Idolator

Before you ask: No, Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" is not a cover of Jill Sobule's song, although by the time you get through the first verse of the above clip I bet you'll be missing that 1995 track's relatively subtle charms. No, Perry's song—which I heard on New York's top 40 station, Z100, multiple times while driving around this weekend—is a stomping bit of electrotwaddle that's half "Rock & Roll, Pt. 2" and half rejected Tila Tequila track with a dollop of Orgy, backed by a band who sounds like it got its start as one of those generic school-dance outfits that you see on your second-tier teen comedes. And its lyrics read as if they were scripted by a Girls Gone Wild producer who was feeding post-makeout lines to two reluctanct subjects—and then somehow made less poetic in re-editing. More »