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The Katy Perry – Robyn Feud That Shouldn't Be

When you’re a musician talking about another musician, even the slightest tinder of a comment can start a brushfire that’s re-ignitable by the merest Google search. It doesn’t matter whether it’s outright criticism or just a void where the diss would go. The world wants feuds, and by golly, it will have them. Case in point: Swedish pop star Robyn, opening for Katy Perry’s California Dreams tour, made this giggly/pointed comment in a Time Out interview:

As disses go, this one’s pretty wink-wink, but fans and haters alike interpreted it the same way: Robyn and Katy Perry have beef. Potentially tour-trampling beef. When Nicki Minaj passing on Britney’s European tour dates can get U.S. sites in a tizzy, you can imagine how much of a problem this could be, enough that Robyn had to shoot the rumors down in a mea non culpa MTV interview :

She’s got a point: while male artists certainly raise beef and ignite fan wars, rarely do they rise to the no-explanation-needed level of Britney vs. Christina or, this year, Adele vs. anybody else. But there’s more to the Katy Perry/Robyn un-feud that makes it so plausible at first: the idea of authenticity.

There are the surface arguments, of course. Robyn’s a left-field alternative pop star (who used to be a mainstream pop star , but nobody brings that up in these arguments) with an asymmetric haircut and boyish look; Katy Perry’s fully mainstream and fully enhanced with pinup makeup. Robyn’s sung about sex in “Hang with Me,” but to our knowledge, whipped cream’s never been shot out of any part of her costume. Robyn’s videos find her awkwardly punching the air ; Katy’s have her lying nude on top of clouds.

Take a closer look at the two artists, however, and things get more complicated. The “artificial” argument, for instance, falls apart like cheap polyester. There’s plenty of processing on Robyn’s voice, then and now; meanwhile, Katy Perry claims not to use Autotune , and even on studio recordings, her vocals tend toward the gruff. Katy Perry’s singles are built from the latest, most ubiquitous sounds in Dr. Luke and Max Martin’s everpresent production catalog–”California Gurls” sounds like “TiK ToK” and so forth–but Robyn’s just mining a slightly different quarry of dance beats, and she’s got plenty of Max Martin in her repertoire anyway.

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