allmusic ((( One of the Boys > Review )))
The problem is not with Katy’s gender-bending, it’s that her heart isn’t in it; she’s just using it to get her places, so she sinks to crass, craven depths that turn One of the Boys into a grotesque emblem of all the wretched excesses of this decade.
I haven’t heard more than a couple seconds of anything in Ms. Perry’s oeuvre (and thus don’t have a personal opinion of her work).
But, I will say that this is one of my favorite sentences to come from Mr. Stephen Erlewine. I wish all his reviews worked the back muscles this hard.
Source: allmusic.com
