While the vast majority of 143 is summer-ready pop, “Artificial” provides a nice mid-album switch-up. The R&B-infused track features a rapid-fire verse from JID and a darker chorus about a dangerous, almost non-human affair. “Artificial” is the perfect yin to the rest of the album’s yang, which makes it an easy standout on the project.

Katy Perry’s new album, “143,” is hardly the comeback that she needed. It’s as if she became a has-been before her time on “American Idol.”

One of Katy Perry’s last Billboard Nos. 1 was “Roar,” her eye-of-the-tiger empowerment anthem from 2013. The song found new life three years later, when Perry performed it at the Democratic National Convention and lent it to Hillary Clinton for a campaign-closing ad that aligned values like respect and courage with the song’s mad-as-hell feminism: “Get ready ‘cause I’ve had enough.

The wait is over! Katy Perry’s sixth studio album, ‘143,’ is officially out and we’re breaking it down for you.