• Record Label: Capitol
  • Release Date: Aug 24, 2010
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  1. Aug 25, 2010
    10
    this is AMAZING! California gurls, Teenage Dream, Last friday night, peacock, fireworks = potential hits.
  2. Aug 26, 2010
    1
    Apparently on a mission to exemplify how deep the inanity pool goes, Katy Perry provides us with a collection of dumb that can't even be saved by calling it comedy. Reaching out to the "OMG-she-made-a-penis-reference" preteen crowd, Katy wants to see your "Peacock-cock-cock-cock" ... which is about all you need to know about this album. If you're into boorish puerility on steroids, goApparently on a mission to exemplify how deep the inanity pool goes, Katy Perry provides us with a collection of dumb that can't even be saved by calling it comedy. Reaching out to the "OMG-she-made-a-penis-reference" preteen crowd, Katy wants to see your "Peacock-cock-cock-cock" ... which is about all you need to know about this album. If you're into boorish puerility on steroids, go buy "Teenage Dream" and enjoy the tingling sensation of your IQ plummeting. Expand
  3. Jun 8, 2017
    10
    Teenage dream é o melhor album para mim,suas musicas sao cativantes e inesqueciveis, com certeza é um album que ficara para historia, amo demais e defenderei sempre.
  4. Aug 19, 2018
    10
    Pop at its best. A golden and sweet era. The best and most influential and iconic album of the decade. It deserved more recognition by the crytics.
  5. Jun 22, 2017
    10
    This is the ULTIMATE pop album. This is truly the definition of a pop album. It has fun catchy songs, silly lyrics and powerful messages all wrapped into 12 tracks. This truly is a genre defining album, 7 years later. Gems include Firework, Who Am I Living For, California Gurls and Teenage Dream. All these stand out tracks give Perry her name and this album shot her into success.
  6. Jan 8, 2016
    9
    I'm so suspect to talk about Teenage Dream because it's one of my favorite pop albuns ever. It isnt nothing that has revolutionized the music world, but we know It's one of the most successful records lately. A lot of people complain that it is beyond catchy, but this is all the teenage days are about. Everything hits you so hard when you're a teenager, speacially when you are at yourI'm so suspect to talk about Teenage Dream because it's one of my favorite pop albuns ever. It isnt nothing that has revolutionized the music world, but we know It's one of the most successful records lately. A lot of people complain that it is beyond catchy, but this is all the teenage days are about. Everything hits you so hard when you're a teenager, speacially when you are at your 14's, 15's like I was when this record came out, so I was able to felt everything Teenage Dream could offer me at that time, and always that I can I listen to it to remember the golden days haha. The lyrics are so intense, specially the "Imma get your heart racing, in my skin tight jeans...", she worked with the best producers she could work to make this record sensational and I'm proud it marked my teenage days. P.S: I just think there was no necessity to relaunch it back in 2012, the standard version is already enough and you should not retouch a masterpiece. But anyways, It was Katy decision. :) Expand
  7. Jun 8, 2017
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pop youthful disc of the best quality. There are contained all the colors and nuances to which young people pass. The desire for first love. The disappointment of lost love. The exaltation of the libido the flower of the skin. Disco made to please mainly teens and this is not no regret, but an exaltation at such a complex age that we all pass. Expand
  8. Aug 11, 2019
    10
    A legendary album. **** the ****ing critics, Katy Perry was at her best here
  9. Jan 8, 2016
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is the best album I've heard in my life! I can't believe how Little Monsters try to make TEENAGE DREAM has a bad general score. I feel they're obsessed with her... Expand
  10. Jun 8, 2017
    9
    Time proved this is going down as a classic pop album. There's a whole pop perfection vibe to this record. You feel young listening to it. Katy's proved that mainstream pop music can be extraordinarily satisfying and the lyrics don't need to be shallow all the time.
  11. Jun 9, 2017
    10
    If you want a great pop dance album with hits that you can sing and dance, this is the perfect to do. Iconic songs, smart lyrics and great beats. Katy knows how to make songs to a party and a hot summer.
  12. Jan 14, 2018
    10
    This is the best of Katy Perry! This songs are original and have a huge personality
  13. Apr 11, 2018
    10
    Since this album Katy became my favorite singer, it is an album in which she shows different types of contexts, the rhythms are spectacular, the videos too iconic and definitely deserved to win a grammy
  14. Aug 11, 2018
    10
    Incredible album in every way cover, single and several themes approached...
  15. May 20, 2020
    10
    The best album of Katy Perry's career has a name and surname "Teenage Dream". Firework is undoubtedly the music that most caught my attention for encouraging people to live each moment intensely, regardless of what they think and fighting for a world in which everyone lives in peace and harmony!
  16. Aug 17, 2018
    10
    amazing albums, very unique This is probably the best pop album EVER MADE, full of smash hits that we all know just by listening to the radio. When you listen to this album, you find out that you know a lot of the songs, and that the other ones that you don't know are just as magical. Katy Perry is not only the biggest hit-maker of this century, but she is also very talented and resourceful.
  17. Mar 27, 2020
    9
    Another pretty cohesive body of work by Katy Perry. It's singles are killing everything else! Even though, I prefer One of the Boys, rather than her next releases.
  18. Nov 24, 2021
    0
    Terrible. No passion, no soul. Worst album of the year. I need something really good to clean up my ears right now.
  19. Jan 13, 2020
    10
    With "Teenage Dream", Katy Perry became one of the legends of music, breaking records, having (8) hits, doing what most artists can't do easily. With any doubt, this is a pop bible, Thanks Katy for extisting and bring this album to the world. Teenage Dream is just LEGENDARY like the singer that gave us "Firework", California Gurls", "E.T.", etc. It's a MASTERPIECE!!!
  20. Jan 19, 2019
    10
    Best album of the XXI century. U Metacritic are just kidding with that 52 points sjsjsjj
  21. May 6, 2020
    10
    Best pop album in pop music. Who i am living fore, pearl,dressin' Up -best song from album
  22. Jan 21, 2020
    10
    Today is 2020 and this sounds so good and all the songs of the album are memorable
  23. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    It's the best album of the decade. It deserves more recognition from critics.
  24. Jan 11, 2020
    10
    Absolutamente genial e perfeito, o tempo cumpriu com o dever de nos mostrar isso.
  25. Jan 25, 2020
    10
    This album made history! Pop culture will never be able to peak this album.
  26. Mar 27, 2020
    10
    literally the best album of her whole carrier, every song is a hit (still being objective ofc)
  27. May 15, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. teenage dreams is an album that can make you feel good even in your worst days, I mean personally the song firework is a hymn remembered Expand
  28. Oct 30, 2020
    10
    A true masterpiece, one of the most iconic albums from the last decades. Miss Perry made a lot of memorable songs with this album.
  29. Aug 29, 2020
    10
    Um ícone pop! Músicas que marcaram uma geração. Um pop doce e açucarado que nos contagia
  30. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    The best album ever ! Songs are iconic and memorable , Teenage Dream will be forever !
Metascore
52

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 19
  2. Negative: 2 out of 19
  1. After some severe front-loading, the album is filled out by songs that are too dark or lifeless to work alongside the Candyland motif of the cover and sunbeamy splash of California Gurls.
  2. Teenage Dream is the kind of pool-party-pop gem that Gwen Stefani used to crank out on the regular, full of SoCal ambience and disco beats.
  3. There's none of the ABBA or Cardigans influence she claimed, nor any of the fun she seems to have in real life. For now she just sounds like another of pop's Stepford Wives.