RLY? Pull yourselves together, people. It's very simple.
1. Maxim wants to sell magazines.
2. Katy wants to sell singles (I would have said "albums" but we all know she's a singles artist)
3. Both need to generate buzz to push their product. What do they do?
4. They offer Katy Perry a swimsuit with a "lifegaurd symbol" that just "happens" to look very much like a religious cross. And of course, of all the outfits Mrs. Brand could have chosen, she accepts the holy swimsuit.
It's a binary star system. Maxim is revolving around Katy Perry and Katy Perry is revolving around Maxim in order to be a headline for a day. And before you know it, a forum is flickering with a 20-page thread about how she is hypocritical, which she is... because she knows exactly what she's doing.
...Vin