…a couple of months ago. As an mid-aged man, I always found her pretty fucking hot (both physically and her playful personality) and I actually had a google news section on ‘Katy Perry’ just to keep up with her. But I have to say, ever since she cut her hair, I could not care less about her. Why did this happen?
She will be devastated.
But I have to agree, it’s not a good look for her. Maybe you should defect from the Katycats to the Swifties.
Dont’ understand why people have a problem with women who cut their hair…Not everyone has to conform to ideals of femininity and masculinity.
Have seen plenty of women with short hair that are attractive.
When you say it’s “not a good look” is that based on her being a woman or that it just ‘objectively’ looks bad?
It’s rather unfair on her. No woman can look as good with short hair as with long, and women cutting their hair short is a deliberate acknowledgement of their inevitable aging and losing of sexual attraction.
However hideously unattractive short hair is, going gently towards old age with dignity and submission shows great maturity. And that choice must be respected.
Old age? Katy Perry? You’re shitting me.
Short hair is a look that’s quite attractive to a lot of women, in the same way that long hair is quite attractive to a lot of men. So maybe she’s trying to make herself attractive to someone, but it’s not you. Maybe it’s…herself!
Also she made a pretty good music video in the process of hair-shortening, so that’s a plus too.
Katy Perry’s new look is Miley Cyrus’s old look. A strange choice, but she’s probably trying to break away from a persona. A lot of pop stars tend to get frustrated with their “safe” image after a while.
Most likely, her publicity staff saw that her Q-Score was dipping compared to her competition. They got together with a bunch of image consultants to see what they could do to refresh her image. The consultants put together a bunch of suggestions, they created some computer-generated images, and ran them by consumer panels in the target demographic.
The haircut was an element of the look that tested most favorably for the reaction they were trying to get. Then they gave her the makeover.
Maybe the new look will work. Maybe it will flop. She will probably give interviews to Us Weekly and People Magazine saying that this was some sort of personal artistic choice that she made all by herself that has some deep meaning. Take it all with a [del]grain[/del] block of salt.
I don’t understand why any time somebody says something like what the OP says, there is always an attempt to twist it into what you said.
“I find tattoos unattractive” provokes “I can have whatever tattoo I want, why do I have to please you”.
“I don’t know why I don’t find Katy Perry as attractive with short hair” becomes “You gotta problem with that?” and “why does she have to conform to your ideals”.
Why is this?
Why did what happen? That she cut her her, or that this made you attraction to her wane?
If the first: She wanted shorter her or she or her management thought it would be a good thing for publicity.
If the second: You’ve been conditioned to find short hair unattractive.
I suspect the reason why you suddenly dislike her, is because of how you interpret the “meaning” of her haircut. You don’t trust her motives.
I suspect that if you thought that she did it on a whim, or because she always wanted to, that her new look would reinforce your positive view of her.
I’ll leave to you, to ponder the deeper possible indications to be discerned, as to why you happen to think that this change is dishonest on her part. I know that I myself, was never a particular fan of Perry, because the first song I saw her perform was the “I kissed a girl.” I thought instantly that it was a bubblegum pandering to teenage boys (and older boys who never matured) who think that it’s “hot” when girls play sexually with each other, because they fantasize inexplicably that lesbians want to have wilder sex with boys than straight girls do. Hence, my first thought when I saw the change to Mylie Cyrus style bleach blonde short hair, that either Perry or one of her “handlers” made the change to try to gain some of Cyrus’ followers, hoping that Perry would start doing the same sorts of things that Cyrus has done.
But that’s just because of my initial prejudices about Perry remaining unchanged.
Wow. If this isn’t some kind of satire, it’s an excellent example of the attitude that makes people respond in the way Princhester is questioning.
It’s because it’s been too long since the last ‘declawing cats - yes or no?’ thread…
Or, of course, it could be as simple as that the short blonde hair makes her head look a lot smaller, and that makes her “other end” look proportionately bigger.
I like both short hair and large other ends on women. Perry just hasn’t got the face for it. I think it’s the jawline.
I’m one male who prefers shorter hair to long hair (though it depends on the shape of the face.) It doesn’t look right on her, but I’m sure she won’t be devestated by my opinion.
In Googling to see what she looked like now, I came across an article that said it wasn’t by choice, it was because the bleaching to make her hair platinum blonde had apparently messed it up and it was all brittle and breaking. I think she looks fine but looked much better with long hair, IMHO. Her self-description of her natural hair color is “dishwater squirrel brown”. 
She’s very pretty no matter how she wears her hair.
I almost posted her name in the “beautiful singer” thread, but I didn’t want her to read it someday and throw up in her mouth.
Stomach acid, vocal chords, etc. Her albums are the only way most of us get to see/hear her, so if her voice gets damaged… we’re screwed…
No satire, short hair is as much a surrender to the journey to the grave and a solemn acceptance of the overweening dominion of Almighty Death as buying a shroud in advance and wearing it early. Which was a thing.
Miss Perry sometimes looks good, if not to my taste ( her best look was a short-haired blonde look oddly enough — I found her less appealing jet-black on HIMYM ), although most singers cannot be expected to have, say, the beauty of an Avril Lavigne or a Pixie Lott: people demand too much of their celebrities. On the other hand, Miss Swift is ineluctably fake. Not as to looks but as to personality, which is a turn-off.
And for the record, I am male and have always worn my hair as long as possible — cavalier/hippie style — so it’s not that I dislike short hair only on females. Then again, I generally think people should make their own choices.
I don’t find the new look attractive, but we are here talking about it so I guess there’s no such thing as bad press.