Friday, July 23, 2010
Music So, About the New Katy Perry Single
Posted by Mike Conklin on Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:04 AM
Oh, wait, what? No, sorry I meant I didn't get around to listening to it until this morning because I want to throw up every time I hear Katy Perry's stupid, deeply affected voice. Despite what you may have seen on the internet, where everyone from critics to regular people seem to be cosigning on this, it's awful. It's about how she's gonna fuck a dude because he makes her feel like a teenager and because he "gets her," which is, like, a really big deal, because, like, Katy Perry is really complicated and, like, no one else understands her, you know? She sounds predictably ridiculous, all breathy and weak and endlessly studio-aided. Her phrasing is infuriating, too: words are shoe-horned into the melody all over the place, their accents in all the wrong places—for me, the surest sign of amateurish, poorly-crafted bullshit.
But hey, look, she's naked and lying in a bed of cotton candy on the cover!
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