Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl

Such a woeful song, but admittedly it's improving for me slowly with time. The lyrics just really annoy me and I feel like Katy is using the male fascination with lesbians to get a hit single. It just reeks of desperation to me. I highly doubt it would've been a hit if it were about gay males. Some of the lyrics hint that this girl that's being kissed is just a toy ("You're my experimental game" and the lyric straight before it in particular). The vocals are hideous too. The gimmickyness of this song is increased when put in context, the single before was a song using the word gay as a general insult! This had potential to be hot, but everything about it is a fail and reeks of using a marginalised minority just for your own benefit. Maybe this is over-analysis but gosh it's such a horrible song that offends me greatly. I'm pleased I missed out on having it as my birthday #1 in 2008. I would probably have ended up being a big fan of Katy Perry if it wasn't for this.

It's been really bothering me lately and I may as well put it here. Not only does this song accelerate the double standards I mentioned before that sexual/romantic attraction between females is considered hot by straight males while the same situation with males is seen nowhere near as positively and is usually considered gross by straight males and doesn't get near as much acceptance as the female counterpart but it's also offensive for other reasons.

I'm a bit disappointed in myself not making this clear before, but this song is INCREDIBLY insulting to bisexuals. It perpetuates numerous negative and untrue stereotypes directed towards bisexuals. Mainly the one that people think that they're all promiscuous and unfaithful and can't survive without having sexual relations with both males and females at the same time. Or alternatively it implies that bisexuals don't even EXIST and that they're all straight people just "experimenting". Seriously FUCK YOU KATY PERRY.

I can't ignore that and it actually personally offends me as someone who is bisexual. Add that with all aforementioned flaws and the fact that it offers little to save it from the deep hole it digs itself into and you have something that has regressed back to being something I really hate and that is not improving at all. Just really terrible and maybe even amongst my least favourite of all time, maybe my 3 year vendetta against Katy solely for this song is not as irrational as it initially seemed (back in 2008 I just thought this song was awful and the lyrics didn't offend me). Absolutely revolting and I just hope that it ends up long forgotten in the long run.
Zuletzt editiert: 26.03.2015 12:10