Swift keeps reinventing herself with greater seriousness, and little about her latest best seller, Folklore, scans as pop. Gaga, after a long detour away from dance floors, has returned to sounds and looks comparable to those of her early days, but she cannot bank on mass listenership for doing so. BeyoncГ© has turned her focus to richly textured visual albums that donвЂ™t necessarily spawn monster singles. Rihanna has put her music career on pause while building a fashion and makeup empire. Each singer achieved impressive things, though arguably none of their albums so purely epitomized pop-in commercial, aesthetic, or sociological terms-like PerryвЂ™s Teenage Dream did.ДЄ decade later, that early-2010s fantasy has ended, and Perry and her peers have seemed to switch gears. Taylor Swift trundled around in horse-drawn carriages. Kesha, glitter-strewn and studded, babbled her battle cries. Nicki Minaj flipped through personalities while wearing anime silhouettes and fuchsia patterns.

BeyoncГ© shimmied in the guise of her alter ego, Sasha Fierce. Teenage Dream arrived amid a wave of female pop singers selling their own costumed fictions: Lady Gaga, a walking GaudГ cathedral, roared EDM operas. Perry wasnвЂ™t alone in achieving domination through colorful looks and stomping songs. 1 singles in the United States -a feat previously accomplished only by Michael JacksonвЂ™s Bad -and it went platinum eight times. (Maybe thatвЂ™s because, like with so much classic Disney and Looney Tunes animation, the cuteness barely disguised a ton of raunch.) Teenage Dream generated five No. Kids loved the stuff, and adults, bopping along at karaoke or Starbucks, enjoyed it too.

PerryвЂ™s music was cartoonish too: simple, silly, with lyrics stringing together caricature-like images of high-school parties, seductive aliens, and girls in Daisy Dukes with bikinis on top. She made her voice-acting debut, in 2011, by playing Smurfette. She titled one world tour вЂњHello Katy,вЂќ a nod to the Japanese cat character on gel pens worldwide. Everywhere you looked or clicked back then, there was Perry, wrapped in candy-cane stripes, firing whipped cream from her breasts, wearing a toothpaste-blue wig, and grinning like an emoji. вЂњI am a walking cartoon most days,вЂќ Katy Perry told Billboard in 2010, and anyone who lived through the reign of Teenage Dream-PerryвЂ™s smash album that turned 10 years old on August 24-knows what she meant.

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