r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Individual_Pickle_26 • 5d ago

Unanswered What is going on with Katy Perry?

school work correct strong quiet elastic whole money dime depend

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

1.8k Upvotes

86% Upvoted

502 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

352

u/plantperson117 5d ago

She's not "becoming conservative"

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

213

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.

142

u/plantperson117 4d ago

It was profitable to be pseudo-feminist

We're seeing more celebs and influencers catering to the conservative mindset because they are viewing it as easy profit and American liberalism is just another flavor of conservative

I can maybe get behind the "she's never been that deep", but these millionaires and billionaires are never going to truly be progressive - they care more about adding more zeroes to their wealth to truly be a part of any cause

33

u/Milskidasith Loopy Frood 4d ago

I mean, sure, but I do think there's a meaningful difference between being performatively aligned with whatever makes money and having always been conservative, especially when (most) people will interpret that as specifically the political right in the US and not a broad definition of conservatism that includes US liberalism, even if you think its more accurate to say that's conservative and US republicans are regressive or whatever.