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Witness
Katy Perry with blond short hair. She covers her eyes with her hands as an eyeball is visible inside her mouth as her lips are slightly parted.
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 9, 2017 (2017-06-09)
Studio
Various
    • MXM Studios (Los Angelas, CA and Stockholm, Sweden)
    • Wolf Cousins Studios (Stockholm)
    • Lama Lama Studios (Los Angeles)
    • Unsub Studios (Los Angeles)
    • Blase Boys Club Studios
    • Jungle City Studios (New York, NY)
    • Glenwood Place Studios (Burbank, CA)
    • Secret Garden Studios (Santa Barbara, CA)
    • The Grove Studios (Australia)
    • Tree Sound Studios (Atlanta, Georgia)
    • The Record Plant (Los Angeles)
    • Henson Studios (Los Angeles)
    • Green Oak Studios (Los Angeles)
    • Snow Problem Park Place Plaza
Length57:28
LabelCapitol
Producer
Katy Perry chronology
Prism
(2013)
Witness
(2017)
Singles from Witness
  1. "Chained to the Rhythm"
    Released: February 10, 2017
  2. "Bon Appétit"
    Released: April 28, 2017
  3. "Swish Swish"
    Released: May 19, 2017

Witness is the fifth studio album by American singer Katy Perry. Capitol Records released it on June 9, 2017. The album's lead single, "Chained to the Rhythm", featuring Skip Marley, was released on February 10, 2017. The second single, "Bon Appétit", featuring hip hop group Migos, followed on April 28, 2017. "Swish Swish", featuring Nicki Minaj, was released as the third single on May 19, 2017.

Production

Following the release of her fourth album Prism in 2013 and the end of the Prismatic World Tour in October 2015, Perry told The New York Times in February 2016 that she was in the "research and development phase" of a new album.[2] She decided to take a hiatus after the tour concluded to "give my mental health a break" before starting to write new songs the following June.[3] Perry felt "refreshed" after the hiatus, and had over 40 tracks "in progress" before the year ended.[4] In August, the singer stated that she aspired to make material "that connects and relates and inspires"[5] and told Ryan Seacrest that she was "not rushing" her fifth album, adding "I'm just having a lot of fun, but experimenting and trying different producers, and different collaborators, and different styles".[6] In February 2017, Perry stated that the album was "definitely a new era for me" and "an era of purposeful pop" she was proud of.[7] Later that month, she told Capital FM that "I've got something swirling, but I think I want to put out some songs first before I give them the full meal".[8] The following May, Perry revealed to Entertainment Weekly that the album will include 15 of the 40 songs she wrote for it, and described the record as "fun and dance-y and dark and light".[9]

Artwork

Commenting on the concept of the album cover, Perry said, "Music has allowed me to travel, which has reeducated my mind and changed my perspective on so much, so my education and my consciousness comes from my voice, and that's how I see, and that's how I witness you and that's how you witness me and that's why the eye is in the mouth."[10]

Promotion

In February 2017, Spotify announced that it would run a campaign to promote the album up to its release the following the summer.[11] Three months later, YouTube announced that it would broadcast a live listen-along special for the album titled Katy Perry Live Special the day before its release where audiences are taken "inside of her world" and she shall "break it all down".[12] On May 15, Perry confirmed the album would be titled Witness and would be released through Capitol Records on June 9, 2017. She also announced that the concert tour supporting the album, titled Witness: The Tour, would run in North America from September 2017 to February 2018.[13] Tickets purchased would include a copy of the album.[14]

Perry performed "Chained to the Rhythm" at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards on February 12, 2017 alongside Skip Marley. They performed the track again later at the 2017 Brit Awards on February 22, and the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards on March 5.[15][16][17] On May 20, Perry performed "Swish Swish" and "Bon Appétit" on the Saturday Night Live season 42 finale.[18][19] On May 22, she appeared in the Carpool Karaoke segment on The Late Late Show with James Corden.[20]

On June 8, Perry streamed an acoustic concert on her YouTube channel with a countdown leading up to the album's release. Afterwards, it was revealed she would be staying in a Big Brother-type house, where there is a 24 hour broadcast on YouTube.[21]

Singles

The album's lead single, "Chained to the Rhythm" featuring Skip Marley, was released on February 10, 2017.[22][23] It went on to top the charts in Hungary[24] while reaching number four in the United States.[25] The second single, "Bon Appétit" with Migos, followed on April 28, 2017.[22] "Swish Swish", featuring Nicki Minaj, was released as the third single on May 19, 2017. It was produced by Duke Dumont.[26]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic56/100[27]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[28]
The A.V. ClubC–[29]
Consequence of SoundC[30]
The Daily Telegraph[31]
Entertainment WeeklyB[32]
The Guardian[33]
NME[34]
Rolling Stone[35]
Slant Magazine [36]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 56, based on 10 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".[27] Wren Graves from Consequence of Sound gave the album a rating of C. He listed "Swish Swish", "Power", and "Déjà Vu" as essential tracks, but felt that most of the other songs were more of a "filler", and that a lack of cohesiveness with Perry's output made Witness inferior to her previous material.[30] Kevin O'Donnell of Entertainment Weekly gave it a B rating stating, "Perry is reflective, anxious, and fired up on Witness", highlighting "Déjà Vu" and "Swish Swish" as the best tracks.[32] USA Today's Maeve McDermott commended the album for being "sonically coherent" and noted it as a personal record, rather than the politically charged marketing campaign it had received. She explained that "Witness finds Perry in a troubled mood, dominated by gloomy synth-pop that's sonically cohesive but rarely joyful, a departure from candy-colored singles of her earlier career."[37] Hannah J. Davies of The Guardian gave the album a rating of 4 out of 5 stars, writing that the singer "still has a flair for tunes that quickly seep into the collective consciousness" and praised "Swish Swish" as "a house-fuelled banger with undeniable groove", though felt that "Perry's heartfelt ballads feel tacked on in the face of all this weirdness".[33] Leonie Cooper from NME gave it the same rating and noted that the album did not display any subtlety in the music, complimenting it for "[delivering] important messages about female autonomy to a young audience, it's surely better to shout than whisper".[34] Giving Witness 3 out of 5 stars, Christopher R. Weingarten wrote in his review for Rolling Stone that it was comparable to the contemporary popular artists, but the songs blended "into the rest of the radio". He also did not like how Perry's voice was "devoured in effects and reverb".[35] Sal Cinquemani gave the same score, praising the empowerment themes within "Hey Hey Hey" and "Power", though ultimately felt that the record "lacks both the big hooks that propelled Perry's past hits up the charts and the conceptual and sonic focus to give her pop real purpose."[36]

AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album 2 out of 5 stars, saying it felt "relentless and a shade desperate" and called the record "a conceptual muddle". He added that Witness "erodes whatever adult contemporary progress Perry made with Prism."[28] The Daily Telegraph journalist Neil McCormick gave Witness the same rating, and panned the usage of the term "purposeful pop" for the songs. He found Witness to be musically repetitive, explaining that within the multitude of people working on the record, Perry's "individual talent" was lost making "Witness [sound like] someone trying to cover too many bases".[31] Writing for The Independent, Andy Gill also rated the record 2 out of 5 stars. He criticized the production of the tracks, especially the ones by Max Martin, describing them as "identical to everyone else's". Gill ended the review saying that tracks listed towards the end of Witness were "far more interesting".[38] Mikael Wood from Los Angeles Times shared a similar view in his analysis of the album. Wood was critical of the musical direction on Witness, the supposed "purposeful pop" being lost in the tracks and Perry's singing. He listed "Chained to the Rhythm" and "Swish Swish" as highlights.[39] Variety writer Chris Willman did not feel album was "the kind of obvious smash to which all of America would plainly say: Baby, you're a firework", but asserted it "counts at least as a sparkler — the kind you hold in your hand for 45 seconds in the summer, if not the enduring".[40]

Track listing

Witness – Standard edition[41]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Witness"
  • Martin
  • Payami
4:10
2."Hey Hey Hey"
  • Martin
  • Payami
3:34
3."Roulette"
3:18
4."Swish Swish" (featuring Nicki Minaj)
4:02
5."Déjà Vu"
James3:17
6."Power"Garratt3:46
7."Mind Maze"
Purity Ring4:08
8."Miss You More"
  • Perry
  • Payami
  • Roddick
  • S. Hudson
  • James
Purity Ring3:54
9."Chained to the Rhythm" (featuring Skip Marley)
  • Martin
  • Payami
3:57
10."Tsunami"
[42]3:23
11."Bon Appétit" (featuring Migos)
  • Martin
  • Shellback
  • Holter
3:47
12."Bigger Than Me"
  • Perry
  • S. Hudson
  • Roddick
  • James
  • Holter
Purity Ring4:00
13."Save as Draft"
3:48
14."Pendulum"
  • Bhasker
  • Illangelo[a]
4:00
15."Into Me You See"Hot Chip[1]4:24
Total length:57:28
Witness Target exclusive and UK / Japan deluxe edition[43][44][45]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
16."Dance with the Devil"
Snow3:49
17."Act My Age"
3:42
Total length:64:59
Witness – Japan limited deluxe edition[46]
No.TitleLength

Sample credits

Notes

  • ^[a] – additional production

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes.[47]

  • Nelson Beato – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Jeff Bhasker – producer, keyboards and drums programming (track 14)
  • Cory Bice – assistant engineer (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 9, 11); engineer (track 17)
  • Edie Lehmann Boddicker – vocal contracting, gospel choir conducting, gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Alexandra Brown – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Denise Carite – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Charlean Carmon – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Carmen Carter – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Bradford Cobb - management
  • Tom Coyne – mastering (track 9)
  • Mark Crew – production, keyboards, programming (track 17)
  • Aubry Delaine – additional engineering, Nicki Minaj vocal recording (track 4)
  • Francesco Donadello – engineer (track 15)
  • Monique Donnelly – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Duke Dumont – producer, synths, drums, programming (track 4)
  • Carmel Echols – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Luke Edgemon – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Anthony Evans – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Tinashe Fazakerley – electric guitar, bass, programming (track 17)
  • Iain Findlay – vocal assistant engineering (Nicki Minaj's vocals, track 4)
  • Rachael Findlen – engineer (tracks 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17); vocal production (tracks: 7, 8)
  • Nicole Franz – art direction
  • Sia Furler – background vocals (track 9)
  • Jack Garratt – production, all instruments (track 6)
  • James Alan Ghaleb – guitar (track 9)
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing
  • Jim Gilstrap – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Lauren Gluckman – A&R
  • John Hanes – mixing engineer
  • Ngoc Hoang – management
  • Sam Holland – engineer (track 1, 3, 9, 11, 17)
  • Oscar Holter – keys (track 11, 12); production, vocal production, programming (track 12)
  • Casey Hooper – guitars (track 10)
  • Stephen Hybicki – engineer (track 10)
  • Illangelo – additional production, additional drum programming (track 14)
  • Ilya – production, programming, arranging, drums, percussion, guitars, bass, keys (track 17)
  • Clydene Jackson – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Hayden James – production; guitar, bass, background vocals, synths (track 5)
  • Steven Jensen – management
  • Peter Karlsson – vocal editing (tracks 1, 2, 3, 9, 11, 14); additional vocal production (track 8); percussion (track 9)
  • Martin Kirkup – management
  • Briana Lee – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Isaac Lekach – management
  • Jeremy Lertola – assistant engineer (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 9, 11); engineer (track 17)
  • David Loucks – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Elof Loelv – production, engineer, programming, drums, bass, piano, synthesizers (track 14)
  • Ted Lovett – layout
  • Skip Marley – featured vocals, background vocals (track 9)
  • Max Martin – background vocals, programming, Prophet 6, solina (track 9), percussion; acoustic guitar (track 8); vocal production (tracks: 8, 13)
  • Migos – featured vocals (track 11)
  • Jamie McCrary – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Randy Merrill – mastering
  • Zeke Mishanec – assistant engineer (track 4)
  • Ryan Nasci – engineer (track 14)
  • Dustin O'Halloran – producer, all instruments, arrangement (track 15)
  • Pino Palldino – bass (track 14)
  • Noah Passovoy – additional keys, programming (track 4, 10); engineer (tracks: 4, 6, 10, 14, 16, 17), vocal production (tracks 5, 6, 10, 14, 16, 17); vocal editing (track 7, 12); additional production (tracks 4, 10); percussion (track 10)
  • Ali Payami – acoustic guitar (track 1); drums, bass, synths, piano (tracks: 1, 8, 9); additional vocal production, programming, keys, electric guitar, background vocals, production (track 8); percussion (tracks: 8, 9); hand claps (track 9)
  • Louis Price – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Katy Perry – background vocals (tracks: 3, 9), vocals
  • Daryl McPherson – Migos vocal production
  • Joshua Moreau – bass (track 10)
  • Corin Roddick – production, vocal production (track 12)
  • David Rudnick – front and back cover art direction
  • Scooly – production (track 10)
  • Aretha Scruggs – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Tony Scruggs – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Shellback – production; background vocals (track 3); keys, programming (track 11)
  • PJ Sledge – keyboards (track 4)
  • Felix Snow – production, vocal manipulations, programming, guitar (track 16)
  • Thomas Stell – synths (track 5)
  • Carmen Twillie – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Oren Waters – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Will Wheaton – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Mike Will Made It – production (track 10)
  • Eyvonne Williams – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Brandon Winbush – gospel studio choir (track 14)
  • Jason Woods – gospel studio choir (track 14)

Release history

Region Date Format Ref.
Various June 9, 2017 [48]
August 11, 2017 Vinyl [49]

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