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I guess Katy Perry has a new music video coming out soon? As a grown adult man, I don’t keep up with the latest Katy Perry news, and I didn’t even know that you could “have a new music video coming out soon” in 2011. Like, I know people still make music videos, but with the possible exception of Lady Gaga, I kind of thought they just appeared on Vevo and you only saw them when you accidentally googled something else. Anyway, the song for the video is called “Last Friday Night” and apparently it has this whole “teenagers partying” vibe to it, all of which is fine, but none of which quite explains why Katy Perry has created a 13-year-old alter ego for herself named Kathy Beth Terry. From ONTD:
Perry’s solar-system-loving persona has already hit the social media realms of Twitter and Facebook. Not only does Kathy Beth Terry love a good party, but she’s a technology wiz too. “Harry S. Truman High: your firewall is weak, just hacked into @Twitter at the library, you can’t block me, n00bs!” Kathy tweeted on Tuesday.
Wait, what? Cool tweet. Cool persona. After the jump, I have posted a video that Kathy Beth Terry made and man oh man, this is the weirdest thing I have seen a pop-star do since 50 Cent’s “Pimpin’ Curly” phase (hahaha, remember 50 Cent’s “Pimpin’ Curly” phase?! I nearly forgot! But I remember!). Seriously, what is even going on here:
Acting! This is just fun for everybody. Right? So fun. She’s having fun. We’re having fun. This is what pop music is all about. Shoot whip cream out of your tits and then let’s all go to jaiiilllll!!!!! This guy knows what I’m talking about:
Arrest us! Arrest her! Arrest Russell Brand! Arrest EVERYONE!
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In Katy Perry’s newest video, her bra is made out of orthodontic equipment.
The make-over montage in which she gets contacts, pulls the scrunchie out of her hair, and loses the head-gear is going to be so inspiring!
Come on, guys. Those glasses, and that ponytail! No way could she be prom queen. Aw, she’s got paint stains on her overalls!
I always want to claim that Not Another Teen Movie is a ‘guilty pleasure’ of mine, but it’s not. I don’t feel guilty when I watch it and I’m not embarrassed to say I like the film. What I’m saying is I like Not Another Teen Movie and an upvote for you because you’re quoting it!
I shouldn’t hate her more than Glenn Beck, but my bile ducts don’t lie.
I’m sure Katy Perry’s marketing people know better than I do, but are today’s 13 year olds really into ill-fitting jean vests and/or full sleeve pink turtlenecks worn on a hot summer day?
I’m pretty sure today’s 13 year olds wear about 90% fewer clothes on average than Katy is in this video.
Freddie Prinze Jr. has his work cut out for him in the upcoming She’s Still All That.
I hope he’s been practicing his hacky-sack routine.
At least he has work!
I don’t care, I love her. Even though Firework was pretty obviously repurposed for the gays, not written for them, she really does care a lot about queer rights and she has an interesting story re: her slightly crazy-religious parents.
Also, except for Peacock, the entire Teenage Dream album is amazing.
I’m not going to agree with you, because I don’t, but I will add that without Katy Perry we wouldn’t have the Los Colorados Ukranian public tv cover of Hot & Cold which is sublime.
Doesn’t she have a song where she calls a boy gay the whole time and makes derogatory statements about him? I mean…aren’t these the lyrics to that song?
“I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf
While jacking off listening to mozart
You bitch and moan about LA
Wishing you were in the rain reading Hemingway
You don’t eat meat
And drive electrical cars
You’re so indie rock it’s almost an art
You need SPF 45 just to stay alive
You’re so gay and you don’t even like boys”
I mean, that song came out before her producers realized what a money pit the gays are so…so yeah.
but she has gay friends!!!!
I know, that song is an interesting question mark. it’s about a hipster ex-boyfriend, and was released before her first ‘official’ album. I don’t disagree that using gay to describe a lack of conventional masculinity is bad, but it’s not really about gay people? Is that any better? I feel like since I’m not offended it shoudn’t matter, but I know that’s not how things work.
(also, I like that you’re like ‘doesn’t the song go… *copy of lyrics sheet* like you weren’t sure)
In the words of Simon Amstell, “Katy Perry recorded ‘UR SO GAY’, which sounds homophobic, but of course, she’s using the other, fashionable version of the word, meaning anything generally bad. Anyone who thinks that sounds offensive should just jew off and stop being so bloody black about it.”
I Kissed A Girl is maybe the worst thing that’s ever happened to bisexuality/lesbianism in the recent herstory of America? Either that or The Kids Are Alright.
See, I was going to cite “I kissed a girl” as also being an example of not-so-gay-friendly but damnnnn is she fiiiiine in that video.
Also I desperately pleaded for one of my lesbian softball league team names to be “I kissed a girl and stole second” and thought I was the most smart. So, so yeah.
only female bisexuality. male bisexuality is beaten up and down all over various media
Yeah, it’s pretty gross. It’s so transparent in its “Teehee kissing girls is hawt, right boys? But don’t worry, I’m definitely not gay I have a BOYFRIEND which I will keep REMINDING YOU OF so you don’t go THINKING I’M A LESBO.”
Guys, I know we snark a lot on here, but I think this whole alter-ego concept is wholly original* and I applaud** Katy Perry for it.
* Not counting Ziggy Stardust, Chris Gaines, Sasha Fierce, Mimi, Damita Jo, Hannah Montana,Mr. MacPhisto, pretty much every hip hop star, arguably Sgt. pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, maybe even Captain EO.
**Not really.
If anything, Katy Perry is just too creative. That’s her problem.
Plus her music, and choice and husband.
Compared to all those people, she chose the least cool name ever to be her alter ego. C’mon, nobody that’s 13 is named Kathy! I know this because that is my name and I am 29 and not even anyone that’s 29 is named Kathy! I actually had an ex-boyfriend tell me that my name sounded “too old.”* Your PR people should try harder, Katy.
*There is a reason he is my ex-boyfriend. I like my name, if only because it distinguished me from the 30 or so Katies in every class I had throughout my entire education. My mom always said it was basically chosen as my nickname for that very reason. We are a practical people.
what an asshole
Will this be obscure enough for a Halloween costume?
Kathy Beth Terry should make a movie with YouTube sensation Fred. Remember Fred? It could be called ‘Kathy Beth Terry vs. YouTube Sensation Fred’. Or better yet, ‘Kathy beth v. Fred v. Plants v. Zombies’. I am going to go see that movie. On a more serious note, is she doing a slight parody of Rebecca Black and ‘Friday’? I’m kind of thinking that’s what is happening here.
EDIT: Capitalize the ‘B’ in ‘Kathy Beth’. Edits! #Edits
Rebecca Black actually makes a cameo in the video. Katy Perry likes her apparently? As much as a rich celebrity can love a 13yrold internet sensation.
I’m… I…. should change my avatar. Well this is embarrassing.
I’m embarrassed for you.
Yes, the awkward teenager girl persona is much more embarrassing than cupcake tits.
“Yeah, keep doing that. Perfect. A little more. You know, for your career.” -Russell Brand
Reminds me of Kelly.
The actual 13-year-old Katy Perry looks significantly less sufferable than Kathy Beth Terry.
This is what a former child beauty pageant veteran thinks normal kids are like. Sad, desperate, hideous, internet obsessed loners. Totally cute!
Kathy Beth wears a lot of eye makeup for a 13-year-old dweeb.
If that’s our 13 year old Katy Perry…. then who the hell is this?
Catherine Zeta-Jones?
So basically Katy Beth Terry is Shelly from South Park.
*emerges from his cave*
Peacock is the worst fucking song in the world.
*goes back*
I don’t quite understand this. Is she making fun of mentally retarded people?
i’m drunk and high right now
i can’t tell if i’m really just high or really just drunk
It’s like she watched those Thurnis Haley videos and was like, “I could do that!”
Obviously Gabe, you’ve never been a 13 year old girl.
This seems to be some sort of cheap imitation of singer Rosie Thomas’ hysterical alter ego “Sheila Saputo”. Watch the shiznak out of this, people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVggNGVGGq0
That totally looks like spam but I swear to Jeebus its not. Kathy Beth Terry genuinely seems like a rip off to me.
I like the way she commits to character and finds what’s interesting about that character before presenting that character.
Man she is the ugliest chick since Ugly Betty