{"podcast":{"title":"Swiftologist","slug":"swiftologist-7774101","podcast_index_feed_id":7774101,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5168734.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5168734","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43537917.jpg","author":"Swiftologist","episode_count":20,"summary":"Swiftologist is the official audio feed of pop culture commentator Zachary Hourihane. Known for incisive analysis of Taylor Swift, pop music, celebrity branding, and internet discourse, Swiftologist offers smart, funny, and unfiltered commentary on the artists and stories shaping contemporary culture. From album reviews and career retrospectives to media criticism and pop industry analysis, this is where fandom meets critical thinking.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/swiftologist-7774101"},"episode":{"title":"2: How to Murder Your Career The Katy Perry Formula","slug":"2-how-to-murder-your-career-the-katy-perry-formula","published_at":"2026-03-19T02:10:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/swiftologist-7774101/2-how-to-murder-your-career-the-katy-perry-formula","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/swiftologist-7774101","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8875900","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8875900.mp3?modified=1773886601&sid=5168734&source=rss","summary":"Katy Perry had one of the most dominant commercial runs in pop history. Back-to-back number ones, sold-out arenas, a cultural footprint that rivalled anyone in the game. And then Witness happened — and things never fully recovered. This episode maps the anatomy of that collapse: the tonal miscalculation of reinventing herself as a \"purposeful pop\" artist when nobody asked, the disastrous live rollouts, the image decisions that felt like they were made by committee, and the way she kept doubling down instead of course-correcting. Then we get into the 143 era — which, somehow, managed to be worse. What makes Katy Perry's story different from a typical flop era is the scale of the fall and the visibility of every misstep. This isn't a story about bad luck. It's a story about what happens when an artist loses touch with the instincts that made them great — and what the industry does (and doesn't do) to help them find their way back.","meta_description":"Katy Perry had one of the most dominant commercial runs in pop history. Back-to-back number ones, sold-out arenas, a cultural footprint that rivalled anyo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4620,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/swiftologist-7774101/episodes/2-how-to-murder-your-career-the-katy-perry-formula/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/swiftologist-7774101/2-how-to-murder-your-career-the-katy-perry-formula.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}