I'm sure all of you remember that Katy Perry song from a few years ago. That's actually the primary thing that made me realize that gay people existed, because my parents never told me. And so Katy Perry was my first step towards realizing I'm gay… However, the other day, I heard a cover on the radio sung by a guy. But he didn't change any of the language, except for changing boyfriend to girlfriend. So it was basically a tale o cheating on his heterosexual partner. "I kissed a girl and I liked it…blahblahblah…hope my girlfriend don't mind it." It just made me laugh. What are your thoughts?
Enrique Inglasieasbeiebwofn's song I Like It (I think that's what it's called) is about two people cheating on their respective partners with each other. It made me laugh, because it comes on the radio and my co-workers just immediately think it's about dancing and having fun at the club. Little do they know...
I hate that song a lot, and I think it's extremely offensive. It basically exists to tantalize heterosexual men while trashing as wrong the same-sex desire of lesbian and bi women.
I don't like that other version much truthfully but the original really did open my mind to the possibly. Mostly because since it was gay themed it was off limits and the rebel in me couldn't resist.
I'm not a big fan of it, but that's mainly because I've known a lot of girls who just kiss other girls to seem edgy. I don't really like Katy Perry's music much either, but that's just my opinion.
I was just playing Katy Perry on my Xbox music player. The bio on Katy said she grew up in a very religious home. It also said that she had started out singing gospel under a different name. That just seemed very interesting to me.
I saw that too! In 2001 she recorded an album and used her real name for the album title. Kate Hudson. Sadly, the album wasn't very successful :'(
Jill Sobule had a very modest hit with a song with the same title over a decade earlier...and I always liked hers far more than Katy Perry's. It's less salacious, and just sounds about fifty times more REAL. [youtube]8FdwUGwasck[/youtube] It probably helps that Jill Sobule actually IS a lesbian. Lex
Katy Perry's song is manufactured corporate crap that exists not for lesbian women, but for heterosexual men.
