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"Linda Perry has blamed Katy Perry&amp;#039;s style of music for declining album sales. The rock star and songwriter, who has penned hits for Christina Aguilera, Pink and Gwen Stefani, described Katy&amp;#039;s Teenage Dream album as &amp;quot;s**t&amp;quot;, using it as an example of why the music industry is in &amp;quot;turmoil&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not a huge fan of Adele but that&amp;#039;s a solid record... and it&amp;#039;s selling. That means people are still buying records,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s the crappy, like, who wants a Katy Perry record? I&amp;#039;m sorry, but you&amp;#039;re going to get the two songs that are probably the hits that are good, but the rest of the album is going to be crap. It&amp;#039;s going to sound like s**t. &amp;quot;So people download the single, and that&amp;#039;s it. She&amp;#039;s great for what she does, but she&amp;#039;s not reinventing the wheel, she&amp;#039;s not giving substance, she&amp;#039;s just giving microwave popcorn to feast on right at this moment. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s not looking to change the world musically, so all the power to her. I&amp;#039;m not saying that&amp;#039;s bad, I&amp;#039;m saying it&amp;#039;s not what I participate in. That&amp;#039;s part of the reason why the music business is in turmoil.&amp;quot;  Katy Perry recently matched Michael Jackson&amp;#039;s chart record by gaining five number one singles in the US from one album. &amp;gt; Katy Perry: &amp;#039;Breaking chart record is bigger than my dreams&amp;#039; Watch Linda Perry discuss Katy Perry below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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