Subject: Katy Perry

• Vans Warped Tour Sets Dallas Line-up. First Impression? Lackluster!

  June 2, 2008

• Top Ten Pop Songs of 2008

  Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singles saturated the Top 40--or what passes for hit-oriented radio in this topsy-turvy musical climate--while proving that accessibility doesn't necessarily preclude creativity.

  December 19, 2008

• Worst Lyrics of 2008

  And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I provided a trusted colleague with the 16 artists who qualified and had him assign seeds--Lil Wayne you expect to go deep into a showdown like this, but Lucinda Williams? Some fantastic match-ups result

  December 26, 2008

• Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

  You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and it'll be a feast f

  December 26, 2008

• Today In Music News: Kanye's Upset, Katy Perry's Undressed and DMX Is Sentenced.

   Your daily dose of national music news for the last day of 2008... It seems that all it takes to ruin Kanye West's vacation is to write something untrue about him. There was talk of him chanting to "improve his singing voice" and he read it...and it ruined his va-cay. Usually it just takes losing something to ruin my vacation. She may have kissed a girl and liked it, but Katy Perry was photographed in a bikini and I like it. Hey, I'm sucker for two-hit wonders who h

  December 31, 2008

• Today In Music News: Lily Allen Threatens Katy Perry; The Stooges' Ron Asheton Dies; Jay-Z Meets Radiohead

  Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 7, 2009... Finally, a music feud we can all get behind: Lily Allen is still mad at Katy Perry for referring to herself as "the skinny Lily Allen." So Lily said that if Perry says one more thing about her she's going to post her phone number up on Facebook. Not quite Biggie/Tupac, but what do you expect from pop singers? Stooges guitarist and founding member Ron Asheton was found dead in his Ann Arbor, MI home at the age of 60.

  January 7, 2009

• Lil Wil and Play (of Play-N-Skillz) Share Their Favorites of 2008

  January 1, 2009

• Katy Perry, All Time Low, Tyga

  Sunday, August 31, at Six Flags Over Texas, Arlington

  August 28, 2008

• Mayor Tom Leppert Says, Sorry, But This Hotel Election Wasn't About Him

  Sam MertenCaught up with the mayor after he gave the obligatory interview to a television reporter, and he looked (and sounded) a little more optimistic. Asked why this election wound up being about him, he said that he disagreed. "They played that game, but it wasn't about me," he said forcefully. "We had every business organization for the hotel and every trade organization for it. It wasn't about me."It's loud here at The Loft at Gilly's, and with the DJ playing Katy Perry and Pink, it's has

  May 9, 2009

• Picture Show: Katy Perry at the House of Blues

  Mattie StaffordKaty Perry, hands in the air, no concern for the repercussions.Music fans of all stripes got a real treat last night at the House of Blues, where Katy Perry played to a packed house. Really, though, you've read enough already. Here are our photos from the show, from photographer Mattie Stafford.

  May 12, 2009

• Kelly Clarkson Does Not Hook Up, You Say? Hmmm.

  Here's the thing, Kell: We started out friends..."I Do Not Hook Up," the second single from Burleson's own Kelly Clarkson's latest album, All I Ever Wanted album, is indeed a catchy little gem (written by Katy Perry, who stopped through town last night, dontchaknow). But unlike the first single, "My Life Would Suck Without You" which, along with the album, shot to No. 1 on the Billboard charts almost immediately, it hasn't had much chart firepower: Three weeks into its placement on Billboard's H

  May 12, 2009

• After Sunday's Warped Tour, How 'Bout A Moons Over My Hammy?

  After the Warped Tour stops through town on Sunday, a handful of the bands on the tour--Dance Gavin Dance, A Skylit Drive and Hit The Lights--will be stopping by Denny's, because, hey, why not?According to the press release announcing the after-party, "These select bands will hang out with fans while enjoying items from the Denny's Allnighter menu and there might even be a few impromptu songs performed during the party." It's one of 23 such Denny's-hosted after-parties happening over the course

  July 2, 2009

• Today In Music News: Kyp Malone Goes All Beyonce, Katy Perry Had Weird Parents and D'Arcy Comes Out Of Woodwork

  Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009... Kip Malone of TV on The Radio has described his solo record as Beyonce pop fused with biblical analysis. Or something like that. Katy Perry had to refer to deviled eggs as "angelic eggs" as a kid? And I thought my mom was weird. Former Smashing Pumpkins bassist D'Arcy Wretzky came out of the woodwork to explain what she's been up to since she left the Pumpkins. And to generally be weird.  I hate it when peop

  July 15, 2009

• Ida Maria Carries A Heavy Scandinavian Pop Burden

  July 30, 2009

• Today In Music News: Weezy To Release Two Albums This Year, Jack White Talks Philosophy, and Ticketmaster Has A Sense Of Humor

  Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, October 20, 2009...Lil Wayne is set to release both Tha Carter IV and Rebirth before the end of the year.Jack White says his former band The Upholsterers hid 100 vinyl EPs in couches they upholstered when that was his day job. Oh, and he told this to a group of students in a surprise philosophy lecture at Dublin's Trinity College.Ticketmaster is giving away coupons for hamburgers with the purchase of Morrissey tickets. I wonder what they do fo

  October 20, 2009