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Katy Perry: “I Kissed a Girl” VIDEO!!!

May 28, 2008
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I Kissed A Girl

The video for my new favorite song, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl,” is finally here!

Enjoy!

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  • the song is nothing special, but maybe sensationalism will sell records, who knows.

  • DITTO, lolly. WTH? Just cause you like a thing doesn’t mean that any and everything attached to it is WONDERFUL.

  • sounds like a bubble pop dance song that younger teens would listen to. let’s hope they don’t.

  • Oh no… this video is awesome! I stumbled over her myspace a while back… and I’ve been addicted ever since… and it’s NOT because I’m a dude, who fantasizes about 3ways… Nah, the chick is just awesome, plus she has a really unique style… I love her retro ways… ;) Rock on Beet… you’ve got great taste in music.

  • what?! why is everyone saying this song is bad!?

    i think it’s like amazing and her voice is amazing and she’s amazing.

    i looooove it.

  • I love this song and I’m not a teen. From the first time I heard it, I loved it.

    @Frankie ~ ditto!

  • the best thing about this is the producer’s work. the lyrics are ridiculous, but the track itself is undeniably hot.

  • I love katy!
    I hear this song ages ago, and still love it.
    Give her all the support you can, shes an excellent singer and has alot of awesome songs so come!

  • Dude, this song was written and performed by Jill Sobule in around 1997 I think. I really like Jill, but she was way better than this song.

  • No, I can’t say I like this song at all. Maybe when I was in high school. I just don’t like the pop stuff so much. Give me some punk or metal!

  • wow…..so it’s not the same as the Jill Sobule song, but way to steal the EXACT name! and it’s nothing special, just a lame attempt to get guys all excited about how “adventurous” and hot she is…..boring

  • As a 30-something woman… I LOVE IT! I heard it awhile ago and was hook almost instantaneously. Perhaps its the catchy beat. :-)

  • I love it! She’s pretty cool cos she’s not anything special in the look dept. like other music sensations.

    The music video is gorgeous. It’s SO Marie Antoinette’s lingerie party, adorable!

  • Hey, I think your song sucks, You should never sing, you really suck. shut up please. you should never be a singer sucker loser.

  • i love this song the music vid. isnt as hot. i’d rather of had a rock vid. for this like katy being in a club and sees a grl she likes . it would of been better like that but i love this song who ever says it sux has issues and needs help

  • Did I just hear crap? This song is literally my number 1 hated song. I can’t think of any other song that I hate more then this. The song’s lyrics suck, the melody sucks, it’s VERY VERY uncreative. What do you people see in this? I bet you like Nickelback too… I have to hear this song every day at work, and because of it, I want to go in the back and commit suicide because I have lost hope for people and for music…

  • When I first heard Katy Perry’s song “I Kissed a Girl,” I was driving in the car with my little sister, and I was about to change the radio station from the “pop channel” to the oldies, when she said, “Wait, wait, listen to this one!” I complied, indulging her love of gooey pop beats.
    What struck me most, after having listened to the song, is how unfortunately it does have substance. As an ally of the GBLT community, I became immediately curious to see what that community’s reaction to the song actually was. A quick Google search turned up with nothing—no one on the Internet had ventured to comment on the song, save the inane responses found tagged to the end of fan blogs. I’m almost positive, however, that somewhere, a gender studies Ph.D. candidate is working the song into a dissertation, but I’ll leave that to them, and possibly say it first: I find the song to exude homophobia, among other things. Sure, the song is about a girl kissing another girl, (“how is that anti-gay?”), but from the actual content of the work, I believe there is legitimate reason for concern.
    I’ll begin where my training begins—let’s take a close look at the text—for the song, that means the lyrics (I have read excellent close readings of musical theory– check out Adam Krims’ “Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity”, but I can’t begin to go in-depth on the musical theory behind this song). The song begins with a qualifier (a theme repeated throughout the song): “this was never the way I planned/ not my intention”. It is made immediately clear that the singer did not mean to engage in homosocial behavior—it was an accident. A mention of drinking is made, followed by a “loss of discretion”. What strikes me so powerfully in these opening lines is the reinforcement of the situation’s accidental nature. Such lyrics seem to highlight a certain point: a girl cannot legitimately desire another girl without the influence of alcohol or some other “loss of discretion”, or… she’s a lesbian. There’s something of degradation hanging about these lines—the song makes it seem as if a “normal” female would never choose to kiss another girl, or, it seems to me to be implying—albeit on the very far end of these lyric’s interpretive power– that lesbians lack a certain ability to discern between “right” and “wrong”. Indeed, Perry notes such confusion in moral terms in the chorus and later—“it felt so wrong/ it felt so right” and “it’s not what, good girls do”—but, Perry makes it clear she’s drunk, so is it okay for a “good girl” to desire another woman in any other capacity? Perry certainly doesn’t offer that up as a possibility.
    True, while these first lines caught me off guard, I wasn’t too surprised–I could analyze the content of many pop songs today and find them duplicating heteronormative values, but I feel this song goes beyond the mere replication of certain values–it degrades others. Is a woman (sober or otherwise) who happens to desire (or desire to be desired by) another woman, the song offers, not a “good girl”?
    The next lines, “No, I don’t even know your name/ It doesn’t matter” scream not only of belittlement on the part of the nameless girl, but of callous objectification. Case in point: I’ve seen several movies in which men are belittled for not knowing their “object of affection’s ” name (I can’t think of them now, but it’s a rather common trope)—and here, in this song, Katy Perry is replicating a certain type of behavior for which males are normally lampooned. In a sense, Katy Perry assumes a macho-male identity and objectifies her “object”. Her vocabulary replicates the male-perspective of the situation, (which she assumes) and does not take into account her partner. At this point, one might say, “men do it; good for her; she’s turning the tables”, but the mediation of such behavior in this song’s current form (in movies, the woman’s feelings at being thus treated are often shown), fails to account for the other girl, period. The singer’s partner is established through the lyrics (or lack of lyrics; as I’ve learned in studying Henry James, sometimes what’s not said is more important than what is) as a non-entity—we are not given any insight into her desires or her feelings on the situation.
    Again, this isn’t uncommon in pop songs, but this isn’t just a pop song, acknowledging to an extent, its own ridiculousness—what I did come across in my search for answers on the Internet was that many people felt that this song was supportive of GBLT movements, and I feel that such a reading needs to be exposed for its utter insensitivity to the words being sung.
    The next lines, “You’re my experimental game/ Just human nature” are at once telling and empty. One can get into a very long argument about the composition of something as vague as human nature, but the fact that Perry refers to her object as both an “experiment” and a “game” further supports points noted above. Males who are good at attracting women are sometimes said to “have game,” and for some, the whole process of engaging girls at all becomes “the game,” but…rarely have I ever heard, personally or in cultural use, men refer to women as “experiments”. That type of terminology rings of beakers, dissection, medical sterility and abortive results. We already know the singer has no intention of taking her relationship any further (“don’t mean I’m in love tonight” and, ironically playing into the phenomenon of some males being intrigued by lesbian activity, “I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it”), so certainly, this “experiment” will end, like a Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” in heteronormativity swooping in to “make things right” in the morning. The “staging” of this song, whereby I mean the imagined setting, favors both the boyfriend in the background, who gets to watch an impromptu “spectacle” put on for his pleasure, and the singer, who objectifies and derives pleasure from her nameless partner. Everyone wins to some extent, except for the “object”. Like Antonio in “Twelfth Night,” the unnamed partner will, it appears, inevitably be cut out of the equation when morning comes.
    Certainly, the singer’s partner could be just another drunk girl, with her boyfriend also watching in the background, or… her partner could be a lesbian looking for love in the tumult of a dominant heteronormative world. There are many options for what the “object” might or not be—such categorization doesn’t even need to occur, because the point is clear—the objectified partner doesn’t matter—we don’t even need to know her name. With Katy Perry’s song “I Kissed a Girl” we’re left with the superficial taste of cherry chapstick, but that’s it, and for me, that taste smacks of disappointment—disappointment that today a song with such implications can be played over airwaves, let alone become a hit.

  • alright. this is a good song, but did emily miller REALLY have to dissect the whole song? no one is actually going to read alllll of that. it’s a good song, so leave it at that! haha

  • Actually, thank you emily miller for explaining the meaning behind the song and how the lyrics are offensive. Repulsive, to be frank and the more I get to see the kind of reaction people have to this song, the clearer it is becoming to me that the people who are getting offended by this song are the ones who have functioning brains. I find it disheartening to see that there are people who are willing to dance and like a song with such foul lyrics. It’s not enough that we have problems with men seeing women as pieces of meat or discarding them after having used them for their own pleasure or sexual gratification but we now we have our own women turning against us and joining the ranks of these piggish, no-brain men who think with their loins. Yeah, thank you Katy Perry for tearing down what our grandmothers have fought so hard for. You may now join the ranks of Paris Hilton and Girls Gone Wild. You must be honored. *rolls eyes

  • O.K BUT NOT GOOD FOR YOUNGER CHILDERN. WE NEED TO SIT BETTER EXAMPLES OF YOUNG CHILDERN. NOT ONLY THIS VIDEO BUT TO ALL. THIS WORLD NEEDS A CHANGE. GOD MADE AMADE AND EVE NOT ADAM AND STEVE.

  • This song fails. It’s just another example of how dumb people are. So a girl gets drunk and kisses a random girl and hopes her boyfriend doesn’t mind it at all. I don’t see why anyone would care about a drunk girl kissing another girl she doesn’t know at all, and then tosses her aside regardless as to what she just did. Sometimes, there’s just no excuse for failure.

  • I hate this song so much. I think she’s just exploiting bisexual women like myself by releasing this, and I’m guessing she only released it because she knew it would have gotten big because, um, hello, MEN LOVE GIRL ON GIRL ACTION. It added insult to injury when I read the lyrics to her song “ur so gay” because she was putting down a man who had feminine traits and whatnot (putting down gay men) yet she glorifies lesbian-experimental tendencies?? It really gives the impression she’s just writing this garbage to buy number ones and grab the attention of adolescent boys and she’s just adding to the general opinion of “LOLZ LESBOZ R HAWT, GAYS R NAWT EWWWW LOL”. Absolutely insulting.

    Yeeah good on ya for experimenting whilst intoxicated, just don’t exploit it for attention, please.

  • I love good friend katy perry is a goddess and I’m good ikissedagirl a kiss to all kisses Fan katy

    pd: I’m from Argentina but English …
    and if we do not believe me look and read

    besos jaja me encanta katy besos a toda la argentina besos chaus
    ven … jaja .. kissing goodbye
    kisses to all and especially to the Argentine city of silver
    bye

  • I agree with Emily’s dissection of this…disaster. For what it’s worth Emily, my city’s Gay-Straight Alliance had a meeting where we discussed this for over an hour and with out exception, no one found the lyrics to be anything less than insulting. The only semi-positive remark was from a member who suggested that the fact it made such a casual affair out of gay relationships means that idiots and bigots who think the GLBTQ community is out to take over the world ‘one rainbow at a time’ will think of us as too moronic to do so.

    I cringed when I first heard this. The beat is catchy, but over used and common place in pop music today. The lyrics are the female equivalent of overly misogynic rap music.

    The true irony, everyone? Katy Perry was a Christian singer before she was signed to do songs like ‘Ur So Gay’ and ‘I Kissed A Girl.’ Yes, that’s right, she trade ‘Lord I Lift Your Name On High’ for ‘I Kissed A Girl.’

    I’m not sure which half of me is more insulted–the one that goes to church every Sunday or the one that happens to be dating another woman. Gah.

  • You guys are discusting pigs! hahah but I love it!

    Ke$ha is in this music video! She is the one with the really curly shaggy hair!

    Love all the fantasizing males! ;)