Empty and critical concerts: Katy Perry, the diva that has become undesirable. What happened to the Mega-Star?

She sold millions of albums and electrified stadiums. However, at 40, everything that Katy Perry touches today arouses sarcasm and criticism. How to explain this fall of aura of one of the largest pop stars?

When Katy Perry kissed a girl in 2008, his song “I Kissed a Girl” made her world famous overnight. His top, from which gushed whipped cream, had become iconic. The song storm the hit-parades and reached first place.

Their success touched the nerve of a generation thanks to their rebellious image, their flashy outfits and their catchy pop songs and has become an icon of modern pop.

His album “One of the Boys” sold millions of copies. She has won numerous musical prizes and has definitely established herself as one of the most popular pop stars in the 2010s with other albums like “Teenage Dream” and “Prism”.

“Teenage Dream” was released in August 2010. It contains many known singles like “Teenage Dream”, “Firework”, “and”, “last Friday Night” and “The One That Got Away”. The album also enabled Perry to have great commercial success: the six singles that were extracted from it reached first place in the American singles classification – a record that only Michael Jackson had previously held.

Perry’s success was crowned by his half-hour show of the Super Bowl in 2015. With more than 118 million viewers just in the United States, his performance is among the most watched half-hour shows of all time.

Then the world has changed.

The climate, war and the crisis are now concern to people. Perry’s colorful and relaxed music no longer corresponds to the time, it is now artists like Lorde and Billie Eilish who are requested.

Perry therefore also wants to adapt. At least she tries. She cuts her long black and bulky black hair. From now on, she wears a hydrogenated blonde pixie cut. In 2017, the album “Witness” (in French: witness) was released. Perry describes him herself as “purposeful pop“, that is to say of pop which has a message.

For the promotion, Katy Perry launched an unusual action: she lived for four days in a house equipped with 41 cameras, broadcast live on YouTube. Fans were able to be almost witness to his daily life, which is thematically echoed as the album “Witness”.

The album, however, aroused mixed feelings. Some have rented the personal and experimental side of the album, others criticized the production and found it little inspiring.

After the “Witness World Tour” tour in August 2018, Perry took a musical break. After ten years of permanent commitment, she wanted for the first time “chiller”.

Perry then puts his musical career in parentheses and turns to other jobs. In 2018, she became a sworn for example of the “American Idol” talent program. She and Orlando Bloom also found a family. Their daughter Daisy Dove will be born in 2020.

The “most desperate come-back of the year”

After a baby break, Katy Perry will release the album “Smile” in 2020. The album was composed between 2018 and 2020 and addresses themes such as resilience, hope and empowerment. Again, criticism is mixed.

In 2024, she finally published “143”. The title of the album is the digital abbreviation of “I love You”. Perry describes the album as a dance album with high energy, summer vibrations, a high number of BPMs and full of joy, love and light.

But then again, Perry fails.

The criticisms have been predominantly negative, denouncing an outdated production and an without brilliant Songwriting. It is especially the main single “Woman’s World” which is considered controversial, a hymn in fact feminist. The reason is the collaboration with Dr. Luke.

In the video, Perry also mainly carries a white bikini, accompanied by surrealist elements such as mechanical legs. In another scene, she holds a shot gun on her naked buttocks. At the end, Perry clings to a flying helicopter, holds in his hand a light -shaped light representing the symbol of the feminine genre and shouts: “I’m Katy Perry!”

She is then flooded with criticism of social media. Many users* comment that they find this representation “disconcerting”.

The media also spare their criticisms: in the online magazine “Inews”, British journalist Emily Watkins describes the return song “Cruel for Katy Perry and for myself”.

Perry explains later in an Instagram video that the song is a satire.

While we thought that Katy Perry had now hit the bottom, she decides in mid-April to fly away in space. In the company of five other women. Among others with Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée. It is the first entirely feminine flight since 1963.

But feminist action turns against her. The flight is massively criticized on the internet. Among other things because it was considered harmful to the environment and the climate. Many accused her of having two measures two measures, because she had previously committed to environmental protection, but now participated in an expensive and resource -gourmet space trip. In addition, the action was judged as a simple public relations show without real usefulness and as a bad example in these difficult times.

It is above all the strange appearance of Katy Perry which causes eddies. His promise: a song. In space, she then sang the song “What a Wonderful World” by brandishing a flower and the setlist of her new tour in front of the camera. After landing, she knelt on the ground of the desert and kissed the sand.

After seven years, the singer is currently on tour, the “The Lifetimes Tour”.

While tickets are sold well in major cities, such as in New York, the crowds remain moderate elsewhere. For example, for the May 13 concert in Minneapolis, many places are still. The situation is not better in Europe either. The possibility of a cancellation of the concert was briefly mentioned.

From the end of the opening show, videos spread, showing the singer in an unflattering light. Fans express criticism on the low quality of the decor, based in part on images generated by AI, as well as on the choreography deemed awkward and the lack of influence of Perry on stage.

In an Instagram comment on a page of fans, she thanks her faithful fans and responds to criticism: “I am so grateful to you. We live this magnificent and wild trip together”. She continues by writing: “Know that I am well. I have worked a lot to find out who I am, which is real and what is important to me”.