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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Adam White

Katy Perry’s comeback is already in trouble – but she only has herself to blame

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Katy Perry’s new single is a depressingly retrograde racket, a faux-feminist pastiche paying tribute to the “feminine divine”. Titled “Woman’s World”, it would have been mortifying enough in its natural habitat of a Hillary-for-president fundraiser in 2016. But now, in 2024, it sounds little more than alarmingly antiquated.

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