11 Rise Katy Perry

In retrospect, it’s ironic how a song about rising from the bottom actually marked the fall of the once-reigning pop queen. A year before releasing the garbage fire that is her album Witness, Perry recorded this pedestrian number for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, and it sounds like a retread of her past hits

Wide Awake and Unconditionally. Like the parachute she drags around in the visually ambitious music video, she’s weighed down by the plodding melody and faux-inspiring lyrics.