Katy Perry

Related Content

• Ten Pop Topics That Need a Beavis and Butt-Head Bunghole Ripping
  July 26, 2011
• Katy Perry at the BankAtlantic Center June 11
  June 9, 2011
• Tiny Pop Star Terra Jole is Mini-Gaga and Mini-Britney! And Wait, She's Mini-Katy Too!
  June 9, 2011
• Architecture in Helsinki at Grand Central November 11
  November 10, 2011
• Ten Reasons the MTV Video Music Awards Are a Total Joke
  July 21, 2011

More About

• Katy Perry
• Jill Sobule
• Celebrity News

Katy Perry is capable of remaking herself for any promising target demographic. In her teens, she delivered achingly sincere contemporary Christian fare that didn't turn out to be achingly sincere after all, and her One of the Boys persona — flirty, snarky tart — feels equally phony. The production, by a gaggle of gimlet-eyed industry sharpies, is airless and vacuum-sealed, transforming tunes such as "Mannequin" and "Ur So Gay" into assembly-line fodder. As for "I Kissed a Girl," it's proof that a gal-crooned tune with that title will become a hit once per decade whether it's strictly advisable or not. Of course, Jill Sobule was cast off as a novelty after her like-named ditty scored, but if Perry suffers the same fate, she can just change styles again. Opera, anyone?