Katy Perry relies on some girlboss feminism to dodge accountability over working with alleged abuser Dr. Luke
“I understand that it started a lot of conversations and he was one of many collaborators that I collaborated with. But the reality is, it comes from me,” Perry said when asked about Dr. Luke producing her new album. “The truth is, I wrote these songs from my experience of my whole life going through this metamorphosis, and he was one of the people to help facilitate all that. One of the writers, one of the producers. I am speaking from my own experience.
But the criticism isn’t that Luke is some puppet master behind her music; it’s about Perry working with an alleged abuser. The collaboration cast a shadow over her upcoming album.” Many observers felt it hypocritical of Perry to release a female empowerment anthem produced by a man who kept Kesha trapped in her contract and stuck in court for the better part of a decade.
All of this is fairly typical for a project coasting on the fumes of 2010s girlboss feminism. Perry has had months, if not years, to come up with a better answer as to why she’d choose to work with Luke again, and the best she could come up with is some vague word salad with some lip service to female empowerment in an attempt to shield herself from accountability. The
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