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someboy0716
Against all my wishes, I Kissed A Girl is basically the song of the summer here in the States, BOOO!!
Katy Perry
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someboy0716 said:
i agree :(
and it's SUCH a downgrade from Umbrella...
Well now it'll be the the song of Late Summer here in the UK, what with it now at #1.
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paul lekakis
I finally listened to "Hot 'N Cold", her repulsive personality prevented me from doing so. It's a great song, Max should have kept it for Britney :-(
Her voice is grating on me, it sounds terribly shit.
Her voice is grating on me, it sounds terribly shit.
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Steve
"Hot 'N' Cold" is being added to US radio in mid-September, as the official second single - the third choice will be harder. I wish they'd release the third Max/Luke track they did as a B-side!
I really find her off putting--maybe it's just cuz she's played so much in N America, but she just seems PARTICULARLY phoney. All Music's review of her album got it SPOT ON I think--I'll quote my fave passages :P
"Listening to Katy Perry's litany of belched alphabets, fruity boyfriends, Vegas hangovers, and lesbian lip-locks on her debut, One of the Boys, it's easy to assume she'll do anything for attention, and a close read of her history proves that suspicion true. Prior to her transformation into a teen tart, Perry was a Christian singer operating under the name Katy Hudson — an appellation a little bit too close to Kate Hudson, so she swapped last names and started working with big-name producer after big-name producer, cutting sessions with Glen Ballard and then the Matrix. "
"Given this long line of botched starts, maybe it makes sense that the 24-year-old trollop is singing with the desperation of a fading burlesque star twice her age, yet Perry's shameless pandering on One of the Boys is startling, particularly as it comes in the form of some ungodly hybrid of Alanis Morissette's caterwauling and the cold calculation of Britney Spears in her prime. "
"All the pros give One of the Boys a cross-platform appeal, but there's little question that its revolting personality is all down to Katy Perry, who distills every reprehensible thing about the age of The Hills into one pop album. She disses her boyfriend with gay-baiting; she makes out with a girl and she's doesn't even like girls; she brags to a suitor that he can't afford her, parties till she's face-down in the porcelain, drops brands as if they were weapons, curses casually, and trades under-the-table favors. In short, she's styled herself as a Montag monster. Perry is not untalented — she writes like an ungarbled Alanis and has an eye for details, as when she tells her emo meterosexual boyfriend to hang himself with his H&M scarf on "Ur So Gay" — but that only accentuates how her vile wild-child persona is an artifice designed to get her the stardom she craves. "
"Maybe if the music were as trashy as the style, she could get away with it, as it would have a junky thrill, but that's where all the high-thread-count producers actually work against One of the Boys. They flatten everything out, turning the stomping Gary Glitter beat of "I Kissed a Girl" into a leaden stumble and burying Perry's voice underneath Pro Tools overdubs so it all winds up as a faceless wash of sound designed to be placed in TV shows, movie trailers, and malls — which is of course part of the plan, as this is music designed to be everywhere after Perry's taboo flirtations break down doors. The problem is not with Katy's gender-bending, it's that her heart isn't in it; she's just using it to get her places, so she sinks to crass, craven depths that turn One of the Boys into a grotesque emblem of all the wretched excesses of this decade. "
Couldn't have said it better.
"Listening to Katy Perry's litany of belched alphabets, fruity boyfriends, Vegas hangovers, and lesbian lip-locks on her debut, One of the Boys, it's easy to assume she'll do anything for attention, and a close read of her history proves that suspicion true. Prior to her transformation into a teen tart, Perry was a Christian singer operating under the name Katy Hudson — an appellation a little bit too close to Kate Hudson, so she swapped last names and started working with big-name producer after big-name producer, cutting sessions with Glen Ballard and then the Matrix. "
"Given this long line of botched starts, maybe it makes sense that the 24-year-old trollop is singing with the desperation of a fading burlesque star twice her age, yet Perry's shameless pandering on One of the Boys is startling, particularly as it comes in the form of some ungodly hybrid of Alanis Morissette's caterwauling and the cold calculation of Britney Spears in her prime. "
"All the pros give One of the Boys a cross-platform appeal, but there's little question that its revolting personality is all down to Katy Perry, who distills every reprehensible thing about the age of The Hills into one pop album. She disses her boyfriend with gay-baiting; she makes out with a girl and she's doesn't even like girls; she brags to a suitor that he can't afford her, parties till she's face-down in the porcelain, drops brands as if they were weapons, curses casually, and trades under-the-table favors. In short, she's styled herself as a Montag monster. Perry is not untalented — she writes like an ungarbled Alanis and has an eye for details, as when she tells her emo meterosexual boyfriend to hang himself with his H&M scarf on "Ur So Gay" — but that only accentuates how her vile wild-child persona is an artifice designed to get her the stardom she craves. "
"Maybe if the music were as trashy as the style, she could get away with it, as it would have a junky thrill, but that's where all the high-thread-count producers actually work against One of the Boys. They flatten everything out, turning the stomping Gary Glitter beat of "I Kissed a Girl" into a leaden stumble and burying Perry's voice underneath Pro Tools overdubs so it all winds up as a faceless wash of sound designed to be placed in TV shows, movie trailers, and malls — which is of course part of the plan, as this is music designed to be everywhere after Perry's taboo flirtations break down doors. The problem is not with Katy's gender-bending, it's that her heart isn't in it; she's just using it to get her places, so she sinks to crass, craven depths that turn One of the Boys into a grotesque emblem of all the wretched excesses of this decade. "
Couldn't have said it better.
Am in love with "Hot & Cold". It's waaaay better "I Kissed A Girl" (and thats a great song!).
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someboy0716
'Hot N' Cold' is already being played on radio here in the States.
Amazing.
Miley Cyrus next week!
I jest...this is actually a good thing. Seen as there is only one live music performance show on the BBC right now, it really should have more pop acts on.
Miley Cyrus next week!
I jest...this is actually a good thing. Seen as there is only one live music performance show on the BBC right now, it really should have more pop acts on.
Jools is back is he? I like him, i'm really getting into his show now.It makes for a nice cosy end to Friday nights.
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paul lekakis
Nunya B said:
SHE ruins the song for me. Couldn't Max have given it to somebody else?
Someone with an okay voice AND likeable personality?