Katy Perry vs. Miley Cyrus
versus
tue 11/17/2009
| name | Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson. | Miley Ray Cyrus. |
| birthplace | Santa Barbara, California. | Franklin, Tennessee. |
| birthdate | October 25, 1984. | November 23, 1992. |
| occupation | Singer and actress. | Singer and actress. |
| the look | Pretty, not-as-innocent-as-you-think girl. | Cute, All-American girl. |
| daughter of | Christian pastors. | Country showbiz parents. |
| nickname/s | In Japan, she's called Small Devil Rock Princess. | Smiley. |
| campaigns for | H&M's Fashion Against AIDS. | Youth Service America and Friends For Change. |
| marital status | British comedian Russell Brand. | Dated Nick Jonas and Justin Gaston. |
| breakthrough single | I Kissed A Girl. | 7 Things. |
| latest hit | Waking Up in Vegas. | Party in the U.S.A. |
| never really | Kissed a girl. | Listened to Jay-Z. |
| as seen/heard on | ABC Family's Wildfire and soap opera The Young And The Restless. | Hanna Montana and Bolt. | made headlines after | She was accused of exploiting homophobia and bi-cuoriosity to sell records. | She pole-danced at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards. |
| in their own words | "I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward." - Katy Perry. | "For now, I’m still learning who I am. I definitely feel like I know myself more than I ever have, but I don’t feel rushed to figure myself out. I have all the time in the world to do that." - Miley Cyrus. |
| most recent release | MTV Unplugged. | The Time Of Our Lives EP. |
| the critics | Rolling Stone: Her attention-grabbing doesn't feel very rebellious. She sounds like the type who makes out with her BFF just to get a dude's attention. And when she's not acting out, she's a total snooze. Perry has a heart, but it sounds like her bustier's too tight for her to use it." | Entertainment Weekly: "Given that she's already conquered the worlds of country and dance-pop, it was only a matter of time until tween queen Cyrus took a crack at hip-hop. We await her inevitable death-metal move." |
| webprops | 597,417 friends on official MySpace. | 999,798 friends on official MySpace. |
| best video moment | Waking up in Vegas. | Partying in the U.S.A. |
Katy Perry
quote of the day
mon 8/17/2009
"I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn't be able to see my feet."
- Katy Perry
ratones
daily dos
thu 7/30/2009
Katy Perry gets a real tattoo over her boob that reads "Josh Grobin."
sin city
daily dos
thu 4/30/2009
Get lucky with Katy Perry in a new video, "Waking Up in Vegas." (via Somos Fans)
international waters
daily dos
wed 12/3/2008
Katy Perry channels Beyonce. (via I Don't Like You In That Way)
Katy Perry
whodat
wed 7/23/2008
Katy Perry got exactly what she wanted.
The daughter of two Christian pastors, the 23 year-old Perry was singing about the man upstairs before confessing about the girl in her bedroom. At 16 she released Katy Hudson, a Christian pop album featuring "My Own Monster," "Growing Pains" and "Piercing," all songs about a teen's struggle to keep her faith alive. Growing up in California, her parents wouldn't allow music in the house "because [it was] the devil’s work."
Soon after Perry broke away from her parents and transitioned to mainstream pop with a gig as an in-house vocalist for production team The Matrix (Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears). In 2004, she teamed with producer Glenn Ballard (Alanis Morissette, No Doubt) to work on her debut. Perry only released one single, the Alanis-influenced "Simple," before being dropped by her label.
But she resurfaced late last year with Ur So Gay, a three-and-a-half minute complaint about a metrosexual boyfriend. Perry, who borrows Kelly Clarkson's sound and Lily Allen's swagger, was accused by some of perpetuating gay stereotypes with lyrics like "I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf/while ****ing off listening to Mozart." She maintains she "wasn’t stereotyping anyone in particular," and was just "talking about an ex-boyfriend."
Perry would raise even more eyebrows with her current smash: I Kissed A Girl. A catchy pop-rock tune with distorted guitar stabs, buzzing synths and plenty of sex the song has catapulted her to fame on the web and on TV. Before you write her off as a one-hit-wonder, Perry – who says she's never kissed a girl – is sure she'll be back for seconds: “I’m completely outrageous and I’ll do anything for attention!”
Coldplay, Lil Wayne, Usher, N.E.R.D. and Katy Perry
the music press
mon 6/16/2008
- Coldplay make their inevitably big return to the charts with the Brian Eno-produced Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. The Village Voice observes "Viva La Vida is the moment where they want to be taken seriously, and they've used just about every bell and whistle at their disposal to reach that goal." The Chicago Tribune struggles to compliment the album as "a big, stadium-sized rock record" with "nuances." NME makes peace with the band's debt to U2, calling the second half of Viva "stratospheric," "magnificent" and "overreaching" -- but in a good way.
- The preternaturally prolific Lil Wayne finally releases... an album: Tha Carter III. The Guardian UK gushes that "trying to keep up with Wayne's mind... is a thrill." Entertainment Weekly is less enthusiastic, lamenting it's not a "thought-out lyrical masterpiece... [t]hough it certainly way better than most rap albums in the past year." Remarking that his album proper is less cohesive than the 77 songs he released last year, the Washington Post speculates "Perhaps he's become a little bit bored by his own brilliance."
- After complimenting Here I Stand, Usher's follow-up to the hit Confessions, as "consistent," the LA Times notes "Usher might be naturally gifted, but he's not a visionary like Prince or prime-time Jackson." The New Yorker magazine finds a similar vein to tap, describing the album's pleasures as "rarely raw, surprising, or complex, but they are reliable." Even BallerStatus joins the choir of "ho-hums" with the feint praise: "So here Usher stands, proving that he has every right to still be... standing."
- N.E.R.D., Pharrell Williams and his on-again, off-again partner-in-crime Chad Hugo, deliver their third album Seeing Sounds. Rolling Stone takes a closer listen to the album's vocals and asks for a do-over: "[I]f they want their rhymes to keep up with the strength of their tunes, they need to dig a little deeper than this." In a review that borders on self-parody, Pitchfork wonders if "every track [is] a battle to see whether P first gets bored of his lyrics or his melodies." The BBC, however, finds more than a few moments of genius shining through calling Seeing Sounds "beautiful in places."
- With her video for "I Kissed a Girl" predictably drawing millions of oglers on YouTube, Katy Perry is poised to make a big debut with One of the Boys. Billboard is positively ecstatic: "Not since Jagged Little Pill has a debut album been so packed with potential hits." Not so much is Rolling Stone which offers a tart: "Perry has a heart, but it sounds like her bustier's too tight for her to use it."
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