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"Weird Al" Yankovic Now Outsourcing His Polka Parties To The Ukraine

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OK, it's not a polka, per se, but it's still an accordion-fronted band (Los Colorados) covering Katy Perry's "Hot and Cold." Interestingly, the arrangement is not all that different. Also, Perry isn't involved at all, so it's a win-win.

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"Weird Al" Yankovic Now Outsourcing His Polka Parties To The Ukraine

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OK, it's not a polka, per se, but it's still an accordion-fronted band (Los Colorados) covering Katy Perry's "Hot and Cold." Interestingly, the arrangement is not all that different. Also, Perry isn't involved at all, so it's a win-win.

Credit: Videodrone;: "Weird Al" Yankovic Now Outsourcing His Polka Parties To The Ukraine

that is fuckin awesome

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Kooky, colorful singer rises to the top with button-pushing bubble-gum pop and a fruity fixation

SAN DIEGO - Uh-oh! Katy Perry’s born-again minister parents were in the house. How would pop’s new poster child for sexual experimentation deal with it?
As usual, she went straight to the point. After her second song at the sold-out House of Blues, she announced: “I’m so nervous. My parents are in the audience tonight. God bless them. They made me.”
She explained how her parents didn’t allow boys - or sugar - during her pre-teen years. Then Perry, still proudly naughty at age 24, confessed about her forbidden first crush: a boy at a Christian ice-skating night when she was 12.
The decade’s most colorful and refreshing American pop star with the No. 1 hits “I Kissed a Girl” and “Hot N Cold,” Perry oozes unabashed bubble-gum fun while provocatively pushing buttons. She’s been called the new Madonna, the next Gwen Stefani, even “the love child of Zooey Deschanel and an anime character.”
She is famous for having no filter when she speaks, though she felt compelled to apologize last year after describing herself as a “skinnier Lily Allen.” After her San Diego show, she pulled up her skirt for a male reporter to show the bruises on her leg from four hours of dance rehearsal for that weekend’s Grammy Awards. But she did censor herself a bit for her parents’ sake.
“Usually, I kiss a girl after every single show,” she said. “Tonight I made sure it was on the cheek. Plus, I didn’t know if the girl was over 18, and I didn’t want to get into that kind of mess.” She giggled girlishly. “My parents liked it. They fully love and support me.”
Without prompting, Perry confessed that it wasn’t her best performance. “Tonight I was, like, 85 percent. But I also started dancing today at 11 (a.m.) for four hours for the Grammys, and I also was stuck in a car for four hours driving,” she said as midnight approached, along with a 5:30 a.m. radio interview with Ryan Seacrest in Los Angeles, where she lives. “So I definitely work. It’s a lot of iced Sprites on your kneecaps after your show. But this is awesome.”
When Perry told her mom about the exhausting day of Grammy choreography, “she was like, ‘Oh, yeah. I remember when I was dancing on the stage at the Fillmore with Jim Morrison and the Doors.’ I’m like, ‘Mother! I’ve never heard that story.’ And she was like, ‘That was B.C.’ She likes to say B.C. - before Christ. Omigod, my parents are ridiculous. I’m going to turn into them, I’m sure. In some shape. We always do. We always dread it.”
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was the middle child born to two pastors in Santa Barbara, Calif. At 9, she began singing in church as part of her parents’ ministry, and at 15 recorded a gospel album in Nashville. Two years later she moved to Los Angeles and signed a pop deal with Island Def Jam, only to be dropped after making an album with producer Glen Ballard. Then came another near-miss: Columbia let her go after she had almost completed an album with the Matrix production team.
She became Katy Perry (it’s her mom’s maiden name) to avoid confusion with actress Kate Hudson after signing with Capitol Records in 2007. That fall the sharp-tongued lyricist released the single “Ur So Gay,” the most vicious pop putdown of an ex-boyfriend since Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know.” That sassy ditty set up “I Kissed a Girl,” last year’s bi-curious sing-along anthem of the summer from her “One of the Boys” CD.
The song was sparked by an “unspoken spoken-of curiosity,” she said. “I’ve always been the girl who said exactly what I thought. I’m not shy at all. As I grew into myself, I realized the one friendship that I had in my early teenage years was actually a huge crush. I was always kind of curious about what it would be like kissing someone like myself. I went ahead and tried it. It was an amazing life experience. I think a lot of people, girls especially, you get them into a group and they say, ‘Of course I’ve kissed my best friend.’”
The bouncy, suggestive hit has made Perry something of a poster child for sexual freedom as well as a magnet for confessors. Backstage in San Diego, a young woman in the meet-and-greet line confided to Perry that she’d taken the singer’s brother, David, to her own mom’s recent lesbian wedding. That caused a mile-wide smile on Perry’s face, framed by her new bob-with-bangs hairdo.
“I Kissed a Girl” landed Perry on the grungy, rock-oriented Vans Warped Tour - uncharted territory for a pop tart who dresses like a Bettie Page pinup.
“That tour taught me to go, go, go, go,” she said. “No set times, no soundchecks, no showers. It doesn’t matter if you have a hit song. ‘Get in line for catering, please.’ No favoritism at all. It was me and 12 other guys in a bus, face to face, all the time, smelling like crap. I felt like GI Jane afterward. Everyone had a bet that I was going to die or have to drop out. That made me smile, of course.”
“Jesus” is tattooed on Perry’s wrist. “There’s not really an eraser for that,” she said. She hasn’t gone to church recently because she’s been on tour for eight months. “I haven’t been home for anything, not even to hang curtains,” she said without sounding whiny. “But I have my moments with God on my own, by myself. Hopefully every day.”
No doubt, Perry has her serious moments. She’s a driven, hard-working careerist who can craft songs for stars such as Kelly Clarkson when she’s not cutting up like a flamboyant cartoon, as she did on the Grammys, descending from the ceiling in a gigantic banana.
She has a fruit fixation, decorating the stage at her concerts with giant inflatable fruit.
“It started with my obsession with the 1940s and cherry charm bracelets and strawberry-and-cherry pattern baskets on women’s dresses,” she explained. “Then my obsession got really big when I went to Japan and I’d see dancing bananas with faces on them. So I decided to take it to a whole ‘nother level. It’s fun, it’s kitsch, it’s cute. Some of it is phallic. Some of it is playful. I have no idea.”
People are responding to her fruitiness. New British star Estelle saw Perry perform at the Grammys and the Brit Awards, where she was named best international female artist. “I like Katy Perry. She’s a bit herself,” Estelle said. “She’s walking out and saying: ‘I’m not doing what you think I’m going to do.’”
It’s an appeal that crosses generational lines. “It’s done with a fun spirit,” said Sheila Saunders, 49, of Carlsbad, Calif., who went to the San Diego show with her 15- and 20-year-old daughters. “Embrace life while you can.”
Perry’s own mom couldn’t have put it better.
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KATY THE CAREERIST
No overnight sensation, Perry is a polished pro with a solid resume:
At 17, she made an album for Island Def Jam with producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith). It was never released.
Columbia Records paired her with the Matrix, the production team behind Avril Lavigne. The label dropped her, but the Matrix released those recordings two months ago under its own name.
She appeared in videos for Carbon Leaf’s “Learn to Fly,” Gym Class Heroes’ “Cupid’s Chokehold” and P.O.D.’s “Goodbye for Now.”
She co-wrote two songs for Kelly Clarkson’s new CD (including current single “I Do Not Hook Up") with hit tunesmith/"American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi.





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Review | Katy Perry at the Beaumont Club

Excitable teenage girls in the front. Enabling mothers in the back. That's how much of the capacity audience of approximately 1,200 was aligned at Katy Perry's enjoyable show Monday at The Beaumont Club.
Although many of her youthful fans looked as if they have Hannah Montana and High School Musical posters decorating their bedrooms, Perry made a convincing case that she's not just another disposable, flavor-of-the-month artist.
Since her Warped Tour appearance in Bonner Springs last July, Perry has gone a long way toward permanently embedding herself in the pop culture firmament. She's appeared in respectable fashion layouts and as fodder in disreputable gossip tabloids. That exposure, along with constant touring behind a steady stream of successful singles, has made the 24-year-old a star.
"Thank you for turning my world upside down," Perry told her adoring audience.
Perry is best known for risque hits "I Kissed a Girl" and "UR So Gay," but Monday's show was more cute than titillating. The theme of the current tour is "Hello Katy." An inflatable cat served as the stage backdrop.
If Perry is sick of playing material from her secular debut album, the platinum One of the Boys, she didn't show it. She invested seemingly sincere enthusiasm into every song.
It paid off. "Hot N Cold" is one of the most irritating hits of the new millennium. Yet between Perry's charisma and the frenzied sing along of her rabid fans, the ditty was transformed into a definitive girl-power anthem. Crowd favorite "Waking Up In Vegas" and a solo acoustic reading of "Thinking of You" were also entirely convincing.
Perry is not a dazzling vocalist or a particularly gifted songwriter. But her casual chatter about Facebook, disappointing boyfriends and unrequited love demonstrated a more valuable asset -- she's perfectly in tune with the adolescent zeitgeist.
Much of the night's success can also be attributed to the increasingly mature approach of Perry's band. They evoked The Cars, Cheap Trick and other classic power-pop acts. It's no accident that Queen's "Killer Queen" served as Perry's entrance music. She also covered Queen's "I Want To Have a Good Time." The savvy Perry clearly has no intention of becoming a forgotten flash-in-the-pan.
Opening act The Daylights were solid and their handsome visages inspired many ardent squeals. Even so, the odds are stacked against them.
Perry, however, looks like she's here to stay.




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Katy Perry And Josh Groban Sexing It Up

I guess this is true…I found photos of them together in the past and a TON of newsworthy press is reporting it. So, we will go with it. I think it’s an odd pairing…but Katy Perry is cute and at least Josh Groban swooped in quickly before someone else did. Props to him!
Josh is apparently the joker here!

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Katy Perry Peed On By Chimp During Photo Shoot

Pop star Katy Perry was left red-faced during a recent photoshoot - after a chimpanzee urinated on her.

The I Kissed A Girl hitmaker was modelling outfits by designer Jeremy Scott when the embarrassing incident occurred.

She writes on her blog, "Jeremy Scott is one of my all time favorites and he shot the pictures while I got to prance around in his creations. I had a chimp on set with me that day. Fun fact, she peed all over me, I had to take a silkwood shower in the middle of shooting."



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Katy Perry And Josh Groban Are Not Dating

Katy Perry and Josh Groban may sound like a perfect couple, but the two singers are not romantically involved, according to his rep.

"Josh and Katy are very close friends and hang out, but they are not a couple," Groban's rep, Luke Burland, tells PEOPLE in response to rumors of a relationship between the two.

Perry, who split with Travis McCoy in January, is currently touring her One of the Boys record. Groban, who is working on a new album, attended her Los Angeles show in February.

Katy Perry Isn't Dating Josh Groban

Groban's rep denies relationship rumors, calling the singers 'very close friends.'

Earlier this week, Perez Hilton reported that Katy Perry was dating Josh Groban. Well, apparently the rumor is just that: a rumor. Despite Hilton's report that "they've been trying to keep it very low-profile," the "I Kissed a Girl" singer and the operatic-pop star are nothing more than friends, according to Groban's rep.
"Josh and Katy are very close friends and hang out, but they are not a couple," Luke Burland told People in response to the relationship rumors.
Since her split from Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy earlier this year, Perry has been linked not only to Groban, but also Benji Madden after she and the Good Charlotte guitarist were seen hanging out in Vegas together. That relationship rumor was also refuted as false by Perry herself.
"It's two pseudo-famous people sitting next to each other ... doesn't mean we were bumping uglies!" she wrote on her blog. "You know I don't just do that with anyone! That's just how the media works, as you can tell. ... Benji is a nice young fellow, but my heart really belongs to [my cat] Kitty Purry."
She echoed the sentiment in a previous interview when asked about her love life. She jokingly told TV Guide that 2009 was going to be man-free. "I've actually taken a the Grammy nominee said. "No kissing anyone. Just my cat: Kitty Purry."




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Katy Perry, Lil Wayne Reach Platinum Status

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The RIAA has announced its Gold and Platinum certifications for February, awarding a total of 19 albums, 31 digital singles and two ringtones.
Katy Perry secured the top spot, reaching triple Platinum for her singles "I Kissed A Girl" and "Hot N Cold," while her album One Of The Boys was also certified Platinum.

The Carter, Vol. 3, Lil Wayne�s highest-selling record thus far, reached even higher sales heights after he took home four awards at the 51st Grammy Awards, as it has been certified triple Platinum.
The Grammy Awards' Song of the Year winner "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay achieved the top digital single certification in February. Also nominated in the Song of the Year category at the Grammys was Jason Mraz�s "I�m Yours," which sold two million downloads, earning a 2x Platinum honor.
Both R&B singer Ne-Yo and rock icons Guns N� Roses also achieved Gold and Platinum honors, for their albums, Year Of The Gentleman and Chinese Democracy, respectively.
Additionally, several new artists struck RIAA gold this February. This year�s Grammy award winner for best new artist, Adele, country artists Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker and Steve Holy as well as Charlie Wilson and Tom Waits also were certified Gold.
Finger Eleven�s "Paralyzer" and Sean Kingston�s "Take You There" rung in Platinum and Gold for their ringtone sales.




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Congrats to Katy!

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Just Added: No Doubt w/ Katy Perry at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater August 4

Just added to No Doubt's 2009 Tour schedule by overwhelming demand: August 4 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, CA.

Tickets go on sale to the general public Saturday, April 4 at 12:00 Noon (Pacific) via livenation.com.

Katy Perry and The Sounds will open the show.

There will be a No Doubt Tour Club pre-sale on Monday, March 30 at 4:00 PM (Pacific), open for 48 hours. The No Doubt Tour Club was created to guarantee fans get the best seats in the house, visit nodoubttourclub.musictoday.com for full details. Note: limited number of memberships.




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Josh Groban “Kissed a Girl”

Looks like Josh Groban and “I Kissed a Girl” girl Katy Perry are an item according to Hollywooddame. I dunno but if you ask me, I’m finding it pretty hard to picture these two together.

They have both completely different styles. Not just in their taste of music but their ‘overall’ style as well. I don’t know much about the two of them but judging by these two photos, Josh seems like a more quiet and tame individual. Goes home, has a glass of wine, puts on the fire and watches a movie. Katy has already had a few drinks and dancing on the table in the bar around the corner. She seems to be more on the wild side. Come on, “I kissed a Girl”…need I say more? She would be more the type of girl who would put herself out there and ‘experiment’.
So are these two going to be a hot and heavy item? Or do you think they were just trying things out…




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