3OH!3 ft. Katy Perry: 'Starstrukk'

Question: When isn't it enough for a pop song to be catchy? The answer – well, an answer anyway – is provided by 'Starstrukk', the new single from naff-named US electro-rap duo 3OH!3. It's got a singalong chorus, wolf-whistles, an ear-snagging bridge sung by Katy Bloody Perry...in short, there are pop hooks aplenty here.

Sadly, it's also hard to shake the feeling that if Iceland flogged electropop throbbers, this is the sort of cheap, meaningless electropop throbber they'd flog. The lyrics are filled with leering references to girls with "double D's" wearing "low-cut, see-through shirts", while Perry, playing the cold-hearted romantic predator, is at her most grating and affected. Question: When isn't it enough for a pop song to be catchy? Well, when said pop song makes you feel like washing out your earholes straight after you listen to it.


> Click here to watch the 'Starstrukk' video