I had originally titled this post Blame It On Scarlett, but then for some reason, Blame It On The Rain popped in my head and I started singing it and now I can't get it out of my head and I just can't do that to you. Is it stuck in your head? Can you see the video? Milli Vanilli at their finest. Anyway, this has nothing to do with lip syncing and figured I needed to make that point considering I am going to be talking about singing.
So, by a show of hands, how many people are so sick of I Kissed A Girl by Katy Perry that you have actually tried to throw your car stereo out of your window. I just hate when a song gets so popular and crosses radio formats that you get it on every station up and down the dial, and in the elevator at work and in the grocery store and it just makes you bonkers. Well all that pain is courtesy of Scarlett Johansson.
Apparently Katy Perry confessed that she didn't actually kiss a girl and doesn't know if she would like it, but did write the song about Scarlett's lips and how much she wanted to kiss them. Scarlett, disgusted with the idea of kissing a singer who actually had a hit, said in an interview with Allure Magazine, "That's flattering, but my lips are kind of taken." Why yes they are.
The most amazing thing about this entire story is that Scarlett claims she had never heard the song, never heard about Katy Perry and only heard the tune for the first time when a reporter asking her about it, played it for her. Does anyone else find that shocking? I know she might not listen to the radio. But, she is a self professed singer and musician who has her own album out. In my experience, singers and musicians surround themselves with other singers and musicians and a wide variety of music is discussed and listened to. I just find it really hard to believe that she could have gone this long without hearing it or knowing who Katy Perry is. Maybe Scarlett just wants us to think she is an artist and not a Top 40 singer. That would explain why no one wants to go see her perform.
I'm never surprised with how clueless some people are, so hearing that Scarlett hasn't heard some stupid song is no BFD.
ReplyDeleteraises hand....me..me..me
ReplyDeletewell you know some people are just so above the rest of the world that they live in little bubbles - i wish i had a bubble
MEH...I don't believe it...good grief even my MOM has heard it...
ReplyDelete...I should have added that my mom listens to gospel...sigh...
ReplyDeleteI do believe I have never heard it - don't listen to the radio anymore. I can say I have heard the newest Pink song every single morning when my daughter's wake up to their radio alarms. I always hated it when you could tell what time it was by the song played.
ReplyDeleteI've heard a snipet but not the whole song. I guess she could be telling the truth.
ReplyDeleteActually, the only place I have heard the song was on VH1 & the Music awards. I have never heard it on the radio, but I don't listen to the stations that would play it.
ReplyDeleteBut I would think that she would have been somewhere we she probably would have heard at least a sippet of it--I think she is trying to be pseudo-intelligent & showing she is better than everyone.
I think the big deal here is not that Scarlett Johansen has never heard that insipid song, but that Katy Perry is trying to further extend her one-hit-wonder noncareer by name-dropping an it girl as her song's "inspiration". The only inspiration for this song was attention, nothing more. Because, you know, it's cool to be a fake lesbian.
ReplyDeleteI can honestly say I have never heard the song-I've heard OF it, but never actually listened to it (the whole thing, or even just a snipet of it). I should mention that I'm a huge country music fan, & also rarely listen to the radio (when I do, it's "Country Legends", Houston's "classic" country station-just not liking what I hear on our other 2 country stations right now). I listen to a lot of CDs, and any new artists I discover are courtesy of iTunes, reading about them or by word-of-mouth-but again, majority of that is country.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Johansson, not Johansen (Sorry for the misspell.)
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ReplyDeleteI have never heard the song. I listen to NPR, I don't have kids and I don't watch VH1 or MTV. I have thankfully managed to avoid it, especially now that I know she never really kissed a girl. I can't actually say why, but as a lesbian I'm kind of offended by the song now. I realize that's not rational.
ReplyDeleteFor those who have never heard it, consider yourself lucky. Hear it once and it's stuck for days. I had to stop myself when people were looking at me funny and I realized I was singing outloud at the local Wal-Mart. ..the taste of her cherry chapstick...
ReplyDeleteI heard most of it once. The chorus was on the radio, and I listened thinking it was a rock cover of the Jill Sobule song. SOOO not. Now, the only time I hear it is when a few notes play before I can dive, screaming hysterically, at the radio dial and change stations.
ReplyDeleteAs a proud out "B" in LGBT, I HATE this song. Nothing like making sure all straight men believe that all women are automatically bicurious, but really want to make sure their "boyfriend won't mind it." My friends and I call them BarBi dolls because they're only Bi in a Bar. :D
i've heard it twice. i imagine if someone has a really hectic career, has little time for television and listens to music on her ipod or cd's in her car, she could hear it zero times. i guess if a person really has no life they'd find that hard to believe.
ReplyDeleteAlso joining the "never heard the song" club, though I've seen it discussed everywhere. But that's not unusual for me--I'm kind of clueless about pop music generally and only listen to NPR or the Jazz station.
ReplyDeleteActors only care if it involves them. Anything else is usually white noise.
ReplyDeleteI know a musician who no longer performs, but definitely continues to keep up on music, both in her genre (folk/rolk) and not in her genre (hip hop, popular, etc). It's part of who she IS--she is a musician because she loves music and it's important to her to stay current, even if she isn't playing anymore.
ReplyDeleteWhat this says to me is that Scarlett isn't a musician. She's just an egoist. That doesn't surprise me at all. And I don't think it surprises Enty either.
Oh, and as a lesbian, that song offends me too. Don't feel alone, Casual Observer and Damned Fallacy. It's that whole "I'm going to pretend to be a member of a persecuted group because that will make me look cool" thing. While people like Matthew Shepard die for being gay, Katy Perry makes money off it. It doesn't seem right.
But what do I know? I'm still pissed off about Prop 8 and plan to be for life, or the recognition of my marriage, whichever comes first.
Another one here who hasn't actually heard the wretched song and doesn't really WANT to at this point. (I've met Jill Sobule, and Katy, you're no Jill Sobule...) Haven't really listened to the radio in months except in friend's cars, when it's tuned to one of the local rock/alternative stations, and haven't listened to top 40 since the gym I used to go to closed down 2 years ago. That said, I have no idea either way about Scarlett...
ReplyDeletenever heard it, have no idea who she is, other than what i read in gossip blogs.
ReplyDeleteyes, i do have a bubble. :)
i have my cds and my ipod, and brand new XM radio in the new car, which is either turned to comedy or oldies. of course, they've just added "radio margaritaville" but i doubt she'll show up there, either.
I must admit I haven't heard the whole song just the chorus. I don't listen to the radio and it seems that there was another song about kissing a girl that was big in the 90s. Is this the same song? I have no idea. But I am not a big star plugged into the big pop culture machine. Scarlett has no excuse.
ReplyDeleteFor serious - I've never heard the KP song, just the Jill Sobule one. And I'm HELLA-TIRED about hearing about the KP song!
ReplyDeleteScarlett is prolly listening to old Tom Waits & that's why she's never heard it. That's my excuse anyways.
Thanks, Enty. I had the Superman theme stuck in my head thanks to TVLand's constant promos, so now I have something new. :)
ReplyDeleteMolly - mrrrow! ;)
I can't believe KP's 15 minutes aren't up yet.
Radio? what's that?
ReplyDeletei just heard the TI song recently that has 28 mil youtube views ("Whatever You Like"), so we all can fall behind the times as we get a little older
ReplyDeletebut certain songs like "I Kissed A Girl", "Solja Boy", etc are so pervasive that nearly everyone has heard em