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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
And I am so fucking excited to talk about Miss Katy Perry.
She has been truly for someone who is in her flop era.
Her name has been on everybody'slips.
A lie that is true. Yeah, like it.
Is. It is wild how much we still

(00:20):
talk about her even though we'renot fans.
No, I mean, she's got a lot of exposure.
It's not good exposure. But it is exposure.
It is, yes. We are talking about her.
We are recording an episode about her.
So the hat's off till you came here.

(00:41):
What is your relationship with Katy Perry like?
Are did you listen to her music?Do you listen to her music or do
you follow her just as like a celebrity entity?
I would say I find her insufferable generally.
I'm not a huge pop girly, so I don't like her music, but my
biggest beef with her is that she has married the man that was

(01:04):
meant for me. I was supposed to marry Orlando
Bloom. He doesn't know that.
But you know, Legolas was my first crush and I started
archery because of that, becauseI needed to impress him,
obviously, and I don't see her. Going to the yeah, that is so

(01:25):
funny. I also he was never my number
one, but Pirates of the Caribbean like I mean.
Come on, you cannot deny. He was so cute in that movie
with the white, the, you know, the white romance novel.
Shirt. Yeah.
The shirt, yeah. Yeah, that's so funny.

(01:45):
Interestingly, like his career also.
Flopping. Kind of flopping.
Yeah, I wonder why that is. I don't know.
He never transitioned. No he really didn't and I mean
in my opinion she's dragging himdown but he has terrible taste
so I guess I must blame him as well.

(02:07):
It's not helping for sure. Like it's not helping.
And like they do have a kid together.
So like like I do believe that'slike a real relationship, but
like. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
I always shit on like a truly, I'm always like kind of shitting
on people that have a kind of career like Orlando Bloom.
But like, to be honest, other than people talking shit, that's

(02:31):
kind of the dream. Like, work really hard for 10
years and then kind of like, yeah, like make some
investments, a little side hustle maybe, but kind of just
like cruise through life. Like, yeah.
Ideal, Yeah, his career is actually.
Ideal maybe. Yeah, yeah.
Like, yeah, if if we want to talk about like legacy and
stuff, it, it's not great. But like, if you just want to

(02:52):
talk about like lifestyle and stuff, like he's actually
probably living the dream, especially with KP out on tour.
Yeah, exactly. I know you like some of her
music. Yes, I I was just so instantly
hooked when I first listened to Obviously I Kissed a Girl was

(03:13):
the first one you'd ever heard. I just remember like I actually
can remember and I rarely have kind of these solidified
memories, but I remember it was the summer and I was walking
with my friends downtown in my hometown.
We had just gone to like the beach or something like that.
And, and I was and there was like a few random guys there and
this guy like pulled out his like cell phone or something

(03:35):
like that and was like listen tothis like crazy new song and he
like played it for us while we were like walking down the
street. I don't even know like or was it
like on an MP3 or like I? Don't even know.
I don't even know like how that technically happened, but it is

(03:55):
just so vivid in my head. I think it was obviously really,
it was like shocking at the timefor a girl to be singing about
kissing another girl. And so I think that that was a
really smart business decision to like release as your first
single. And then I I listen to a few

(04:16):
other songs on one of the boys and then and I stand by this
Teenage Dream is one of the bestpop albums of all time.
Like I like it has so many hits.And I do think Katy Perry has
something to do with that, even though I don't think she is the
biggest driver of that success. Like I think the music, like the

(04:40):
Benny Blanco stuff, like I thinkthat is why it's successful.
But she also the iconography, the outfits, her, it's not a
it's quirky, but like whatever that caricature was, it was
iconic. She does have a very strong

(05:01):
visual language that and brand that goes across her videos, her
shoe line, all of it. So yeah, that is very consistent
and I think she's done a good job with that.
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