her legacy in pop, her standards, her age, are distorted. She doesnt know how to continue.
Dance With The Devil
Katy smokes a lot out of anxiety and also falls into alcohol. The message of the singles get lost, the reception of the album is not good and the criticisms from the media grow up. Everything becomes a dance with the devil.
Save As Draft
Katy is SAD. Melancholy invades her. She starts writing thousands of ways to fix things in her life but she's still unsure. She takes a deep breath and after creating this beautiful song she save her thoughts as a draft.
Bigger Than Me
Ok so far everything is insane darkness. It is time to rethink the world situation. Bad things will always happen. We cannot control everything and we must think about how we can evolve to survive. Katy gets up!!! The lyrics are ver deep and explicit about it.
Now reborn Katy returns to regain her Power. In this hymn she remembers the independent woman she is and all that she achieved. The instrumental is electric as f*ck. (In the Tour she was sad but I'm sure that we the real katycats given to her all the love to recharge her energy)
HEYX3
As a woman she has to deal with patriarchy. In this catchy song she wants to make it clear that they cannot make her a stereotype. The lyrics are savage and the Music Video a mix of comedy, satire and purposeful pop based on the Story of Marie Antoinette.
Swish Swish
At first this was the response to Taylor Swift in that Cold War of pop. But Katy changed her mind and preferred not to continue with that attitude. So she decided to dedicate it to all the haters in internet. In a funny but quite debatable Music Video. Nickys verse🔥
Bon Appetit
This bop can be seen in two different ways. The song itself speaks of the sexual liberation of women. She can satisfy her appetite however she wants. In the music video Katy gives you an insight into how the industry treats women as if they were pieces of meat. 1B👑
This song should not have the collaboration but Cacatol forced Katy to incorporate them. These rappers had conflicts with Drag Queens in a performance and complaits of homophobia. Who did the internet judge? Katy who didnt know they at all. BA survived cannibalism theories and 🍕
Tsunami
Changing the airs of social struggle, feminism and haters comes that tsunami. A hot and relaxing song, HIH's cousin that is basically about having an org*sm with that special someone. And here we can see a Katy falling in love with daddy Orlando again.
Miss You More
If you don't cry with this ballad What to say ... It's a beautiful song about that feeling of connection with someone who has been away for a long time and may never return. If I'm not mistaken, Katy said that she dedicates it to a special person in her private life
Pendulum
Like a pendulum Katy is in balance again, her identity crisis ended and here she talks about staying true to who we are. The song makes it clear that if we do the right thing, life will give it back to us.
Act My Age
Katy was always characterized by being a funny person who is not afraid of being bizarre and extravagant. Last years she was criticized for not behaving according to her age but in life you have to have fun and transmit a little of that in the middle of so much hate
Into Me You See
The song that closes this album connects that first search for witnesses. We were able to see within her everything that was and is. They attacked her but we accompanied her. All her actions were distorted but we could see and appreciate her truth.
Witness is an era that had poor decisions. But the quality of the lyrics and Katys potential for experimental new sounds is undeniable. It is not a flop, It didnt overcome the previus works but became the most intimate personal and different in her career.
Ahead of time.
In 2017-2018 She was so strong and do it a wonderful world tour for us ... Many of her fans abandoned her and
people didn't appreciate this songs.
What do you think of Witness? 👁️
(My bad forget the most important of this era)
Chained To The Rhythm
The first purposeful pop is executed. Wake up people. With deep lyrics and a music video with many subtle details, people ignore reality and continue to distort. Accusing Katy of always doing the same thing.
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