May I rant? I usually don’t get into pop culture bashing as it just seems to make the disgusting thing more popular and make the complainers sound like wing nuts. I have to risk it.

I was skimming through YouTube when I saw what looked like might be a musical parody of 80’s movies. I like such parodies because as far as I am concerned the 80’s were just asking for it. Anyway, it turns out to be a Katy Perry music video. I’m not a KP fan because she’s a sell out but I gave it a couple minutes; again I like an 80’s parody.

This song/video is so wrong on so many levels. KP plays a nerdy girl who goes to a party next door and is transformed by a friend into a “party girl.” That’s so typical in pop culture – a woman’s strength and beauty doesn’t come from character, intelligence, or talent but her ability to squeeze into tight clothes (and lose them just as quickly). It’s also shouting out very loudly that a woman with “normal” hair, braces, glasses, and clothes is unattractive, boring, lonely, etc.

The lyrics are disturbing to say the least. Here’s the chorus:
Last Friday night
Yeah we maxed our credits card
And got kicked out of the bars
So we hit the boulevards

Last Friday night
We went streaking in the park
Skinny dipping in the dark
Then had a menage a trois
Yeah I think we broke the law
Always say we’re gonna stop-op
Oh whoa oh

This Friday night
Do it all again
Do it all again
This Friday night
Do it all again
Do it all again
This Friday night

The video has all the necessary elements of a KP song – drinking to excess, sex, vomiting (usually it’s the listener but in this case it’s KP herself), blackouts, and of course the important life lesson – this is all fun so do it again and again!

Now here comes the worst of it all. The song/video is loaded with “adult lyrics and situations” (in quotes because it may seem adult but it definitely not grown up). However, if you catch the short out take videos you discover that the KP character is in EIGHTH GRADE and 13 years old. Gross.

I would say that KP’s moral compass is broken but that would mean she actually has one.