[QUOTE=bienville]
Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” is the radio equivalent of two women kissing in a bar because guys think it is “hot”. The lyrics have her repeatedly reasserting her own heterosexuality,
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Well, she did make her start in Christian music. Wouldn’t want to get too wild. But yeah, you said everything I’ve been thinking. I feel bad for real lesbians who have to put up with this bullshit.
[QUOTE=NDP]
Within the next years, Katy Perry will do a “Playboy” spread and be a regular on some type of “Surreal Life” reality program before disappearing into celebrity oblivion.
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Katy Perry in an interview in the new Rolling Stone:
“[My parents] are just glad I’m not strung out doing centerfolds.”
[QUOTE=bienville]
Katy Perry’s entire image is about appearing to be ballsy, appearing to speak her mind without caring what anyone else thinks, when in fact her entire raison d’etre is to please please please. When you’re entire goal is to have people pat you on the back and say, “Wow, that was daring! You’re so cool!”, then daring is exactly what you are NOT.
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In the same interview talking about the chorus of “I Kissed a Girl”:
“I love this! This is so taboo, though!”
[QUOTE=shy guy]
I generally agree with bienville’s analysis, and also agree with NDP that Katy Perry is almost certainly going to be a one-hit wonder (although so was Sobule, for that matter).
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On the strength of her song “Supermodel,” which was on the Clueless soundtrack, VH1 promoted her to two-hit wonder status. Of course, since I had never heard that song until watching the VH1 special, I’d tend to think of her as having just one big hit.
[QUOTE=bienville]
Still, I think the absence of a girl/girl kiss is conspicuous in both videos. Any video for a song about motorcycles is going to feature visual representations of motorcycles.
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The kiss would’ve been out of place in Sobule’s video. The whole point is that she did it for herself, not for anyone’s entertainment.
As for Katy Perry’s video, I think the last paragraph of this perfectly captures the reason why there’s no on-screen kiss.
I have always adored Jill Sobule
I even started a thread about my “top 5” where she is on it way back in 2003
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=154623&highlight=sobule
I too, when hearing the title announced on the radio first thought of Jill. If you can find a copy of her singing her song “money shot” it is also a funny entertaining song
Osip