Really, Katy Perry, really?

I guess I didn't see it the same way as you. The only thing that bothered me was the amount of makeup she was wearing while in uniform. It was very Private Benjamin.

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Mostly I was stirring the sh!t, but I really do find her to be the hackiest of hacks. It's bad enough that she joins up because of a guy, without going into the ra-ra military aspect.

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Also, I'm pretty sure that you don't have to bind your breasts to be a woman in the military.

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I rolled my eyes at the whole thing, she breaks up with someone so she goes to the military? Really? And yes, I totally got the PRIVATE BENJAMIN vibe during some of it but something about the whole concept and seeing soldiers in battle to promote a completely forgettable pop song from one very trashy, hardly talented singer just rubbed me the wrong way.
I think the part where she binds her boobs and all that was trying to recall the American version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. It's funny how they make her look like Rooney Mara at some points, like Zooey Deschanel at others (during the flashbacks), she has no personality of her own, ugh.

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but the most objectionable thing about the whole exercise is the practice of re-releasing records with a few mediocre songs tacked on at the end just to milk a few extra dollars out of the fans

I totally agree. Same with cast recordings. We have three different releases of Once, two with different bonus tracks. And this is all at the same time, not even re-releases.

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I still don't get why the gays love her, and she gets a free pass for her extremist religious past and the pretty offensive lyrics of her first single You're So Gay (even if, as she claims, she means it in the insulting way).

This re-release is not a greatest hits. It's just an updated version of the TEENAGE DREAM album.

Katy Perry is a big guilty pleasure of mine. She's fun, quirky, and actually DOES have talent - check out her acoustic EP for proof. I'll take her any day over Lady Gaga who is self-absorbed, egotistical, and so desperate to prove that she's an 'artist.'

Really? I honestly think she is one of the least self-absorbed performers out there.

Someone who does an entire video dressed like this just does not strike me as being self-absorbed.



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Katy Perry has always been about *fun*.

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I think she seems absorbed but at least as ljay stated is fun.

Even if 'I Kissed A Girl' doesn't specifically say it's about experimenting with girls to turn men on, I think it would be hard to deny that Katy was aiming to appeal to men when she recorded the song and made the video. "It's not what good girls do" is one of the more irritating lines in the song. What's most problematic about it for me is that society deems it just fine for Katy to go all faux homo, but frank songs about actual gay love and lust don't get radio play. When Katy was called on this, she pulled out the "people are just looking for something to be offended by" defense. Then a year or so later, Katy got bent out of shape about Gaga's Alejandro video. It always sucks when the shoe is on the other foot, doesn't it?

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To be a great pop performer you HAVE to be self sbsorbed. I just colour her history with what I know of her past--obviouslusly chapters could be written about my favorites so I think anyone who loves Katy is fine--it's superb pop production by a standard vocalist and that's good.

mr.widwest you are aware that music videos have directors, correct? And that they are ultimately the ones who have the concept for the video and not the singer, at least when the singer is as new as katy was when i kissed a girl came out