1 Teenage Dream - 3:47
2 Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) - 3:50
3 California Gurls - 3:55
4 Firework - 3:48
5 Peacock - 3:51
6 Circle the Drain - 4:32
7 The One That Got Away - 3:47
8 E.T. - 3:26
9 Who Am I Living For? - 4:08
10 Pearl - 4:08
11 Hummingbird Heartbeat - 3:32
12 Not Like the Movies - 4:01
13 The One That Got Away [Acoustic Version] - 4:19
14 Part of Me - 3:36
15 Wide Awake - 3:41
16 Dressin' Up - 3:44
17 E.T. - 3:50
18 Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) - 3:59
19 Tommie Sunshine's Megasix Smash-Up - 7:03
Blessed with a cheerleader's body, a girl-next-door face, and a drama-club queen's lust for the spotlight,
Katy Perry presents herself as a curvy
Teenage Dream, the ideal she puts forth on her 2010 sophomore set.
Perry doesn’t have great ambitions in mind: all she wants is the spotlight, and she’ll follow the path of others to get there, raising eyebrows à la
Alanis, strutting like
Gwen Stefani, and relying on
Britney’s hitmaker
Max Martin for her hooks. There's no question
Perry knows all the rules in pop and follows them to the letter: she never breaks away from the expected lite club beats that transition from day to night without a hitch, or the chilly, stainless steel ballads designed to lose none of their luster on repeat plays.
Perry acknowledges some shifting trends -- she salutes
Ke$ha on "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)," replicates
Ryan Tedder’s glassy robotic alienation on "E.T.," and tellingly avoids ripping off
Lady Gaga -- but these are merely accents to her
One of the Boys palette.
Perry is at her best when she’s delivering sleek singles like "Teenage Dream" and "Hummingbird Heartbeat" with efficiency. [The Complete Confection, a 2012 reissue of
Teenage Dream, featured three new songs and several remakes, including a version of "E.T" with
Kanye West, a version of "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" with
Missy Elliott, and an acoustic version of "The One That Got Away," plus a seven-minute
Tommy Sunshine megamix of her six chart-topping singles.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi