*sigh* oh, hai again Katy Perry...
For her Rolling Stone interview, Katy Perry had some more to say about Lady Gaga's 'Alejandro' video, and she runs her mouth off about some other stuff, too. Here are some of my favourite bits:
"I am sensitive to Russell taking the Lord's name in vain and to Lady Gaga putting a rosary in her mouth," the pop star, 25, told Rolling Stone about her fiancé Russell Brand's often dirty mouth and Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" video. "I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen."
Two things.
1) Bad things happen. Uhhhh. What does that mean? What are 'bad things' exactly? And if I may, which bad things happen when you shake up sex and spirituality, Katy Perry? Could you elaborate, please? There will be a test.
And might I also add... If you actually paid an iota of attention to Lady Gaga's video you might have noticed that she's not actually mixing spirituality and sex. If you could broaden your mind and use your brain (and I know you have one, even if you don't appear to use it all the time) I'd like to call attention to her clear criticism of the Catholic Church (not spirituality; it's pretty damn obvious Gaga is actually quite spiritual herself, Katy Perry), and her defiance of what is expected of and appropriate behaviour from men in this repressed, oppressive, heteronormative society in which we live.
But I suppose if you come from a more religious background and feel the need to defend religion from criticism - even though I assure you religion can take it and will not crumble to ruins at the first sign of what you clearly consider an attack - Lady Gaga's video for might make you uncomfortable. I'll tell you what I'd do if I were in your place, though. I'd take a minute (or maybe a few hours or even days, since this subject is fraught with complications) to formulate my thoughts and find some actual, sensible arguments to counter Gaga's take on what you deem spirituality, and then I'd put them into actually coherent words. That's what I'd do.
2) I, personally, am sensitive to straight chicks using faux-bisexuality as 'edgy' entertainment and using the word 'gay' as an insult. I'm actually offended by those things, and I know I'm not the only one, so I just thought you should know those views, since you're so eager to share yours.
"Yes, I said I kissed a girl," she explained in the magazine. "But I didn't say I kissed a girl while f-ing a crucifix."
You know what, Katy Perry? Here're a few Bible verse for you, from Matthew 7, Verses 1 through 5, in case you want to check 'em out for yourself.
1 Don't criticize, and then you won't be criticized! 2 For others will treat you as you treat them. 3 And why worry about a speck in the eye of a brother/sister when you have a board in your own? 4 Should you say, 'Friend, let me help you get that speck out of your eye,' when you can't even see because of your own? 5 Hypocrite! First get rid of the board. Then you can see to help your brother/sister.
I'd probably save myself a whole lot of trouble if I followed this advice myself. But I'm just saying, Katy Perry, that maybe you shouldn't be so quick to judge. The Bible says a lot about judgment, and if you're going to be calling yourself a Christian you might want to change your tune and help your sister out in her quest to back the gay community, which receives condemnation, persecution and marginalization from the church on a daily basis. That'd be a lot more helpful than saying you kissed a girl and liked it, that it felt so wrong.
(Interview in question http://tinyurl.com/2b74gs6)
"I am sensitive to Russell taking the Lord's name in vain and to Lady Gaga putting a rosary in her mouth," the pop star, 25, told Rolling Stone about her fiancé Russell Brand's often dirty mouth and Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" video. "I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen."
Two things.
1) Bad things happen. Uhhhh. What does that mean? What are 'bad things' exactly? And if I may, which bad things happen when you shake up sex and spirituality, Katy Perry? Could you elaborate, please? There will be a test.
And might I also add... If you actually paid an iota of attention to Lady Gaga's video you might have noticed that she's not actually mixing spirituality and sex. If you could broaden your mind and use your brain (and I know you have one, even if you don't appear to use it all the time) I'd like to call attention to her clear criticism of the Catholic Church (not spirituality; it's pretty damn obvious Gaga is actually quite spiritual herself, Katy Perry), and her defiance of what is expected of and appropriate behaviour from men in this repressed, oppressive, heteronormative society in which we live.
But I suppose if you come from a more religious background and feel the need to defend religion from criticism - even though I assure you religion can take it and will not crumble to ruins at the first sign of what you clearly consider an attack - Lady Gaga's video for might make you uncomfortable. I'll tell you what I'd do if I were in your place, though. I'd take a minute (or maybe a few hours or even days, since this subject is fraught with complications) to formulate my thoughts and find some actual, sensible arguments to counter Gaga's take on what you deem spirituality, and then I'd put them into actually coherent words. That's what I'd do.
2) I, personally, am sensitive to straight chicks using faux-bisexuality as 'edgy' entertainment and using the word 'gay' as an insult. I'm actually offended by those things, and I know I'm not the only one, so I just thought you should know those views, since you're so eager to share yours.
"Yes, I said I kissed a girl," she explained in the magazine. "But I didn't say I kissed a girl while f-ing a crucifix."
You know what, Katy Perry? Here're a few Bible verse for you, from Matthew 7, Verses 1 through 5, in case you want to check 'em out for yourself.
1 Don't criticize, and then you won't be criticized! 2 For others will treat you as you treat them. 3 And why worry about a speck in the eye of a brother/sister when you have a board in your own? 4 Should you say, 'Friend, let me help you get that speck out of your eye,' when you can't even see because of your own? 5 Hypocrite! First get rid of the board. Then you can see to help your brother/sister.
I'd probably save myself a whole lot of trouble if I followed this advice myself. But I'm just saying, Katy Perry, that maybe you shouldn't be so quick to judge. The Bible says a lot about judgment, and if you're going to be calling yourself a Christian you might want to change your tune and help your sister out in her quest to back the gay community, which receives condemnation, persecution and marginalization from the church on a daily basis. That'd be a lot more helpful than saying you kissed a girl and liked it, that it felt so wrong.
(Interview in question http://tinyurl.com/2b74gs6)