Katy Perry’s One of the Boys
We don’t love Katy Perry’s debut album “One of the Boys”. We’ve been giving it a fair chance this past week, and it just doesn’t do anything for us. Her single I Kissed A Girl zoomed up the charts to achieve Billboard stardom surprisingly quickly, and Madonna has given a shout out a number of times. The album doesn’t work though: the tracks weave between bitchy uptempo tracks and dull female rock ballades. Ultimately, we would have enjoyed an album full of I Kissed A Girl- type tracks, and instead we got a mixed bag that too awkwardly teeters between her pissy and fun dance persona and something colorless my middle school sister might listen to when she’s pissed.
Her sound on most of the album feels different than her sound on uptempo tracks I Kissed A Girl and Hot N’ Cold and even UR So Gay; these songs are great, smooth and sexy and slightly mischievous. This air of mystery and dare we say sex appeal vanishes on her slower ballads, however, when she starts to sound like Bjork or a less interesting Ashlee Simpson (that’s a low blow… we take it back!). We simply don’t find her voice that appealing when she’s singing stuff like “you’re an Indian summer, in the middle of winter, like a hard candy, with a surprise center”, nor do we really buy it coming from Perry. The album’s not bad, it just doesn’t live up to the standards set by I Kissed A Girl. She’s never bad enough, and never good enough, for this album to be cohesive. The album drops this Tuesday.
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