Katy Perry has come under fire on social media after an old interview in which she attacked Mariah Carey resurfaced.
In the 2014 clip, from Australian television show Sunrise, Perry is seen responding after host Samantha Armytage charitably described her as “the most important female artist in the world”.
“No, I’m not, it’s Beyoncé, of course! No swearing,” the American pop star joked in response.
The show’s hosts then read a tweet from a viewer who suggested that Mariah Carey did, in fact, deserve the title.
“I mean, she’s fabulous… for a throwback,” Katy replied mischievously, then added, “We love Fantasy, I love Honey… I listened to all those songs growing up.”
Social media users on X were less than impressed with the interview, which went viral again this week.
“Ok we all know Katy was a failure,” one person posted while another said: “Karma is sh*t.”
“She’s a bad girl. She did the same thing to Britney,” said another while another asked: “Why was she like that?”
Katy Perry has come under fire on social media after an old interview resurfaced in which she criticised Mariah Carey. The 2014 clip is from Australian TV show Sunrise (pictured) in which she calls Mariah a “retro” artist.
“Better to be a throwback than a vomit,” wrote another, and another wrote: “This has aged like breast milk on an old lady.”
“And now look how she broke down and collaborated with Dr. Luke,” someone else said, with another adding, “She predicted her own future.”
Another chimed in: “She cursed herself so much for saying that because things started to go wrong soon after.”
This comes as Katy’s comeback single Woman’s World has been slammed by critics as a “monumental catastrophe” that sounds like a “warmed-over” Lady Gaga.
The 39-year-old singer released the song on Thursday, accompanied by a striking music video that shows her strutting around in skimpy American flag lingerie.
Now, a number of major publications have delivered their scathing verdicts on the single, with one saying it “made me feel stupider every time I listened to it”.
X’s social media users were less than impressed by the interview, which went viral again this week. One chimed in: “He’s thrown himself a bad luck by saying this.”
Woman’s World received a particularly harsh review from Gallowwho noted that the women’s empowerment anthem sounded like Katy “had to listen to an explanation of feminism on the top half of the first page of Google.”
“Defying all sense of taste, the pop singer’s comeback single is too underwhelming to even come close to over-the-top. It’s abysmal,” wrote the outlet’s Shaad D’Souza.
Katy was accused of “clearly modelling” her song on Gaga’s 2020 single Stupid Love, only to produce an imitation that was “unfathomable and tepid, irritating at best”.
Woman’s World received a brutal one-star review in The Guardianwho said the song sounded like a ‘warmed-over Gaga’, as well as ‘blatantly’ taking from Chappell Roan’s single Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl.
Critic Laura Snapes was scathing of Katy’s “outdated attempt at writing a feminist anthem” as well as her “blatant attempts at gay advocacy”, mocking her for “winking at drag culture so hard you suspect she’d burst a hernia if her abs weren’t as hard as armour”.
She added that when Katy screams, “I’m Katy Perry!” in the video, “it sounds less like a roar of triumph than the resonant cry of someone falling off a cliff.”
‘Woman’s World sounds like it was designed by a committee in a Capitol Records boardroom whose sole purpose was to sync up with RuPaul’s Drag Race and generate ‘comiste’ comments from white gays living in West Hollywood,’ wrote Alim Kheraj in a scathing review for Stunned.
This comes after Katy’s comeback single Woman’s World was slammed by critics as a “monumental catastrophe” that sounds like a “warmed-over” Lady Gaga.
New York Magazine dismissed Katy as “a relic of the 2010s” and Woman’s World as “so forgettable, so embarrassing.” The cut.
“Perry is like Barbie in Barbie Land, trapped in a la-di-dah dimension where Hillary Clinton is still the Democratic presidential nominee, mugs emblazoned with the phrase ‘Manly Tears’ are making big bucks on Etsy, and the most transgressive thing a celebrity can do is sing the Fight Song,” critic Cat Zhang wrote for the publication.
With “lyrics that actually seem AI-generated,” the song “falls as flat as the bottom of the anvil that crushes Perry midway 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 welcoming three-year-old daughter Daisy with fiancé Orlando Bloom.
Katy has described the song as “the first contribution I’ve made since becoming a mother and feeling truly connected to my feminine divinity.”
She previously released an album amid COVID-19 lockdowns, titled Smile, the record debuted in August 2020 to a lukewarm response.