The megastar Katy Perry wants to drop some 4 (love) on the world, but it feels more like 5 (bland) than anything. The most troubling part of this album is that everything feels uninspiring or trying to create deep connections with some really basic level lyricism. A good amount of the songs feel quite forgettable because they come so fast and don’t really leave an impact lyrically or sonically, like with the songs “All of the Love” and “Truth.”. The songs on here that are not good on this album lean on either a troupe of using an older song as a sample to invoke feeling, like on “I'm his, he’s mine,” or the production of the song was just quite terrible, like on “Artificial.”. It feels like she is trying to recapture her old sound and glory at times, and it kind of works on "crush,” but then she really tries too hard to recapture that old energy in the song “wonder” by using a child's voice to give the song some introspection and have a great chorus, but overall feels subpar to her earlier hits like “roar” or "firework." Lyrical, the songs either feel too straightforward and lack any creative subtlety, like on “Women's World."  Always good to hear an empowering song, but it feels phoned in. Then you have lyrics on “artificial” talking about real and fake love and it just feels like she wants to use current hot topic ideas to work into her music to keep herself relevant. The features on the album all tend to hold their own but ultimately just feel forgettable. Like a flash in the pan moment that doesn't really pay off well. Her vocals on the record do range from sounding powerful and energetic to bland and misguided. It feels most of her performances get bogged down by weird styles like on “gorgeous” or on “woman's world." Just a few songs on here are okay to listen to, but with her stellar backlog of hits, it's sad that the best songs on here just don't hit like her older stuff. For someone as big and talented as she is, this just feels highly underwhelming and undercooked.