Katy Perry's comeback single Woman's World MAULED by top music critics as a 'monumental catastrophe' that sounds like 'reheated Lady Gaga'

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Katy Perry's comeback single Woman's World has been mauled by the critics as a 'monumental catastrophe' that sounds like a 'reheated' Lady Gaga.

The 39-year-old dropped the song Thursday, complete with a splashy music video that shows her prancing around in skimpy American flag lingerie.

Now a slew of prominent publications have delivered their scathing verdicts on the single, with one saying it 'made me feel stupider every sorry time I listened to it.'

Woman's World got an especially blistering review from Pitchfork, which noted that the women's empowerment anthem sounded as if Katy 'had to have feminism explained to her by the top half of the first page of Google.' 

'Defying all sense of taste, the pop singer’s comeback single is too dispiriting to even approach camp. It’s abysmal,' wrote the outlet's Shaad D’Souza.

Katy Perry 's comeback single Woman's World has been mauled by the critics as a 'monumental catastrophe' that sounds like a 'reheated' Lady Gaga

Katy Perry 's comeback single Woman's World has been mauled by the critics as a 'monumental catastrophe' that sounds like a 'reheated' Lady Gaga

Katy was accused of having 'clearly modeled' her song on Gaga's 2020 single Stupid Love, only to produce a knockoff that was 'unfathomably tepid, irritating at best.'  

She was also lambasted for working on Woman's World with music producer Dr. Luke, whom Kesha accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit that was ultimately dismissed. Dr. Luke has staunchly denied the allegations against him.

The Pitchfork review remarked that Katy's decision to produce a feminist anthem with Dr. Luke was 'sincerely twisted, if unsurprising.'

Katy has had a checkered history with Pitchfork, which according to its former writer Tom Brehan used to regard her as 'insufficiently cool.'

Tom noted that the website 'would not take Katy Perry seriously until Katy Perry’s moment was over,' in a retrospective piece for Stereogum. 

In 2017, when Pitchfork ran a favorable article about Katy's single Chained To The Rhythm, Katy reacted on Twitter: 'omg am I cool yet.' 

Woman's World received a brutal one-star review in The Guardian, which said the song sounded like 'reheated Gaga,' as well as 'brazenly' taking from the Chappell Roan single Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl.

Critic Laura Snapes was withering about Katy's 'dated attempt at writing a feminist anthem' as well as her 'blatant grasps for gay standom,' mocking her for 'winking at drag culture so hard you suspect she’d pop a hernia if her abs weren’t hard as armor.'

The 39-year-old dropped the song on Thursday, complete with a splashy music video of her prancing around in skimpy American flag lingerie

The 39-year-old dropped the song on Thursday, complete with a splashy music video of her prancing around in skimpy American flag lingerie

Now a slew of prominent publications have delivered their scathing verdicts on the song, with one saying it 'made me feel stupider every sorry time I listened to it'

Now a slew of prominent publications have delivered their scathing verdicts on the song, with one saying it 'made me feel stupider every sorry time I listened to it'

'Defying all sense of taste, the pop singer¿s comeback single is too dispiriting to even approach camp,' read the review in Pitchfork: 'It¿s abysmal'

'Defying all sense of taste, the pop singer’s comeback single is too dispiriting to even approach camp,' read the review in Pitchfork: 'It’s abysmal'

A review in The Guardian was withering about Katy's 'dated attempt at writing a feminist anthem' as well as her 'blatant grasps for gay standom'

A review in The Guardian was withering about Katy's 'dated attempt at writing a feminist anthem' as well as her 'blatant grasps for gay standom'

Katy was dismissed as 'a 2010s relic' and Woman's World as a 'so forgettable, so cringe' by New York magazine's The Cut

Katy was dismissed as 'a 2010s relic' and Woman's World as a 'so forgettable, so cringe' by New York magazine's The Cut

She added that when Katy shouts: 'I'm Katy Perry!' in the video, it 'sounds less like a roar of triumph than the echoing cry of someone falling down a large ravine.'

'Woman’s World sounds like it was designed by a committee in a boardroom at Capitol Records whose sole objective was a sync on RuPaul's Drag Race and generating comments of "you ate" from white gays living in West Hollywood,' wrote Alim Kheraj in a scalding review for Dazed.

Katy was dismissed as 'a 2010s relic' and Woman's World as a 'so forgettable, so cringe' by New York magazine's The Cut. 

'Perry is like Barbie in Barbie Land, stuck in a la-di-dah dimension in which Hillary Clinton is still the Democratic presidential nominee, "Male Tears" mugs make bank on Etsy, and the most transgressive thing a celebrity can do is sing Fight Song,' wrote critic Cat Zhang for the publication.

With 'lyrics that genuinely felt AI generated,' the song 'falls as flat as the bottom of the anvil that crushes Perry halfway through the music video,' according to Mary Siroky's review for Consequence Of Sound. 

Woman's World is the lead single from Katy's upcoming album 143, her first LP since she welcomed her daughter Daisy, three, with her fiancé Orlando Bloom. 

Katy has described the song as 'the first contribution I have given since becoming a mother and since feeling really connected to my feminine divine.' 

She previously released an album in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdowns - entitled Smile, the record debuted in August 2020 to a lukewarm response.