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.