“Teenage Dream” is arguably Katy Perry‘s signature song. One of the writers did not want to hand the track over to the “Dark Horse” singer, but she had to because she was in a desperate situation. The ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. A little more than a decade and a half ago, Katy Perry changed what ...

Don’t be fooled by the first two singles and the candy-covered “California Gurls” video: Katy Perry‘s second album, “Teenage Dream,” is not all sugar and rainbows. Two years after “One of the… By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Stargate, and a still-rising young gun named Benny Blanco in her corner, Perry constructed a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In "Teenage Dream," Olivia is basically saying "I'm sorry that I couldn't always be your teenage dream," potentially reflecting on ...

Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" becomes just the third album in the 18-year history of Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart to yield a quartet of No. 1s, as "E.T.," featuring Kanye West tops this week's… ...

Summer 2010 may have been a few years before Lorde's rise to fame, but we now know exactly what she was doing anyways: blasting Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" nonstop (just like the rest of us). Lorde ...