After seven years as a decide on American Idol, it's Katy Perry's flip to face suggestions — and her newest critic isn't holding again.

Over the weekend, musician Steven James shared his response to one of many singer-songwriter's new tracks, "OK," in a now-viral video.

"This could’t be the identical one who eradicated me on American Idol 5 years in the past," James wrote over the TikTok video, which sees him grimacing via the music and giving the digital camera the aspect eye because it performs.

Commenters have been fast to pile-on under the video, with one TikTok consumer writing, "Seems like a theme music of a PBS youngsters present," whereas one other added, "Rattling, whenever you put it that means."

The monitor arrived earlier this month as a part of 1432, a deluxe model of Perry's current LP, 143. The brand new version got here with 4 additional tracks, together with, “OK."

This previous yr has marked huge adjustments for Perry, who introduced her exit from the ABC singing competitors sequence in February, hinting that her step again would give her extra time to deal with making music. Perry first joined American Idol for season 16 in 2018 and through her tenure, dropped 2020's Smile, which turned her first LP of unique materials since 2010's Teenage Dream to not debut atop the American charts.

Perry's newest album, 143, dropped in September and has been largely panned by critics. Perry additionally confronted backlash because of the album's lead single, "Girl's World," being touted as a female-empowerment anthem regardless of being produced by Dr. Luke, who was engaged in a years-long authorized battle with singer-songwriter Kesha after she accused him of sexually assaulting her.

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Perry addressed the criticism throughout an look on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast, explaining, "I perceive that it began plenty of conversations, and he was one among many collaborators that I collaborated with. However, the truth is it comes from me. The reality is I wrote these songs from my expertise of my complete life going via this metamorphosis, and he was one of many folks to assist facilitate all that, one of many writers, one of many producers."

CORRECTION: The picture on this story beforehand misidentified musician James Bay as Steven James. The picture has been corrected to point out Steven James.

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