Katy Perry is our staff's pick for the 25th greatest pop star of the 21st century.
is spending the next few months counting down our staff picks for the 25 greatest pop stars of the last 25 years. We’ve already done our, and now at No. 25, we remember the century in Katy Perry — whose dizzying, era-defining early-’10s peak still burns bright in the minds of pop fans, even as it gets farther away.will always be one of the names most synonymous with pop music.
Few would have imagined that fate for Katy Perry when she initially emerged – first briefly in the early ‘00s as Katy Hudson, contemporary Christian artist, and then rebranded as snotty Warped Tour singer-songwriter Katy Perry later in the decade. “Ur So Gay,” the metrosexual-taunting title track to her first Perry-era EP release, suggested great promise for word-of-mouth cult success, but seemed too cheeky, too edgy and too problematic for top 40 success.
That notion would be confirmed by Perry’s sophomore set, a one-woman home-run derby that ultimately made the tremendous success of her-quoting love letter to the Golden Coast, blessed by no less an esteemed West Side representative than Snoop Dogg.
While Perry became more central to pop music in the early 2010s than anyone would have guessed possible of her years earlier, her time at top 40’s core would also be briefer than many would have predicted once she arrived. She spent one more album as a no-doubt superstar: 2013’s, which topped the Billboard 200 and spawned a pair of massive, Hot 100-besting smashes in the motivational anthem “Roar” and the trappy, Juicy J-featuring seduction jam “Dark Horse.
But even if Katy Perry’s songs are no longer omnipresent in today’s pop, her fingerprints still are. You can feel her in the eye-popping costumes and theatrically vivid world-building of Chappell Roan and the sticky sweet and slightly naughty hooks of Sabrina Carpenter.
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