History YMMV / KatyPerry

** [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/they-ask-you-how-you-are-and-you-say-that-you-re-fine "They ask you how you are and you say that you're fine, but you're not really fine."]]

** Also, "Waking Up In Vegas" and "Teenage Dream". "Firework" too, if this does not, hmmm...[[JustForPun fire]] you up ''nothing'' will.

* TearJerker: "Never Really Over", Jesus ''CHRIST''. It's definitely a breakup song, about nostalgia and looking back on the good times in the aftermath of the end of a relationship, but it gets more poignant when one considers, as WebOriginal/ToddInTheShadows suggests, the subtext of Katy herself looking back on her career after ''Witness''. Either way, it's one ''powerful'' song.

* TearJerker: "Never Really Over", Jesus ''CHRIST''. It's definitely a breakup song, about nostalgia and looking back on the good times in the aftermath of the end of a relationship, but it gets more poignant when one considers, as Creator/ToddInTheShadows suggests, the subtext of Katy herself looking back on her career after ''Witness''. Either way, it's one ''powerful'' song.

* TearJerker: "Never Really Over", Jesus ''CHRIST''. It's definitely a breakup song, about nostalgia and looking back on the good times in the aftermath of the end of a relationship, but it gets more poignant when one considers, as Creator/ToddIntheShadows suggests, the subtext of Katy herself looking back on her career after ''Witness''. Either way, it's one ''powerful'' song.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:
** The video for "Hot 'n' Cold" features, for no apparent reason, roller derby girls (and Katy herself skating in her wedding dress) and a zebra at the end.
%% ** Could also be applied to "California Gurls" too, but up to eleven.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: When she did her Japanese-themed show a lot of [[KnightTemplar social justice activists]] complained about how offensive it was to Japanese people. Hilariously, someone interviewed a bunch of ''actual'' Japanese people about how they felt and they all thought the show was great.

* NeverLiveItDown:
** Among the LGBT community she will forever be known as the girl who lied about kissing a girl and who released "Ur So Gay", a song whose punchline is the title phrase followed by "and you don't even like boys".
** Though during her Human Rights Campaign speech in 2017, she implied that she's actually somewhat bicurious and had to hide it from her fundamentalist parents. But she called herself an 'ally' in the same speech, so it's a little bit ambiguous.

* SignatureSong: Perry has many popular songs, but "Firework" is becoming her leading song after being her UsefulNotes/SuperBowl halftime show closer, with Perry on a shooting star being raised in the air during the closer. This was also helped by the performance at UsefulNotes/JoeBiden's presidental inauguration. Second place is seen as a tie between her two major hits from ''Prism'', "Roar" and "Dark Horse."

* AuthorsSavingThrow: While the album wasn't a huge success, ''Smile'' seems to have been intended as a major course-correction from the maligned ''Witness'', with the title track of ''Smile'' being a positive comeback song...that also goes out of its way to signal to listeners that Katy now agrees that ''Witness'' was a bad move, with lyrics that refer to a low point "ego trip" Katy that needed to learn from to reach her best.

* AudienceAlienatingEra: ''Witness'' in 2017 caused her mainstream success to crash, being roundly criticized for overproduction, scattershot writing, lacking the catchiness of her best work (which many blamed on the lack of her longtime collaborator, the disgraced RecordProducer Dr. Luke), and sounding like everything else on the radio in the mid-late '10s. Katy's promise that the album would be taking a more political direction towards "purposeful pop" was a ''very'' tough sell from her, since it also left her open to criticism of her own problematic career choices. Meanwhile, a four-day Website/YouTube live stream to promote the album was filled with all manner of bizarre non-sequiturs and strained attempts at atonement (in response to previous accusations of cultural appropriation) that had people buzzing for all the wrong reasons. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Her new pixie haircut was also incredibly polarizing, on top of it.]] While ''Witness'' debuted at #1, it crashed hard with an 89% dropoff in sales during its second week, while the accompanying concert tour struggled to sell out the arenas that she was able to pack during her ''Teenage Dream'' and ''Prism'' days. It is so notorious that in some circles a ''Witness'' era is now a synonym for this trope.

** The underperformances of ''Prism''[='=]s fourth and fifth singles, "Birthday" and "This Is How We Do," (and quick burn-out of second song "Unconditionally") have often been attributed to the continued monstrous longevity of "Dark Horse." This has become known in fan communities as the "Dark Horse" effect (i.e. Swedish DJ Music/{{Avicii}} having his American popularity completely cannibalized by the his own ultra-long-lasting hit, "Wake Me Up!")

** "[[HoYay I kissed a girl and I liked it!]]"