1. BlacKat1025

   10

   Yes, it's not as personal as One Of The Boy, however it remains a very solid pop album that never gets old. You can still see some old Katy in Who Am I Living For. It's also features. Stunningly wide range of music, Fron the hip hop inspired ET to the orchestral Firework to the lovely, soothing Not Like The Movies, there's a little sonething for everyone. Definitely check it out.… Expand

   • Helpful? 2 of 3 users said Yes.
2. RIProo

   8

   I really really like this album. It's a simple album, but it's really good. First this has a concept : teenagers' world. Yeah it's not like talking about wars but it's better than the albums that have songs with nothing in common. There are songs about love like "Teenage Dream", "E.T" and "Hummingbird Heartbeat" ( and we know that love is the 60% of a Teenager's life ), songs about bullying, when you feel like "a plastic bag", like "Firework", songs about parties like "Last Friday Night" and yes, there's "Peacock" but we know that teenagers think a lot ( maybe too much ) the Peacock. Second, the sound. Yes it's simple but it's good traditional pop, and when the biggest part of singers use dub-step or a lot of elettronic sounds it's a nice thing, I think, make an album with clear pop. So for me this is a really great album. Congrats to Katy, i hope that her albums always will be good like this.
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3. foowombats

   6

   Not the best album, by, well several light years. But its fun, its a bit quirky and Its obviously written with love. This is both Katy's love of music and having fun. Songs to look at are - Last Friday night, which excusing the ridiculous lyrics has some very interesting melodies that mix pop with funk and disco, Pearl has pretty nice, thoughtful lyrics and Circle the drain - the pop rock style and more moody, stroppy atmosphere is a sharp contrast to the rest of the album. The truly best song is Who am I living for? This song steps away from the general careless happy nature of the rest of the album and talks of Katy's inner turmoil between her new found liberal mainstream famous lifestyle and her more traditional Christian upbringing, all to an unrelenting synth riff. More songs like this Katy!
   
   In conclusion this album will be sure to put either a smile or a scowl on your face, and as another commenter on this page put, I'm not sure its possible to listen to the album in one go without going mad. The album is a load of joyful fun and on those grounds and those grounds alone it is OK, maybe even good but still not great.… Expand

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4. Mangaeyes

   3

   'Teenage Dream' has taken the quirkiness and individuality of 'One of the Boys' and put it on steroids, creating something so infectiously catchy and bold that you can almost overlook Perry's cringeworthy lyrics almost. Most of this album is made up of sleazy sexual references (with one song, quite clearly referring to a penis just in its title alone) that I shudder at the thought of my younger sister hearing, the same as I shudder at the idea of her seeing Ms. Perry squirting cream from her breasts in her music video. Even in Perry's more 'serious' songs, such as "The One That Got Away", the same obvious, vulgar rhyming can be seen "all this money can't buy me a time-machine, can't replace you with a million rings" or in the brain-numbingly dull "Pearl" "oh, she used to be a pearl, oh, yeah, she used to rule the world, oh, can't believe she's become a shell of herself, 'cause she used to be a pearl". When you consider that Perry wrote pretty much every song on this album with three or four other hit-makers, you do expect more. Perry seems to consider herself a serious songwriter and these more mellow songs seem like desperate efforts to balance out the cheap, pop singles from the album, none more so than "Circle The Drain" which Perry claims is her version of Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know", something I'm not sure Ms. Morissette or anyone with ears would agree with. It's the immense over-production that makes all this more bearable certainly Perry's vocals, which seem to switch from high-pitched whispers to crackly bellowing, benefit from Dr. Luke's pop expertise. Aside from the filler, the huge #1 singles that you would have heard also redeem the album, whether it's the summery anthem "Teenage Dream" or the dark "E.T.". 'Teenage Dream' is ultimately the epitome of pop music cheap, over-produced, repetitive but it is a welcome addition to any party playlist or car journey. I just don't think I could ever sit down and listen to this album from start to finish.… Expand

   • Helpful? 4 of 6 users said Yes.

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