After reviving Unplugged this summer, MTV has signed off on the release of first recording from the latest run—MTV Unplugged: Katy Perry is out tomorrow in standard and deluxe CD/DVD editions. View the trailer above, plus the re-imagined “I Kissed a Girl” after the jump. Anybody missing Auto-Tune right about now? MORE »
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Katy Perry To Host Celebration Of Berlin Wall’s Destruction
Perpetually aggravating singer Katy Perry is once again hosting MTV’s European Music Awards, which take place tomorrow night and which this year are being held in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the wall separating the city’s western and eastern sides—i.e. the Cold War’s most potent symbol of the Iron Curtain—falling. Here’s hoping that she’ll reprise the most memorable part of her hosting stint from last year’s awards, and ride a dildo that’s shaped like a hammer and sickle in order to celebrate. One thing’s for sure: Celebrities who attend the awards are getting a bunch of expensive crap for free, further honoring capitalism’s complete insanity of right now democracy’s triumph! MORE »
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The Decline And Fall Of A Once-Great Brand, Just In Time For The Holiday Season
Looks like The Onion’s Least Essential Albums list now has a 2009 frontrunner: Katy Perry: MTV Unplugged is coming to this nation’s few remaining record stores and music aisles on Nov. 17—because the Edina Monsoon-channeling singer’s yelp sounds so much “better” without the glops of electronic processing that were added to “I Kissed A Girl,” right? [Amazon] MORE »
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Katy Perry: The Edina Monsoon Of Pop Music, Only Much More Annoying
Oh, come on, like I was the only one whose first thought upon seeing the overly self-impressed singer’s ginormous “KISS ME NOW” necklace was “Lacroix, sweetie… people will think ‘wow, it’s a Lacroix.’ ” (I guess that makes me the Saffron of this situation?) [Buzznet / AbFab screencap via YouTube] MORE »
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“American Idol” Trying To Fill Paula Abdul’s Hollywood-Week Seat With The Most Annoying People Possible
Next month will bring American Idol’s called-back hopefuls to Los Angeles for the round of auditions that is known among fans of the show as “Hollywood Week,” and given that Paula Abdul is still adamant about not going back to the people who disrespected her, the producers need an extra body to warm the seat next to Simon Cowell. Who out there is most qualified to judge the voices of this country’s latest crop of televised-singing-competition wannabes? I know! How about two pop stars who are known more for their sartorial schtickiness and fake-edgy “personas” than their severely lacking voices? MORE »
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The Number One Reason Why Traffic-Baiting Listicles Are Annoying, Or: Summertime, And The Sexism Is Easy
While trawling my RSS feed for interesting things to post on this lovely September morning, I came across another one of those dreaded late-summer listicles counting down “hot” women in pop, this one coming from a site purporting to contain “Gossip For Grown-Ups.” Its hook? “Female pop stars are not all talentless bints who clutter up newspapers and snarky entertainment sites (thanks for that) with their inane chatter and their lady bits.” Well… thanks? Although, uh, all the “writing” in said listicle consists of asides like “Do you think we are so easily won over by her releasing a song about her kissing a girl? Probably.” and “Just turn down the sound and watch the video instead.” It also refers to Madonna as “old vinegar tits.” Just so I’m straight here—is it only OK when men engage in “inane chatter” over pop stars’ “lady bits,” or is it only kosher when said tongue-wagging is couched in a pathetic grab for traffic? MORE »
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This Collaboration With 3OH!3 And Katy Perry Might Just Be Lousy Enough To End The Black Eyed Peas’ Hot 100 Reign
Dig if you will this picture: Weeks-rancid margarine that’s been stuck in the microwave for 30 seconds, then left to reconstitute itself on whatever plate it’s been placed on, creating a shapeless, smelly mess that would need to be soaked in Dawn for at least three hours in order to be ridden from your kitchen. What would a song based on that image sound like, do you think? Lucky for us, two pop forces of now have decided to figure it out! MORE »
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Katy Perry Hates How The Music Industry Runs Hot And Cold With New Artists
“@katyperry tweeted some pretty universal ideas re: artist development last night… or the lack thereof today,” Dave Navarro noted on Twitter this morning, adding that in his not-so-humble opinion, any Pink Floyd of today would have probably been dropped before they had the chance to make their own Dark Side Of The Moon. (Your mileage may vary on the fallout from that particular scenario, of course.) What did Perry—who, despite not yet being 25, has been in the music business for what could be seen as a long time—have to say? A slightly edited-for-clarity version of her Tweets after the jump. MORE »
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Jill Sobule Finally Lets Her “Katy Perry Sucks” Flag Fly
When Katy Perry’s Girls Gone Semi-Wild For The Sake Of Riling Up Any Men Around song “I Kissed A Girl” first made inroads into the pop consciousness, singer/songwriter Jill Sobule—who’d made a few alt-rock waves with an identically titled, yet 10% as annoying track 13 years earlier—was semi-diplomatic. “Katy Perry’s song is a kind of catchy party song,” Sobule told Entertainment Weekly, “although I will admit that I do smile when a critique mentions my version in a more favorable light. Is that wrong?” Well, a lot can happen over 14-ish months, and such was the case with Sobule, who in an interview with the online mag The Rumpus dropped any sense of diplomacy and went straight to name-calling. Also swearing! MORE »
