Conventional Pop, no more, no less

Katy Perry stands for mass and radio-friendly pop to easy knitting patterns. With "Prism" has delivered in this way, another, on the whole, successful album with passable song material without significant surprises or significant developments. And why, as long as your current style arrives at the listeners, what you do not have to call into question in view of the success of their current single "Roar".

Despite flawless production and polyphonic arrangements remains "Prism" clearly behind "Teenage Dream" back. It is, as I said, quite successful, a great success, it is not. The vigorous and pop up-tempo stuff like "Roar" or "Birthday" work well, "Dark Horse" can only be described as a small highlight, but just at the slower tracks like "Ghost" or "Double Rainbow" is weakening Perry, whose voice objectively also not one of the strongest in the pop business. Since the quieter songs, almost all come at the end of the album, "Prism" in the last third loses unfortunately recognizable momentum because another dramaturgy of the CD would have been good. But besides a few lukewarm tracks like "Unconditionally" have crept in that are simply irrelevant and detract from the overall impression recognizable.

In sum, to get back to the opening statement, is "Prism" halt OK, no more, no less.