Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" treats lesbianism like it is a vacation.

[chequita guevara]

You can interpret the lyrics any way you want. Only the person who wrote the song knows what they were trying to convey and ultimately it doesn't matter because of what Jrabbit said, it's all about making money.

Art has two people that give it meaning, the creator and the "consumer" (for lack of a better word). The meaning the artist gives it is not necessarily anymore valid than the meaning anyone else gives it. That's part of the point of art. It's an imperfect medium of communication which allows multiple interpretations, which allow us to discover something about the human condition.

[Darius871]

I honestly didn't even know Katy Perry existed, let alone that song, until coming across this thread. Are there people out there that actually listen to pop music voluntarily? I'd always assumed it was all a parody or something...

[chequita guevara]

The song isn't so much about being bi-curious as it is the recent (past several years) trend of girls making out with each other to turn guys on.

[Wezil]

I honestly didn't even know Katy Perry existed, let alone that song, until coming across this thread.

Ditto.

Still haven't heard the song and with luck I'll forget the name by the end of the day.

[Imran Siddiqui]

How have y'all managed to avoid that song?!

[Darius871]

How have y'all managed to avoid that song?!

How would one manage to come across it? I wouldn't tune into a pop station on a bet, I haven't turned on MTV in about a decade, noplace I work has music playing, noplace I'd party would play that kind of music, no girl I'd date would listen to that kind of music, and, well there it is.

[Imran Siddiqui]

You don't hear random music while commuting or walking along your town or something?

[self biased]

devilmunchkin sighting

personally I think that these DLs are really lame, but if it brings old posters back, perhaps it is a good thing after all!

now if someone would manage to resurrect Fez...

that's actually my doing. i was chatting with DM last night about diablo 2 and pointed her here.

[Wezil]

You don't hear random music while commuting or walking along your town or something?

I don't walk and when driving I choose my own audio. My workplaces don't play music.

[Darius871]

You don't hear random music while commuting or walking along your town or something?

While driving the music's my choice, and even when I take the bus or walk nobody blasts music randomly; they just have the sense to wear headphones. Even in the touristy-type places where people walk around, the music's inside the clubs & restaurants, not shoved down the throats of passers-by. And this isn't like the 80's where badass guys walked around town with boomboxes on their shoulders, and even if it were, Katy Perry wouldn't exactly be on their playlist. Jesus, can Atlanta be that different?

[self biased]

You can't turn somebody into a dickgirl by savaging them, sb.

SP

if you can't, you're doing it wrong.

[Imran Siddiqui]

While driving the music's my choice, and even when I take the bus or walk nobody blasts music randomly; they just have the sense to wear headphones. Even in the touristy-type places where people walk around, the music's inside the clubs & restaurants, not shoved down the throats of passers-by. And this isn't like the 80's where badass guys walked around town with boomboxes on their shoulders, and even if it were, Katy Perry wouldn't exactly be on their playlist. Jesus, can Atlanta be that different?

So people don't drive blasting music with their windows open? Or play various things in jukeboxes in restaurant/bars?

Where exactly do you live?

[Darius871]

So people don't drive blasting music with their windows open? Or play various things in jukeboxes in restaurant/bars?

Where exactly do you live?

Minnesota, where it's cold as an eskimo's tit and we like our windows closed thank you very much.

In all seriousness I'm sure there are some nightclubs even here where this crap might make it onto the playlist on a regular basis, but I only frequent blue-collar dives where even the jukeboxes are limited to rock etc. So I guess some of the insulation's by choice.

[SusieQue]

I don't like Katy Perry's version. I thought Jill Sobule did a much better song of the same name, in that it actually explored an awkward (and cute) exchange between two girls curious about lesbian exploration. The Katy Perry song was essentially little more than G/G pr0n in pop song form. Ok for the basement dwelling crowd, but just silly for anyone with half a brain.

[Darius871]