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*The*Joker* · 01-18-2009, 06:03 PM

That's too funny

rockpit · 01-18-2009, 06:09 PM

Well, OK, her rendition of Electric Feel is actually very good.

***Lewymocha Original*** · 01-18-2009, 06:13 PM

Could you post the pictures any bigger? I dont think they stretched the page enough.

**Papayaxlover** · 01-18-2009, 07:12 PM

more pics from the NRJ AWARDS LAST NIGHT

**Papayaxlover** · 01-18-2009, 08:13 PM

adam_system! · 01-19-2009, 01:53 PM

Perry talks same-sex smooching

Songwriter says hit single I Kissed a Girl is based on curiosity about power of beauty

By Alan Sculley, Canwest News Service - January 19, 2009 8:01 AM

Singer Katy Perry was pursuing a career in Christian music but the company that released her first album went broke.

Photograph by: Brendan Mcdermid, Reuters, Canwest News Service

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For For those who were introduced to Katy Perry through her omnipresent hit single, I Kissed a Girl, it might come as at least a mild shock that she started out in the Christian music scene.

That song, of course, generated no small amount of controversy (not to mention airplay) with its familiar chorus of "I kissed a girl and I liked it/The taste of her cherry Chapstick."

There's little doubt that Perry, when she first began pursuing a music career at age 15, could never have done a song centred around the notion of kissing another woman. That sort of lyric just wouldn't fly on the Christian charts.

Back then, she was known as Katy Hudson (she changed to Perry, her mother's maiden name, to avoid confusion with actress Kate Hudson). The daughter of parents who were both pastors, she grew up in a home where pop music was not allowed on the stereo.

Christian music might have been her future, but her record company went broke shortly after her self-titled album was released in 2001. Perry noted that she didn't turn her back on Christianity or sell her soul to pursue secular pop stardom.

"I would have loved to have had success as a young 15-year-old gospel singer, but I just didn't have it," Perry said in a recent phone interview. "There wasn't any funding for my record. I was in one day and out the other."

Her opportunities from that point forward to sharpen her songwriting skills and work with other songwriters/producers took her away from Nashville and Christian music, to Los Angeles and squarely into the mainstream pop world.

Her path, though, wasn't short or easy. She cheerily talks of her debut CD, One of the Boys, being five years in the making. And that's pretty accurate, considering she went through numerous writing and recording sessions with A-list writers/producers and was signed and dropped by record labels twice before netting her current deal with Capitol Records.

One of her early collaborators was Glen Ballard, who came to prominence after he teamed up with Alanis Morissette to co-write and produce that singer/songwriter's mega-hit CD, Jagged Little Pill.

Perry said she realizes now that it might seem unusual for an in-demand songwriter and producer to work with an unknown artist, but she said Ballard doesn't look at things that way.

"I think that Glen is very open, looking for the next thing," Perry said. "He's on top of his game, and he was open to me playing a song for him."

Perry did a stint with the Matrix (Lauren Christy, Scott Spock and Graham Edwards), a songwriting/production trio whose credits include Avril Lavigne, Hilary Duff and Korn.

In fact, Perry was set to be one of two featured vocalists on a Matrix debut CD that was going to be released by Columbia. In this role, she would have become a high-profile face for the group, but after finishing the big-budget CD, things broke down between Columbia and the Matrix and the album was shelved.

Still, the work with the Matrix was valuable for Perry.

"My time with them was kind of like going to a school of pop," Perry said. "I was super left of centre and they kind of taught me mostly how to have more of that pop sound."

Perry also soaked up songwriting lessons from other collaborators, such as Dr. Luke and Max Martin, who are among the key contributors to One of the Boys. (Butch Walker and Greg Wells also had significant roles.)

That pop sense is abundantly evident on One of the Boys.

The title song is a power pop gem that rides the kind of ascending guitar riff that would make Cheap Trick proud. I Kissed A Girl and Hot- Cold (a second single that recently topped Billboard magazine's Canadian Hot 100 chart), are both bouncy and fizzy ready-for-dancing confections. The cheery fun continues with If You Can Afford Me, a catchy showcase for Perry's sharp humour, and Perry shows a more tender and thoughtful side on the ballad Lost.

As for the famous subject matter of I Kissed A Girl, Perry said it stemmed from her wondering what it would be like to lock lips with a beautiful woman.

By the way, the popular account that the song was inspired by Perry seeing a magazine picture of actress Scarlett Johansson is a bit off target, Perry said.

"It wasn't inspired by her per se. It was inspired by the idea of that kind of beauty," Perry said. "You know, I really was inspired by the kind of schoolgirl crush I had on my best friend when I was 15. And she had that kind of Scarlett Johansson- type beauty, just very angelic. She looked like a ballerina. She had the most beautiful proportions on her face, the most beautiful eyes to the cheekbones to the ruby lips. It was amazing that one creature could be this beautiful. That was my whole reasoning.

"I wrote the song and it kind of was like well, I wonder what it's like," said Perry, who recently split with her boyfriend, Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy. "Would it be like kissing me, or would it be like kissing a mirror? Sometimes there are women like Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman or Angelina Jolie that the world is like yeah, I would kiss her. I don't care what my sexual orientation is. She's just, the power of her beauty just transcends sexual orientation."

The song, Perry said, is a reflection of her unguarded personality.

By her own admission, Perry's one of these people who doesn't know how to censor her thoughts.

"I'm a very kind of come-out-with-it kind of girl," she said. "I just have no sift filters from my brain to my mouth."

Credit: Perry talks same-sex smooching

**Papayaxlover** · 01-20-2009, 11:47 AM

Lily Allen Puts Katy Perry Feud To Bed

Say what you will about Lily Allen, but one thing's for certain: She fights to the death (of a story, at least).

In a recent interview with MTV UK, the 23-year-old — who's never been one to curb her feelings — discussed, among other things, her new album It's Not Me, It's You (which hits stores February 10) and, briefly, her feud with Katy Perry.

It all started when Perry once described herself as a "fatter version of Amy Winehouse and the skinnier version of Lily Allen," a statement Perry later claimed she "didn't mean anything by" and that she was "kind of joking and trying to be funny." Allen considered the statement "crass," and expanded the reasons for her grudge against Perry to include that she was supposedly signed and marketed as an American version of the kooky, pop-singing Brit. "It's, like, you're not English and you don't write your own songs — shut up!" Allen explained, additionally refuting the comparison.

And then, last week, Allen volunteered on her Facebook page that she has Perry's number and is "just waiting for her to open her mouth one more time then it hits Facebook." Perhaps fearing that she may make a cameo on the next Jerky Boys album, Perry's kept a tight lip. Allen, however, has not.

"I didn't say anything that was rude, I just said she wasn't English and she doesn't write her own songs," she explained again during the MTV UK interview. But perhaps the feud's finally been put to rest as Allen also assured that "there's actually nothing going on."

Source: MTV

**Papayaxlover** · 01-20-2009, 11:49 AM

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Katy Perry to perform at Germany’s ECHO 2009
On 21 February, the Deutsche Phono-Akademie, the cultural institute of the German Music Industry Association (BVMI), will present the ECHO 2009 German Music Awards. Two presenters will moderate the ceremony produced by MME at Berlin's O2 World: the favoured presenter and singer Barbara Schöneberger and Germany’s highly successful late night talker and comedian Oliver Pocher. Stage acts include German rocker Udo Lindenberg and American singer/songwriter Katy Perry, whose latest single "Hot N Cold" has been at No.1 in the German charts for weeks. Amy MacDonald will also be live on the ECHO stage. Das Erste (ARD) will broadcast ECHO 2009 on 21 February at 8:15pm.