Don't you love that epic cupstep breakdown three minutes in, though?

She has good producers and her persona is generic enough to resonate with the maximum amount of people. 
I think her music (or at least her singles) are also the most consistently catchy, even if they all more or less use the same exact formula and have terrible lyrics and vocals. She has one or two songs I'd say are…

Ugh, I wish Katy Perry's music were factory made. Her songs are way too clumsily written to have been made by professionals.

Sorry to interrupt your "all pop music is terrible and cynical" circlejerk, but the lyrics were actually only written by two people, Perry and Bonnie McKee, the latter of whom is usually a pretty decent songwriter and who is responsible for all of Katy Perry's better songs. Which is why it's so surprising that "Roar"…

I'm surprised you've never heard "King of Anything." That song was played ad nauseam in every grocery store I went to ~2 years ago.

Huh. I had no idea that other people considered Sara Bareilles a good songwriter.
I mean, I don't disagree, but it's just weird seeing her get praise for something. For some reason I thought everyone else had already relegated her to "Hot AC also-ran" status or something, so it's nice seeing her get some praise because…

I doubt anyone's considering copyright infringement claims, but I do hear similarities. It's entirely possible that the similarity purely coincidental, as the backing tracks that get used for pop songs like Perry's often sit on producers' hard drives for years before they pick lyrics to play over them, but I actually…

As someone who has never watched the show and who has no real desire to (too macabre for my tastes), I'm fairly entertained by the comments here. I read the piece out of sheer curiosity and obviously I have no idea whether they're really accurate and/or meaningful within the context of the series, but it's…

"but it sounded like Thicke just showed up and did it without any warm up"
That's how I feel about Pharrell's performance in the studio version of "Get Lucky." I still probably wouldn't like the song even with a more capable singer, but Pharrell's flat voice kills any sort of appeal it might have had for me.

Even "The Edge of Glory"?! That's my favorite song of hers.

I don't think Katy Perry's album is actually going to be "dark." Something like a year ago she said that she was working on much darker music but in more recent interviews what she's said hasn't really jived with those earlier claims and now her producer Dr. Luke claims that her upcoming single isn't dark at all. It's…

Wait, Bunheads was a youth program? Huh. Would you say it's better or worse than Awkward.?

I don't think red herrings are a bad thing on a show like the killing per se, as police investigations often don't follow a completely linear path to the culprit, I think the problem with those seasons was the fact that the show relied on red herrings on damn near every episode, really only serving to create pointless…

Does anyone know what the odds are that The Killing will be renewed? I really don't want it to be canceled now that it's gotten so good.

It was pretty bad in its first two seasons, mostly in the writing department, but it's taken a major turn for the better this season. Unfortunately, those first two seasons have generated so much hostility that people won't watch it now. It's really a shame because it's actually one of the best shows on TV at the…

…Why would you trust Mitt Romney before you'd trust Kelly Clarkson?

I saw neither one coming, but then again I was also shocked when I found out Anderson Cooper was gay, so that should tell you something about my celebrity gaydar.

I knew his name, but only because he came out earlier this year and so I spent like a solid month looking up his pictures on Google Images and crying because he would never be mine.

Is it really Lollapalooza's fault that "Icona Pop"'s name is similar to "Iggy Pop"?

Yeah, I consider myself somewhat nerdy, but I'm by no means offended by the characters on the show. They annoy me in that they in no way resemble actual people and exhibit ridiculously exaggerated and lazy stereotypes of nerds and the like, but the day I saw someone sincerely refer to the characters of the Big Bang…