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The BuzzFeed Lawsuit, Or, What The Hell Are We Gonna Do With Pictures in the Digital Age?

In the Age of Too Much Information, an infinite stream of photos flood the blogs, the news sites, the Facebooks, the meme world, Google Image Search and wherever other nook of the Interwebs. Sometimes they are credited for and sometimes they are not; the whole mantra 'give credit where credit is due ... More >>

The Chelsea Cruise: Here's How It Works

There's still a handful of gay guys left in Chelsea, and they continue to engage in cruising rituals like dinosaurs roaming the terrain for one last stomping party. And I know for a fact how they play the cruising game because I got ensnared into it by chance just last night. As they walk towards ... More >>

Part of Me Reveals Katy Perry's Essential Katy Perry-ness

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11 Somewhat Fourth Of July-Appropriate Songs That Are Way Better Than Katy Perry's "Firework"

Tomorrow is the fourth of July, which means the celebration of American independence from Great Britain, which means Americans gathering in various wide-open spaces in order to watch things blow up. The big New York fireworks party is sponsored by Macy's, with the featured entertainment being none o ... More >>

36th Annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks

Katy Perry Covers Jay-Z And Kanye West, Adds Rapping To List Of Things She Is The Worst At

Off the top of my head, I can come up with more "controversial" stances Katy Perry has taken than I can count on one hand: "Ur So Gay" being mean, homophobic, and seemingly aimed at Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz; "I Kissed a Girl" being shock-Sapphic and heteronormative; "You / PMS / Like a bitch / I wo ... More >>

Celebrity Dressing Room Demands! Crazy S**t!

I demand that Us magazine keeps printing the contractual demands that celebs make for their well-stocked dressing rooms, flights, and other appearances. It's just so entertaining and revealing, both in the celebs' nervy hauteur and in their occasional crassness and bad taste. The current one has g ... More >>

Johnny And Vanessa! Heidi And Seal! What Next?

When Katy Perry and Russell Brand announced their split not long ago, no one batted a fake lash. It was a matter of "How did it even manage to last that long?" But when relationship champs like Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, and Heidi Klum and Seal, are reportedly splitsville, who's left that we ... More >>

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs Of 2011, No. 9: Katy Perry Featuring Missy Elliott, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) (Remix)"

​The Song: Katy Perry Featuring Missy Elliott, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) (Remix)" The Crimes: Chart-jacking, inanity, wasting the long-M.I.A. Missy Elliott on a nothing verse, allowing lazy writers to compare Teenage Dream to Bad because, seriously, as fucking if. The story of Katy Perry ... More >>

100 & Single: A Dozen Contenders For Billboard's Year-End Top 10, And Their Fight Against The "Last Christmas Effect"

​Later this week, Billboard is expected to announce its tallies for the biggest hits of 2011. And what a year for music it's been. Remember all those big hits: "Like a G6," "We R Who We R," "Raise Your Glass," "Fuck You!" and "What's My Name?" What's that—you say the songs I just rattle ... More >>

Live-Blogging The 2011 American Music Awards: We Could Have Had It All (But Then Adele Had To Go Have A Vocal Cord Hemorrhage)

Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 2011 American Music Awards, the annual salute to the most popular popular music that exists in the American wild this year. While Lady Gaga and Adele and Beyoncé are absent, this year's show apparently has one performance that will cost $500,000 to pul ... More >>

THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Katy Perry comes to Madison Square Garden

If Adele Found A Solid Relationship...

​Her career would be over! WTF would she have to sing about? "I met the man of my dreams and he loves me right back"? Blech. Boring. That would go down the charts with a bullet. And here are some other potential career killers for top music stars:

The American Music Awards Nominations: Hey, Did You Know Adele Sold A Lot Of Albums This Year?

Have you bought your copy yet? (Give it time.) ​You can have your Grammys and your Mercury Prizes and your Polaris Prizes and whatever other musical prizes honor things like "talent" and "artistry"—the most honest awards show in pop music, though, is undoubtedly the American Music Awards ... More >>

Ask the Critics: Where Can I Have a Low-Key Birthday with Good Beer?

Webztuff / PhotobucketHappy happy!​Christopher P. Asks: After a brief stint in Delaware, I am finally making my return to NYC. I am looking for a bar or restaurant for a "birthday party hangout" that can accommodate 20 - 30 people who can meet and not have to shout over Katy Perry's "Last Fri ... More >>

100 & Single: Is It Okay For Katy Perry To Bum-Rush Her Way Into The History Books?

​Chart fandom makes strange bedfellows. Six months ago, if you'd asked me what act I'd root for in a head-to-head chart battle between pop princess Katy Perry and electrodance goofballs LMFAO, I'd probably have picked Perry, whose song catalog includes at least one or two gems. Her current hit ... More >>

The Video Music Awards' Nominations Play To The Internet (Again)

​Last night MTV announced the nominees for this year's installment of their annual pseudo-event extravaganza, the 2011 Video Music Awards, and once again, the nominees for Video Of The Year have three pop picks ("Rolling In The Deep," "Firework," "Grenade"), one sop to the olds in the crowd wh ... More >>

100 & Single: Pitbull Turns The Hot 100 Back Into A Boys' Club (For Now)

​If, like me, you've been putting together your annual summer playlist to pump at block parties and barbecues, you may have found yourself with a historically odd problem: a relative dearth of hits this year by dudes. After you've rounded up buzzy tracks by the Queens of Pop—from Adele t ... More >>

"If I Hear That Song One More Time...!"

​...I'll scream so loud I'll drown it the hell out!" We've all uttered that saying on occasion, but I've been saying it a lot more lately because of one song that's become as pervasive as a case of crabs, and I don't know what to do about it. For months now, I hear it when I wake, it blares ... More >>

Live: Katy Perry Is Soaking In It At The Prudential Center

​ Katy Perry w/Robyn Prudential Center Sunday, June 19 Better than: Being sent to bed without dessert. Pop music can be a funny thing sometimes. So often, the factors that divide fandom from outright loathing can be completely extramusical, yet they can still inspire frothing at the mouth/ ... More >>

Will An Army Of Beyoncés Save "Run The World (Girls)" From Chart Oblivion?

​Last night's Billboard Music Awards handed out popularity-contest trophies to the likes of Eminem, Justin Bieber, and Katy Perry, all of whom were rewarded for the copious amounts of radio play and sales they racked up in recent months. But the evening's real winner was probably Beyoncé, who ... More >>

Katy Perry Demands That Her Drivers Don't Talk To Her!

​The first line of my current column about why I hate celebs is "They claw their way to the top, then act like they're desperate not to be noticed." Well, I've been vindicated once again because real-life examples are popping up like deranged hedgehogs! Our friends at thesmokinggun.com just ... More >>

100 & Single: Katy Perry And Adele Score Big On The Rebound

​At first glance, the tops of Billboard's two big charts--the Hot 100 (singles) and the Billboard 200 (albums)--look pretty dull this week: returns to No. 1 by two ladies who have dominated since the winter (and, in one case, since last summer). But the interesting story is in the numbers behi ... More >>

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Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? The Final Chapter: Katy Perry Is A Bad Feminist But We Are All Vulnerable Somehow

This has been Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We're sad to see it go. Sleigh Bells frontlady Alexis Krauss, you deserved your ... More >>

Week In Review: You Know We Were Kidding About That Best Year Ever Thing, Right?

A thing that happened. Photo by Phil Freeman.​In the week we debated whether 2010 was the best year for music ever (you guys know that was a joke, right?), we pitted Chris Brown against Katy Perry, Titus Andronicus against LCD Soundsystem, Taylor Swift against M.I.A., and house music against h ... More >>

Live: Justin Bieber Provokes Squeals, Enrique Iglesias Asks a 16-Year-Old On A Date, And Katy Perry Rules All at Z100's Jingle Ball

Z100's Jingle Ball, featuring Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Paramore, Kim Kardashian, and More Madison Square Garden Friday, December 10 Better than: That GIF of sparks coming out of Katy Perry's chest from the "Firework" video. Yes, Katy Perry looked like a human nutcracker at this year's Z100 Jin ... More >>

Live: Katy Perry Explodes Out of A Cake at Roseland Ballroom

Katy Perry, making bad jokes about big guitars. Photos by Lauren Duffy.​Katy Perry Roseland Ballroom Monday, November 8 Better Than: Pretty much anything else you could do on a Monday night in NYC, give or take the Odd Future show. Last night, brazenly over-sexed singer Katy Perry--just back ... More >>

Tickets Just Released for Tonight's Katy Perry Show at the Roseland

So that Katy Perry show tonight? The one we gave away tickets for on Friday with the trivia question that nearly crashed our servers? Well, we have good news all you kids who bombarded the Sound of the City mail room. We've just been informed that they've released a limited number of walk-up ticke ... More >>

Giveaway: Win a Pair of Tickets to See Katy Perry Perform Live In NYC on Monday

​It is sort of fun to think back on the fact that in April, 2008, Katy Perry was performing at the Mercury Lounge. Since then, of course, she's moved on to bigger and better things--Hammerstein Ballroom, Dr. Luke, and inspiring loudness wars in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. But we continue to adore ... More >>

Williamsburg's Newest, Most Unlikely Source of Strife: Katy Perry

​Anyone who has ever walked down Bedford Avenue in the middle of a weekday knows that everyone in Williamsburg has no job. Further proof? A newly ongoing loudness war on North 5th, between one neighbor who just can't stop bumping Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream," and another who just can't drown i ... More >>

Katy Perry's Real Boobs Coming to The Simpsons

​Elmo couldn't quite grasp the Katy Perry breast situation, so her racy figure skater get-up got her edited out of Sesame Street. You know what they say: for every chesty pop star, there's a children's show that's tired of screwing her. But there on the rebound is another show with yellow char ... More >>

Breaking: Katy Perry's Boobs Too Much for Elmo, Sesame Street to Handle (Video)

​Why in the world would Sesame Street pull a segment featuring Elmo and Katy Perry singing a rewritten song of hers?

Katy Perry, Human Being

Having scaled Fame Mountain, pop's goofiest, most accessible superstar seeks loftier peaks

Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" Video Has Arrived

Recommended for: boxer fetishists, beach partiers, underwater make-out session veterans, humans who like to view things through nostalgic camera filters, men who enjoy bangs, Diesel jeans ad executives, fans of unmatched pieces of lingerie as worn by Katy Perry, and those who can't get enough of t ... More >>

Celebrating the Fact That There Is a New Katy Perry Single, the Beach House-Shaming "Teenage Dream"

If you want to know how we got to this ecstatic, scientifically-engineered paradise of weaponized choruses and overwhelming female bombast, start with this piece right here, in which Sean Fennessey explains the genius of Dr. Luke and by extension, his most singular protégé, Katy Perry. The two t ... More >>

Week in Review: Female Guitar Players Are the New Black

The beach is in Bed-Stuy, suckers. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we asked a Georgia-certified divorce attorney whether The-Dream had left his wife while she was eight and a half months pregnant because he would have had to pay more child support had he waited the full nine (or was it ju ... More >>

Will "The Ultimate Chart" Change The Way We Quantify The Ubiquity Of Eminem, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, And Justin Bieber?

​A common complaint about music charts in the post-sales age is that, with their reliance on SoundScan data and airplay numbers, they miss other avenues for popular consumption, from YouTube streams to--shh!--free downloads. BigChampagne, which started off as a service charting the popularity ... More >>

I Just Shot a Cameo in The Smurfs Movie

​I'm gonna be in 3-D! Yep, I was one of the New York notables featured in a festive scene from the film debut of those lovable Smurfs that I watch on BOOM channel all the time.

Surveying the Dr. Luke Moment: A Critical Look At Lazers, Glitter, and the Un-Sexing of America's Pop Stars

On May 7, Katy Perry debuted "California Gurls," the first single from her forthcoming album, Teenage Dream. It was a cleverly-engineered, synchronized piece of pop craft--a classic no-chances move--and it had to be: there were things riding on this song. Things like the viability of Perry as a bo ... More >>

Live: Katy Perry Kisses A Girl For the Last Fucking Time at Hammerstein Ballroom

Katy Perry Hammerstein Ballroom Tuesday, July 28 Packs of club-ready teenage girls shriek and and point and flash toward the balcony. Efron? Pattison? Um, Perez? Not quite. It's Donald Trump, who graces the Apprentice-weaned youths with a delightfully despicable bent-knee wave. Sort of shocking t ... More >>

Also Stream the Gossip's Music for Men

That sound you hear -- Beth Ditto dismissing Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" as a "boner dyke anthem" -- would seem to indicate that a new Gossip record is imminent. Verily, Music for Men (produced by Rick Rubin!) is out Tuesday, and streaming at Spinner.com at this very moment: At first blush it's a ... More >>

Madonna's Uncut Boy Toy!

That very oddity comes up in this week's salaciously readable column (CLICK HERE), along with so many other trenchant issues of the day. Like: Just who did Katy Perry kiss on a recent dare, and did she like it? Who was a former President rumored to have smooched? Are angry people really peeing ... More >>

Nude Celebrity Katy Perry is All In Your Mind

Now an alleged Katy Perry nude picture is circulating. ohnotheydidnt already has hundreds of commenters on it, 97 percent of whom agree it's not Katy Perry, and Idolator offers a detailed explanation of why it's not Katy Perry. None of this matters; the conflation of "Katy Perry" and "Nude," or an ... More >>

The Worst Lyrics of 2008

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10 Questions for Katy Perry, Who Is Definitely Not, Like, Strung Out and Doing Centerfolds

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