And apparently in Malaysia, censors feel the same way. "I Kissed a Girl" has reportedly been retitled "I Kissed" with the words "a girl" censored when the song is being played on radio.
And Frehsee is not alone in her judgment.
Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani says the song "isn't problematic because it promotes homosexuality, but because its appropriation of the gay lifestyle exists for the sole purpose of garnering attention - both from Perry's boyfriend and her audience."
Doug Rule of Washington, D.C.'s gay and lesbian news magazine Metro Weekly has called for the singer who "comes across as a taunting, insecure schoolyard bully with serious gender and sex issues" to undergo sensitivity training. "We're just pawns in her transgressive experiments, she has to resort to the unfortunately not-uncommon use of 'gay' sexual identity as a slur - as in, someone no one likes or wants to be."
When interviewed by The New Gay web site, she admits to not having actually kissed a girl and that the song is a" fantasy, it's a song about curiosity."
The 24-year-old former Christian gospel singer and daughter of two Christian pastors who was forbidden to listen to secular music as a child is also under attack from the Evangelical Christian community.
The UK Guardian reported: "What a sad picture of a lost child who has been swept away by the carnal pleasures of the world,' reads one entry on the Christian website Planetwisdom.com. 'We need to be lifting this gal up in prayer. While we're at it, let's toss up a prayer for her parents, too. Not to mention the countless young girls who will buy into this lesbian chic message.'"
Meanwhile, her Nov 2007 single "Ur So Gay" in which she tells her "emo" boyfriend to "hang himself with his H&M scarf" has come under close scrutiny again. Although the song is obviously not about homosexuals, activists have deemed the song homophobic for using the catchphrase "you're so gay" - a phrase frequently used by teenagers to mean 'dumb', 'lame' or any other pejorative.
In his post titled what do you have against gay people, Katy Perry?, blogger Duane Moody wrote: "Katy dear, this is 2008. We need to stop using gay as an insult; being gay is normal. If you use 'gay' as synonym for bad, negative, horrible, stupid, or any of the many other derogatory words it has been used in place of to place insult, then you are propagating and continuing the underlying bigotry that is so fervent in this country. Continuing this form of 'hidden' bigotry is just intolerable, and I for one feel like I must continue to speak out against it."
"It isn't 'cute' or 'funny' that she kissed another girl, it is normal; whether or not she can deal with her homosexual feelings is her problem, not ours.
"If you don't see this as a big deal, ask yourself: would it be cute or funny if she wrote a song about how weird it was for her to kiss a black person?? How do you think that would that go over? Additionally, if she were to write a song about how awful a boy was because he was so "stereotypically black", how would that sound?"
When this writer sent the YouTube links to some gay friends for their comments, it turned out that many are closet Katy Perry fans. Readers, what are your thoughts?
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'Nuff said.
her music are awesome ! :D
Love u katy
Her next single title might be 'My Transsexual Girlfirend'. I'm just guessing:D
I imagine the main market for her music is teenage chicks who think kissing their best friend to make their BF jealous is cutting edge behaviour.
Basically she's a bigoted twat with the cool factor of my Grandma's undies.
Her next album should be titled "I'm so cool and really amazing and incredible and hot and much cooler than you, and bad, yeah bad, very bad and cool.. and do you want to be cool like me...and do you wanna be my best friend?".
I'm going to enjoy watching dorkette self -destruct over the next few years. And it might actually be fun to dance to the remix if she tops herself...hmmm, now THAT would be cool. LOL
(simper)
I just love attention!
I wear my clothes gay too sometimes. Haha.
Just substitute "gay" for "emo" and that may makes sense..but you do not want to offend emoes.
And "I kissed a girl" doesn't reeks of straight girls kissing other girls to turn their boyfriends on seriously doesn't really listen to the song..it's about curiousity and entertaining it.
A straight girl curious about kissing a girl and going ahead with it.
Meh. I like the songs anyway, and so do my gay friends. We have no problem with it.
In fact, I was SURPRISED when I first heard it, I was like - "wow, a song about homo people in mainstream music? that's a breakthrough!"
At least now some ppl will know that some girls out there actually kiss girls, and some boys too. there are too many ppl who don't even know gay ppl exist and have all these strange pre-conceptions about them.
"You know how straight girls get drunk and make out with their straight girlfriends while they're out at a club (or in a hot tub) with their boyfriends? Well, now there's a theme song for them".
The song is silly and her performance is mediocre. Aside from noting this at the time and mentioning it here, I don't have any more energy to give to the matter. Don't waste too much thought and concern on this nonsense.
I did a mix of her "I Kissed A Girl". You can download at the following link.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15810200d4ee4d96/
Feel free to leave constructive comments. Enjoy!
Boys, chill!
Katy must be laughing all the way to the bank from all the free publicity she's getting; attacked from all sides, this is what makes someone famous, no matter how boring her songs area.
I'm 100% sure that if she were a guy & wrote a song titled "I kissed a dude" it won't climb up the charts and will instead get lots of 'your a fag, just die' comments on the youtube video.
Some friends i've came out to and have no qualms about my sexuality do apologize if they said 'your so gay' in a joking way with their other pals. I guess they just can't help it, it's been programmed into their poor heterosexual brain. I'm not really offended thou, coz me & my gay friends do tease each other 'neanderthals' (referring to stupid str8 men) :)
On another note, being that she is the daughter of preachers. It doesn't surprise me one bit. Just about every guy I know that is a preacher's kid, turned out far sluttier than most guys I know. I'm not saying Katy is a slutt, but they tend to go against what their parents stand for. I know, not all of them do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0292ZQgmxqI&feature=related
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