About A Girl Called Katy
SINGAPORE : What do you get when you combine the kookiness of Zooey Deschanel, the sensuality of Dita von Teese and the spunk of Courtney Love?
If you answered, “Fiona Xie”, go boil yourselves under a silly person.
We are - with all due respect to dear Fiona - actually talking about hot American singing sensation Katy Perry, who’s been making headlines this past year with her debut album, “One of the Boys”.
The album itself is a pretty poppy affair, but thanks to having song titles such as “I Kissed a Girl” and “Ur So Gay”, Perry found herself a target from various circles of society and, of course, the media. But as is so often the case, many of the gripers just took those phrases at face value and didn’t actually listen to what the songs were about.
Perry’s response? A shrug.
“The media has to sell papers and get hits on websites,” she said. “I understand that. It’s the nature of the beast. I knew exactly what I was getting into when I released a single called ‘I Kissed a Girl’. I was okay with whatever the media thought, because I knew I would have a chance to show people that there are different sides to me as well.”
That was what she was doing when TODAY caught up with Perry. She was en route to Barcelona, Spain, on her second European tour to promote the album, but took time out to get on the blower.
Channel News Asia