Katy Perry has faced widespread criticism on social media after an old interview surfaced in which she criticized Mariah Carey.
The 2014 clip from Australian morning show Sunrise shows Perry reacting after presenter Samantha Armytage affectionately described her as “the greatest female entertainer in the world.”
“No, that’s not me, that’s Beyonce – duh! Don’t blaspheme,” the American pop star joked in response.
The show’s hosts then read out a tweet from a viewer who suggested that Mariah Carey did indeed deserve that title.
“I mean, she’s fantastic… for a throwback,” Katy replied meanly, then added, “We love Fantasy, I love Honey… I listened to all those songs growing up.”
Social media users on X were less than impressed with the interview, which went viral again this week.
“It’s okay we all know Katy was a flop,” one person wrote, while another said: “Karma is ab**ch.”
“She’s a mean girl. She did the same thing to Britney,” said another, while someone else asked, “Why was she like that, omg…”
Katy Perry has been criticised on social media after an old interview surfaced in which she attacked Mariah Carey. The 2014 clip is from Australian breakfast show Sunrise (pictured) in which she calls Mariah a ‘throwback’ act
“Better to relapse than to throw up,” wrote another, and yet another wrote, “This is as stale as an old woman’s breast milk.”
“And now look how she flops and teams up with Dr. Luke,” someone else said, with another adding, “She predicted her own future.”
Someone else said: ‘She made herself terribly unhappy by saying this, because things went wrong shortly after.’
This comes after Katy’s comeback single Woman’s World was branded by critics as a “monumental disaster” that sounds like a “warmed-up” Lady Gaga.
The 39-year-old released the track on Thursday, complete with a splashy video clip in which she prances around in skimpy lingerie featuring the American flag.
Meanwhile, a number of prominent publications have delivered their damning verdict on the single, with one saying that ‘I felt increasingly stupid every time I listened to it’.
Social media users on X were less than impressed with the interview, which went viral again this week. One of them chimed in: ‘She really cursed herself by saying this’
Woman’s World received an exceptionally positive review from Pitchforknoting that the anthem for women’s empowerment sounded like Katy “needed to have feminism explained to her by the top half of the first page of Google.”
“The pop singer’s comeback single defies all sense of taste and is too dispiriting to even come close to camp. It’s awful,” the outlet’s Shaad D’Souza wrote.
Katy was accused of “clearly modelling” her song on Gaga’s 2020 single Stupid Love, but producing a knock-off version that was “incomprehensibly tepid and annoying at best”.
Woman’s World received a brutal one-star review in The guardstating that the song sounded like “warmed-up Gaga” and that it was “shamelessly” a copy of Chappell Roan’s single Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl.
Critic Laura Snapes was scathing about Katy’s “old-fashioned attempt at a feminist anthem” and her “overt attempts to emphasise homosexual attitudes”. She mocked her for “winking so hard at drag culture that you suspect she’d have a hernia if her abs weren’t as hard as armour.”
She added that when Katy shouts, “I’m Katy Perry!” in the video, it “sounds less like a triumphant roar and more like the echoing cry of someone falling into a great ravine.”
“Woman’s World sounds like it was designed by a committee in a Capitol Records boardroom with the sole purpose of creating a synopsis on RuPaul’s Drag Race and generating ‘you ate’ responses from white gay men living in West Hollywood,” Alim Kheraj wrote in a scathing review for Dazed.
It comes after Katy’s comeback single Woman’s World was slammed by critics as a ‘monumental disaster’ that sounds like a ‘reheated’ Lady Gaga
Katy was dismissed as “a relic of the 2010s” by New York magazine and as “so forgettable, so embarrassing” by Woman’s World The cut.
“Perry is like Barbie in Barbie Land, stuck in a la-di-dah dimension where Hillary Clinton is still the Democratic presidential nominee, ‘Male Tears’ mugs make money on Etsy, and the most transgressive thing a celebrity can do is sing the Fight Song,” critic Cat Zhang wrote for the publication.
With “lyrics that seemed genuinely AI-generated,” the song “falls as flat as the bottom of the anvil Perry crushes midway through the music video,” according to Mary Siroky’s review for Consequence of sound.
Woman’s World is the lead single from Katy’s upcoming album 143, her first LP since welcoming three-year-old daughter Daisy with fiancé Orlando Bloom.
Katy described the song as ‘the first contribution I’ve made since becoming a mother and really feeling connected to my feminine divine.’
She previously released an album titled Smile in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdowns. The album was released in August 2020 to little positive feedback.
