The Guardian: "Perry's solo return is a dated attempt at writing a feminist anthem about how women really can have it all! It's a song that made me feel stupider every sorry time I listened to it ... this garbage has 6 writers."

The Cut: "Everything about the rollout for her new album, 143, reeks of desperation. I...] Perry is stuck in 2016 [...] In the end, the song comes off so forgettable, so cringe, that it overshadows the blatant hypocrisy of having an alleged predator produce it."

Insider Entertainment: "Katy Perry's new song 'Woman's World' isn't as bad as we feared. It's worse. It is not a good song, not by any measure. It has all the warmth and charisma of an Al chatbot, all the bomb-like subtlety of a "Saturday Night Live" parody."

Pitchfork: With its pulsating synths and steamroller chorus, “Woman’s World” is clearly modeled on Lady Gaga’s 2020 single “Stupid Love,” a brazen return to form that successfully launched Gaga into the second act of her career. There seems to have been a miscalculation, though: “Stupid Love” worked not because of its sound but because it took the core elements of Gaga’s music—slightly nonsensical lyrics, acid-trip concept, a general struggle with vowels—and turned them up to 11. It’s mystifying why Perry would have chosen to mount her comeback with a vaguely political song—you just get the sense that she just doesn’t really like or care about this stuff.

Oof

I can't get past the fact that she partnered with Dr Luke to do a song about women's empowerment. 🙄

A widely condemned rapist writes a song about girl power and gets puppet Perry to sing & strip on it. The irony just clogged my earbuds.

@High King said:

The Guardian: "Perry's solo return is a dated attempt at writing a feminist anthem about how women really can have it all! It's a song that made me feel stupider every sorry time I listened to it ... this garbage has 6 writers."

The Cut: "Everything about the rollout for her new album, 143, reeks of desperation. I...] Perry is stuck in 2016 [...] In the end, the song comes off so forgettable, so cringe, that it overshadows the blatant hypocrisy of having an alleged predator produce it."

Insider Entertainment: "Katy Perry's new song 'Woman's World' isn't as bad as we feared. It's worse. It is not a good song, not by any measure. It has all the warmth and charisma of an Al chatbot, all the bomb-like subtlety of a "Saturday Night Live" parody."

Pitchfork: With its pulsating synths and steamroller chorus, “Woman’s World” is clearly modeled on Lady Gaga’s 2020 single “Stupid Love,” a brazen return to form that successfully launched Gaga into the second act of her career. There seems to have been a miscalculation, though: “Stupid Love” worked not because of its sound but because it took the core elements of Gaga’s music—slightly nonsensical lyrics, acid-trip concept, a general struggle with vowels—and turned them up to 11. It’s mystifying why Perry would have chosen to mount her comeback with a vaguely political song—you just get the sense that she just doesn’t really like or care about this stuff.

Oof

Ouch they ripped her into pieces wow