Katy Perry

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:19 pm

Ok, I'm an old fart (age 54) and I admit that while I knew who Katy Perry was, her music didn't particularly interest me before the Super Bowl halftime show. I'd heard some of her music (mostly the songs with hip-hop featured artists, and at my gym since the owner usually has a an XM-Radio hip-hop channel on for background).

I actually do like some hip-hop music, so the fact that Perry has hip-hop artists featured in her singles, while her music isn't strictly hip-hop, intrigued me. Yes, I listen to Kanye West. I don't like all of his music, but I have to tell you that his single "Stronger" was my anthem during the long recuperation period after my falling accident. That's still in my favorites playlist on my iPod (explicit lyrics version of course) and in the mornings I have that blasting in the car with the sunroof open.

The wife and I watched the halftime show after I downloaded it (not a football fan, so didn't watch the game) and Perry's performance just blew us away. So I downloaded a bunch of her videos, starting with some of the songs she did during halftime (Roar, Dark Horse, California Gurls, Firework) and then grabbed some others.

Wife and I were both pleasantly surprised that almost all her videos are either uplifting or funny, generally amazingly well produced - sometimes visual extraveganzas (like Dark Horse in particular), and entertaining as hell. Wife had me load them up in her music video folder for the Media Center TVs.

I must say I am smitten with her. She's charmingly pretty, without being erotically grungy. She has absolutely stunning eyes, and delightful girl next-door looks. I love the fact that she doesn't take herself TOO seriously (the video for "Last Friday Night" with her dressed up as a nerd is just hilariously funny). I also appreciate that she hasn't tainted that lovely skin of hers with an excessive number of tattoos as that would be a shame - just a couple of small nondescript ones.

I would assume everyone here has, by now, seen the halftime show, but if you haven't it's well worth downloading. Awesome spectacle. Nice to see the 3D floor projection done on that large a scale. They've been doing that the past two seasons on Dancing with the Stars.

As a former stagehand I also really admired how the whole thing was pulled off. The robot tiger was very well done. Yeah you could see the guys in black controlling it on occasion, but it was incredibly well done and I didn't expect it to be able to rear up. I'm also impressed that they safely harnessed her into the flying rig at the end AND pulled off a costume change in a VERY short amount of time. Trust me, you have to have a LOT of confidence in your staging people to trust them with a very fast flying rig setup like that. You don't want someone missing a D-ring. Doesn't matter that she was standing on a small platform, if that flying harness wasn't holding her securely when she started flying around.

Err · Post by **Err** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 11:03 pm

I enjoyed the show as well. I think she put on a great show. I'm 38 and I listen to pretty much everything except what now passes for Country and the "hey let's all sound the same" modern rock. I've always liked select pop singers. Katy can actually sing. Although you can hear a bit of autotune, I blame that on the industry instead of just having an artist do several takes and then mixing them. Here are the isolated vocals from "Firework." It's not he greatest quality because I think they were isolated by taking the instrumental track and inverting it over the actual song:

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normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 12:24 am

Sadly, I haven't seen it yet. I think her stuff is decent. What's really wacky to me is how her & Zooey Dachnel look identical.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 12:59 am

Yum yum...I don't like hip hop, but I can listen to her music. Would I buy any of it? Nope.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 1:08 pm

Here's the halftime show. Most videos have been pulled via DMCA by the NFL, but this one is on Katy's channel.

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Losbot · Post by **Losbot** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 8:00 pm

Have you read all the stuff about "Left Shark" (re: the left shark in her performance)

Funny shit!

Losbot · Post by **Losbot** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 8:10 pm

And of course people said her last song reminded them of this little PSA gem:

Cap · Post by **Cap** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 8:05 pm