Entertainment, Featured - Monday, November 10, 2008 8:32 - 1 Comment

The Miseducation of Katy Perry

“Do you see, do you see, do you see how you hurt me baby, so I hurt you too, then we both get so blue.” – Joni Mitchell, “All I Want”

“You walk around like you’re oh so debonair/ You pull ‘em down and there’s really nothing there/ I wish you would just be real with me” – Katy Perry, “Ur So Gay”

I’m not sure we knew what to make of Katy Perry.

She’d kissed a girl over the summer and liked it. What were we suppose to make of that? Lindsay Lohan was purportedly kissing girls as well, so maybe this was something cultural, but Katy was really on about the inebriating freedom of just-a-little-deviance. The gay community was already skeptical over a song entitled “Ur So Gay,” which had her responding to the difficulties inherent in a hipster-chic boyfriend. She claimed it wasn’t about a real person, and to dispel allegations of homophobia, explained that by gay, she meant homosexual. Oh. The rest of us were just confused about what “you’re so gay and you don’t like boys” meant. It sounded militant. There was something weird about this pop star. Continue…