Katy Perry - Witness | Album Review
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►My review of Katy Perry's drab of a 5th album, "Witness". It's boring, can I get a witness? It's biggest crime is simply being forgettable.
"Witness"
Capitol Records
Release: 6/9/17
Rating: 2/5 (updated)
►Favorite tracks: Swish Swish, Mind Maze, Roulette, Hey Hey Hey, Chained to the Rhythm
►Least faves: Save As Draft, Bon Appetite, Tsunami, Witness, Deja Vu, Pendulum
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Oh yeah, and the album cover is some pretentious bullshit, & it's off-putting as hell. Forgot to say that.
ARTV lol. Also something about the coloring is such a turn off for me, color-wise I hate it as well.
ARTV it's an artistic mess I hate it so much
I literally just see something Lady Gaga would've done for artpop
it looks illuminati as fuck
It looks like Katy Perry was inspired by The Neon Demon
I personally don't like Chained to the rhythm. It sounds like it's trying too hard to be socially conscious and it just comes of as fake and contrived. And I agree the "wasted zombie" line is pretty cringe.
yees, i completely agree.
the lyrics are really cliché-ish and predictable also
Sorry but i don't see how was Katy "trying hard" on Chaines To The Rhythm.
How is she trying to be something while she is being herself?
If she wants to say something on a song then she wants to.
Yeah... never been that into Katy Perry. But why that album cover? Just... why?
Monica LW Because it's about our society and the fact that we all see things the wrong way and that we don't witness what's really in front of us. For one, society is being way too negative about every little thing, which looking at these TH-cam comments, is very accurate.
Cedric Mathew Hudson That's not even what the cover is about.... Katy has already explained why that's the cover and that's not it at all
J Panda look at her live stream , it'll change your whole perspective about her and the album. I didn't even care about her before that 73 hour live stream lol, but the hate that's surrounding her by just releasing something as innocent as music is getting a little too hard on the internet. Just like they took Miley Cyrus apart in 2013 and Britney way before that, it's not right to do that to another human being who has done virtually nothing wrong to you except, god forbid, released some music that she worked 2 years on. I get it, genres aren't for everyone but the hate online and in the press is getting ridicilous.
So I just looked up what the cover is about and I read Katy's statement about the "eye in the mouth" thing. I mean, I guess it makes sense. I don't really like how it looks, haha. But hopefully this thread doesn't turn into something crazy, I was just wondering why the album cover was so weird.
No but i was just talking in general here in these comments, it's getting crazy out of hand yo with the negativity haha, i can't believe how mindless people have become on the internet without really thinking about the fact that at the end of the day, katy's just a human being. I watched a brutally honest therapy session on her livestream yesterday where she talked about negativity online and how it destroys her. It's really something to watch & i'm sure it took a lot of guts to do that live on TH-cam.
That album cover is terrifying!
it looks super illuminati.
Matt Aronhalt She's edgyy as fuck
I love the album cover
but i don't really like the album
The Black Parade i only made it half way through
This album is just a train wreck. Its not as "politically aware" as she wants people to believe and its all a little boring.
Obnoxious Fandom Name it's about as politically aware as she is.
Aside from the singles, I was disappointed with the album too. Also, the album cover is just so unappealing with the bad photoshop.
I wish Katy would make more songs like Walking on Air, I'm a sucker for 90s house.
YES!!! I love that song so much, it's so underrated
Worst line of the album for me was on Deja Vu "Your words are like Chinese water torture."
Nicholas Katsikas lmao damn
Nicholas Katsikas What about in Hey Hey Hey "MARILYN MONROE IN A MONSTER TRUCK"
ScreenScraggy 22 all of Hey, Hey, Hey was an L but to me there's something about comparing a guys words to flipping CHINESE WATER TORTURE just made me lose it.
why? if you're gonna make a claim like that then explain your reasoning behind it.
Nicholas Katsikas The ironic thing is that Hey Hey Hey is my favorite song of the album. I do think the lyrics are dumb but I don't really care much about lyrics. The only time I won't listen to something due to lyrics is if it super gross and sexual. But I thought katies album was very good overall. So I'm alone I guess.
This is how Katy Perry's albums have always been. Some pretty amazing singles, backed with some filler tracks to produce sales in the form of albums. Except this time that concept didn't work here, all 3 singles flopped and she definitely seemed rushed for release.
Personally, the 3 singles, Hey Hey Hey, Roulette, and the title track were good, but the rest was definitely some shit.
Antonio Thunder hunter Chained to the Rhythm did not flop,oh should it be nb.1 on BB in order to succeed😐
Blazer Ace he said the first three singles were good which included: Chained to the Rhythm, Bon Appetít, and Swish Swish.
You liked bon appetit?
It only spent two weeks inside the top ten and then free falling. It's flop in the us.
@@dg0210 don't understand how those were good. I feel some other songs on her album were better. Witness was my fav out of all of them
This album feels like a mid life crisis
Andrea Amador I'm tryna feel dat ass
I could tell after watching bon appetit... this was going to be shit.
This is her worst album to date. I like a couple songs but none of them have that replay value to them like her others, and as a whole the album is just boring. All the songs sounds pretty much the same, and the lyrics/choruses fall flat. Who knew Katy needed Dr. Luke so badly.
Ms. Nikita Katy's non-single songs are way better than her huge hits. Only people looking for huge hits think this album sucks. The ones who really knew Katy love it. I'm glad it is not full of bombastic songs. She got more introspective here and sonically, it is a better experience than just having songs to dance to...
You know an album is gonna be trash when a Christian singer who sang "I Kissed a Girl" tries to write an album on social and political issues
Dorian Camp Chained to the Rhythm and then there's some feminism thrown in there
Brayden Kimbrough she doesnt get political ctfuu
Dorian Camp She tried in one track,but it's nothing like Madonna's American Life.Actually,it's pretty shallow
Alister R She did with the lead single and "Hey Hey Hey" and even "Witness"
Apparently one of the songs was about her feelings about Hillary Clinton losing the election but I honestly couldn't tell you which one it was because most of the songs sound the same
This is a let down, especially for Katy Perry. I did like Chained to the Rhythm, Swish Swish, and Hey Hey Hey. But other than that, the rest of the songs were just.... bland and generic. A big let down.
OwlFanatic listen to save as draft more and into me you see
OwlFanatic it's ironic because your favorite songs are the most generic on this album.
OwlFanatic it's ironic because your favorite songs are the most generic on this album.
OwlFanatic u cant dislike Roulette+Into Me You See
Bruh, check out roulette and save as draft, also pendulum, also also Miss you more
As a pretty big Katy Perry fan (Teenage Dream may be my favorite modern pop album out there) I agree with most of your points. Katy Perry is very cheesy and not necessarily the smartest pop, which is honestly kind of her appeal to me. I feel like it shows her personality off well, which is very goofy and lighthearted. That all being said, this album didn't show much of her personality, which is that one thing I like so much about her and her music. The whole self realized pop thing is fine with me if it were presented more like Chained to the Rhythm (which I think is one of her best songs in recent years, I WISH more of the album was like this) But the way it comes off here is just very dry, even on some of the production (a surprise from someone like Max Martin) Definitely some gems but overall probably her weakest album. And that's coming from someone who has a poster of her above my bed!
I like your review though and thought you were very fair with criticism, as you are most of the time, and I agree with about 90% of what you said. I think Hey Hey Hey could actually be a hit if the chorus were a bit bigger, too.
Damn, if Swish Swish is one of the better songs on Witness, this album's gotta be a train wreck.
wow is this the art for the american horror story soundtrack
it's like she tried to be everything poppy is all about and got it all wrong
I legitimately believe this is such an amazing album, I think her singles she released didn't help the album.. but the album has fantastic tracks..
Colton Giddings me too, shame about it having so many negative reviews
I totally agree with the filler songs! I'm a huge Katycat but this album only has like 4 real standout songs and the rest are complete fillers. Also I feel like there is no coherence to the album, it doesn't fit together very nicely, I'm hoping this is her artpop/dead pets era and her next album she'll have her Joanne moment
HAHA "artpop/dead pets era" is too accurate, except that even Pablo the blowfish is more emotional than this entire album added up.
Guilty as charged, I enjoyed several singles from Perry's first 2 albums; I Kissed a Girl, Hot N Cold, Waking Up In Vegas, California Girls, Teenage Dream, Last Friday Night, all guilty pleasures of mine, I know they're mediocre lazily-written pandery Pop songs, but they were fun and enjoyable to me. However, everything afterwards (the watered-down boring as shit Firework sequel Roar, the not-as-big-or-deep-as-it-thinks-it-is sloppy 808-driven Dark Horse, and of course all the shit off this album) have been amongst some of the worst Pop songs of this entire decade for me.
Based on her new singles' poor chart performances, and the bad PR she's been getting this year so far (her Obama comment, her 2013 Miley-tier makeover except Miley's was actually believable, everything connected to Bon Appetite, etc.), I think 2017 will be the last we hear from Katy Perry for a while, good fucking riddance.
Joseph Tafur 96 hours...Idk why either :/
I'm don't generally judge an album by it's cover..but like...
What the actual hell *IS* that?
How do you feel about the Silence in Black and White?
That album cover looks terrifying (*shutters*)
Funny that you mention Taylor Swift. I know some people will disagree, but I found that re-listening to her entire discography on Spotify seems way more interesting than this new Katy Perry album.
Will Calton haha yup
Will Calton Tbh I agree, listening to all Taylors albums is more interesting than listening to Katy's new album.
Will Calton NO😆😝😥😹😾💔
True, True.
I never gave a shit about Katy Perry.
Tonny Bivans Yet you are watching a review of her album? Lol OKAY
Robert Lawrence I just wanted to see Jon tear it apart lmao
so much hate. why bro? it is a good album. She is experiment in this album and it works! the production are great. yeah the singles are wrong. this review is so biased
Say what you want guys,I really love all the songs included on Witness
"Bon Appetite" nothing to the palette. Ah-nice 👌🏻😁
i saw this coming, i think she tries to experiment new stuffs though with her reputation, she can still manage to fuck up multiple times and still earn a lot of money.
It is albums like these where I want Taylor Swift to comeback...I don't even like her.
Also Jon, I got an ad this time :)
This is the 4th album by her, not 5th (One of the Boys, Teenage Dream, Prism, Witness). I wouldn't count her Katy Hudson album or her "A" album that was never actually released.
Can someone, either you or your girlfriend, please review London Grammar's Truth Is A Beautiful Thing?
YOU PEOPLE JUST CAN'T ACCEPT CHANGE AND HAS CHOSEN TO LOOK AT THE BAD SIDE RATHER THAN THE GOOD.
She wants to be someone she's not so bad. I remember when she was promoting the prism album and she was saying "this album will be my darkest album" and I was like okay something a bit interesting. Nope. That album was all fillers and you could easily tell which songs were made into single and were ready for the radio and that's the same with this album. But she tried to be way to artistic. I feel like she really is having an identity crisis or something. She wants to be Miley Cyrus. She definitely wants Lady Gaga's creativity she's trying way to hard to be so many different things and it's just awkward at this point.
You were much kinder than I was.
Couldn't agree more, if anyone dares to ask me about it I will simply direct them to your video, you said it all!
Wait, you didn't review witness and power...
I was so bored listening to this album that I'm happy I didn't die of boredom. Only liked Hey Hey Hey. But she's trying too much.
is the video out of sync towards the end for anyone else too?
Oh and about the album cover and the overall aesthetics I think she copied it from The Neon Demon. Just google The Neon Demon eyeball if you don't know what that is.
can u review SSS/SweetSexySavage by Kehlani. probably the best album if the year tbh
It honestly surprises me to think Katy Perry didn't produce anything memorable this time. I know she is a very talented.
Wolves by Rise Against is finally out. You have a review of that or just some opinions?
I know you're super busy and probably won't have the time but would you mind reviewing the new Phoenix album "Ti Amo"? That's Jon and thanks for all your hard work in general
I hated swish swish
Witness was actually the only song I could bear.
People can't handle the negative reviews of this new album, I got so much hate on my video review for saying it was pretty meh, totally agree with you bro
Did you mention the tittle track?
I actually liked the album
are you going to do a review for sza's album ctrl?
Hey, are you gonna do London Grammar's new album?
Can you please review TheBirthdayMassacre new record?? Please =D
The album is good, but the singles don't make it justice. If you put out "Power", "Mind Maze", "Bon Appetit" and "Pendulum", the album is a lot better.
I will never understand the appeal in "Swish Swish." Good review, nonetheless.
man im trynna refresh your vids until i get an add since i can't donate on patreon 👍👍 hope its getting better
This album is a drag. However Witness, Tsunami, Swish Swish and Chained to the Rhythm aren't bad and nearly decent, but some lyrics make me cringe.
This album is beautiful, the lyrics are amazing as well as the Music Videos, her album cover is perfect. Get your facts straight before judging her and this album
Is Katy Perry even relevant anymore?
Alexzandria Martinez Yes she is
nahh
Katy Whooza?
Pop artists have had a hard time this year staying relevant this year. Bruno Mars's 24k Magic lasted about 3 months this year. Jolene by Lady Gaga vanished from the public mind a month after its release. This album might not last that long. I'm guessing the albums by Lorde and Lana Del Rey will be dead out of the gate.
Jesucristo Maestro de sombreros buen nombre
Good honest review mate always follow your videos thanks great content !
In defense of Teenage Dream, while the singles are overplayed, the record as a whole isn’t complete garbage like Witness. I don’t think that it’s a complete stretch to say that Witness KILLED Katy Perry’s career because she hasn’t dominated the charts ever since the record dropped five years ago.
This album cover is the most amazing album cover I have seen in a long time. I want to frame it on my bedroom wall.
I did not like any of her new songs. Chained to the Rhythm was repetitive and got annoying fast I never disliked her hits until Roar and Dark Horse, i felt her magic was gone when those came out.
Could you review one of the two albums by BANKS? :) Love your channel!
+Fiona Raspberry um I've reviewed both of them...the week they came out? Haha, gotta search the channel before requesting
Oh, shit, you're right, I looked the wrong way. Sorry :(
Apart from Chained to the rhythm I like only Bon Appetit (well, not really "like", more "it's stuck in my head" thing, plus it's still catchier than half of the album). Being boring it's definitely its beggest crime.
Is It too early to call this the worst pop album of 2017?
*Enter Name Here* until the new chris brown comes out
yes
Yeah everybody was hating on lady gaga with Artpop but Katy is no better right? i dont understand why Artpop was hated so much it worked better as a era than this katy perry era!
*Enter Name Here* linkin park already took its trophy
*Enter Name Here* The Chainsmokers is still the worst album in 2017
I admit I bought this thing following a heavy promotion she did for the album. Mea culpa, I fell for all the 'enlightened' talk only to find out that this album was basically a bag of everything: a couple of good songs, some attempts to be original and then boring stuff I won't give a second listen. I think something is going on with Katy Perry, she's not in a good place emotionally and her music reflects that. Hopefully she'll get over it, she had some great songs in the past but this just doesn't cut it.
Now that we've heard the album, in terms of the music itself, it provides greater context towards the tunes chosen to be singles. Initially I would definitely describe the first 3 singles, or promo singles if you'd rather, to be something that I wouldn't necessary avoid - but also not something I would take the time to search out. For me, my opinion changed hearing the entire album -- and it appears that aside from 2 or 3 down tempo tracks that aren't half-bad, the singles represent some of the most accessible material on the entire project. In the end, it's kind of a mixed bag at best. Katy is a talented performer and I'm sure that she isn't fixated on chart success or radio activity to the degree that her label is. Taking into account the hype, the promotion & the expectations, the album will initially be quite successful. But based on the songs themselves, I can definitely see 'Witness' as an unsustainable effort. I think that even though it fits a lot of Katy's personality, all of the immense amount of promo going on right now is almost in an effort to connect in a way that the label knows the album won't -- at least not compared to her previous work.
I have a feeling that this album will grow on me over time, but it definitely wasn't the summertime pop soundtrack I was looking for. I'm appreciative of Perry's push for social consciousness and political awareness, especially as a sort of "role model" for younger generations. Unfortunately, for me at this point in time and with a couple of listen throughs of the album, I think she fell short of what she advertised. Thank you for review. I feel a lot more validated in my thoughts. I like that you pointed out her lyrics are cliche and predictable. I guess I would have thought at this point in her career we could have heard more complex lyrics and writing. However, maybe that's just not her M.O. and we might never get it. I think she touches on complexity in a couple of songs on this album but never fully runs after the concepts she wants to explore (or says she does on be album). Oh well. Back to listening to After Laughter and reminiscing about the past withTaylor Swift's catalogue on Spotify.
I'm gonna weigh in. I'm a huge KatyCat, but this album is disappointing. I knew from the start this album would be a flop and its so disappointing. I'm hoping that her next album will be way better. I liked "Miss You More" and "Save as Draft" and the rest is okay to me but not great.
will you be reviewing the new Rise Against album
+Colt yes
Power is a great song 😀
I can't believe you say it's so horrible 😕
Benjamin Spreen yeah wtf
SHT, THAT ALBUM PICTURE LOOKS CREEPY....
I really wanted to like this album. I really thought this was going to surprise everybody, and be a wildly inventive pop record from an artist who nobody was expecting to achieve greatness. What a letdown...
One of the boys remains her best album.. prism was good though, I really liked her honesty and vibe. Witness is just weird ha.
That's why I wanna write a new album. Hopefully I could save and recover the music industry to what it once was before it has fallen to shambles. This album sounds like a great example of the fall of the music industry, and I didn't wanna listen to it because I thought it would be a waste of time. So hopefully, you could prepare for a new EXCITING album with different flavors instead of being the same old bland thing like Witness is. Watch out! The Antagonist is coming to conquer the lame industry, and make a new era of the industry of what used to be AMAZING!
wtf dude all your least favs are dissapointing...i jusy think she trying something new imstead of mainstream pop and i like the groovyness
Arnez Juggins no she's going mainstream
Summed up my thoughts on this album perfectly Perry at her best delivers catchy fun pop singles but at her worst can come off as horrendously bland and on this album more often than not she just comes off as bored and disinterested and the production mimics that to with mostly repetitive synth lines making almost the whole middle part of the album just blend together and only picks up with the last THREE tracks! I liked maybe five or six songs off this album but when you had fours years to make a great "socially conscious" album we expect more than just generic filler tracks no pulse 5/10.
I like that chained song but I won't bother with this.
How did I only find out now that Hot Chip produced a song on here?
wow jon, youtube literally just skipped a whole ad, wish it wouldnt have id watch 100 ads so you could earn more
The average persons reaction: "wait. Katy Perry has a new album???"
When I read the Spotify promo for this album; "conscious pop" I was oh damn that's a pretty high bar (said with sarcasm)
Well regardless of how pandering and boring this album was
What are some of your favourite Katy Perry songs person reading this comment?
My top three are
*1.The one that got away*
because it reminds of a girl I almost got close too 😢
*2.Firework*
Because of the Interview
(Kim Jong Un likes it)and liked it when it came out
*3.Roar*
I don't care if you think this is the worst song I could pick, but hold on... their was this girl (another one) who I thought was stunning!
Like seriously, if you saw this girl you'd feel love at first sight...anyway I was on a trip and she came from another town and one of the songs that came on the radio was Roar
At that moment I guess you could say that was my way of remembering her 😭
🤧 man... who's chopping onions in this comment section
I can't decide which album I disliked more : this one or Hopeless Fountain Kingdom
Alissa NZ I can't decide if Taylor swift is the devil or just a snake 🐍
Rey Cano a little bit if both
Rey Cano why the fuck do you fell the need to hate on taylor for literally no reason here. Does it make you feel good putting others Down?
A Kelly I think it's the reason that Taylor re-released all her music on Spotify (even after her rant about it) on the same day as the Witness release, possibly trying to overshadow Katy
Alissa NZ witness if the worst without a doubt
thank god you're honest, there's so many "reviewers" that sell out an honest opinion just to please their audience. This album was honestly horrible-flat out. Absolutely unforgivable for being away for like 3 and a half years
There were a few enjoyable songs like Power and Pendulum, but most of the songs were off-putting in some sense like Roulette or Save as Draft.
I think I only like Bon Appétit because I picture Katy Perry (with her hair back) singing that song to me.
You can definitely tell the instrumentals were improved largely compared to her previous stuff. I think it improved because of the collabs but her vocals still sound like the way they did on her first debut. I don't hear any improvement, wittiness or her personality coming through. Anyway, I'm glad that mainstream musicians and bands are "experimenting" once they got famous enough not to care what they put out. Let's just hope she continues exploring and this is not just a publicity stunt like Miley pulled before going back to boring safe country music.
You surely need to listen to it a few more times to get all the good and bad parts clearer.
Swish Swish was fun, Witness was good. Deja Vu, Pendulum, Power and Tsunami was really good.
Notting great here but I mean it was not that bad. You just can't enjoy the good parts of it becouse you don't give enought time to see the song structures some good melodies and qualities to this album. I challenge you to listen to it again with my opinions in your mind and give another chance to the songs I mentioned. You will surely have a better idea about the album after listening to it again especially if you challenge youself to like it.
It was a 6 out of 10 for me not very good but at least I know what was good about it and not you just talked about the bad things about it and didn't talked about everything. Becouse of that It was not a great review. There is albums that are so bad but has realy good songs in them and you will never be able to see them if you don't aproach them with a open-mind. I hope you can take my criticism and be better at what you do
It was an alright album. Not my favorite. I really liked Swish Swish the most off the album. Side note, I kind of wish she would make more stuff like One Of The Boys though because I like the pop rock vibe she had. But, anyways, Witnesses was okay, but not her best work.
Could you so stone sour's new album when you can? That would be epic.
Man you're favourite tracks and least favourites are the wrong way round! Hey hey hey as a fave? frick!
The album drags a lot, the choruses are repetitive, uninspired and forgettable, I was excited for the album because Swish Swish is a bop but it was a total let down.
Did he.... Did he really say that?.... Swish swish?... Favorite song?.... Cool. I'm ok.
Definetely another guy who haven't listened the entire album, just listened to it once and gave an opinion a 5 year old child could give. You didn't mention a new product, better quality of the sound and her maturity. This album is no more the Katy Perry talks about partying and really makes a difference talking about topics which are relevant. The lyrics are DEFINETELY cool. The cover? It's just a work of art. I'm sorry, but Witness is one of the albums I've been listening to the entire 2017, so it's not so bad as you said.
It breaks my heart that this album was so disappointing. So much hype, so little delivery.
That being said I like "Chained to the Rhythm" "Swish Swish" "Mind Maze" and "Hey Hey"
It's not a terrible album but nothing sticks out to me as amazing which is upsetting.
i really liked the album cover i thought her album will be so different and unique and strange at the same time but her album was so bad like i was disappointed i agree what you said about everything
this album disappointed me and I didn't even expect to like it.
I freaking love Teenage Dream, it's one of my favorite mainstream pop albums, but with this and Prism... they are so boring. Even for disposable pop songs most of these albums don't work, because they just aren't catchy enough.
I keep hoping she'll come out with something I'll like again, but my faith in her career is wavering reeeeeally quickly...
I adore her, Witness is incredible. But I respect those who don't like it as it is different from her last albums
Stumbling around like a zombie is the best line in Chained to the Rythem.