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Mischa Barton Likes ‘French’ Kissing Girls

Mischa Barton was celebrating her 23rd birthday at Caviar Kaspia restaurant in Paris on Sunday night. And it looks like she is joining Katy Perry’s “Club of Kissing Girls”.

The former OC actress got wild with her new Parisian friends, including the likes of designers Gianbattista Valli, Oliver Theyskens, model Irina Lazareanu, Iranian photographer Ali Mahdavi and Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese.

The birthday girl capped off her birthday bash by attending the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2009 show, where party pal Dita was among the guests.

Shortly after the star-studded runway extravaganza, Mischa promptly caught the Eurostar train for London, where she currently resides.

Mostly I can’t get over how ridiculous Mischa’s makeup looks. She belongs in a 3 ring circus looking like that! Did you see her racy photo layout in Germany’s Maxim??

Source: OH NO!, fame


Credit: Mischa Barton Likes ‘French’ Kissing Girls--Backseat Cuddler
Credit and more photos: Mischa Barton Kissed A Girl | Celeb Gossipz

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Butch Walker on Ellen DeGeneres w/ Pink + NPR World Cafe; “Ships in a Bottle” video

Butch Walker, who has seen success as a solo artist and front man while also producing and writing GRAMMY-nominated hit songs for some of the world’s biggest artists including Pink, Katy Perry and Dashboard Confessional, marks the success of his critically acclaimed fourth studio album ‘Sycamore Meadows’ with the announcement of national TV and radio performances, a worldwide ad campaign and nationwide tour.

Watch Butch Walker “Ships in a Bottle” video - homemade video that documents the remains of his house before it was cleared away after the fire. Read more below.

Walker will make his national TV debut on The Ellen DeGeneres Show with a performance of his new single “Here Comes The…” featuring Pink, who also appears on the album track, on Tuesday, February 3, 2009.

The two have contributed to each other’s albums in the past and Ellen will mark their first TV performance together. Prior to the Ellen performance, on January 29th, Walker will perform songs off of Sycamore Meadows on NPR’s premiere music program World Café, which is syndicated on 168 NPR stations nationwide.

In addition to his work on the latest Pink album, ‘Funhouse’, Butch’s new Katy Perry single “Thinking Of You” just entered Billboard’s Top 20 chart and his Top 5 Secondhand Serenade smash “Fall For You” is nearing towards double platinum sales. He recently completed work with Dashboard Confessional on their next album and had the unique experience of working with the all-star cast of Cee-Lo, Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, Janelle Monet, Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes and Brendon Urie from Panic at the Disco on the new global theme for Coca Cola, “Open Happiness.”

After playing a string of sold-out dates around the release of his album in October and November of 2008, Walker will head out on a national headlining tour that will kick-off in Toronto on March 5th and visit over 20 cities.

Walker’s latest album ‘Sycamore Meadows’ has received rave reviews from the press. Billboard referred to the album as a “new high point for the already accomplished Walker”, Filter stated, “as a songwriter his storytelling ability alone wins the day” and USA Today says “best thing I’ve heard from him.”

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Sycamore Meadows, the street where acclaimed musician Butch Walker lived and worked in Malibu, CA has drastically changed as a result of the massive wildfires that destroyed much of the area last November. And like many other Southern California residents, Walker lost his entire house and all his personal possessions in those fires, including his studio and every master recording he’s ever made. But inspiration sometimes comes from tragedy and so it became that this event incited Butch Walker to create music unlike anything he had ever done before.

The result is his fourth studio album, ‘Sycamore Meadows’ (Power Ballad/Stay Platinum/Original Signal).

The album, which was written and produced entirely by Walker, features a classic and introspective sound highlighting his poignant lyrics and unforgettable melodies, further proving the staying power of Walker as a solo artist.


Credit: Butch Walker on Ellen DeGeneres w/ Pink + NPR World Cafe; “Ships in a Bottle” video - Band Weblogs - The Music Blog

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Coachella 2009 Lineup Revealed

Paul McCartney, The Foo Fighters, Grammy-nominated pop star Katy Perry, and hip-hop pioneers Public Enemy are among the artists set to rock out at the 2009 Coachella Music Festival in California this April.

The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is scheduled for April 17, 18, 19.


Credit: Coachella 2009 Lineup Revealed

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She Loves Her Pussy!

Your first look!

Katy Perry has just embarked on her first-ever solo headlining tour and….

The set features a giant inflatable kitty! With blinking light-up eyes!

And inflatable fruit too!

Just give her a pussy and some strawberries and she's happy!


Credit: Perez Hilton: She Loves Her Pussy!

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Katy Perry: The ultimate `Gwennabe’?




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By Jim Harrington

It’s hard to watch Katy Perry in concert, as a capacity crowd of 1,100 did on Wednesday night at the Fillmore, and not think of Gwen Stefani. That’s not necessarily a big knock on the 24-year-old Santa Barbara native – there are way worse things to be than a “Gwennabe.”

Perry’s best songs, which mostly came bunched during the first half of the 75-minute set, were upbeat, proudly frivilous pop songs that sounded so close to classic No Doubt that it almost seemed like we were listening to outtakes from the “Tragic Kingdom” sessions. Her bubbly, alternatively coy and defiant, vocals seem styled on Stefani’s. When she yells in a song, her crescendo is often punctuated with a squeak – a very Stefani-type move.

Her stage persona, mixing cute and cuddly with sexy and flamboyant, is straight-up Gwen 101. She’s also not afraid to borrow the older singer’s tomboy image – as illustrated by the title of her hit album, last year’s “One of the Boys.” Even the stage design and costuming, a ‘50s Hollywood pin-up motiff that featured Perry in a short pink nightie with big red lips sewn across the front, might be something that Stefani would use.

Also like Gwen, Perry appeals to a variety of age groups, for very different reasons. The young female teen brigade was there, thanks to moms and their minivans, and they let their shrill voices be heard as soon as Perry took the stage and began doing cheerleader routines at the start of “Fingerprints.” But there were also many older males, ones that were probably hoping that the sexy singer would act out the smash single “I Kissed a Girl” onstage.

For the first half of the show, Perry was surprisingly impressive. She kept the show zipping along at a fun pace as she partied her way through “Hot and Cold,” “One of the Boys” and, even, a short “Hokey Pokey.” She even tossed in a great cover of the ‘80s Outfield hit “Your Love,’ which she dedicated to one of the moms in attendance.

By the time we were eight songs into the set, however, it became clear that we had seen and heard everything Perry had to offer. Not surprisingly, the second half of the show, with the exception of the encore of “I Kissed a Girl,” felt anticlimatic.


Credit: Katy Perry: The ultimate `Gwennabe’? | A+E Interactive

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Katy Perry: Clearing The Air On Her Faith, Her Parents And That Celibacy Vow




I had a chance last week to take part in a teleconference with hot pop artist Katy Perry. Perry is preparing for her world tour and appearance on the Grammys in February.

Katy Perry is a hot topic on the Gospel Soundcheck blog because in 2001 she released a Christian album under her real name, Katy Hudson. The chatter has raged over that bit of news. Later that summer, her parents allegedly gave an interview to the UK Daily Record in which they were quoted as saying they were ashamed of their daughter. The only problem is that her mom has said that she was misquoted in the publication.

And the latest? She told OK Magazine that she's taken a pledge of celibacy for the next year, including no kissing.

So what's the truth? Where does Katy Perry stand, from a faith perspective? What do her parents really think about her music? And is she really advocating homosexuality with her song, "I Kissed A Girl"?

The teleconference included about 50 journalists from a variety of publications, and while we all didn't get to ask a question, Katy, with trademark humor and an unexpected frankness, did clear up some questions readers have had about her.

What is Katy Perry's spiritual background and upbringing?

When she was asked what brand of Christianity she was raised and whether she believes the Bible says same sex love is immoral, Katy had this to say:

"My dad's from Memphis and he's got a bit of the Pentecostal flair. And he's hilarious. I was raised non-denominational Christian, so it's little bit more evangelical, I guess would say. Yeah, it was like a lot of that stuff you see on television. And I was raised with certain ideas, like you mentioned about what the Bible does say. But I definitely am now, as an adult, and in a whole new world, in a world I didn't even know existed, I definitely have different perspectives and am very much not a poster child for anything perfect or organized or cookie cutter. I have had my own relationship and my own beliefs and I'm continually on an upward search with all of that, and I really don't know the answers nor do I like to impress them on anybody else."

What do Katy Perry's parents really think about her music?

Katy talked about growing up in a Christian home, the daughter of two Christian pastors. The media has used the term "conservative" pastors, which for many evokes images of stern, uptight fundamentalists wielding the Bible with an iron hand. That image was reinforced last August in a story in the UK Daily Record that reported Katy Perry's parents were "deeply ashamed" of their daughter.

But I got a note from Katy's mom saying that she was misquoted in the paper, and while I've never been able to connect with her again to get more of the story, I think Katy cleared that up when a reporter from a gay newspaper asked about her parents' reaction to her music:

"My family is definitely very supportive. I have, I guess, pushed their envelope from the day I was born. I was always the kid at the dinner table who, if there was a line you shouldn't cross, I took a big leap over it. That's always been me. There's never really been, like, an edit button on my keyboard of life. I guess my parents weren't ever so shocked when I was singing very frank or honest, to me honest, songs.

"They're a different breed of Christians ... It's modern, it's not like ... you know, sometimes people envision my parents wearing the priest outfit, and I'm like, No, actually, my dad has four tattoos. I mean, they all happen to say Jesus, but he's kind of like a modern rock-and-roll pastor himself. I mean, I think we definitely agree to disagree on some things but I don't think that's unusual with a kid and their parents' relationship. They're very, very supportive and they're always telling me they're praying for me and I appreciate it."

Listening to Katy, she sounds like any other young adult who has left the path their parents laid out for their children. While they may not agree they still love and support each other. Who among us can't say the same thing? I think that puts to rest any gossip about her parents being ashamed of her.

Did Katy Perry really write "I Kissed A Girl" to promote homosexuality?

Katy Perry says that when she moved out on her own, she started to meet people she'd been warned to avoid growing up.

"I was raised to say, 'These people aren't good, you can't be friends with them'. It doesn't matter whether they were gay or straight, just certain people in general. And I started to meet great inspiring people that became my best friends."

She's clearly not putting herself out there as a poster child for any kind of lifestyle. She says "I Kissed A Girl" is really about her own curiosity over a schoolgirl crush and something she explored in the song in a tongue-in-cheek way. (In fact, there isn't much that Katy Perry doesn't do tongue-in-cheek. She's a self-proclaimed prankster and takes very little, including herself, too seriously.)

She did thank her gay fans, and added that she is a gay activist, voting no on California's Prop 8. But like most of the other things she talked about, she didn't sound at all like she was encouraging - or discouraging - homosexuality. What she sounds like is a young woman who is exploring the world without trying to force her own journey on anyone else.

TV Guide and other publications have reported that Katy Perry was taking a vow of celibacy for a year, quoting: "I've actually taken a vow of celibacy this year...no kissing anyone, just my cat, Kitty Purry."

The real story?

"By the way, that was a joke, and any fine journalist would have got that joke ... I'm not going to be celibate. I mean, I guess I'm just going to be looking for the right one, but please. Celibacy for a whole year, I'd rather die."

In the end? Katy Perry is just like thousands of other Christian teens, who grow up under the strict eye of the church and then go on to explore the world on their own. Sometimes they come back to that faith of their youth and sometimes they walk totally away. But more often, after their own personal searching, they come to a place where they reconcile what they've been taught about God and what they've experienced about him on their own. It's not fair to hold Katy Perry up now as a fallen Christian, any more than it would have been fair, when she was 16, to hold her up as a Christian role model. She's just a girl who happens to have be the media's flavor du jour.

But you can keep praying for her. If I had to take a guess, I think she'd appreciate it.

Credit: Katy Perry: Clearing The Air On Her Faith, Her Parents And That Celibacy Vow - Gospel Soundcheck

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Katy Perry Isn't Too Gay to Play the Bay

Katy Perry and all the hoopla that surronds her will be in the Bay Area for just one night.

The "Ur So Gay" and tabloid star will play the Fillmore Wednesday night at 8 p.m. Tickets are still available from Live Nation.

Perry's mix of sass and spunk combines the cheeky, club-ready pop music of Lily Allen with the commercial pop/rock of Avril Lavigne and Alanis Morissette.

Born on October 25, 1984, in Santa Barbara, Perry grew up in a Christian household as the daughter of two pastors. Though she was not allowed to listen to secular music as a child, Perry later found herself captivated by Alanis Morissette and Freddie Mercury, having discovered Queen's music during a slumber party.

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Religious music remained at the forefront, however, and Perry released a self-titled Christian album in 2001 under the name Katy Hudson. She would later abandon the genre in favor of a pop career.

At age 17, the burgeoning songwriter began working with hitmaker Glen Ballard, who had produced and co-written Alanis Morissette's chart-topping Jagged Little Pill in 1995. Several years later, she teamed up with the Matrix, a Grammy-nominated production/songwriting team whose résumé included collaborations with Avril Lavigne, Shakira, and Korn. The Matrix had plans to record their own album, with Perry serving as one of the group's two singers.

The project was ultimately shelved, but not before Perry appeared in a 2004 write-up by Blender magazine, who hailed her as "The Next Big Thing!"

With the Matrix's unreleased album sitting in the vaults at Sony Records, Perry went back to the drawing board and ultimately signed with Columbia in 2007. Her debut single, "UR So Gay," generated some online buzz with its mischievous lyrics and accompanying music video, and Perry's audience grew accordingly.

In 2008 her debut album, One of the Boys, was released, and she helped promote it by joining the summer's Warped Tour and appearing in an episode of The Young and the Restless.


Credit: Katy Perry Isn't Too Gay to Play the Bay | NBC Bay Area

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Five Questions with Katy Perry
The music scene's newly single It Girl reveals all about her first her Grammy nomination, world tour and her recent vow of virtue.
CONGRATS ON YOUR FIRST GRAMMY NOMINATION. HOW DOES IT FEEL?
The Grammys are something you dream about when you're 9 years old and you start singing. So, when this really important nomination happened to me I was like, 'holy crap,' the Grammys are like the end all be all. I got recognized by a classic, amazing industry.
IF YOU DON'T WIN THE GRAMMY FOR BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL, WHO DO YOU THINK SHOULD?
I am voting for everything for Adele. She is the one who will be around in 100 years. The whole music scene will change and trends will come and go, but she is very classic and she is really good.
WHAT EXCITES YOU MOST ABOUT YOUR UPCOMING TOUR?
I am really excited because last year I only got to perform for 20 to 30 minutes, so you would only get the "Hot and Cold" and "I Kissed a Girl." But I am definitely not dicking around on this tour. When I go to a show, I get really bored if it's just the band in their jeans and t-shirts and they think that's all they need. I like to see the eye candy, and I am definitely bringing the eye candy.
WHAT DO YOU DO TO STAY HEALTHY AND IN SHAPE?
Drinking water is the easiest trick in the game. I mean tons and tons of water. No fruit juices, just water. Sometimes I'll add a little apple cider vinegar. I drink maybe eight bottles a day. Another thing I swear by is jumping rope. I don't really do anything else. I hate working out, but I love jumping rope. I look like Rocky when I jump rope.
YOU RECENTLY SAID YOU WERE VOWING TO BE CELIBATE FOR A YEAR. WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?
Oh, any fine journalist would have got that joke. Celibacy for a whole year? I would rather die.
Katy Perry Interview- Katy Perry Talks About Grammy Nomination - CosmoGIRL!

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Live Review: Katy Perry at the Crystal Ballroom, Monday, Jan. 26th 2008

When I made my way into the Crystal Ballroom Monday night for the Katy Perry show, I arrived in time to see a woman in her late 30s/early 40s getting kicked out for drunken behavior. She pleaded with security not to turn her out onto the streets since she was from Corvallis, so they humored her by phoning her husband. Hmmm. Weird sight for a concert aimed primarily at pre-teens. Apparently, the venue and promoter thought the same thing. When I got to the main floor, the normal barrier that protrudes down the center of the Crystal separating the drinkers from the under-21 crowd was gone. The only area for those desiring to imbibe was the balcony. But, the audience in attendance didn’t quite mirror our young predictions—there were tons and tons of people over the age of 21, including a lot in their 40s. I guess we were too quick to judge Katy Perry’s fanbase.

Purposely missing the opening band, I was exactly on time for Perry’s entrance onto the stage, which was festooned with inflatable bananas, strawberries and a giant cat modeled after her own feline pet Kitty Purry. While the living blow-up doll’s first two songs and brief flirtation with the hokey-pokey before introducing third song (and current single) “Hot N Cold” were on point, the show quickly devolved into Operation Wait Until “I Kissed a Girl.” And it was a painful wait full of gratuitous profanity seemingly meant for mere shock and awe and a lot of balladry. The thing I liked about the Killers when the group was at its height of popularity was that they would play the hits as the fourth and fifth songs. It was an arrogant confidence that announced to the assembled crowd that the band knew something they didn’t know: That the band had other tricks up their sleeves that it knew were worth hanging around for. Katy Perry couldn’t quite make that promise, even though it’s worth noting she played guitar, an impossible feat for many of her pop peers. And there was a cover of Outfield’s “Your Love” thrown in, which offered the realization that maybe she should’ve bumped some of her own songs for more covers instead.

As the clock ticked towards 10, it was encore time. “I Kissed A Girl” served as an appropriately thundering close, nearly redeeming the past hour of filler entertainment. Not only did she reveal a giant inflatable tube of lipstick meant to mimic the lyric about “cherry chapstick” but a pair of 40 year-old women in front of me broke out cherry chapstick tubes of their own with glee. Hmmm… indeed.


Credit and more photos: Live Review: Katy Perry at the Crystal Ballroom, Monday, Jan. 26th 2008-- local Cut

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I Kissed a Girl Ringtone

What hasn’t been said about Katy Perry and her hit single I Kissed a Girl. I mean, everything from “you haven’t actually kissed a girl…” to “your crazy parents think you’re a slut because of a song you sing about kissing someone of the same gender just once” to “why do you think it’s okay to pretend to have feelings of curiosity just to sell more records?”

All (somewhat) valid points. My take: who cares, it’s a really stupid pop song that won’t stick around for more than a year. It’s fun and catchy but that’s the extent of it. But, you know, there are going to be people that continue to love the song and that’s fine. So far they have already made the song pretty high on the top ringtone list. The Katy Perry I kissed a girl ringtone is coming in at number 20 as of writing.

One thing I love about the “controversy” (if you can even really call it that) is that it shows how people feel about the medium of music. In a fiction book if the first-person is used to describe events that have occurred we don’t take it to mean that the author is speaking autobiographically, but when it comes to this silly pop song we automatically start calling a her a slut/lesbian/fauxbian, etc. Really? We don’t have much faith in the depth of today’s music.


Credit: I Kissed a Girl Ringtone | Shoutmouth

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iTunes Plus drops all-or-nothing upgrades, goes a la carte

iTunes users who want to upgrade their DRMed library to iTunes Plus can now do so on a song-by-song or album-by-album basis. Apple has dropped its restriction that forced users to upgrade their entire libraries at once, but if you're feeling lazy, you might still want to hold off.


It hasn't even been a month since Apple told the world that DRM on music sold in the iTunes Store would be going the way of the dodo and that all DRM-restricted music that we had purchased up until now could be upgraded to iTunes Plus—for a fee. And not just the $0.30 per track fee it costs to upgrade each song.

As our own Erica Sadun pointed out after the announcement, upgrading your iTunes DRMed tracks was an all or nothing deal; either you upgrade everything in your library, including those embarrassing Katy Perry songs that you bought while on a regrettable cough syrup bender, or none of your music at all.

Erica wasn't the only one who brought up that concern, and thankfully, it seems as if Apple has listened to the feedback. As of today, users can upgrade their songs to iTunes Plus on a song-by-song basis.

When you enter the iTunes Store and click on the iTunes Plus icon, you're no longer restricted to the big, giant "Buy All" button. Now, each track that Apple has identified as protected on your machine has a "Buy" button next to it. You can now upgrade your songs on a per-song or even per-album basis, if that makes things easier for you.


Credit: iTunes Plus drops all-or-nothing upgrades, goes a la carte - Ars Technica

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woo she just got announced for the oxegen festival in Ireland =]