Teenage Dream
| Katy Perry
Teenage Dream
Teenage Dream is the third studio album by American singer Katy Perry. It was released on August 24, 2010, through Capitol Records. Musically, it contains pop and dance-pop with influences of disco, electronic, funk, house, gothic rock, Hi-NRG, and hip hop. Lyrically, it revolves around young love, partying, self-empowerment, and personal growth. Perry co-wrote every song on the album, and also worked with a number of producers and writers, including Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Benny Blanco, Tricky Stewart, StarGate, Greg Kurstin, Bonnie McKee and Ester Dean. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
In the 2010 style, her vocals are processed staccato blips with lots of oh-oh-way-oh chants. The tracks go heavy on Eighties beats, light on melody, taking a long dip into the Daft Punk filter-disco house sound.
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Consequence of Sound
Her cheeky personality has a lot to do with her success and this album is a testimonial to what catchy songs and a polished image can do for a pop star.
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AV Music Club
She hasn’t done herself any favors by delivering a new disc that starts powerfully and then hits a lull, only occasionally regaining its initial strength as it gets further from the pre-release singles.
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Washington Post
While "California Gurls" from Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" never loses it's fresh summer feeling, the rest of the tracks on the pop singer's new album don't quite live up to the hit summer single.
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Billboard
This new depth shouldn't surprise; for all the pomp and watermelon costumes, she is primarily a smart and personal pop songwriter. And this album shows-in carefully selected spots-that she's ready to grow up.
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The Guardian
It makes you pine for Gwen Stefani, who did digital pop with 50s retro visuals far better, or the sexual bounty of Kelis, whose "Milkshake" at least had the decency to amuse as well as titillate.
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Spin
Perry delivers the gurl-gone-wild stuff with requisite sass, but she actually sounds more engaged on “Not Like the Movies” and “One That Got Away” — quieter cuts that recall her singer-songwriter days at L.A.’s Hotel Café.
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Slant Magazine
Her career has been one voyeuristic stunt after another, and at this point, it’s hard to read self-exposure as anything but another surface.
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BBC
Displays intelligence, individuality and character – but too often morphs into parody.
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The Telegraph
Beneath the fun and funky frolics, there is a disconcerting sense of a sensitive singer-songwriter trying to make herself heard. She taps Alanis Morissette angst, resorts too often to self-help platitudes and closes with a tremulous ballad of gushing sincerity.
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Popfection
Despite a couple of missteps, “Teenage Dream” has solidified itself as a pop staple.
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Sputnik
I hope Teenage Dream is just a minor speed bump in your career, because there’s nothing sadder than wasted talent. Get it together.
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NPR Music
Aware of music as an art project, Perry is clearing some territory for herself, staking her claim by pouting at the camera, stamping a high heel into the soft center of the music industry, and singing in a clear, strong voice about how exhilarating it is be clear and strong about what you want.
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All Music
The album itself is almost incidental to the self-styled fantasy that Katy Perry sells with this entire project.
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Pop Matters
If you've fallen for “California Gurls” and “Teenage Dream”, much of the rest of the record sounds like a dirty trick, a lugubrious series of weak melodies and general imbecility.
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LA Music Blog
All in all, Teenage Dream is just that: a teenage dream.
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Los Angeles Times
The songs alternate between weekend-bender celebrations of hedonism and self-help-style affirmations encouraging listeners to get an emotional makeover. Either way, acquisition is the goal: of a great love, a happy hangover, a perfect pair of Daisy Dukes.
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Uproxx
As an album, a statement and a social artifact, it”s a mess.
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Muu Muse
At best, it's a top heavy collection of party pop anthems and occasionally good, often schmaltzy slow numbers.
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Lip Magazine
It's boppy enough to make a thirteen-year-old’s bubblegum pop with excitement and controversial enough for their parents to turn off the stereo. Rebellion never tasted so sickly sweet.
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Entertainment Weekly
Beneath the fruity outfits and fart jokes, she is clearly serious about the business of hit songcraft; that doesn’t make Dream nearly cohesive as an album, but it does provide, intermittently, exactly the kind of high-fructose rush she’s aiming for.
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Express
If the sound is tailor-made for young girls, her lyrical content is oddly risqué.
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Daily Star
She opens her heart on her brilliant second album.
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The Aquarian
It is most likely popular because it is catchy and upbeat; however, its lack of substance makes it difficult to enjoy. Mediocre
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
It's like a magical slot machine: Select any song and you'll hear a hit.
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Mid-Day
Her radio-friendly beats and fun-in-the-sun lyrics affirm that she isn't just a celebrity who also sings.
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Metro News
Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream is pure pop smut
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Don Ignacio
This follow-up is boring and occasionally obnoxious. ...It has a few decent songs, which means this is hardly the worst album I've ever heard, but seriously...
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Raider Rumbler
Her new album is impressive and slightly better than her previous album One of the Boys.
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TNT Magazine
Do we blame Russell Brand, Perry’s hirsute sex-addict boyfriend with a funny bone, for this perverse offering?
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Random J Pop
What lets the album down (aside from it grinding to a halt half way through) is that the songs feel bigger than Katy and I'm still not sure of who she is an an artist.
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Neon Limelight
Katy’s brief diversion from candy-coated up-tempo tunes try to bring a more grown up feel to the record, but in the end, Teenage Dream is simply a pure pop merry-go-round you’ll want to play on all summer long, preferably with cotton-candy in hand.
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The Inept Owl
Finally, a female musician we can be proud of.
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All Noise
The over-reliance on glossy Eurobeats leaves it sounding a bit samey. Most of the songs follow the same pattern of a gentle but forgettable introductory verse opening up into a catchy chorus that goes on to dominate the rest of the track.
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Music is the Door to the Soul
The album really is an emotional rollercoaster, despite how cliched that sounds. It has ups, downs, fun, sadness, excitement, depression, and the lists goes on.
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The Truth About Music
Although the album doesn’t live up to the incredibly high standards set forth by “One Of the Boys,” it works.
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Pop from the Block
It's sheer brilliance at times, and no song falls below the 'average' line.
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Milky Tea Kid
I have a feeling this is the kind of album that will grow on you over time.
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