Tagged As: Katy Perry, Concert, General, lindsey Lohan, Samantha Ronson, I Kissed a Girl

Katy Perry has come out and stated that she was forced to fight with record label executives for creative control of her songs. They wanted her to be a punk pop diva back in 2001. Then the biggest femme pop influence on the radio was Avril Lavigne and looking for a quick buck they wanted the doe-eyed Perry to sing about teen angst and how much boys suck.

Well, she said no and fought to be her own artist and sell out in her way. Yes, she chose this career path that led to make headlines by singing about kissing a girl. That’s right she did not want to tease the boys with a rebellious ‘titude, but with empty promises of threesomes.

I do not know if this was a publicity stunt directed by her PR machine to make her music seem less like mass-produced pop machinery (young, hot girl + innocent lesbian exploration = number one on the charts). This could very well be a revolutionary path in her mind though. She grew up the daughter of two pastors in Santa Barbara and grew up singing gospel music. Perry first tried to become famous by releasing a Christian gospel album.

While Lindsey Lohan shocked the world by taking on a full-time rampant lesbian (Samantha Ronson, the butch girl giving the peace sign who looks like a 15-year-old boy strung out on Red Bull for those just returning to Earth from the year 2000), perhaps just singing about kissing a girl is Katy’s equivalent of pushing social boundaries.

A quick look at Perry’s fledgling career reminds everyone that she has made a name for herself by making light of PC situations. She was chastised for the song “Ur So Gay” and the LBGT was certainly not very happy with the flighty treatment she gave experimenting and discovering one’s sexuality in “I Kissed A Girl”.

I think that perhaps Katy Perry is simply a young woman (RE: over 18) trying to have fun and make music she can dance to…while making bank. The female population around her age can relate to her music and her terminology, no matter how un-PC. “Hot N Cold” is a play on the difficulties of relationships in the early 20s. That may sound like intellectualizing a pop song, but the song speaks to all those girls that are dealing with young boyfriends who seem unwilling to commit completely.

So, is Katy Perry just giving answers as a public relations stunt or as a sincere pop artist? I do not know, and I think that none of her fans really cares. They just want to dance to her catchy chorus while they party their 20s away, like they should be.