Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

From a "good Christian family", daughter of one (maybe 2) pastors, Katy Perry is now the hot pop star (often seen as America's response to British pop singer Lily Allen) with the quirky, cartoony faces. From her effort as a teenage gospel singer Katy Hudson to the maker of hits "I Kissed a girl", "Hot 'N' Cold" and "California Gurls", I would say Katy's come a long way. Moving on, Perry's latest hit "Teenage Dream" follows the electro-pop style which is rapidly becoming the new craze of the music industry. Everybody from Beyonce & Usher to Katy Perry & Christina are giving the electronic/dance-pop scene a shot. For some, it will work, for others it will not.

Teenage dream's guitar picked intro leads to Katy's soft, pure head voice in the first verse accompanied with a lo-fi drum beat as she sings about the things her man sees in her that other people might not such as her natural beauty and her sense of humour (even when she doesn't get the punchline right). As the song progresses into the pre-chorus, she goes down into a strong chest voice and as the chorus approaches, we get the typical stuttering kick drums, obviously telling us that the high-energy chorus is about to kick in. So like we already expected, we get a fun, bouncy, explosion of heavy kick drums and a solid back beat instead of the low-fi kit used in the verse and a raspy synth line accompanying the guitar and Katy's strong vocals singing a full-action pop hook.

Love? A cliché topic??? Well of course. But innocence??? Not so cliché. This song seems to be based on the depiction of the more innocent and naive stages of a teenage relationship where time stops and there's this crazy chance that forever could actually exist in the relationship of two adults. I did like her previous album more than this club-banging record but that doesn't mean it's bad, cause it's not. Personally, it's not on the top of my playlist but it's a great tune to bang out and sing a long to or play at a prom.

This is the song, if you haven't heard it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WtmW-lfeE&ob=av2e

The eD ship is taking off, so be blessed hardcore!!!