Seriously, Why Is Katy Perry So Hung Up On Traditional Gender Roles?

noah | October 1, 2008 9:00 am

I finally heard Katy Perry’s second top-10 single, “Hot N Cold,” while driving around Connecticut over the weekend, and this video gives me the chance to note, first, that Perry’s semi-broguey breathiness on this track makes her a dead vocal ringer for Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan–at least, until the Dr. Luke/Max Martin production comes in to clobber any eardrums in close proximity to the music. And second of all, what is up with that opening couplet? “You change your mind / Like a girl changes clothes / Yeah you, PMS / Like a bitch, I would know”? It’s like every day, she provides even more fodder for the thesis that her “conservative Lolita” schtick basically paved the way for the national debut of lipsticked reactionary Sarah Palin, although I’m sure Perry would dispute the idea that she’d ever vote for the GOP veep candidate. (After all, that PMS reference is a sign that she’s wary of ladies’ “emotions” and “menopause” and stuff.) [MySpace]

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