A few news stories have appeared on TV recently discussing the supposedly silly and demanding requests in Katy Perry’s “rider” contract. While talking about this stuff, the news show inevitably uses a clip from Perry’s “California Gurlz” video (I mean, I guess that’s what it is, me being fairly unfamiliar with her stuff.), where she’s lying naked on a fake cloud made of cotton candy or whatever, and she looks back at her ass, looks back at the camera, smiles and winks suggestively. And then it hit me: she’s trying to sell us on her ass! But if we’re tricked into buying her albums, we don’t actually get her ass, we just get stuck with a bunch of crappy music. That’s false advertising! Maybe Hustler magazine should have an ad that says: “Tired of getting tricked into buying crappy music by scandalously suggestive music videos that make you think you’re going to get some of what you see suggested in the videos? Then buy Hustler magazine! We don’t tease you with false advertising! When we suggest that you’ll get to see something really scandalous, we mean it!” (<They do, too.)
Here’s a story about Katy Perry’s rider contract demands:
And here’s the Katy Perry video:
