Katy Perry: 'I Kissed A Girl'

Katy Perry has become a very big deal in America this summer thanks to 'I Kissed A Girl'. This cheekily-titled pop ditty has now spent six weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100, holding off stellar competition from the likes of Rihanna and Coldplay. Its supposedly saucy lyrical content has generated plenty of publicity for Perry, helping her to stand out from sterile Disney Channel bores like Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers. But the question for us in the UK is: does the song actually deserve all the fuss?

While the tune itself - an electro-glam stomp - is relatively fun, it's nothing that Gwen Stefani, Girls Aloud or even Britney Spears on a good day couldn't have handled with more aplomb. Meanwhile, the lyrical content is about as raunchy as a seaside postcard from 1974 - all nudges and winks rather than anything truly groundbreaking or controversial. It's an enjoyable enough three minutes, but it's hard to see the record as anything other than a cynical marketing ploy that's cashing in on adolescent male fantasies and its almost-raunchy video.