New Music: Katy Perry Fourth Studio Album "Prism" vs Lady Gaga Third Studio Album "Art Pop"

Prism is the upcoming fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry. The album is scheduled to be released on October 22, 2013, by Capitol Records, as the follow up to her third album, Teenage Dream (2010). The album is preceded by the release of its lead single, "Roar", which made its radio debut on August 10, 2013 and was released onto iTunes and YouTube on August 12, 2013.

"This new song is called 'Roar.' It's a bit of a self-empowering type of song," she said. "I wrote it because I was sick of keeping all these feelings inside and not speaking up for myself, which caused a lot of resentment." She went on to say that she has been to therapy since her last album, which influenced her new music."Obviously I've been through a lot of therapy since my last record and that's what this is about," she said. Although Perry did not specifically say that the therapy was a result of her divorce from comedian Russell Brand, the timing does coincide. Brand filed for divorce from the pop star in late December 2011 after just over a year of marriage. Her last album, "Teenage Dream," originally hit shelves in 2010; an updated release came out in March 2012. 

Perry told Billboard in late 2012 that she wants to take some time off before starting recording her third album, stating: "I'm an adult and what I'm not going to do is hurry up to fail, to shoot myself in the foot. I need to live so I have something worth singing about. That's always been the case for me." She also stated: "I know exactly the record I want to make next. I know the artwork, the coloring and the tone..... I even know what type of tour I'm doing next. I'll be very pleased if the vision I have in my head becomes a reality." However, Perry mentioned that she does not want the album to be a "Teenage Dream 2.0", stating: "That would be silly. It's not of any interest for me to try and outdo myself at every corner. 

Katy Perry's promotional gold 18-wheeler truck was hit by an alleged drunk driver on Friday (August 9). According to TMZ, the incident occurred while the truck was parked in a lot outside a Walmart store in Pennsylvania. Perry wasn't inside the truck at the time and nobody was injured in the collision. Perry later used Twitter to reassure fans that the truck, which displays the title and release date of her forthcoming album 'Prism', hasn't been seriously damaged.

Download Katy Perry's new single "Roar" in iTunes

 

Lady Gaga might live to regret pushing the release of “Applause” forward a week. Instead of leaping to number one within hours as many observers expected, the highly-anticipated single failed to topple Katy Perry‘s “Roar” from the top spot and then, to add insult to injury, fell back to number three this afternoon (August 15) behind Robin Thicke‘s all-conquering “Blurred Lines”. The one-spot drop was enough to spook Little Monsters and many began to wonder if the DJ White Shadow-produced ode to hip surgery was, in fact, flopping. It didn’t take Gaga long to go into damage control — jumping on Twitter to point out the track’s international success and reminding fans that “Applause” doesn’t officially impact radio until August 19. Mother Monster is right, of course. It’s way too early to call “Applause” a chart disappointment but it must be unsettling that Katy has dominated so overwhelmingly. See Lady Gaga’s tweets and some highlights from the fan meltdown after the jump.

Lady Gaga's ARTPOP is still a a few months away, but the pop star has been steeling herself for backlash in many of her early public statements about the LP. "Dont focus on ANY blogger criticism. I have been a producer/songwriter/musician for over 10 years. Trust the artist bloggers are not critics," she tweeted on August 11. In a follow-up post, she added, "#STOPHarassingTheArtist we are here to entertain you." Discussing the decision making which went into choosing the album's lead single, she added: "It's an incredible process choosing the first single. You just play the music and see who gets drunk and takes their shirt off first." Meanwhile, producer DJ White Shadow – who worked with Gaga on the record – said that the singer had written a huge mass of material for the LP. "It's a result of her dedication," he said. "We wrote 70-100 songs over the course of two and half years. This time we tried to have as much fun as we possibly could and then brought them to our friends and said, 'What do you think?'"

The concepts and themes of the album began developing in December 2011. While performing a concert in Australia, Gaga previewed a song titled "Princess Die", a song with suicidal themes that was written about Princess Diana and her death. Gaga stated that the version of "Princess Die" she performed likely will not be included on Artpop, but a more upbeat dance version of the track may possibly make the final tracklist. She also declared that this album will demonstrate a "lack of maturity and responsibility", and that Artpop is contrast to the themes that were displayed in her previous album Born This Way. In November, Gaga revealed via her Twitter that she wrote "like 50 songs" to be considered for inclusion on Artpop. In an interview with Ryan Seacrest, Gaga revealed that “ARTPOP is a celebration and a poetic musical journey through my friends and I hanging out and enjoying being pop stars.” Gaga described the album as being a "reverse Warholian experience." The Warholian experience is a direct reference to artist Andy Warhol, whose philosphophy was to take popular things and make them art. Gaga's goal with ARTPOP is to do the opposite of this. On her website during 2012, Gaga revealed that Artpop will contain complextro, J-pop, dance and what she describes as "underground gay Chicago trap." Gaga and her producers took an experimental approach to the album. According to producer Zedd, "There was one song that started from her just giving me, like, ten words to describe an emotion, and then I had to make this into music." According to Gaga, the point of Artpop is so pop and art can have an exchange. Gaga was much happier when writing this album than she was with her previous albums. She described Artpop as her "first real album" and that it emulated a "phoenix rising from the ashes."

Here are the complete confirm tracks from Lady Gaga New Album "Art Pop" :

1. Applause
2. Tea
3. GUY (Girl Under You)
4. Burqa
5. Aura
6. Ratchet feat. Azealia Banks
7. Red Flame feat. Azealia Banks
8. Sex Dreams
9. Mary Jane Holland
10. ARTPOP
11. Swine

 Download Lady Gaga's new single "Applause" in iTunes