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For my commentary on this flop after I listened/my dr luke preamble you'll have to tune into the YT video......

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Bon

Bless you🙏🏻🙏🏻

JJ

Thank you 🫶🏻 We love Zach. The no days off-ologist

Louise

thank you for the delicious food 🤌

agustina

u are just the funniest person alive

chappell roan

Max Martin couldn’t save you girllllllllllll she did lover but a thousand times worse. ID RATHER LISTEN TO ME! ID RATHER ME HE HE!

Sebastian

The way she’s SO desperately trying to stay or be relevant is more than cringe….

Emery

I feel like this is such a prime example of why it’s so unproductive for artists to surround themselves with yes men. A lot of people in Katy’s circle probably told her this album was amazing. I miss her old music soo much

Chas

Zach opening the video with a mention of Dr Luke and roe v wade I know I’m about to eat some good ass food 🥲

Dani

mentioning roe v wade at the start is like taylor bringing up 9/11 at the vmas

Ally ❤️

So quick!!! Thanks King!

Syd

"Drippy drippy daddy" will haunt me for years to come

Chas

🤣🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️☠️☠️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️

Lyndsey

My lunch break just got so much better

Ally ❤️

Insipid… oh how you clocked it!

Swiftologist

S;AKNDFKLSNFNLKSDNLF ITS EXACTLY THAT....CLOCKED...

Jessa Jayne

Bitch you made me spit out my coffee on “you’re just saying stuff” I was laughing too hard for 10 am

Jessa Jayne

I tweeted this but I stand by it if I were Orlando bloom I’d be embarrassed that inspired this

Laine Wagner

“it’s elevator music…in hell”..thanks again zach! ur such an icon!

savannah mccann

i died laughing the whole time!! the roasting of each song was everything

Boden

Well crush is for me because I bought the vinyl

H

The cinematic parallels…
 Madeline: “soulless, desperate, vapid, empty, completely devoid of anything worth even speaking about”
 Zack : “vacant, hollow, artificial, upsetting, devoid of truth”

Figment

Unedited live reactions are one of my favorite perks of the patreon 🤍

Beth

the LaDiDiLaDaDa is a sample too from a 90s song

Brodie Boyd

Music like this makes me question reality...it's so industrially cold and void of personhood that it makes me feel empty inside. WE 👏 JUST 👏 WANT 👏 SOMETHING 👏 REAL BABE

Kenna

Elevator music in hell!!!! 😂😂

J

I just had the weirdest moment where I was like “God this is a bad video” when I realized that the reason I was having such a bad time was the music 😭 it’s grating and it was such a drag omg. I feel like all the critics should be compensated 😭😭😭

Jordan

How do you make music this bad like genuinely

Myk

SNAKES SHOULD MAKE A YEAREND LIST OF THE WORST ALBUMS RELEASED THIS YEAR

Amanda

The album is just dreadful! what happened! oh yeah money grab. Also most of the songs sound like euro-pop, a lot of the beats remind me of the 90s club sounds nothing original. Loved your reaction mine was very similar 🤣

Ari

Oh my gosh, the best thing about this album was watching you and Madeline react to it! Secondhand embarassment on level 10. I thought it was going to be a flop, but I didn't think it'd be so bad that I'd feel sorry for Katy. I can't believe how bad it is.

SH

ME! soloed this entire album. 👏

Katie Prinkey

Now we must acknowledge how you and Madeline both served LOOKS in your videos. Gorgina.

Alli Johnson

Okay, hear me out. What if the real Katy Perry has perished and been replaced with an AI Fembot? This is the only reasonable answer for this mess that I can think of.

Jill

I’m going to be so for real…I’m glad this album was a colossal flop. Katy Perry needs to pack up her “Motherhood completed me” circus. Besides having almost nothing to do with whatever this album is, it’s such a boring and offensive cliche. Dolly Parton never had kids and I imagine her life feels VERY full.

Alison Bell

As a Geordie, I appreciated the Geordie Shore mention and knew exactly what you meant haha.

redlipclassic

the fact that this is coming from the same person that has writing credits on teenage dream is silencing me like few things have done before

Jill

Also this album owes a huge apology to 90s electronica. Just yikes.

Jill

Perhaps a combination of Tayvoodoo and the bad karma from harassing nuns into selling their property to the point that one of them died caught up to Miss Katy Perry…

anna

How is this the same artist who released One Of The Boys and Teenage Dream??? HOW?? It's just horrible.

Kenna

What blows my mind is, it does seem like she has a good home life, Orlando Bloom loves her, she has her daughter. And yet THIS is what she was inspired to write having all of those things??? This just feels lazy.

Leslie M

It's giving royalty free planet fitness

Jonah

Diva down (and it’s not Katy)

Sarah B

“This is what I imagine being swallowed by a whale and rattling around in its giant mouth with all the krill sound like” … SO ACCURATE!!! I had the clearest picture of that in my head while listening. Made me laugh out loud, thank you so much for that image

Sarah B

Oh my gosh and you kept going… “the whale’s innards digesting” and the “saliva whooshing”

Ryan Harrington

I can’t believe she sacrificed the little public good will she had left to work with Dr.Luke on this garbage… this makes C,XOXO look like it deserves a Grammy 🤣💀

Aicha Traoré

I listen to your reaction for like 5 minutes and decide to go listen to the album first to make my own opinion … should not have doubt you, the album is bad, I only like lifetime probably because Is generic and sound like other song … can’t believe this is her come back album

Asher Conniff

Idk how you feel about Lizzy McAlpine… but she released an incredible song and music video today ❤️

Dajah

The thing is…. Teenage Dream and Hot and Cold and Firework are not great poetry! But, it’s fun and exciting and has some heart in the production elements. She’s never needed to be a great lyricist so she probably thought she could get away with vapid lyricism again, but she forgot to be FUN!! There’s no way she’s turning on this album and dancing and saying she’s having a great time genuinely

Dajah

Another thing Katy has going for her in her music is her sense of humor, and there’s nothing funny here. I’m not laughing with her or even at her I’m literally just like HUUUUH?!?

Shyla Harrah

This whole album sounds like those weird and very bad songs they use on shows like Love is Blind. Where you just go who the hell is making this music? Is this AI or an actual human being singing it?

Davis Le

The artificial hook is actually so awful. Omg it was grating to hear goodbye

🌷Elle🌷

CAN WE TALK ABOUT MM NOT COMING BACK FOR 1989 BUT HE CAME FOR THIS DUMPSTERFIRE

Casey Fison

kitty kitty😽 wanna come party tn😜😝

Lisa

Perfect description 😂😂

Lisa

Right?! It’s kinda an insult to them. Jay Z inspired Lemonade and Matty inspired TTPD. Orlando seems like he deserves a better album😂

Bell

I’ve been listening to her first album, One of The Boys recently and it’s crazy how far she’s departed from what, I imagine, is what got people’s attention in the first place. Thinking of You, Waking up In Vegas, Self Inflicted, even the singles. She had a sense of humor, she was fun, she was the face and voice behind an earworm. Makes me think either very little of her early success had to do with her then or maybe very little of this has to do with her now.

Leslie M

Right?! Maybe it's good he didn't come back

Parker Burgio

Her propensity for flopping needs to be scientifically studied. Love your reaction and commentary as always. You’re hilarious

Aif

This sounds weird, but I respect/really feel your hateration in this video lol. It's outrageous that this got okay-ed on every level of a major record label, and it's very depressing to think that better work by newcomers has been shelved in the meantime. It's insulting to listeners of pop music, like 'oh yeah, this song was inspired by my desire to be a TikTok snippet' as if young listeners of pop are dumb. Obviously the music industry never been a beacon of creative integrity, but this is a new level of cynicism.

Lisa

I think she’s just not a good songwriter and a bad executive producer. We live in a Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter pop world. It’s not 2014. You can’t get away with basic atrocious lyrics anymore. If you are using more basic lyrics then the music production HAS to be top tier. Beyoncé’s Renaissance is a good example of having “simple fun club” lyrics but mastering the music production so the project works. TTPD has basic synth pop production but the lyrics are top tier. Katy messed up both the lyrics and the music production. That’s why it’s so bad.

Bell

lol, was thinking the same. The people who put together the Avril was replaced by Melissa conspiracy should put something together

Lisa

Something tells me she didn’t do the majority of the songwriting.

Gabriel

Y’know I used to wonder if Katy fell off so bad just because of the whole Dr Luke situation and she hadn’t found her footing yet with a collaborator she worked as well with. But this proved to me that no, this is purely Katy. And she just exposed herself for….this. I would almost say this is her Britney Jean, but she doesn’t even have the singles that album had.

Brittney Love

crush sounds like catching me breath by kelly clarkson.

Ashley

I think he mentioned somewhere that the project did not interest him. He likes creating new things, and the re-recordings are just basically redoing an old song, so he wasn't interested in it. Also too, it costs a lot for just one session with him. Taylor also might've chosen not to work with him because of costs. We won't know, but he did show up to the Eras Tour and Taylor dedicated a surprise song mashup to him. Based on that, they seem to be on good terms at least

Ashley

So much wasted potential sighhhh parts of it sounded great! I thought it was gonna lead to this big production/drop but alas...another fail

Ashley

I agree. Honestly kind of wondering how much creative control/input she even had in her first couple albums. For sure she started getting control during Witness era and maybe a little bit during Prism. But on Prism, the cracks were slight and there...I wonder if it's just she doesn't have creative bones in her. This is all speculation tho

caroline

“Is this another song for her daughter? I love to hear that sandwiched in between ~I’m his freak~” 💀💀

caroline

Say that last sentence louder!

SH

Honestly agreed, when Taylor is at her god-tier level of songwriting, she can afford to let the production take a back seat because her lyricism is so strong—it carries the entire song. But that approach really only works for her. Every artist needs to figure out what element they can shape and master to make their own work stand out.

ang

i thought this too! and then she even said catching my breath in the song 💀

Jenna Fisher

The album is a flop but your jacket is a slay

Maria

Katy Perry is still living in 2010

Gosia

Now I had to listen to this album twice, and these flop songs are stuck in my head... la da da die da da da... all day

froot encore

Her biggest inspiration is 13 year old fortnite youtuber intro songs

redlipclassic

max martin was the true diva behind it all… we been knew

Shay Aragundi

You made that listening experience ten times less painful than on my own 😭

Liv

Taylor Swift Gorgeous haters found dead in a ditch

Roxy

Not even Uber drivers wanna claim this

Bianca

I’m sorry you had such a miserable time listening to this album, but I had so much fun watching your reaction haha - thank you for enduring it for us! 💕

Tiffany T

I CACKLED when Zach started listening to Artificial

Ash 🪻

Okay can we PLEASE talk about her PITCH CORRECTING THE BABY

Eden McFadden

It sounds like it’s AN AI BABY to mine ears

Eden McFadden

The baby voice was a jump scare like Renesmee in breaking dawn

V ˚˖𓍢ִ໋❀

“THE WATER COLORS IN MY ROOM” IS CRAZY WORK YEKDJSODJSI PLS

rhi

having to listen to that album twice back to back (watching both madeline's and your reactions) was a slog but the levels of hateration made it worth it

Bronwyn Dunn

Was laughing so much at your comments! You weren’t wrong, though. I feel bad for Katie.

SH

Honestly I will never call lover a flop again also it has Cruel summer so any album that has that automatically isn’t a flop 😂 and still look at it over 19 mil sold worldwide all the records it’s broken along with cruel summer breaking records I take back anything negative I’ve ever said about it lol

Claire K

I don’t think Katy has read poetry either lol

Daisy

I would watch this again for the poetry in your haterarion but I don't want to hear this album again

Miss_Lippy

My takeaway from 143: La-De-Dee-La-Da-Dull-Alla-Deez Songs Suck 😫

Terry B

Zack— COOL JACKET 🥳 colour GAGGED 🕺🏼🕺🏼 FLOP album💿🤭 A MID-LIFE CRISIS Woman’s World — at least Dua Lipa’s tunes are danceable… “LaDaDee” sample from 1991 Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless) by Crystal Waters 😶 about a jobless woman 😨 tone deaf 🫠, and how far is she going back?! 2024>>1991 🤣

Sydney Shepard

This whole album feels so dated. The last song, Wonder, literally feels like something straight out of 2014. As soon as it starts I'm instantly transported back to high school and not in a good way.

Sydney Shepard

Also, on YouTube when Zack made the joke about Charles Manson I was dying 😭😭 Katy Perry it's so over when Charles Manson gets referenced in regarding how bad your album is

Sydney Shepard

Me the TS Gorgeous hater 😂😂 literally sounds like the best song ever made compared to this trash

Terry B

elevator voice:” going down…B12, B13…” 🤣

Samantha

The elevator music comment killed me. That’s what I said when I heard I’m his and he’s mine. What a disappointment of an album.

jayla alle

'the janoskians made better music than this' you know your album's bad when the janoskians get referenced LMAO 😭

Tyler

The record has a lot wrong with it but even marketing decisions make no sense, like this screams summer record but came out late September? Or the visuals not being silly and sexy, which was the staple katy perry thing

Terry B

Thanks for saving our $ 🤗 Did she sign off her voice to Capitol, add gym 😶 autotunes, same vocals, repeated verses, 90s techno. Fireworks Katy’s abducted by E.T. Dua, Camilla are forgivable in their 20s. As a Vanguard: a song worthy of your newborn: Marc Anthony’s My Baby You 🙄

Lacey Pinto

Your “ahhhoooogaa” comment had me cracking up while driving. Thanks for sparing me from listening to this whole album!

Ash 🪻

Old MacDonald perhaps? La da dee la da da is giving E-I-E-I-O

bluetybloop

This sounds like the music that’d be playing in the back of those soap cutting compilations

redlipclassic

I think it‘s the numbers of letters of each word in ”I love you“ 🥱

Abby

Truly just sounds like AI wow. Should have had AI make it, would have been cheaper and flopped at the same level

Abby

Those palpitations….those boom boom booms….🤪uww uw uwwww 🤪

Abby

Omg in the song she wrote about her daughter “came back to me, back to me, back to me” - ummmmm ripping off cardigan?????? “you’d come back to me, you’d come back to meeeeee”

JJ

A

“It’s elevator music, but… in hell” ☠️

Tanner K

Zach & Madeline, I really want to hear you talk about the Demi Lovato "Child Star" documentary 🙏

Jackie Lehman 💅🏼

Its so bad... i just listened to The Lizard's take and im shook, it is so much worse than I could have thought...

Nova Franklin

now the real question is.. what is better? WOMANS WORLD or ME!?

Ash

I had this thought too. I am rooting for someone -- anyone -- of the pop mamas to slay a pop album about motherhood, long term partnership, marriage, anythingggggg that comes for everyday women after 30 and beyond. This........was not it, could not be farther from it. I don't wanna have to listen to a country album to hear about domestic life. I'm not even a mother! I'm just a married 30 something who isn't going to the club and still wants to cheer on the older pop girlies while hearing about something that isn't the hardship of dating / being in your 20s. WHO is gonna do it, and do it WELL? *Waves dollars around while waiting*

MalteMalteMaltemo

Not even the worst song on 143 would be close to as bad as Me! according to the swiftologis😭

June

this is mental illness

Emme Fugate

this sounds like 2014 forever 21 music. i didn’t like it then, and i don’t like it now

sam

at least the dentist offices have new songs to use when they put people on hold

May Holloway

First post as a patreon snake! Just to say, Zack, no one but you would say ‘hogwash’ in a review but as a Brit, thank you for bringing it back to the millennial vernacular!

anna

the fact that there are people who genuinely from the bottom of their heart believe that this is better than ttpd...

Brianna Tullius

Katy’s style of singing is already a little grating to me but it’s BAD when the songs aren’t good

Terry B

but AI fembots can be very smart e.g. ex-Mechina 🎞️ ERAs lasted ~ 2yrs. if there’s a clone / Taybot, she definitely kicked ass 😄 whereas Katbot runs empty and can’t recharge creatively anymore

Cindy C

I used the skip button on this video a lot (because I couldn't bear to listen to the songs lol)

Nils Sjöberg

You spoke too soon because Max Martin worked on one of the songs

Nils Sjöberg

Zack! You stole my jacket from Gap 2002

Z

rewatching this… had to comment to make it 143

Robbie

I revisit this every once in a while for chakra alignment reasons