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Celeb News: TIME Magazine slams Katy Perry
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TIME Magazine slams Katy Perry
Katy Perry has cemented herself as a feminist’s worst nightmare with her new GQ cover story, in which she reveals that she prayed to God for boobs, that she sings in that whiny voice on purpose, and that she thinks Geishas love unconditionally. Yes, we can all laugh at Perry for praying for her voluptuous figure, but we should be nervous that this influential pop star—that thousands of tweens and teens bop along to—is peddling a childishly sexy persona as feminism.
Katy Perry touted her newest album, Prism, as some sort of feminist awakening. She declared in 2012 that she was “not a feminist” but believed in the strength of women. By 2013, her first post-Russell Brand breakup song, “Roar,” was supposed to declare her independence and communicate that “girl power” mantra that—even if it’s not labeled with the dreaded “f” word—is something close to feminism. Instead, the album dropped, and we got a series of the most obvious sexual metaphors ever.
So let me get you in your birthday suit
It’s time to bring out the big balloons
So let me get you in your birthday suit
It’s time to bring out the big, big, big, big, big, big balloons
Spoiler alert: The balloons are her breasts. It seems the veiled metaphors haven’t progressed much since “peacock ****, ****” on Teenage Dream four years ago. This self-acclaimed powerful and independent woman is cultivating that sexy baby image that men love and Liz Lemon/Tina Fey reviled on 30 Rock. Just check out some of the quotes from the GQ article.
On perfecting a sexy whininess:
“A little whinier and looser,” her voice coach commands. “Make your tongue super-loose.”
“Ex-cuse me?” she responds, batting her lashes, enjoying the vague reference to naughty things one can do with one’s mouth, then blasts out another scale. “Good,” says the coach, dodging a mascara wand and a hot curling iron to play another note on his iPad keyboard. “Now, really whiny. Say: Gwah!”
On her controversial choice to dress up like a Geisha for a performance:
“I was thinking about unconditional love, and I was thinking: Geishas are basically, like, the masters of loving unconditionally.” She’s so earnest, I don’t have the heart to point out that in the gamut of human interactions, the courtesan-patron relationship is, um, maybe the most conditional relationship there is?
On petulantly yelling at her staff:
“Sew it to my head!” Perry commands, then squeals as Clyde cinches [her wig] down. “Do it, do it, do it quick!”
“Toothbrush, Tamra!” Perry calls out, and her assistant immediately hands over an electric.
And, of course, on her body:
“I lay on my back one night and looked down at my feet, and I prayed to God. I said, ‘God, will you please let me have boobs so big that I can’t see my feet when I’m lying down?’ ” At age 11, “God answered my prayers,” she says, glancing south. “I had no clue they would fall into my armpits eventually.”
This is what young girls are supposed to aspire to?
Perry proudly proclaims later in the interview, “I never had any plastic surgery. Not a nose, not a chin, not a cheek, not a tit. So my messages of self-empowerment are truly coming from an au naturel product.” It doesn’t occur to her that she’s far from au naturel with her heavy makeup and wigs and airbrushing. And even if she does play down the bright blue wigs and fake eyelashes, many women are still taking trips to plastic surgeons to try to make themselves look more like Perry.
But it’s hard to credit her with any self-awareness when she rounds out the interview with some crazy statements. “I see everything through a spiritual lens,” she said. “I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens.” She even claimed that she won Wisconsin for President Barack Obama. And of course it ends, appropriately, with Perry declaring as she heads for the stage, “Let’s take it all off!”
Ladies and gentleman, your daughter’s idol.
TIME
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They can honestly hate until the cows come home. It won't stop her from making money and more records. The music industry changes for a reason...
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Spoiler alert: The balloons are her breasts. It seems the veiled metaphors haven’t progressed much since “peacock ****, ****” on Teenage Dream four years ago.
the DRAG 
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 Talk about pressed. That sexy whine part is ********, that was just her vocal coach instructing her. I doubt the author has even listened to PRISM all the way through, because if they had they would realize it's a very positive, empowering album. Wanting big boobs is not a bad thing. She was joking with her Obama comment. "Yelling at her staff" which is just her telling her employees what to do and being the boss. Oh, and what the **** is wrong with "let's take it all off" she was wearing pounds of make up, fake hair, fake eyelashes, etc. of course she's going to want to take if off
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 they sound pressed!
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They went in.
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“I lay on my back one night and looked down at my feet, and I prayed to God. I said, ‘God, will you please let me have boobs so big that I can’t see my feet when I’m lying down?’ ” At age 11, “God answered my prayers,” she says, glancing south. “I had no clue they would fall into my armpits eventually.”
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What an incredibly dim-witted thing to say
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her first post-Russell Brand breakup song, “Roar,”
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lies. It was Part of Me.
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who cares about time when every other magazine calls her the queen of pop 
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And of course it ends, appropriately, with Perry declaring as she heads for the stage, “Let’s take it all off!”
Ladies and gentleman, your daughter’s idol.
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If they're gonna tear her down for being a teen's idol, tear down Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Madonna, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Ciara, and etc etc for the things they've listed here.
People put too much time and effort into tearing down pop stars for not being role models when it's the parent's job to parent their own children. Stop putting the blame on other people unrelated to people you're referring to.
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They are PRESSED!
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So pressed 
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I don't get why the author was fuming though and chiding Katy for not being feminist enough especially when Katy herself has already declared that she is not a feminist
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And of course it ends, appropriately, with Perry declaring as she heads for the stage, “Let’s take it all off!”
Ladies and gentleman, your daughter’s idol.
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It's really telling that female pop stars are always girls' "idols" or "role models," but no one ever bothers to write think pieces on Justin Timberlake or Lil Wayne or Pitbull, as if men are immune to influence. 
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Who wrote that mess! He/She is reaching to the stars tbh!
Katy, a controversial queen tbh 
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No lies were told. She's basically the most anti-feminist (or post-feminist might be more accurate) pop star out there. But that's probably part of why she's so successful. Guys aren't scared to like her because she's not afraid of being seen as a sex object.
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