Ann Powers of the Los Angeles Times is weighing in on Katy Perry’s chart topping hit ‘I Kissed A Girl’, opining that what bothers her most in the song’s video is that Perry never actually kisses a girl. “Perry’s taken heat for carelessly appropriating gay culture in her songs, and it’s deserved,” Powers writes. “But it’s also par for the course in a conservative moment, when decadent party-circuit role-playing replace genuinely open-minded experiments in sex and love.”
The story at latimes.com has since been removed.