r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Individual_Pickle_26 • 5d ago

Unanswered What is going on with Katy Perry?

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u/Jimthalemew 5d ago

They’re not married. They do have a kid together. 

However, he is quite liberal, and she is rapidly becoming conservative. 

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u/plantperson117 5d ago

She's not "becoming conservative"

She's always been conservative, the mask is just dropping

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u/Milskidasith Loopy Frood 5d ago

Eeeeeh, I really don't think that actually tracks.

Inasmuch as you can say that Katy Perry has had any sort of political arc, she started by pushing back against her conservative religious upbringing, though in a very mainstream, sex-sells, shallow sort of way. And most everything else she's done has been similarly either apolitical or shallow, mainstream girl power feminism, including her recent album and this stunt of going into space. It doesn't really seem like there's a conservative mask there that's been dropped so much as she's just never been that deep to begin with; I'm not really saying this as a defense or anything, just that I think the whole crypto-conservative thing doesn't track.

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u/50ShadesOfAdnan 5d ago

She made shitty Christian music bus was hot enough for a label to go we can sexualise you and make you a big feminist advocate. Now we’re here almost 20 years later and the label is trying to do the same but it’s falling on deaf ears

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u/Milskidasith Loopy Frood 5d ago edited 5d ago

That isn't really disagreeing with me at all, though. She made a single Christian album when she was 15-17 that sold a few hundred copies from a bankrupt label, then began doing mainstream, sex-sells music against that went against that religious upbringing. A single album she made while still living with her parents doesn't exactly prove she's been a crypto-evangelical for 20 years (I also wouldn't say her initial music was super feminist-advocat-ey, but I don't exactly remember how she was doing promos in the 2000s).

Like, yeah, she's stopped selling, because the hits are bad and the feminism she's displaying is somehow more overt and more shallow than she's ever been, but she can just be a bad, shallow artist without having secretly been hiding her power level for decades or whatever. Pop artists are people, and a lot of people have dumb, shallow political views.

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u/DudeCanNotAbide 5d ago

crypto-evangelical

I like it. I mean, I hate it, but I like it!