Katy Perry returns to pop music with 'Woman's World.' Is anyone listening?

just released “Woman’s World,” the first new song of her post- career. Some say her lyrics — and the writing and production credits for , a producer who has been accused of sexual assault — are clinging too tightly to a 2010s era in pop music that has long since passed. Between 2008 and 2013, nine of Perry’s songs hit No.

1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her music was so ubiquitous, some fans say it defined an era. She title in 2008 and 2010 with “I Kissed a Girl” and “California Gurls.



” “Woman’s World” emulates the empowerment anthems she had in some of her biggest hits, like “Firework” and “Roar.” The familiarity might ultimately be her new song’s downfall. Sometimes an artist so profoundly encapsulates a Moment In Time (for Katy Perry this is the 2010s) that all attempts to revive their career after That Moment feel anachronistic and out of step with modernity.

— big belly summer🤰🏾☀️🕶 (@itsjacksonbbz) about Perry's return to releasing pop hits. She in May after spending seven seasons as a judge, and when she announced her departure, she Jimmy Kimmel that she needed to “go out and find that pulse to my own beat.” In the “Woman’s World” music video, Perry holds bedazzled power tools, pretends to use a urinal and sips a drink labeled “Whiskey for Women.

” She yells to a woman seemingly recording a TikTok video and rides in a lifted truck with YouTuber Trisha Paytas. In the first half of the video, her outfit pays trib.