This rating went to ‘143’, by pop star Katy Perry, according to critics
The worst album in the world, according to international critics, is that of American pop singer Katy Perry.
143the seventh studio album by Perryissued by Capitol Records the day September 20, 2024when the artist was in Brazil to perform at Rock In Rio, he received lowest score on Metacritic among all the albums released last year.
THE Metacritic compiles all music reviews from major media outlets around the world and based 18 of them, 143 received only 37 pointsentering the “red belt” of the analysis. In other words, bad.
To give you an idea, other albums that didn’t receive a satisfactory score ended up with in scores “yellow belt”.
A clipping of these assessments reveals that the newspaper The New York Times described 143 AS “a mediocre album from a pop star who is past her commercial peak”.
Already the Variety it was also incisive: “(The record) oscillates between cascades of lyrical clichés and musical ideas that rarely come to a head.”
To the website Pitchforkspecialized in music, Katy Perry “he came back confident and with very little to say.”
THE Metacritic it also included albums from other big names in pop like Eminem, Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani AND Coldplay among the worst released in 2024.
Katy Perry also released a deluxe version of her album “143” with additional songs in December
After the success of his tour The tour of lifewhich sold out in several cities, Katy Perry threw a surprise for her fans at the end of 2024. The singer announced the deluxe version of her album “143”, which was titled “1432”.
The new edition of the album contains 15 tracks, including four new songs that are already winning the hearts of the “KatyCats”. The new songs are: “OK”, “I Woke Up”, “Has a Heart” and “No Tears For New Year’s”, all produced by Dr. Luke, with whom Katy Perry resumed her partnership after a long period of absence due to the legal battle with the singer Kesha.
Numerology has always played an important role in Katy Perry’s works, and the title “143” was already a reference to the famous phrase “I love you”, taking the number of letters in each word as inspiration.
Now, with the deluxe version titled “1432”, Katy adds a special twist to the phrase, transforming it into “I love you too”. The sound of the number “2” in English is the same as “too”, creating an intimate bond between the singer and her fans.
Source: Terra
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