"I Kissed A Girl" by Kate Perry

That was pretty popular here about a month ago. I don't listen to radio that much so, I don't know if it's still getting a lot of play.

What's that in your avatar, Spike? Looks like chicks kissing.

Is this a remake? I remember a song with the same name a few years ago. I don't remember anything else about it though.

Thus far, I have managed to avoid this song. From the sound of things, I'm probably better off that way. I'm almost tempted to click on the link, though, to see what all the hubbub is about. It's like I'm Stimpy, and the link is a shiny red candy-like button. Can I resist the temptation?

I'm so glad I don't have MTV, go to clubs or listen to the radio. This is the first time I've heard this song. It indeed sucks.

Yeah. A remake of a stupid song.

Jill Sobule - I Kissed a Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gryUQ...eature=related

It's a stupid song with about 5 actual lyrics and tons of repeats.

Not a remake.

any one here live the horror that was the "I can ride my bike with no handle bars" song, I think I would trade that for anything really...even for this work of shit.


EDIT..ok both songs can burn in hell...my brain was about the explode upon hearing this all the way through..

This is the first time that I've heard it.

Now I gotta find some cherry chapstick.

No it's not.

Jill Sobule's song is an innocent coming of age story about lesbians finding their sexual identity.

Katy's song is every college girls faux-lesbo experience, kissing a girl "just to try it". It's more Girls Gone Wild than lesbian empowerment.

Ok, it's a ripoff then.

Flobots. I've only heard it a couple times, but, yeah, it's even worse than the Perry song.

No, it's not even really a ripoff. The two songs have nothing in common but the title and a female singer.

And girls kissing.

Thankfully, no.

Whatever, both songs suck.

I've heard it too many times in the car this summer. What I hate about it the most is the chick's voice. It's absolutely grating and awful. Like needles in my eardrum.

Jill Sobule insulted me in writing once. I'll be back to tell that story when I've got a little more time. Everybody please wait by your monitors in breathless anticipation until then.

Yeah, I can't stand the Katy Perry song. It's exactly what Diva describes: a song about girls kissing girls in order to turn men on. The Sobule song wasn't really that great, but it was pretty risky.

But I guess the one good thing about it is that we live in a world where a girl singing about kissing a girl is not even considered a revolutionary act (would the kids who are into Perry's song believe that when Sobule's song came out, Ellen DeGeneres had a show that revolved around her character dating a different guy every week?).

I Molested A Girl.

Good point. Sobule's song aired before Ellen officially came out on her show. And boy, did it take a lot of people awhile to accept that. Ellen had it pretty rough for some time after. But look who's sitting (or rather dancing) pretty now.

If you see any lesbians just milling around stand near them for a bit. Inevitably one of their phones will ring and you will hear that song as the ringtone.

Also, the Flobots song is innocuous as a single but listen to it in the course of the entire album and it actually takes on a less-in-your-face Rage Against the Machine type political tone that is quite good.

Congratulations on cramming two completely disparate points that I don't believe at all into one post.

I want to hear Misfit's story.

It's on my iPod.

I want to hear Jake's story.

The video is very subtle. What's the symbolism of the cat, I wonder?

The lyrics are indeed awful. However it's done the intended damage and the results are entertaining for this particular male.

So is Lesbianism still edgy? It was edgy in the 90's but now?

Katy used to make Christian records.

Catholic girls turned slutty? Not cliche in any way.

And I'm back. Gather round and I'll tell you a tale.

Way back in the early 2000's, I went to see Warren Zevon play. He was enjoying something of a career resurgence, I was a huge fan, and it was my second time getting to see him perform. I won't dwell on the fact that we lost him shortly thereafter.

Jill Sobule was opening for him. The only song I'd ever heard by her was "I Kissed a Girl," and I really enjoyed her set. Funny, poignant, well-written songs. Zevon came out and dueted with her on IKaG to the crowd's delight. As she wrapped up, she said something to the effect of "I'll be back at the merch table. If you want to buy something, I'll sign it so you can put it on eBay." The crowd laughs, of course.

I go back to the merch table because I'd particularly enjoyed one song she sang called "Heroes." I asked her which album it was on, she pointed it out.

"I'll take that one, please," I said, oh so smoothly.

"Do you want me to sign it?"

"Sure!"

She looks at me. I look at her. She keeps looking at me. The moment gets awkward.

"Who do I make it out to?"

"Oh, sorry. Make it out to Will."

She signs it, I go on my merry way. I stick the CD in my pocket and don't think about it again during Zevon's set. He's great, of course.

The next day, I finally look at the CD. Then I look again. And again. Finally, later on, I'm hanging out with the same friend who'd gone with me to the show. I ask him to look at it and tell me what it says. After a minute of looking at it:

"Does that say 'To Will: Lame'?"

"Yeah, that's what I thought it said."

All I can come up with is that she really did think I was going to put it on eBay and that's why I didn't initially give her a name to personalize it. So, I have my very own copy of Jill Sobule's "Pink Pearl" album with her stamp that she thinks I'm a goob.

Between this gigantic piece of shit song thats everywhere and that disgusting Pussycat Slags When I Grow Up, it's good to see modern pops doing its part to wind back the last fifty years of feminism along with the rest of western pop culture.

Oh god not that Pussycat Dolls song, this one I can at least enjoy on a catchy, ditty level. There's no redeeming quality to that PCD POS.

People getting irate over pop music? I haven't seen this much rage since Devin admitted to liking to 'My Humps.'

As someone who spent the last eight weeks listening to this song, including playing it at four 'middle-school'* dances, I can safely say it's no "Umbrella" (what is?) or "Bleeding Love" or most of the Chris Brown canon (I dig "Forever" myself), but it's better than entire Jonas Brothers catalog and "Hey There Delilah." It doesn't make me want to rip my ears out after this long, which is probably the best I can say for it.

Rest of the album's pretty good, too. Not great, but fun and poppy.

Also, Diva, pretty sure Perry is bi in her personal life, and if Rain Dog thinks these songs set back feminism, wow. Hyperbole ahoy.

*Song of the summer here at camp? "Paper Planes." You haven't -- well, okay, you probably have -- lived until you've seen six dozen eight-year-olds do the gunshot and cha-ching in perfect harmony.

Hearing that, Rath, makes me giggle inside. Do you think they get what it's about? Or have they had in dept conversations about 'third world democracies'? I'm endlessly fascinated by this turn of events.

It is funny, because I refused to play "Lollipop" all summer (on content issues) and I even got in 'trouble' (meaning I had a supervisor tell me to turn it off) one of the times I played the Perry song, but no, "Paper Planes" with its explicit references to murder and dope smoking is okay and gets played all the time during meals and such, as is "Crank That (Soulja Boy)," a song so entendre-ridden I had to urban dictionary "superman/supersoak that ho."

So no, I don't think they get what it's about. And I know they know the lyrics, because some of them pulled out lyric sheets a couple of times.

Like I said in my twitter, this song is the "My-ding-aling" of the Double-Oh Decade.

The thing that makes the Katy Perry song so terrible is how serious it seems to take the subject matter. The lyrics are stupid, tongue-in-cheek at best, and she sings it like it's some grave matter. Way over-performed. Too much emoting for such a silly song, and the phrasing is very awkward. And the musical arrangement-- terrible, makes the song a slave to a plodding beat and buzzing guitars like some industrial dance mix. This is the worst song on heavy (very heavy) rotation on VH-1 currently.

Phoney, attention whoring lesbianism/bi-sexuality is officially boring.

I've posted this before, but way worse imo.

I've kissed more girls that that bitch (no, seriously!) . . . and i never felt the need to write a song about it.

Shit, in a month;s time, some other pop tart will undoubtedly release "I Fingered A Girl", and everyone from DJ's to the dipshits at my gym will say "wow, that's WAY more edgy than that last song by . . . uh . . . what was her name again?".

Then we can hate that song.

Sorry. I had a huge discussion with a 19yo at work just yesterday about how the mainstream music scene has just become so disposable these days. Artists come in, get hyped to the moon for 3 months and then promptly disappear. Fuck, can you imagine Al Stewart or 10CC (just as two random examples out of millions of possibles) getting airplay in the modern era with their looks?!

These days?

Fair point, it's been this way for a while now. But I just remember when I was a kid, there were artists like Michael Jackson where if they had a new album coming out, the ENTIRE WORLD was on tenderhooks waiting for that to come out, ya know? And I mean EVERYONE. Not just "the kids" - adults, teens, kids, everyone. Actual, living legends of pop music with appeal across all generations that actually had anywhere from 5-14 hit singles OFF ONE ALBUM.

There hasn't been anyone or any band like that in . . . well . . . does anyone actually know how long it's been?

Back in the 70's, 80's and even the 90's to a lesser extent, artists seemed to just have a hell of alot more longevity than they do now.

Lindy Hop.

Katy Perry vows she's never actually kissed a girl. If she had, it would probably have been a certain ballerina.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto.../qa_katy_perry

"I Kissed A Guy"? Fuck that shit.

Who?

Who?


I guess you gotta like the genre to care about it.

I listened to the 30 second clip on Itunes a while back cause of the song title. I don't even remember what it sounded like just that I hated it.