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Revision as of 16:09, 28 January 2009
- This article is for the song by Katy Perry, not to be confused with the 1995 song by Jill Sobule.
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"I Kissed a Girl" is a song by pop rock singer Katy Perry. It was produced by Dr. Luke for Perry's 2008 album One of the Boys. Perry says the song is "about the magical beauty of a woman".[3]
Released as the album's lead single, "I Kissed a Girl" was a commercial success. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the 1000th chart-topper of the Rock Era.[4] The song has since become a major worldwide hit, and along with the United States, it has topped the charts in more than 30 countries, including Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
"I Kissed a Girl" is currently a nominee for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Song information
Perry has stated that "I Kissed A Girl" is a song about appreciating "the beauty of women." She says, "everyone takes the song and relates it to their situation, they can see it however they want to see it. Love it, hate it, for me it was about us girls. When we're young we're very touchy-feely. We have slumber party sing-alongs, we make up dance routines in our pajamas. We’re a lot more intimate in a friendship than guys can be. It’s not perverse but just sweet, that's what the song is about."[5]
Music video
A music video for the song was released on May 16, 2008 on Perry's personal website and on MySpace. The video was directed by Kinga Burza and features a Moulin Rouge and burlesque-type setting with scenes of Perry, along with many other flamboyantly-dressed women dancing to the song. Towards the end of the video, she wakes up next to a male companion called Derek. Despite the song's title, there is no depiction of same-sex kissing. Katy features her real life friend and DJ, Mia Moretti and her main guy, Markus Molinari's dog Bella in the video.[6]
The video made its television debut on June 12 on TRL with the visit and interview by Perry in set show. On June 24, 2008 it became #1 on TRL. The video obtained high airplay on this music video channel, as well as on VH1. It debuted at #20 on VH1's VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown on June 28, 2008. On June 30, 2008 the video was premiered on MTV Latin America. On July 6, 2008, it rose to #4 on VH1's VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown. The video received five nominations for the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Female Video and Best New Artist. The video has had over 24 million views on YouTube. Due to the video and the songs popularity around the world, there are several videos on YouTube which imitate and parody the song, such as "I Kissed A Pig" and "I Kissed A Dog", both of which use the same tune and similar lyrics, while the videos use similar scenes to the original.
Critical reception
"I Kissed a Girl" has drawn mixed reviews from critics. Blogcritics Magazine called it "an instantly catchy number",[7] and About.com said, "fueled by an instrumental wallop provided courtesy of producer Dr. Luke, 'I Kissed a Girl' is the perfect breakthrough".[8] However, Rolling Stone magazine, while giving her album 2/5 stars, despite describing the song as a "New Wave-y club single", says the supposedly rebellious "attention-grabbing" lyrics are "a vanilla recounting of her chick-on-chick exploits" and that this "acting out" is "just to get a dude's attention".[9] This song was number 20 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.[10] Allmusic praises "the stomping Gary Glitter beat" before criticizing the producers for turning it "into a leaden stumble and burying Perry's voice underneath Pro Tools overdubs so it all winds up as a faceless wash of sound designed to be placed in TV shows, movie trailers, and malls".[11]
Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine wrote, Perry's "lead single 'I Kissed a Girl' features a throbbing beat and an infectious, bi-curious hook, but its self-satisfied, in-your-face posturing rings phony in comparison to the expertly constructed ambiguities of 'Justify My Love' or practically anything in the first decade of Ani DiFranco's catalogue; it's like a tween version of DiFranco's tortured bisexual confession 'Light of Some Kind'".[12] Hiponline.com wrote that the song is "not nearly as interesting or exciting as you’d expect. It’s not even half as good as Jill Sobule’s song 'I Kissed a Girl'".[13] Glitterati Gossip agrees Sobule's song "was ten times better, because there was actual emotional content to her lyrics".[14]
Popular reception
The song was premiered on BBC Radio 1 in the UK on July 21, 2008 on The Scott Mills Show. It was praised by many fans on their text lines and was made his record of the week. On July 23, 2008, "I Kissed a Girl" was added to the station's C-List, "The Playlist," being, "where most songs on daytime Radio 1 are selected from".[15] The song later made it to the station's more popular A-list.[16]
Previous to its debut on Radio 1, it had been (and continues to be) on the playlist of some of the UK radio stations which are part of The One Network for a number of weeks. In addition it had received at least one play a week on BBC Radio 2 on its Saturday evening America’s Greatest Hits show hosted by Paul Gambaccini due to the song’s number one status in the Billboard chart. The song has been very popular in Ireland, and is often played on RTÉ 2FM, one of Ireland's most popular radio stations. Also in Ireland, TG4, the Irish language TV station, has aired it often, on its popular chart show, PÓP4.[17][18]
Controversy
The song gained a significant amount of controversy after its rise in popularity due to its perceived endorsement of bisexuality and promiscuity. While community members and parents may be concerned over the "the coarseness of the sexual behavior", including its public nature and intoxicated state, they may or, such as Unitarian minister Debra W. Haffner, may not be concerned over "the sex or gender of the person she's talking about".[19]
While Haffner, who holds a degree in public health, believes Perry "obviously is using the whole issue of sexual orientation in a positive way, raising awareness, or she's doing it because it gets attention",[19] AllMusic concludes that "the problem is not with Katy's gender-bending, it's that her heart isn't in it; she's just using it to get her places, so she sinks to crass, craven depths".[11] Slant Magazine agrees, saying the song "isn't problematic because it promotes homosexuality, but because its appropriation of the gay lifestyle exists for the sole purpose of garnering attention — both from Perry's boyfriend and her audience".[12]
Adam Holz of PluggedinOnline, a division of Focus on the Family, wrote an article entitled "A Tale of Two Katys"[20] about the singer's image transformation from a Contemporary Christian Music artiste to one of the "girls gone wild". He criticizes the song for being the latest, "high-profile message to young women and men that our sexuality is a malleable commodity that can be reshaped at will". Holz also argues that Perry's message carries with it "no need to worry about who might get used or objectified in the process", causing Katy to live "down to a damaging, demeaning stereotype".
In some areas of the world the song's bi-curious lyrics have kept it from reaching the Top 40 or to even be released at all. Though the Toronto Star, of Canada, describes it as "a lesbian-friendly tune",[21] whether anti-gay bias fuels negative reactions to the song or the song itself appears to divide critics. Slant and other critics[22][23] suggest that Perry may be homophobic, especially given her single "Ur So Gay", which makes "I Kissed a Girl" seem like "a classic example of the 'Guys kissing is gross, girls kissing is hot' line of thought".[24] The Star Ledger quotes a listener who proposes that negative reactions to the song are due to homophobia, saying that it would not draw disapproval if sung by a male artist, and who compares the level of explicitness in the lyrics with other songs on the radio such as rap lyrics.[19] MomLogic.com writer Vuv-A-Licious agrees, asking "What's the big deal? ...When this tune is playing and my son and daughter are dancing, I will be trying to dance along, or trying to acknowledge that they may one day dance to the beat of a different drummer than me".[25]
In an August 2008, interview with the Daily Mail, Perry's mother, Mary Hudson, who is an evangelical Christian preacher, was reported as saying that she disliked the song, stating "It clearly promotes homosexuality and its message is shameful and disgusting...".[26] However, Perry took to her official blog stating that her mother's supposed comments were completely fabricated, while also saying her parents love and support her and attend many of her shows.
Regarding the question of her own sexuality that the song has raised, Perry told Santa Barbara magazine (which featured her on the cover) "I like to kiss boys, but there is no doubt in my mind if Angelina Jolie or Gisele Bündchen came a callin', who wouldn't pucker up?".[27]
Chart performance
"I Kissed a Girl" debuted at number 76 at Billboard Hot 100. After a couple of weeks, the single hit the top 5, due to the rising digital downloads and increasing radio airplay. It continued to rise the next week, reaching #2 just behind her labelmate, Coldplay. The following week, the song reached the summit of the US chart, becoming the 1000th #1 song of the rock era (the 961st #1 on the Billboard Hot 100).[28] In addition the song also gave the Capitol label two consecutive Hot 100 #1's, as the week's prior #1 was fellow Capitol artist Coldplay's "Viva la Vida", making it the first time since 1976 Capitol has had two back to back chart toppers on the Hot 100.[29] The single also crossed over to Billboard's sister publication R&R's Rhythmic chart in its July 5 issue, where not only did she have the highest debut ever for a non-rhythmic track, entering at number 26 with 1,065 spins, she also had the highest debut from a new artist in over five years. The bow is the best for a debut track at Rhythmic since Beyonce entered at No. 21 with "Crazy In Love" in 2003.[30][31] It also became the first song since Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" to simultaneously appear on the Mainstream Top 40, Rhythmic, Adult Top 40 and Alternative charts.[32] On July 26, 2008, the track also made history by reaching the number one spot on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart by three weeks, a first for a solo act with a debut single. The song topped the Hot 100 for seven weeks in a row before finally being dethroned by Rihanna's "Disturbia". It is the second longest running number one on the Hot 100 of 2008 (tied with "Whatever You Like"), with only Flo Rida's "Low" topping the chart for longer. The single has sold more than 3,200,000 downloads in the United States to date, and is listed at number 4 on the year end chart. According to Billboard, the single has sold over 495,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of January 2009.
In Canada, the single debuted at #55 at Canadian Hot 100. On June 12th the song soared to #1, jumping 26 spots from #27 position..
In New Zealand, the song debuted at number 38, the single's first appearance in other countries chart outside North America, moving to number three the following week. The song was cerified Gold after seven weeks with sales of over 7,500. On August 11, eight weeks after debuting on the chart, "I Kissed A Girl" finally made it to number one. "I Kissed A Girl" was certified Platinum in New Zealand after 20 weeks selling 15,000+ copies.
In Australia, the song debuted at #13 on the 30th of June on downloads alone, then the next week jumped to second position behind Jordin Sparks, still on downloads alone. The next week it jumped to number one still solely off downloads, becoming only the second single to do so. Ironically, by the time the song went number 1, this was the time when World Youth Day 2008 had started and the event held anti-gay views. On July 21, 2008, after the singles physical release, the track retained its number one position and was certified Gold. The single has held the number one position for several weeks and was certified 2xPlatinum.
In the United Kingdom, a cover version released by the artist Nicki Bliss was climbing up the UK iTunes Chart. It debuted on the UK Singles Chart (published August 3, 2008) at position number 50.[33]
A second cover version, by Barnicle, entered the UK Singles Chart (published August 3, 2008) at position #116.[33]
Because of the success of the cover versions, the official release of Katy Perry's version was brought forward from September 1 to July 30, 2008. On August 3, 2008, the song, which had entered the UK Singles Chart at number 139 the week before,[34] climbed 135 places to reach position number 4.[33] The song has become one of the most requested on Radio 1's request hour. The following week it climbed 3 places to reach number 1. The following week it stayed at the top spot for a second consecutive week and then went on to spend 5 consecutive weeks at #1.
In Israel the song ranked #1 on the annually singles chart of 2008 on Israeli radio station Galgalatz. Israeli singer Ivri Lider recorded an acoustic cover version of the song exclusively for this occasion.
On December 28, 2008, the UK Singles Chart listed this at #4 for the year end countdown.
Even parodies of "I Kissed a Girl" are seeing chart success. Dr. Demento ranked Robert Lund's spoof "I Peed in the Pool"[35] his #1 song of August, 2008,[36] and one of his Funny 25 for the year.[37]
The song climbed back into the top 20 (reaching #19) in the UK on January 4, 2009, five months after it was first released.
Track listing and available formats
- iTunes Single
- "I Kissed a Girl" (Single Version) — 3:00
I Kissed A Girl (Remixes)-EP (iTunes Download)
- "I Kissed A Girl (Rock Remix)" 2:57
- "I Kissed A Girl (Dr. Luke And Benny Blanco Extended Mix)" 6:06
- "I Kissed A Girl (The Knocks Remix)" 4:37
- "I Kissed A Girl (Jason Nevins Funkrock Edit Remix)" 3:30
- Official versions
- "I Kissed a Girl" (Single Version) — 3:00
- "I Kissed a Girl" (Album Version) — 2:59
- "I Kissed a Girl" (Dr. Luke & Benny Blanco Remix) — 3:31
- "I Kissed a Girl" (Jason Nevins Remix) — 3:28
- "I Kissed a Girl" (J-Kits Remix) (featuring Mims) — 4:09[38]
- "I Kissed a Girl" (MR. GASPAR Remix) — 5:38[39]
- "I Kissed a Girl" (Rock Mix)
- "I Kissed a Girl" (Breez Remix) (featuring Flo Rida)
- Live versions
- "I Kissed a Girl" (acoustic version performed on The Howard Stern Show on 2008-08-21)
- "I kissed a Girl" (Kiss Remix - a version played on the radio station, Kiss, in the UK)
- Remixes
- "I Kissed A Girl" (Jason Nevins funkrokr extended mix) — 6:50[40]
Certifications
Country | Certification | Sales |
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Australia | 2x Platinum[1] | 140,000 |
United States | 3x Platinum | 3,046,221 |
New Zealand | Platinum | 15,000+ |
United Kingdom | Gold[2] | 479,455 |
Denmark | 3x Platinum[41] | 45,000+ |
Country | Certification | Sales | |
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Digital singles | |||
Australia | 2x Platinum[1] | 140,000 | |
Canada | Platinum | 112,816[42] | |
New Zealand | Platinum | 15,000+ | |
United Kingdom | Gold | 479,455 | |
United States | 3x Platinum | 3,120,499 | |
Spain | Platinum[43] | 40,000+ |
Charts
Chart (2008) | Peak position |
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Australian Singles Chart[44] | 1 |
Austrian Singles Chart | 1 |
Belgium Singles Top 50[45] | 1 |
Bulgaria Singles Chart | 1 |
Canadian Hot 100 | 1 |
Danish Singles Chart[46] | 1 |
Dutch Top 40 | 1 |
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles | 1 |
Finnish Singles Chart | 1 |
French Singles Chart[47] | 1 |
German Singles Chart | 1 |
Greek Singles Chart[48] | 1 |
Hungarian Airplay Chart[49] | 1 |
Irish Singles Chart[50] | 1 |
Israeli Singles Chart[51] | 1 |
Italian Singles Chart | 1 |
Mexico Top 100[52] | 2 |
New Zealand Singles Chart | 1 |
Norwegian Singles Chart[53] | 1 |
Polish Singles Chart | 1 |
Russian Airplay Chart[54] | 2 |
Spanish Los 40 Principales[55] | 1 |
Swedish Singles Chart[56] | 1 |
Swiss Singles Top 100[45] | 1 |
Turkish Singles Chart[57] | 1 |
UK Singles Chart[50] | 1 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[58] | 1 |
U.S. Billboard Pop 100[58] | 1 |
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Airplay | 1 |
U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs | 1 |
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[58] | 3 |
United World Chart | 1 |
Chart procession and succession
Awards and nominations
Year | Title | Award | Nominated work | Result |
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2008 | MTV Video Music Awards | Best Art Direction | "I Kissed a Girl" | Nominated |
MTV Video Music Awards | Best Cinematography | "I Kissed a Girl" | Nominated | |
MTV Video Music Awards | Best Editing | "I Kissed a Girl" | Nominated | |
MTV Video Music Awards | Best Female Video | "I Kissed a Girl" | Nominated | |
MTV Video Music Awards | Best New Artist | "I Kissed a Girl" | Nominated | |
Teen Choice Award | Choice MySpacer | MySpace Page | Nominated | |
MTV Video Music Brasil | International Artist | Katy Perry | Nominated | |
MTV Europe Music Award | Best New Act | Katy Perry | Won* | |
MTV Europe Music Award | Most Addictive Track | "I Kissed A Girl" | Nominated* | |
Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica | Best International New Artist[59] | Katy Perry | Nominated | |
Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica | Song of the Year[60] | "I Kissed a Girl" | Nominated | |
2009 | Grammy Awards | Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | "I Kissed A Girl" | TBD |
* Katy Perry was the host of the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008.
References
- ^ a b c http://ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display_singles.asp?chart=1U50
- ^ a b British certification
- ^ "Katy Perry's 'I Kissed A Girl' Is The Most Buzzed About Hit Of The Summer", StarPulse.com. 2008-06-13 09:00:00. Retrieved June 27, 2008.
- ^ Jenison, David (2008-06-26). "Hot 100 Seals Its 1,000th Hit with Katy's "Kiss"". E!. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ http://www.thenewgay.net/2008/06/katy-perry-new-gay-interview.html
- ^ http://popdirt.com/katy-perry-dedicates-swvs-weak-to-whoopi-goldberg/68209/
- ^ Cockrell, Garon (2008). "Music Review: Katy Perry - One Of The Boys", BlogCritics Magazine. Published June 19, 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2008.
- ^ Lamb, Bill. "Katy Perry - 'I Kissed a Girl'" review, About.com: Top 40/Pop. Retrieved June 22, 2008.
- ^ Frehsee, Nicole (2008). "One of the Boys: Katy Perry" review, Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 21, 2008.
- ^ "The 100 Best Songs of 2008". Rolling Stone (December 25, 2008). Retrieved 2008-12-25
- ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2008). "One of the Boys - Katy Perry" review, AllMusic. Retrieved June 22, 2008.
- ^ a b Cinquemani, Sal (2008). "Katy Perry - One of the Boys" review, Slant Magazine. Posted: June 15, 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2008.
- ^ Raegun (2008). "Katy Perry - One of the Boys - review", HipOnline.com. Posted: June 16, 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2008.
- ^ "Katy Perry Irritates The Hell Out Of Me", Glitterati Gossip. March 24, 2008.
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- ^ a b c ""'Girl' talk"". The Star Ledger. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
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- ^ Infantry, Ashante. Katy Perry `kissed a girl' and began a love affair in Canada, Toronto Star. June 15, 2008. Retrieved August 18, 2008.
- ^ French, Marguerite. "Katy Perry - One of The Boys Album Review", Ugo.com. Retrieved June 22, 2008.
- ^ Moody, Duane (2008). "What do you have against gay people, Katy Perry?", duanemoody.com. June 9, 2008.
- ^ The New Gay Zack (2008). "Katy Perry: The New Gay Interview", The New Gay. Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2008.
- ^ Vuv-A-Licious Mom (2008). "I Kissed a Girl", MomLogic.com Parenting. Monday, June 9, 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2008.
- ^ Ryan Porter (2008-08-18). ""I Kissed A Girl", Mom Didn't Like It". CelebEdge. Sympatico / MSN. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- ^ Aug./Sept. 2008 issue of Santa Barbara magazine
- ^ Bronson, Fred (2008). "Chart Beat: Rockin' and Kissin'", Billboard.com. June 26, 2008. Retrieved June 27, 2008.
- ^ Geirn, Paul (July 30, 2008). "Week Ending July 27, 2008: Miley's Young, But She's Not The Youngest". Yahoo. Yahoo.com. Retrieved 2007-07-30.
- ^ From R&R Katy Perry chart references
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- ^ a b c "The Official UK Singles Chart for the week ending August 9, 2008". Charts Plus (363). Milton Keynes: IQ Ware Ltd.: 1-4.
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(help) - ^ The Funny Music Project: Robert Lund's "I Peed in the Pool"
- ^ The Dr. Demento Show #08-35 - August 31, 2008
- ^ The Dr. Demento Show #08-52 - December 28, 2008
- ^ http://thesidekickz.blogspot.com/2008/07/katy-perry-feat-mims-i-kissed-girl.html
- ^ http://www.chromemusic.de/music/katy-perrys-i-kissed-a-girl-full-remix-treatment/
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- ^ Hungarian Airplay Chart Retrieved December 16, 2008
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