Great debut album from Katy Perry who pitches in nicely between the likes of the angst driven Avril Lavigne and Miley Cyrus and the lyricists Lily Allen and Kate Nash. A modern day Cyndi Lauper maybe!
Certainly Katy is uniquely different, she has classic film star looks and has a lovely guttural rasp to her voice, which particularly comes out when she sings with emotion such as on 'Thinking of You.' This in my mind is the class track of the album, one of the best ballads of the 'noughties', a tale of being torn between 2 lovers and backed up with a great video.
The rest of the album has a variety of songs, she seems to like to write songs with sexual innuendo but I can't see any are offensive. In fact, Katy Perry has been packaged to create a clever image of herself, a tease who is maybe offering forbidden fruit, so aptly portrayed on the splendid album cover, and yet is also the actress who is sophisticated and well in control.
None of the lyrics should be taken too seriously. The girl with the red lips sings, "I kissed a girl and I liked it, The taste of her cherry chapstick, I kissed a girl just to try it, I hope my boyfriend don't mind it." It rolls of the tongue so well, isn't it all part of the creation of art?, if that's what we call it! Well maybe not, but she could just be the next big female pop icon.
Favourite tracks are Thinking of You (*****), Hot 'N Cold (*****), One of the Boys (****), I Kissed A Girl (****), Ur So Gay (****). Five out of twelve tracks have been put on my iPod and that's quite good for me! The whole album is respectable though the quality and catchiness of the songs probably fades slightly in tracks 8 - 12. How often this seems to happen on albums today! Production and backing instrumentation is excellent. All round, a great first effort!
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