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8.0
96643
8.0 |
The Guardian
K Pez still has a flair for tunes that quickly seep into the collective consciousness
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8.0
96741
8.0 |
NME
‘Witness’ isn’t about subtlety, but if you’re going to deliver important messages about female autonomy to a young audience, it’s surely better to shout than whisper
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7.0
97425
7.0 |
Prefix
Newly woke star's fifth album falls short on 'purpose,' but not on tunes
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6.0
96803
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
The bouncy ode to oral sex, 'Bon Appétit', is suitably frisky and rude
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6.0
96692
6.0 |
Evening Standard
She mostly still has energy here but could do with offering a bit more fun
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6.0
96709
6.0 |
The FT
Balance between escapism and gravity proves harder to pull off on the singer’s fifth album
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6.0
96716
6.0 |
The Observer
‘Purposeful pop’ proves tricky to pull off
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6.0
96723
6.0 |
Slant Magazine
Unfortunately, Witness lacks both the big hooks that propelled Perry's past hits up the charts and the conceptual and sonic focus to give her pop real purpose
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6.0
96725
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
A brassy voice that once held long notes and sang lines like "I am a champion" is now devoured in effects and reverb, rarely reaching the excited joy of punkier electronic-poppers like Robyn, Charli XCX or even recent singles from Lorde
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5.0
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5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
The spark from her Teenage Dream days hasn't quite followed the pop star into womanhood
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5.0
96756
5.0 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Follows much of the same formula of her prior work, stretching words to rhyme together, big-ass choruses, and melodramatic ballads that compliment her throaty crooning
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4.8
96797
4.8 |
Pitchfork
The pop superstar finds a more unifying sound but struggles to come up with lyrics that aren't plain cringe-worthy
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4.6
96736
4.6 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Witness isn't a failure, and its good intentions, both politically and sexually, aren't insufferable as much as they are listless and unsatisfying
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4.2
96895
4.2 |
A.V. Club
Katy Perry runs away from her strengths on the pop slog Witness
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4.0
96752
4.0 |
State
Does Perry pull off the great political pop album? In a word: no, but at least she is willing to engage
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4.0
96668
4.0 |
All Music
Perry's insistence on delving deep into electronic dance doesn't play like a pop visionary charting new directions forward; it seems anxious, as if she can sense her youth -- and perhaps more importantly, her stardom among youth -- slipping away
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4.0
96644
4.0 |
The Independent
She becomes far more interesting when contemplating her own grain-of-sand place in the universe in “Bigger Than Me”, or pursuing with Hot Chip the ironic intimacy of “Into Me You See”
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3.0
96840
3.0 |
PopMatters
So who’s going to bear Witness? The listeners, of course, ‘cos this album, unfortunately, proves to be one hell of a burden
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