Katy Perry & Media Who Cheer Her Criticized Over Gay-Unfriendly Songs
Katy Perry is finding herself under scrutiny by some members of the gay community and the alternative press over the perceived anti-gay messages behind two of her popular sings, ‘Ur So Gay’ and ‘I Kissed A Girl’. Tony Sclafani also took on the media for embracing and promoting the two songs in a commentary for MSNBC. “The litmus test of hypocrisy here is that if you substituted a different minority in Perry’s tunes, they’d never get airplay,” Tony writes. “‘I Kissed a Black Guy’ or ‘Ur So Korean’ would not be Top 40 bound. For that matter, a song called ‘I Kissed a Boy’, sung by a guy, would probably die on the vine. Ethnic jabs are now largely seen as declasse and gay insults were following suit. But now those insults have returned — with an inferred stamp of approval, no less.”
It doesn’t help that Perry is straight and grew up in a religious family, performing Christian music earlier in her career as Katy Hudson. In her New Gay interview, Perry talked about how in her “strict, suppressed household,” homosexuality was considered “wrong.” Read more.
Jessica Coen of New York Magazine is also weighing in on the faux lesbian movement in pop culture, citing Perry, the Madonna kiss with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, t.A.T.u., and Lindsay Lohan exploring her sapphic side with Samantha Ronson.
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