By Terry Zeller and Samir Suri, Dailymail.com
Updated: July 14, 2024 02:13, July 14, 2024 02:13
Katy Perry gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at the music video for her critically panned comeback single, “Woman’s World.”
The 39-year-old singer gave a peek inside the project on Instagram on Saturday, sharing a series of female empowerment phrases to inspire her fans.
The superstar exclaimed, “Girlboss is the best,” “Go girl,” and “You were born to shine,” before revealing the meaning of the scenes they were filming.
“We’re not aiming for the male gaze, but we’re really aiming for the male gaze,” she says, looking into the camera. “We’re just having fun, with a bit of irony. It’s very slapstick, very explicit.”
She captioned the BTS clip, “You can do anything! Even satire!”
“I wanted this video to look like a super glamorous pop star video,” she added at the end of the video, “and that’s exactly what it is.”
The song is the lead single from her sixth studio album, 143, which is due for release on September 20th.
Shortly after its release on Friday, “Woman’s World” was panned by critics, who called it a “disaster” that resembled a “reheated” Lady Gaga.
The song received particularly harsh critique from Pitchfork, who criticized it for making it sound like Katy learned about feminism from a basic Google search.
“The pop singer’s comeback single is so disappointing it violates all tastes and doesn’t even come close to being campy. It’s disgusting,” wrote the outlet’s Shard D’Souza.
Katy faced criticism for creating a song that copied Lady Gaga’s 2020 hit “Stupid Love,” resulting in a lame imitation.
Additionally, she was heavily criticized for her collaboration on Woman’s World with Dr. Luke, the music producer against whom Kesha accused her of sexual assault in a lawsuit that was later dismissed – an allegation he has consistently denied.
A review from Pitchfork noted that Katy’s choice to create a feminist anthem with Dr. Luke was “a real twist, if not unexpected.”
The song also received a scathing one-star review from The Guardian, who called it a “reheated Lady Gaga” and accused it of blatantly borrowing from Chapel Lawn’s single “Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl”.
“‘Woman’s World’ sounds like it was designed by a committee in the Capitol Records boardroom, whose sole purpose was to appear on RuPaul’s Drag Race and elicit ‘you ate’ comments from white gay men living in West Hollywood,” Alim Kheraj wrote in a scathing review for Dazed magazine.
Mary Siroky’s review for Consequence of Sound states that the song has “lyrics that truly feel AI-generated” and “falls flat like the bottom of the anvil that crushes Perry midway through the music video.”
Meanwhile, Katy describes the song as “the first song I’ve dedicated to myself since becoming a mother and feeling truly connected to my feminine divinity.”