Katy Perry never actually kissed a girl and yet she says that all her songs are like a dear diary. Sounds like she just says anything to suit her argument. I reckon they’re promoting her with all this homosexuality to distract from the fact that she has a heavily religious background. If she came across as old fashioned and bible-thumping she wouldn’t be very popular. Her christianity is evident in i kissed a girl when she sings “it’s not what good girls do”. yeah, good christian girls whose parents tell them gays go to hell. lesbians can be good girls, lesbians can also be bad, it depends on the individual. christians can be good too and also very bad. i just don’t see the need for a songs like i kissed a girl. it just makes me think of those dumb high school girls that are like “oh my god, i just kissed a chick, come on lets do it again, no wait, are the boys watching?” i didn’t think people cared about girls kissing anymore. “i kissed a girl” “yeah and..?” i’m a gay guy and i’ve kissed a girl, that to me is more shocking than katy perry kissing a girl. losers are girls who kiss other girls for guys attention = katy perry is a loser. She should go down on a chick, maybe then i’d have some respect.

@Corrine, I think I saw something by tatu recently. I know they took some time off because one of them got preggers (not actually lesbians). But maybe it was just an old magazine article, we have lots of old magazines in the library breakroom.

@Ellen, good point about UR so gay. “I Kissed a Girl” could be brushed aside, but that’s downright offensive.

She can’t be both a neo-conservative operative AND a money-grubbing opportunist?

I find “I Kissed A Girl” both annoying and pandering to the stereotypical male fantasy, but “UR So Gay” downright offensive. Yeah, let’s celebrate every hackneyed portrayal of what gay men are like! I realize there are worse offenders, but I don’t get exposed to them at the deli at 2AM. (I’m a straight girl, if that’s relevant to the conversation.)

I vote for “Going in the way of TATU” or whoever those lesbian girls were a few years ago. Heard of them lately? Nope…and in 6 months, I bet we won’t know who Katy Perry is – we’ll have moved on to the next controversial topic. “I had anal sex just to try it, I know my boyfriend don’t mind it.” I’m copyrighting it, biatch.

I think there are a lot of naive people out there and she certainly could be one of them. Or reflecting some homophobia she’s absorbed and never really tried to fix. If her best friends really are gay, you think they’d have said something. Still, the song isn’t too different from our mainstream culture and the voyeurism “Fannie” addresses.

I vote for the money.