Then you hear some of her live performances, like her Good Morning America performance of "Hot N Cold," and, well. Is she actually good, or is it all just Auto-Tune? Some of her live performances have been good, and unlike contemporaries such as Britney Spears, she is willing to perform without altering her voice live. Currently, she is very popular with gays, but also very popular with Christians, and very popular with teenage and younger girls (who don't even understand her lyrics), leading to a lot of disagreement as to how to interpret various songs, as well as which of her songs is best. Also, One of the Boys and Teenage Dream are best known for their upbeat pop songs, even though both albums include a lot of very serious songs. All four of her albums (five, if you include Katy Hudson) are very different from each other, leading to a lot of disagreement as to which one is the "real" Katy.
It is so notorious that in some circles a Witness era is now a synonym for this trope. While Witness debuted at #1, it crashed hard with an 89% dropoff in sales during its second week, while the accompanying concert tour struggled to sell out the arenas that she was able to pack during her Teenage Dream and Prism days. Her new pixie haircut was also incredibly polarizing, on top of it. Meanwhile, a four-day YouTube live stream to promote the album was filled with all manner of bizarre non-sequiturs and strained attempts at atonement (in response to previous accusations of cultural appropriation) that had people buzzing for all the wrong reasons. Katy's promise that the album would be taking a more political direction towards "purposeful pop" was a very tough sell from her, since it also left her open to criticism of her own problematic career choices. Luke), and sounding like everything else on the radio in the mid-late '10s.
Audience-Alienating Era: Witness in 2017 caused her mainstream success to crash, being roundly criticized for overproduction, scattershot writing, lacking the catchiness of her best work (which many blamed on the lack of her longtime collaborator, the disgraced Record Producer Dr.Anvilicious: The video for "Chained to the Rhythm" is not subtle with its ignorant-masses symbols, featuring imagery such as the "American Dream Drop", a park ride that drops picturesque houses rather violently, human hamster wheels, a gas station setpiece with open flames in it, and bomb rides.The unintentional bitter message, where the negativity is parroted sarcastically: "I was trying something with Witness, but none of you liked that and you called it an ego trip, so here I am, back with the smile and bubbles you want from me".
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