Every so often there comes along an artist who is everywhere. Omnipresent. Pervasive. Ubiquitous. A year ago, it was Rihanna. Right now, that artist is Katy Perry.
Her hit single “I Kissed a Girl,” with its bi-curious lyrics and impossibly hummable hook, has put Katy on the lips (no pun intended) of, well, just about everybody. The song, lifted from her debut pop album One of the Boys, has reached #1 in the United States on The Billboard Hot 100, and top charts in Canada, the U.K. and elsewhere. People just LOVE this song.
But there are people who hate it, too. There are those who think the lyrics are an affront to her Christian upbringing, since she’s the daughter of two pastors and began her recording career as a Christian artist. There are those who find the lyrics homophobic (along with those of her song, “Ur So Gay”). And there are those who don’t think it was a song that should have gotten her pop-song-singing-butt placed on a prominent stage on this summer’s Warped Tour.
Not that she cares. Why? Because the 23-year-old, guitar-slingin’, Travis McCoy-datin’, pop star is the “it” girl of the moment.
She’s confident, funny, sassy, and damn, if she’s not talented, too. Her performance of “I Kissed a Girl” brought down the house on FNMTV a few weeks back. And on that aforementioned Warped Tour, she’s been turning young punks into pop converts all summer long.
As of late, she’s back in her element, touring the country on the mtvU Video Music Awards Tour with Boys Like Girls, All Time Low and Metro Station. And that makes sense, too, because Katy is nominated for two 2008 MTV Video Music Awards! “I Kissed a Girl” vaulted her into the Best Female Video category amidst clips from the likes of Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Britney Spears and Jordin Sparks.
The video also scored Katy Perry a Best New Artist nomination, where she’s competing against Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Jordin Sparks and Tokio Hotel. You like her, right? Well if you do, you should totally cast a vote for her, because fans are deciding who takes this Moonman home. You can vote on MTV.com’s Best New Artist voting page. You can also cast 10 votes every time you play the Moonman Entourage game on MTV.com.
Anyway, it was just a few days ago out on the mtvU Video Music Awards Tour that we caught up with Katy to chat about all things Katy Perry. You’ll be seeing the fruits of that on-stage conversation all over MTV for the next week. You can also watch the spots on MTV.com.
Check out a photos from the shoot, watch the “I Kissed a Girl” video below, along with that FNMTV live performance. Plus, watch those on-air promos here, too. And check out Katy’s MTV.com artist page for a round up of just about everything we’ve got on KP.
Oh, and remember what we said about her being funny? If you haven’t been following along, you’ve missed a helluva set of Katy Perry tour diaries that she did for Buzzworthy. The most recent one has her rockin’ a lady ’stache, while this one had her sharing her tips for coping as the only girl on the road, while another one shows off her boobs.
Anyway. Less us. More Katy.