Witness
by Katy Perry
  • Record Label: Capitol
  • Release Date: Jun 9, 2017
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7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 3037 Ratings

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  1. sonnyolua
    Jun 9, 2017
    10
    Very good taste of futuristic pop. And i don't think that there's filler songs on album. After her last album, this one is really healing. Can't wait to witness this live!
  2. AnneHudson
    Jun 9, 2017
    10
    Some of Witness' songs stand out as incredible songs but all are really good and the album can be dance and express emotion and power at the same time. Witness is the album of the year!
  3. PauloRoberto
    Jun 11, 2017
    3
    Esperava mais. Parece que essas músicas são demos ou versões ruins de outras músicas. A mais animada é Roulette. Perry tentou evoluir, mas não foi dessa vez.
  4. ImLosingTouch
    Jun 13, 2017
    10
    Definitely, Katy perry bare her soul with this record. Witness Is a flawless collection of songs about how to be really a human, showing insecurity, weakness, honesty, kindness, humility, thankness and so much Love.
  5. MynameDave
    Jun 14, 2017
    10
    Éste nuevo álbum que nos da Katy Perry, refleja una etapa evolutiva en su carrera, y busca la añorada madurez musical, que por ende, lo logra. A diferencia de sus 3 álbumes anteriores, en este vuelca su atención a ritmos más oscuros, reflejando en sus letras temas políticos y pequeñas muestras de superación personal. Para algunos, les resulto complicado entender el álbum, aunque este seríaÉste nuevo álbum que nos da Katy Perry, refleja una etapa evolutiva en su carrera, y busca la añorada madurez musical, que por ende, lo logra. A diferencia de sus 3 álbumes anteriores, en este vuelca su atención a ritmos más oscuros, reflejando en sus letras temas políticos y pequeñas muestras de superación personal. Para algunos, les resulto complicado entender el álbum, aunque este sería considerado el más personal de su trayectoria musical; de ahí, la razón por la cual le doy tal critica, que de mi parte, es muy agradable de escuchar y que retoma influencias noventeras.… Expand
  6. AlegsFiley
    Jun 15, 2017
    10
    is funny when you realize that "music experts" hate Katy but they love Selena gomez or Taylor swift trash. but they are "experts" lol. Denifitely is one ther best albums, new sounds, great beats, great vocals and lyrics. Just a great album.
  7. AngelAntonio96
    Apr 9, 2018
    0
    El peor album que he oido en mi vida, solo CTTR salva, lo demas es solo relleno y basura. El flop lo tiene bien merecido, y mas la amarrilla. Amarillaty por siempre con la burla del pop. Aska
  8. GFactor
    Jun 9, 2017
    4
    Witness - 9,0
    Hey Hey Hey - 8,5
    Roulette - 8,5
    Swish Swish - 4,0
    Déjà Vu - 6,5
    Power - 6,5
    Mind Maze - 5,0
    Miss You More - 8,0
    Chained to the Rhythm - 8,5
    Tsunami - 7,0
    Bon Appétit - 6,0
    Bigger Than Me - 8,0
    Save as Draft - 8,5
    Pendulum - 8,0
    Into Me You See - 6,0

    Honestly, I was expecting more from Katy :/
  9. swiftieforlife
    Jun 9, 2017
    10
    Love the new sounds Katy is putting out! This album is an evolution compared to her past records. It is definitely great to see a big artist like Katy keep trying new things and evolving!
  10. CamiloFerroS
    Jun 9, 2017
    0
    "Witness" is her worst album to date. Songs like 'Roulette' and 'Save As Draft' sound very similar to Lady Gaga's 'I Like It Rough' and 'Angel Down'. Furthermore, her voice sounds so auto-tuned in some songs. Katy could've done it so much better.
  11. Wael
    Jun 11, 2017
    3
    Katy Perry's much anticipated fourth studio album is as disappointing as its two buzz singles 'Bon Appétit' and 'Swish Swish' promised us it would be. It is a hugely flawed record, and it feels like each song suffers from a different type of mistake. While some songs start up real good but fall short the second their chorus hits ('Pendulum', 'Tsunami', 'Roulette'), other songs have veryKaty Perry's much anticipated fourth studio album is as disappointing as its two buzz singles 'Bon Appétit' and 'Swish Swish' promised us it would be. It is a hugely flawed record, and it feels like each song suffers from a different type of mistake. While some songs start up real good but fall short the second their chorus hits ('Pendulum', 'Tsunami', 'Roulette'), other songs have very shallow lyrics, so superficial. they sound like they've been written by a 10-year-old (for example: 'I saw a balloon floating away/ I wondered did someone let go, or did they lose it?' on 'Miss You More'). Next to that, there are tracks that are just full-on annoying ('Mind Maze' comes to mind). KP tries to channel 'Ghost' by singing songs like 'Save As Draft', or tries to end the record with 'Into Me You See' on a similar note to that of 'By the Grace of God', but she just fails to do so. The only aspect remotely close to being very-good on this record is the production that glows from start to finish. Highlights are lead single 'Chained to the Rhythm', and probably the title track 'Witness'.
    The problem is that Perry's still trying to imitate her own work on 2010-pop-perfection-album 'Teenage Dream', but the outcome turns out to be 'Witness': a bunch of un-related non-cohesive wanna-be tracks influenced more by the A-Listers who worked on them, than by Perry herself.
    3/10.    … Expand
  12. raafaelmenezes
    Jun 9, 2017
    6
    I miss the katy perry who made good songs. The album has more bad than good songs. I do not really like the voice of Katy, Roulette and Chained to the rhythm are the best songs of the album
  13. vitorxcx
    Nov 10, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Witness is the follow-up to Perry's Prism, an album with great music and many hits but this time Miss Perry failed to deliver any of two mentioned. Witness contains two good songs, which are Deja Vu and Power, the rest is sadly trash. Without Dr.Luke Miss Perry's music sounds like a fart from one of Kesha'a cats. This is a terrible album, trashy vocals, homophobic and racist lyrics and therefor I have to give Hitless (no hits so far) a bad score.… Expand
  14. carlosxdgb
    Jun 9, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Her album the worst, each song generalized and boring. She says she has matured, but now she is more basic, I can not find the reason why she does not leave the music.… Expand
  15. Joabe
    Jun 9, 2017
    10
    This album is incredible, totally unlike anything Katy Perry has done on her other albums and the current hit songs. She should certainly release video clips for all songs.
  16. Ewance
    Jun 9, 2017
    10
    This is a fantastic album.Not deliberately exaggerated,Lyrics are easy to understand, but at the same time it is meaningful.Album production is also commendable, and artwork complement each other.

    5 favorite songs :
    1. WITNESS
    2. Save as draft
    3. Deja Vu
    4. Roulette
    5. Pendulum
  17. renansantanakc
    Jun 9, 2017
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. O emadurecimento da Katy nesse álbum é magnifico, pude perceber a emoção na voz dela nas faixas, Hey Hey Hey é uma batida bem contagiante, Witness uma balada romântica,Save As Draft sem dúvidas é um hino impecável,o álbum todo está maravilhoso,Katy Perry eu te venero!… Expand
  18. policarpog
    Jun 9, 2017
    9
    I think that katy perry showed to the world how she had grown up, in Witness we can see that lived the teenager dream fellings e create a new katy perry, with a lot of quality and fun. i'm so glad that i could managed to witnessed this perfection
  19. najetidarraga
    Jun 9, 2017
    9
    Experimentó con nuevos sonidos, se reinventó en este álbum y es algo para rescatar, las canciones inspiran, esto es lo que debe hacer un artista, asombroso su trabajo se atrevió a lanzarse en contra de lo que todos esperaban
  20. 4TuneCoKey
    Jun 9, 2017
    0
    I listened to the album last night while I was already on bed. I was excited. And then I dozed off halfway of the album. When I woke up, it's already 8 AM. The tunes lull me to sleep. This album is Perry's worst. Lackluster and totally boring.
  21. JaggedLittlePil
    Jun 9, 2017
    4
    So disappointed. I really liked the first 3 singles, but they with Roulette, Witness and Save As Draft are the only good tracks on this album . I think it is too boring, the tracks sound like they're all the same, it's dull and monotonous, full of filler. I'm sorry Katy, but this is a really bad album.
  22. RyanStan
    Jun 9, 2017
    0
    Tremenda porquería, super básica como siempre, ni con un batallón de escritores y productores se digna a hacer algo decente. Esta mierda no ha alcanzado el #1 ni en 40 países en iTunes y ya se esta desplomando, no tiene éxito ni calidad, o obviamente tampoco Grammys.
  23. nroBXL
    Jun 9, 2017
    3
    where's the magic from "prism"? The lyrics are more mature, true. but no real memorable songs on this album. And the UK and US chart performances of the first singles are proving me right.
  24. jlbiojan
    Jun 9, 2017
    10
    Her best album so far. I can't understand why music critics hates her and gives her low ratings. This one is a masterpiece, believe it or not. Probably be a hit!
  25. sgtoitnb
    Jun 10, 2017
    0
    em comparação aos anteriores esse álbum é fraco demais, faixas como deja vu e mind maze te fazem desistir do álbum, as únicas boas são os singles lançados antes do álbum e ainda sim não são lá isso tudo em comparação ao teenage dream
  26. JadenCarter
    Jun 9, 2017
    1
    The all-new ‘woke’ Katy isn’t just about giving you decent things to dance to on a Friday night or up-tempo fluff for your gym playlist. Instead, she’s pushing the sleek, chart-friendly empowerment of ‘Roar’ and ‘Firework’ even further, into socially aware electropop territory, like ‘The Fame’ period Lady Gaga doing an evening class at SOAS.
  27. RaphaelGalvao
    Jun 17, 2017
    0
    É horrível isso, horrível, horrível, horrível, horrível, um espanto, horrível, horroroso, me fez mal. jesus, muito ruim esse álbum, parece feito por iniciantes
  28. MusicReviewsUS
    Jun 9, 2017
    2
    4 long years of wait that’s the first thing I can say about this .... didn’t expect much but also didn’t expect it very low we all had heard demos that were liked since last year and even after they are added to the album and it is called like that. The album it self it’s pretty basic only 4-5 songs can be saved from it the rest is just full in songs all sound the same and heavy auto tune4 long years of wait that’s the first thing I can say about this .... didn’t expect much but also didn’t expect it very low we all had heard demos that were liked since last year and even after they are added to the album and it is called like that. The album it self it’s pretty basic only 4-5 songs can be saved from it the rest is just full in songs all sound the same and heavy auto tune also releasing the singles which aren’t that great and all of them with feats wasn’t a good choice you can’t just do it to be integrated to the popular now days you ruined good chances for doing that. For an album that took 4 years to make we expected more and I can’t see any of the songs being a hit.… Expand
  29. elijahpandlr
    Jun 9, 2017
    6
    INTRO
    WITNESS 10/10 - Uma das melhores músicas da Katy
    AS MELHORES HEY HEY HEY 8/10 - A música é ótima, tem um pré refrão arrebatador, mas o refrão podia ser melhor. ROULETTE 10/10 - Uma das melhores músicas da Katy Perry, é uma Gaga + Kylie. SWISH SWISH 10/10 - Uma das melhores do ano. AS PIORES DEJAVU 0/10 - A música é extremamente monótoma, não tem ápice e não é cativante. POWER    INTRO
    WITNESS 10/10 - Uma das melhores músicas da Katy
    AS MELHORES
    HEY HEY HEY 8/10 - A música é ótima, tem um pré refrão arrebatador, mas o refrão podia ser melhor.
    ROULETTE 10/10 - Uma das melhores músicas da Katy Perry, é uma Gaga + Kylie.
    SWISH SWISH 10/10 - Uma das melhores do ano.
    AS PIORES
    DEJAVU 0/10 - A música é extremamente monótoma, não tem ápice e não é cativante.
    POWER 0/10 - A música é tão bagunçada que se torna irritante ouvir.
    Mind Maze 5/10 - Nice try…
    Miss You More 6/10 - Não é ruim, mas tá longe de ser boa. Podia ter uma letra melhor.
    PRECISA OUVIR MAIS DE UMA VEZ
    Chained to the Rhythm 10/10 - A príncipio a música soa mediano, mas depois da terceira vez escutando você percebe que tudo casa na música. Inclusive Skip Marley, que carrega a melhor parte da música.
    Tsunami 0/10 - ?
    Bon Appetit 8/10 - Com o clipe melhora.
    Bigger than Me 6/10 - O começo da música parece Bon Appetit. Ouvi três vezes e continua esquecível.
    Save As Draft 6/10 - Preciso ouvir mais vezes, é esquecível.
    ENCERRAMENTO
    Pendulum 3/10 - A música é ruim, não entendi os elogios sobre ela, o que salva é o coro.
    Into Me You See 5/10 - Me lembra vagamente Pearl no refrão, mas é fraca.
    Se o álbum focasse mais nas farofas, teria sido melhor. Sempre achei a Katy boa em baladas (Thinking of You, Pearl, Ghost, Unco, TOTGA… Mas essas estão péssimas)    … Expand
  30. andrew030798
    Jun 15, 2017
    10
    Such an amazing comeback from Katy! The four year wait was well worth it. Witness and Pendulum are definitely the two best songs on the album but every song is great!
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

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  2. Mixed: 13 out of 20
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  1. The Line of Best Fit
    Aug 13, 2020
    75
    While it's certainly missing any form of coherency, Witness does feel like you're growing with Perry - going on this journey that's helped her find new ground and a reinvigorated appreciation for all walks of the pop music spectrum.
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  2. Prefix Magazine
    Jul 6, 2017
    70
    While she may have slipped down the pecking order, Witness proves she’s still a more interesting pop star than she’s often given credit for.
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  3. Drowned In Sound
    Jun 28, 2017
    50
    It’s a real shame Witness has come out as a bit of a disjointed mess, as there’s a decent record somewhere in there, but it gets lost in the fog of endless guest productions and co-writes that miss the point entirely.
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