#KATY PERRY WITNESS CODE#

Her tour documentary, Part of Me, captured the singer at the top of her game professionally and facing a personal nadir as her marriage to Russel Brand was crumbling. It's disappointing because we've seen that Katy Perry (or Kathryn Hudson) before so we know she's out there. Elevating mundane heartbreak to the sublime has always been the perfect formula for a pop song. Maybe it just has more to do with the way famous people are treating their digital existences as novel instead of simply the way people live now, and it's a missed opportunity. It seems like every week, we're coining a new term for an egregious online dating offense repeated so rapidly it becomes routine. It's not like there's a shortage of language for the the way relationships have been radically altered by technology. She cuts to the feeling of modern love's glut of gray area. Carly Rae Jepsen, though she doesn't make the same explicit references to technology, sings about ghosting, yearning, and jealousy with conspiratorial authority. Tackling the way we communicate now with Drake's ease in a pop song is no small feat. Britney Spears' 'Email My Heart' is a banner example as well as its dirtier counterpart, *NSYNC's 'Digital Getdown.' Beyoncé made it work, but it was all in her delivery - slinky and self-assured. More often than not, it comes off as pure novelty. The telephone is endlessly romantic - the smartphone, so far, not so much. Pop stars, historically, haven't had much luck singing about the tools of technology without sounding clunky. 'But I take a deep breath, and I save as draft,' she sings, 'You don't have to subtweet me / my numbers always been the same.'

#KATY PERRY WITNESS CODE#

'Save As Draft' doesn't bother with code one bit, referencing an ex's SUV on Sunset Boulevard and, more damning, his social media habits. We know what's going on with Perry's iPhone but not with Perry herself. On 'Roulette' she's faced with temptation 'texting me a bubble of trouble,' and gives in, 'so I drop a pin to my location / and roll the dice.' The specific references are distracting. Katy Perry's cannibalism video for 'Bon Appétit' is finally here

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