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This week, Katy Perry becomes the second artist in the history of Billboard’s Pop Songs chart to take five tracks from a single album to Number One. She achieved the feat¹ with Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.), the latest hit from her Teenage Dream album and in it her special image shocked a lot!

 

Katy invited Rebecca Black with the Friday Night and Kevin McHale from Glee to make the MV. Katy, with braids and braces², played as a student born after 1990s. Her exaggerated actions really made us laugh to tears. She is always preparing surprises for us.

 

Her songs Ur So Gay and I Kissed a Girl won her fame overnight and also received negative reactions from both religious and gay sectors³. The songs have been respectively labeled as being homophobic and promoting homosexuality. But Perry responded like "It's not a negative connotation. It's not, 'you're so gay,' like, 'you're so lame,' It wasn't stereotyping⁴ anyone in particular, I was talking about ex-boyfriends."

 

Katy is also kown for her unconventional style of dress. It is often humorous, bright in color, and reminiscent of different decades, and she frequently uses fruit-shaped accessories, mainly watermelon, as part of her outfits⁵. She defines her fashion style as "a bit of a concoction⁶ of different things".

 

With so many unconventional things, you can hardly connect her with the serious religion, The fact is that she was raised in a religious household as the daughter of two pastors⁷. She was even forbidden to listen to secular⁸ bands as a child then Katy released a self-titled Christian⁹ album in 2001 under her original name. She later abandoned the genre¹⁰ in favor of a pop career.

 

Since she could play guitar, she would start writing songs at home and present it to her producers. She was prized lavishly¹¹ by Madonna as a rather potential singer. Now, she has officially become one of the industry's biggest pop stars, celebrated¹² as much for her outsized behavior and outrageous¹³ fashion choices as the music itself.

 

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