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Wait...is this really a Katy Perry music video?
The "California Gurl" we know as the jolly, carefree jokester has gone "extra terrestrial" with her new "E.T." music video.
No longer is she dancing around with giant gingerbread men or frolicking around the beach in her underwear. Instead, she takes to a literal interpretation of "E.T." (extra-terrestrial), and transforms herself into a frightening creature in outer space.
Katy Perry in her "California Gurls" music video
Source: buzzworthy.mtv.com
Looks from Katy Perry's "E.T." music video
Source: 143news.com
Of course, a pop song is nothing without the random rapper who contributes a few useless and irrelevant lines, and that is where Kanye West comes to play.
The music video begins with the egotistic rapper in mid-air, shining his diamond teeth and saying something about "calling him an alien" and a "big headed astronaut."
The scene switches rapidly to an alien floating aimlessly in space, its lips awkwardly moving to the words of Perry's song. The alien then transforms into Perry, and she begins her character as the weirdest depiction of an alien we have ever seen.
A mash up of weird images that look like they were taken from the Sci-Fy channel and a biology documentary flash quickly throughout the scene, almost to set the mood as scary and foreboding.
Perry's make-up and costume seem to get creepier and more extravagant with the progression of scenes, and I don't know whether I should be amazed...or scared.
According to cocoperez.com, each alien look took five to six hours to complete.
We get it, she's an alien. You couldn't make it more obvious.
There are more images of cells erupting, animals birthing, and flowers blooming (in the most non-beautiful way possible), and Perry stares deeply into the camera with her glossy, hypnotizing eyes.
After Perry discovers and kisses a shiny piece of metal in the junk-filled yard, an even shinier creature appears to Perry's delight. In the end of the video, Perry (who is revealed as being a deer from the waist down) and her new alien friend disappear into the sunlight for a supposedly happily ever after.
But this does not leave me happy. This leaves me disturbed and distraught, much like Lady GaGa's "Born This Way" did.
Immediately after the release of "E.T.," many GaGa fans criticized Perry for "copying" GaGa's "Born This Way" video- both have themes of outer space aliens with frighteningly disturbing images.
According to aolnews.com, GaGa fans wrote comments such as: "Katy Perry's music video for ET is too Lady Gaga for my taste. Only Lady Gaga can pull off Lady Gaga."
Others defended Perry, pointing out the fact that it may be logically impossible for her to have copied Gaga.
"Katy Perry most likely developed the theme for this video before Gaga's Born This Way was even released...These videos take a… long time to make, and I am sure Perry had no intention of stealing anything from Gaga.”
Compared to the bouncy Perry in her previous videos where she seemed to be having fun more than anything, "E.T." shows a more serious, dramatic side of her that we've never seen before...and for good reason.
An article in latimes.com writes:
"[E.T.] marks a departure in style for Perry, who's usually frolicking with bananas or rolling her eyes like a screwball comedy actress or otherwise engaging in something raunchily campy... “In "E.T.," she's playing an alien goddess -- a rather stiff one who doesn't wink at the camera nearly enough.”
Yes, shooting whipped cream out of your bra was a bit distasteful...but it was "Katy Perry."
Her quirkiness and ability to make raunchiness look like fun are the qualities we love most. So why the sudden change?
Let's hope that this is a temporary experiment, and that Katy will be back full force with canon-shooting undergarments and rainbow hair in her next music video.
Katy Perry's "E.T." music video
Source: YouTube
Wow, I do agree this video is a little much, but I feel the growing trend lately well at least in Gaga's case is that they are doing really weird and uncomfortable music videos, but somehow they will make an excuse that there is some sort of deeper symbolic meaning behind them.
ReplyDeleteI think I like the old Katy Perry who is all full of rainbows and sunshine.
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