Board 8 > Katy Perry celebrates Pokemon's 25th Anniversary with new song Electric

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charmander6000
05/14/21 8:23:43 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojpTpT5i-PI

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ChichiriMuyo
05/15/21 12:15:03 AM
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What a journey... Katy Perry used to be everywhere all the time, now she's down to singing vaguely Pokemon related songs to try to have some sort of relevance.

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DoomTheGyarados
05/15/21 7:55:52 AM
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ChichiriMuyo posted...
What a journey... Katy Perry used to be everywhere all the time, now she's down to singing vaguely Pokemon related songs to try to have some sort of relevance.

I doubt this is reality tbh. Unless I missed something big I imagine not being everywhere was a choice.

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TomNook
05/15/21 8:01:39 AM
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ChichiriMuyo posted...
What a journey... Katy Perry used to be everywhere all the time, now she's down to singing vaguely Pokemon related songs to try to have some sort of relevance.
She's currently still one of the most successful musicians in the world. Pop stations still play her music. Maybe you don't listen to pop stations anymore?

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TheRock1525
05/15/21 9:01:25 AM
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I mean it's a 1 day old video with already 5 million views.

Seems like people still very much care about Katy Perry.

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redrocket
05/15/21 9:09:06 AM
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what an embarrassing take, lol

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ChichiriMuyo
05/15/21 9:55:08 AM
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The top views in 24 hours on yt is 200+ million. 5 million isn't a big deal.

The fact that pop stations still play her music (more her back catalogue than newer songs) is fine for her bank account, but before this song when was the last time you heard anyone talk about her? The album she released last year had two sorta hit songs in Daisies and Never Really Over, but they were both pretty short lived compared to her past works which, yes, still get played a fair amount. She went from one album having 5 #1 hits to a point now where she's lucky to break into the top 40 at all. Only three of her last 12 singles have made top 40 in the last 3 years, and on one of those three songs she was only a featured artist.

Before this topic, when was the last time you talked about something Katy Perry had done recently?

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_stingers_
05/15/21 10:00:05 AM
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Dont most pop stars fade into irrelevance in a year or two these days? Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift have hung on longer than most but even they are definitely a few steps down from their heydey

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DoomTheGyarados
05/15/21 10:01:43 AM
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Or maybe she is a huge fan of Pokemon since she was also doing stuff back in March for it. No one can have endless number ones, it's a really bad take lol

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TomNook
05/15/21 10:04:03 AM
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Your wiki research just sounds like you don't listen to pop stations. You are claiming that a currently still popular artist is barely relevant because she hasn't broken her own world record of 5 #1 singles off an album (well, tied record with Michael Jackson). That's a big feat for a reason.

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DoomTheGyarados
05/15/21 10:07:10 AM
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Also I can't think of anyone who would turn down teaming up with one of the what, top 3 brands in the world? It isn't as if Pokemon is some niche thing. Also pokemon very likely reached out to her. Just odd

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ChichiriMuyo
05/15/21 10:07:58 AM
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I do listen to pop stations, and what they still play of Katy Perry is mostly those song from a decade ago. Would you feel relevant at your job if the only thing anyone really remembered or talked about was something you did a decade ago?

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ChichiriMuyo
05/15/21 10:10:57 AM
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DoomTheGyarados posted...
Also I can't think of anyone who would turn down teaming up with one of the what, top 3 brands in the world? It isn't as if Pokemon is some niche thing. Also pokemon very likely reached out to her. Just odd
No this sounds right to me, especially if your career trajectory has been on a downward spiral for years.

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DoomTheGyarados
05/15/21 10:13:36 AM
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ChichiriMuyo posted...
No this sounds right to me, especially if your career trajectory has been on a downward spiral for years.

Given what I have seen about her mental health struggles it seems like she has more important things to worry about than sustaining insane levels of fame. She's almost forty lol. Like I am not trying to deny she has fallen off a bit but like this isn't proof of that.

The way we judge celebrities is also pretty disgusting. She made a cute video for Pokemon, not an indictment of her career

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Lopen
05/15/21 10:13:54 AM
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I would feel very relevant if they talked about something I did 10 years ago every day

The frantic wikipedia damage control is cute tho

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Giggsalot
05/15/21 10:15:48 AM
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katy perry defence force in this topic is pretty weird, she obviously has legacy name recognition but she's been culturally irrelevant for at least five years now

there's no shame in that - most pop stars have limited shelf lives - but come on, no one is out here checking for new katy perry material in 2021, cheap brand tie-ins are pretty much exactly what you'd expect

song isn't actually bad though!


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DoomTheGyarados
05/15/21 10:16:26 AM
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Giggsalot posted...
katy perry defence force in this topic is pretty weird, she obviously has legacy name recognition but she's been culturally irrelevant for at least five years now

there's no shame in that - most pop stars have limited shelf lives - but come on, no one is out here checking for new katy perry material in 2021, cheap brand tie-ins are pretty much exactly what you'd expect

song isn't actually bad though!

More like team up with pokemom defense force more than anything.

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Lopen
05/15/21 10:20:45 AM
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I don't even like Katy Perry

But like imagine like calling Michael Jackson irrelevant in 1998 because it'd been an arbitrarily high number of years since he released Bad

That's basically what you're doing. Katy's footprint is large enough that she's basically always going to be relevant at this point.

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LiquidOshawott
05/15/21 10:22:52 AM
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Isnt she just like, extending her brand beyond music at this point what with being an American Idol judge and such

I know lol American Idol in 2021 but it still does pretty well rating wise

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ChichiriMuyo
05/15/21 10:32:43 AM
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Lopen posted...
I don't even like Katy Perry

But like imagine like calling Michael Jackson irrelevant in 1998 because it'd been an arbitrarily high number of years since he released Bad

That's basically what you're doing. Katy's footprint is large enough that she's basically always going to be relevant at this point.
In 1998 Michael Jackson was pretty irrelevant, and if he had made a Pokemon song that year imagine how it'd reflect on his legacy today. Katy thankfully won't have that to worry about that, but saying either of them will always be relevant is like saying Franz Liszt will always be relevant. We have probably all thought more about Katy Perry in the last 24 hours than we have in the three years before today, because she isn't really a relevant pop culture icon anymore. She had some great hits in the past and she'll get to live off those royalties for life, that doesn't mean she's still relevant to the current pop culture landscape.

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ChichiriMuyo
05/15/21 10:34:17 AM
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LiquidOshawott posted...
Isnt she just like, extending her brand beyond music at this point what with being an American Idol judge and such

I know lol American Idol in 2021 but it still does pretty well rating wise
Yeah, they've never hired a pop star whose career was basically over. Could you imagine if someone like Paula Abdul had been on American Idol?

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GTM
05/15/21 11:03:42 AM
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Isnt this the story for 99% of celebrities/musicians? They used to be everyone and then they slowly lose relevance?

Edit: oh stingers already got to this oops

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Bane_Of_Despair
05/15/21 11:11:49 AM
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Katy is definitely not as big as she once was, she was MASSIVE from like 2010-2013 with Teenage Dream and Prism albums and by 2015 was starting to come down from those heights and hasn't had a hit as big as that time period since, but I wouldn't say doing a Pokemon song is her being desperate to do something. She also just had a kid like last year so I think her priorities are in different places than a decade ago.

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Xtlm
05/15/21 12:46:59 PM
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She fell off around 2014 right around when she changed her look drastically.
And now she doesn't even look like the same person.

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mnkboy907
05/15/21 1:48:50 PM
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Post Malone did something with Pokemon too a few months ago, but I'm doubting he's currently feeling desperate to maintain relevancy. Maybe they just like the brand.

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StealThisSheen
05/15/21 5:29:26 PM
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ChichiriMuyo posted...
and if he had made a Pokemon song that year imagine how it'd reflect on his legacy today.

Why are you apparently so upset that somebody collaborated with one of the biggest franchises in the world today?

I think your furious "look at what dis wiki sez!" posting in an attempt to trash a random popstar says a lot more about you than anything you've posted says about them.

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redrocket
05/15/21 6:05:46 PM
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ChichiriMuyo posted...
In 1998 Michael Jackson was pretty irrelevant, and if he had made a Pokemon song that year imagine how it'd reflect on his legacy today.

........not at all?


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XIII_rocks
05/15/21 7:01:02 PM
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Imagine if Michael Jackson like worked on Sonic music or something
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XIII_rocks
05/15/21 7:02:25 PM
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mnkboy907 posted...
Post Malone did something with Pokemon too a few months ago, but I'm doubting he's currently feeling desperate to maintain relevancy. Maybe they just like the brand.


Also this is what I was going to say

Really don't think Post Malone is scrambling for relevance while doing a song that samples Ecruteak City
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JackMan
05/15/21 7:38:40 PM
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XIII_rocks posted...
Imagine if Michael Jackson like worked on Sonic music or something
Or, like, made a video game or something. Could you imagine?

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SantaRPidgey
05/15/21 9:59:00 PM
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I can't believe Elton John has to settle for making disney music now what a has-been

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KingButz
05/15/21 11:15:49 PM
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Michael Jackson has been dead for years and is still relevant. Someone doesn't have to be constantly producing top hits to be relevant
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Raka_Putra
05/16/21 1:14:41 AM
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Imagine if Michael Jackson agreed to play a role in a movie adaptation of The Wiz...that would be crazy.

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Jakyl25
05/16/21 10:39:18 AM
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_stingers_ posted...
Dont most pop stars fade into irrelevance in a year or two these days? Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift have hung on longer than most but even they are definitely a few steps down from their heyday


You might want to check those two again
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CasanovaZelos
05/16/21 11:04:27 AM
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My perception of Taylor Swift is that her 2020 was one of those legendary moments few pop artists ever achieve. Not just one but two hit albums that even the critics had to admit were great. Maybe there weren't any individual tracks to reach the heights of her biggest singles, but even the least streamed track of Folklore has over 60 millions plays. And now she's redoing earlier albums. I'm not the biggest Swiftie or anything, but she seemed to have jumped from simply popular to musical legend with this past year (all due to two quarantine albums that saw her change up her style...)

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Seanchan
05/16/21 12:03:23 PM
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That's a pretty bland, nothing song that no one would care about at all without Pokemon attached.

I think the most important question here is: Where was Raichu?

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Yesmar_
05/17/21 12:07:12 PM
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You're all wrong (and all right).

Katy Perry hasn't been really relevant as a singer for close to five years now, however that has little bearing on singing a song for Pokemon. This isn't the 90's in regards to people's view on video games. Big names have certainly done more "downmarket" projects in the past without their reputation taking a hit.

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voltch
05/17/21 12:26:10 PM
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On the JP side Bump of Chicken are still pretty relevant and their Pokemon song was neat.
Liked the MV more too since it focused more on the Pokemon stuff

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FFDragon
05/17/21 12:32:29 PM
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I saved myself some embarrassment from asking "who the fuck is post malone" and just googled it, but for reals he is just the Doritos guy to me.

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05/17/21 1:53:37 PM
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ChichiriMuyo posted...
What a journey... Katy Perry used to be everywhere all the time, now she's down to singing vaguely Pokemon related songs to try to have some sort of relevance.
If she wants to be relevant again, she just needs to dump 'em out

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ScepterOfLove
05/17/21 2:34:36 PM
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No matter which way you cut it, Katy Perry's Teenage Dream era is among the most successful in the history of pop music and the Billboard chart. She also had hits before and after that album with I Kissed a Girl, Roar and Dark Horse.

In my opinion her music quickly degraded in quality after Dark Horse, which lost the interest of the general public. On top of that, the general public's interest in music changed drastically from the early 2010s pop girl era to the Billie Eilish/Post Malone/whatever era we have now. It would have been impossible for Katy (or Gaga, or Rihanna, or almost any other artist from that era not named Justin or Taylor) to stay as relevant as she was without changing her sound.

At the end of the day, I don't think she had a massive dedicated fan base that made her successful - she just tapped into exactly what the public wanted at the right time and was able to absolutely dominate for 2 or 3 years because of it. She has nothing to prove anymore, because she's already proved it.
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HanOfTheNekos
05/17/21 3:22:34 PM
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ChichiriMuyo posted...
We have probably all thought more about Katy Perry in the last 24 hours than we have in the three years before today

What an incredibly half-witted statement.

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SantaRPidgey
05/17/21 3:47:56 PM
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I literally have katy perry on my spotify from last week. I sang peacock on stream the other day, and it was a viewer pick.

This topic has been a bunch of grandpas arguing with other grandpas about whats hip

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Aecioo
05/17/21 4:06:30 PM
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SantaRPidgey posted...
I literally have katy perry on my spotify from last week. I sang peacock on stream the other day, and it was a viewer pick.

This topic has been a bunch of grandpas arguing with other grandpas about whats hip

Post the stream

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SantaRPidgey
05/17/21 4:46:55 PM
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nah

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charmander6000
05/17/21 4:57:22 PM
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ScepterOfLove posted...
It would have been impossible for Katy (or Gaga, or Rihanna, or almost any other artist from that era not named Justin or Taylor) to stay as relevant as she was without changing her sound.

I mean even Justin and Taylor changed their sound now relative to 2010, that's just the nature of the job

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