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lenachen wrote:

Summer anthem: Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl”

I like to call myself straight-flexible. Kennedy’s kind of the same. She adores the above song and we are definitely going to a Katy Perry concert back in the States. Also, we should probably just consummate this friendship with hot girl-on-girl action (this is something I’ve been working on since freshman year — no luck yet).

Around 1997 or so, my favourite singer/songwriter was Jill Sobule, who had a song with the same title (although my favourite song of her’s was always Supermodel). My friends and I liked to giggle and coyly inform the boys in our life whenever it entered our heads, as teenage girls are wont to.

A decade on, Katy Perry’s take on the subject is catchy and tuneful (onto my iTunes it shall go), but dare I say it, a little… heteronormative? I mean, “You’re my experimental game”, “It’s not what good girls do, Not how they should behave”?

It’s kissing, for god’s sake, not attempted murder. Not even Serena van der Woodsen would freak out about that one.