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Katy Perry's pretty annoying, with not wanting to know the name of the girl she kissed because she's "my experimental game," but it's all so teenager and immature I forgive it. But the motherfucking Pussycat Dolls, not content with making your girlfriend feel inadequate for not being a lapdancer, are now targeting the pre-teen market and telling them they should aspire to be lapdancers. It pisses me right off.
While all selling of anything to kids, whether by the Pussycat Dolls or the Roman Catholic Church, is dodgy and usually harmful, I find the Perry thing worse than the Pussy Cat Dolls thing. The personae the PDs act out seem at least happy and confident about being 'sexy', albeit in a distinctly mediated fashion, whereas Perry's whole 'I kissed a girl but I'm not a lesbian, innit' routine reduces sexual exploration to a bit of a twist, as it were, and nothing more, on heteronormativity ... I also get the feeling that the PDs personae are meant to be about performance, dancing, theatre and so on, whereas Perry's persona is supposed to be to do with the core of someone's personality (you know, I kissed a girl, me, I).
I suppose I also like that bit of auto-critique in the line 'Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me' - it seems almost like an admission of the sheer fictionality of the Pussycat Doll persona (for which read also film characters, characters in books, etc, etc); how it's something inherently unnatainable and fantastical. Breaking the third wall, perhaps.
All of which comes with the caveat that I may be talking utter rubbish and would appreciate being told so if I am. |
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