Katy Perry proves to be the opposite of a "let them eat cake" type as she faces serious repercussions for dreaming about being a sword-wielding knight instead of a prim and proper royal doomed to marry a pig.
Just when it seems like Katy Perry and team are gonna stumble, they pull off a slam dunk. "Swish Swish" is a star-studded, comedic basketball romp that's massive, but also laced with perfect details that keeps pushing to absurd new heights over its 6+ minute runtime. Cameos of note include Molly Shannon, Terry Shannon, announcers Rich Eisen and Bill Walton, football star Rob Gronkowski, Doug The Pug, and, of course, Backpack Kid.
It's officially tagged a Lyric Video, but it's just as much a Dance Video, and a Proper Videos aimed as showcasing the talents of Brazian celebrity Gretchen, who is also internet famous thanks for being Gitastic and beyond.
The Oblivia theme park is a good place to leave your worries behind, but only if you don't realize that the pastel colors and the thrill rides exists merely to keep you in line (literally and figuratively).
If this music biz thing doesn't work out for Katy Perry, I'd say she could probably made a decent living by performing at birthday parties — so long as she doesn't use this video as her work reel. The video for "Birthday" operates in the tradition of Bad Grandpa and Punked, with Katy in serious disguise as horribly incompentent birthday entertainers. We get the animal expert who likes to eat mice and let the animals crap all around the kids, an elderly stripper who makes Robin Byrd look hot, a Bar Mitzvah comic who makes Bruce Vilanch seem cutting edge (I kid), and much more.
And lest you're worried that Katy ruined all these parties, I'm sure they're more than thrilled to be involved in what's likely to be a smash... and those kids with the awful facepaintings don't seem so annoyed when she reveals her true identity.
Katy Perry looks like she'll be going full-Klumps in this preview for her new "Birthday" video. She plays a series of not-so-great birthday entertainers, ranging from Goldie, a moldy former dancer, to Yosef Shulem, a Borscht-belt comedian with jokes as stale as week-old challah.
The full video rolls out Thursday, April 24 — and, hey, if this music thing doesn't work out, then I'm pretty Katy can get an HBO comedy going with these characters.
Lest you think Katy Perry has gone all Cake Boss on us, guess again: All the cake creations on display were made and captured (and eaten?) at Duff's Cakemix.
Also: Who would want cake for their Birthday, even if it's "just" a lyric video?
Update: The Katy Perry "Dark Horse" video has been quietly revised — and made a bit more fabulous — in response to the criticism about the burning man wearing an Allah pendant.
Now, the pendant has been erased and he undergoes a more glittery destruction.
If only world peace could be achieved as easily...
At 01:15 into the video Dark Horse; a man is shown being burned, whilst wearing a pendant (also burned) forming the word 'Allah', which is the arabic word for God.
Such goes to show, that blasphemy is clearly conveyed in the video, since Katy Perry (who appears to be representing an opposition of God) engulfs the believer and the word God in flames.
Got that?
Three thoughts:
1. If you have to cite timecode and circle the object in question (see above) to make people notice, then you're likely calling way more attention to it than necessary.
2. Have Rick Ross and the Maybach Music Group also started a peition since their medallion is also clearly present?
3. There are 1.6 billion Muslims around the world. 50,000 is less than .004% of them.
