What Do You Think of Katy Perry's Song, "I Kissed a Girl?"
It seems like, I Kissed a Girl is playing every time I turn around. I have to say I have mixed feelings about it (and not just because the line about cherry Chapstick bugs me).
On the one hand, I'm all for putting same sex issues front and center. I think there's a lot to be said for experimentation, and I love the fact that thousands of kids are walking around with ringtones about a girl kissing another girl.
On the other hand, there is something about the way Perry sings about this issue that gets to me.
Among other things, when she sings the lines, No, I don't even know your name / It doesn't matter / You're my experimental game, I end up feeling bad for the girl in the song, and annoyed that Perry seems so nasty.
I mean, who wants to just be someone else's nameless experimental game?
A lot of reviewers have pointed out that others have done a better job of singing about bisexuality and experimentation than Perry. And as a review in Rolling Stone put it,
On the New Wave-y club single "I Kissed a Girl" — a vanilla recounting of her chick-on-chick exploits — she sounds like the type who makes out with her BFF just to get a dude's attention.
What do you think? Does the song speak to you? Does it irritate you? I'd love to hear your thoughts!
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I had mixed feelings about this as well. The first time I heard it, I was offended in a way for the same reasons you gave. Experimentation can be a good way to learn about yourself and your sexual preferences but the way she described it was just catty. It’s more of a bi-curious poppy little anthem than anything I could really take seriously. It’s great that the idea seems acceptable to so many people but her attitude towards the nameless girl in the song seemed too cruel.
When I first heard it on myspace, I was like “Yeah, okay. This song is cool.” But when it got massively overkilled on every radio station I began to have doubts about its sincerity. While Katy Perry is certainly hot, it seems like she’s making light of bisexualism/lesbianism and is even making fun of it. She has another song entitled Ur So Gay while the lyrics of her songs are catchy and snarky, it doesn’t mean that she’s into it for real.
I think its a cool song its not like its real I mean not every song is meant to mean something!
If this song was written by a naturally lesbian, the whole world would be up in arms becasue of it.
I dont agree with the message in this song.
Katy Perry used to be a religious musician,
and now she thinks it’s okay to toy around with lesbianism, if it’s.. tahee-hee ( just a joke ).
That makes society numb to the real issues that gay and lesbian teens face each day. It’s okay for society to play gay for a day and gay bash all at the same time as long as it’s being done by people who know they aren’t really gay. That’s bullcrap. This song is a turd. They are taking melodic electronic pop and hushing it over alternative pop-rock, to get everyone from the hip hoppers to the rockers to at least admit its catchy, yes its a smart pop move in music and ofcourse the industry only cares about dollar signs. But i betchya next time a real gay comes along with a hit, dont expect the round of applause from the world in all corners.
Homosexuality is all its form is inherently wrong on every level. Pretending that it is not is blindingly ignorant. Homosexuality is being shoved down everyone’s throat and immorality and experimentation is at the forefront of everyone’s mind. What happened to waiting to get married for sex? No wonder the world is bored in the bedroom and experimenting, changing one’s birth sex, dressing up like a boy when one is a girl, and vice versa – Satan has you all by the throat and then you have adults who say – “go for it”. God help you all. It doesn’t have to be this way. Whatever these people are telling you that being gay / lesbian / transgender / bisexual – it’s all a lie and it doesn’t mean that if someone disagrees that they are homophobic. I don’t hate anyone; and I am not homophobic, but every society that has embraced immorality (blatant heterosexual sex) as well as homosexuality throughout history has been destroyed by itself.
Sex outside of marriage (one man and one woman) in any form. IS WRONG.
kay perry i so gay imean agirl kissing another girl is stped and disturbing
well I think Katy Perry is a great singer and she’s just having fun in her life and that’s showing in her music. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with experimenting and i agree that it really is just human nature to explore and have fun in order to find yourself. I know that if I ever met her I would have a really hard time being good resisting to kiss her and do other things to her…and the only reason i would keep myself from doing all those things is because I’m not single and I don’t want to hurt the one I love.
SO nothomophobic you think your NOT homophobic (this is to any homophobic). Um lets look at the dictionary..
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/homophobic.html
Definition:
having irrational hatred of homosexuality: showing an irrational hatred, disapproval, or fear of homosexuality, gay and lesbian people, or their culture
ho·mo·phobe [ hṓmə fb ] noun
AND YOU SAID (this is quote from nothomophodic) “Homosexuality is all its form is inherently wrong on every level.” WOW!!!! I’m so proud of you, you have done the normal “I am so not in trouble here” thing. And for you to have said this, you must have never meet anyone that is GLBTQ cause if you have, you would have seen this this is REAL. I’m offended like you wouldn’t believe (AND I”M SURE OTHERS ARE TO). Cause you probably think this is a choice don’t you? WELL LET ME TELL YOU!!
I’m a transgender and you know what? I did EVERYTHING in my power to NOT be that way. AND I AM!!! You think I want to be trans? You think Satin made me do this? You think this is all some little game we play to get attention? I”D DO ANYTHING NOT TO BE LIKE THIS!! YOU COULD NEVER BE MORE WRONG!!!!! Oh and since where on a the topic of “religion” A quote the bible should be more than welcome right now.
1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him, the lord do not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
So are you saying it is wrong to like a man EVER?, or to like a women EVER? or to be transgender? I may not be a follower of the relgion Christ (cause of all the hate), but I believe the Lord Jesus was here (2008 years ago).
NOW for the song. She may be able to sing and she may be religious. BUT she is making GLBTQ seem like a complete joke. Sure people may be talking about gay’s after they hear the song. But most people I’ve heard have been talking in HATE and laughter. If this was done by a really gay person the world would speak up in hate. But thats the kinda world we live in.
i love Katys song beacause its got alot of expresion in it.
you dont have to do anything its called freewill and your abusing it. was that “irrational”, o well.
lol o dear i think your all reading into this song too much it means sooo many different thing to so many different people this so acctuly helped me come out as my mum heard it and imediatly said there is nothing wrong with being gay so i told her i was, as for it being mean to the other girl in the son who knows it might have been a drunken evening coz ive kissed both guys and girls when been drunk it happens and as for the nonhomofobe who is guy SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY GET OVER IT
I get what you are saying. I heard from a friend that the song was ment for gay people.
If they like the same thing that they got it is ok. Cuz i am a lesbian. I love the song. But it kinds of goes with me. I kissed a girl to try it out but i am not with that girl.
well, i know that topic is kinda cold, but i can’t just pass by…
well, the first time i heard the song was just around my first lesbian kiss, and i thought: “WoW!” but as i heard it more times in next weeks, i become offended by it. actually because i was quite like the “noname” girl in the song… well, and the girl i had the first kiss with, quite roughly offended me, with this song… well, actually i think that Kate Perry is just excusing her in this song, things like “well, i’ve made a mistake, i’ve kissed her, but if i just forget it i can be straight again…” that’s the way the girl i knew get it, explained it to me and lived by it… quite hurting for the other person, believe me… well, i guess that this opinion came out more like a personal story but i guess that music and art can be understood just personaly, hardly you can listen to music without feelings… =)
Being a young lesbian, I was sort of offended. Not at the start, when it first came out, I liked it. I thought it was catchy. I thought Katy Perry herself was a lesbian, therefore I thought the song was okay to be distributed to the world and everyone to see that it’s okay for people to be homosexual and applaud her work. But, the fact she wasn’t, I suppose on a level I respected that she put herself out there and tried to show the world our message (there’s nothing wrong with being gay) but on the other hand, there was the thought she could be being sort of spiteful, but covering it at the same time, for example, she could have been being sarcastic and taking the mickey out of lesbians which is not on any level acceptable. And it’s just disrespectful.
”I end up feeling bad for the girl in the song,”
aww how sweet is that