What the fuck? This is exactly what all my co-workers said to me about Sheldon right before I brutally murdered them.

I sort of agree; on a technical level, this was great. Expertly written, filmed, and acted, and yet I didn't really feel much. I recognized that everything that was happening was sad, but I didn't feel that sad. I just kind of felt hollow, which was weird, as I've really enjoyed this season otherwise.

Twitter tends to give people the false impression that they have free reign to say whatever they want to. A shitton of people, even young people, claimed not to feel as bad about the death of [black character who dies in the movie]. There's a good collection of these tweets on Jezebel, but in order to link to Jezebel…

I also enjoyed "five-finger salary"

Actually, he's more like a synthesis of Justin Timberlake and Pitbull. In a bad way.

Ah, yes. Todd in the Shadows. Let's let the man who placed a song on his "worst of 2010" list primarily because Enrique Iglesias "sounded incredibly gay" in it and who derided "Call Me Maybe" for being too "girly" preach to us about political correctness.

Usually it's something like the producers will compose the backing track and then everything else is done by the other person(s) who compose the lyrics and vocal melody.
I fail to see how writing the lyrics to a pop song shouldn't warrant getting a "writer"'s credit. Pop is capable of lyrical profundity, you know.

Who is defending this song? Almost every comment here is a pile-on against either the song or Katy Perry as an artist.

@avclub-eee6e49e09ab1c283e2d7689d45a7b4b:disqus Fun Fact: Katy Perry claims "California Gurls" was written as a West Coast response to Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind"

I can't find it in me to hate "California Gurls" because it's so goddamn generic. Pretty much every line is uninspired, Katy's vocals are unimpressive and largely faceless, and the music itself is lifted straight out of "Tik Tok."
And even then it's one of her better singles.

The problem with that argument is that, just as there are actually good shows made for little girls, there is also good pop music. Katy Perry just doesn't fit into that category and so the scorn is deserved.

I don't even like Katy Perry but I cannot deny that "Teenage Dream" is a damn good song. Probably her only good song, but it's still a good song nonetheless.

I was deeply in love with "Mirrors" until I noticed the fact that it's basically just "What Goes Around" redux and paid attention to the lyrics.
20/20's a decent album, but man, that song is self-indulgent to the max. The only part I can stand now is that two-minute coda.

@avclub-e576423831e043f7928d9ac113abbe6f:disqus  Well, I'd like my "dance" records to be at least occasionally danceable. I'm not asking for David Guetta levels of bluster or anything, but I would like for some occasional bombast. Instead, most of the songs just tread water.
Compared to Homework and Discovery, RAM…

Same, I haven't gotten around to finding any new albums this year that I really liked. Aside from Charli XCX's True Romance, literally nothing so far has held my attention the whole way through. I liked most of Little Boots's new album, though.

I thought jokes were supposed to be funny.

I'm surprised Weird Al hasn't parodied this yet. Maybe this is so ridiculous that a parody would be redundant?
I find that hard to believe, though. There isn't a single line in this song about pizza.

Nah, Kelly's got better writers than the people who wrote this. 
(Except when one of her writers is actually Katy Perry)

Not to mention the fact that fireworks, you know, burn out. And pretty fast, at that.
Now if only Katy Perry would burn out, too…

"But I just felt like I’d rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music."
If all YouTube comments could be condensed into one sentence, it would be this.