In the summer of 2009 I went to Capital Radios Summertime Ball, the concert was at the Emerates Stadium which is home to the Arsenal football team.
Katy Perry was the first act to perform, she was one of my favourite artists who performed on the day because she interacted with the crowd and her vocals were brilliant.
When I saw her in 2009 she performed songs from her second album such as I Kissed A Girl which was the last song because the song reached the number 1 in the United Kingdom. According to Offical UK Charts Company the song sold over 535,000 copies in the United Kingdom, it was also the first Virgin label single to sell more than half a million copies since the Spice Girl's- Goodbye (1998). Also, she performed Waking Up In Vegas, Thinking of You and Hot N Cold which was the opening song. I took these photographs are from Capital Radios Summertime Ball showing the Emerates Stadium, the stage when Katy Perry was performing and Katy Perry on the screen.
From seeing Katy Perry live I know that she is a good performer because she keeps the audience entertained, through the whole set she ran along the stage to make everyone be able to see her.
Also, her style has changed from 2009 in comparison to 2010, in 2009 she wore a red and white polka dot play suit which is quirky and fashionable during this time but now in 2010 she wears flamboyent and sophisticated clothing.
This is a video that some one recorded at the Summertime Ball performing I Kissed A Girl, I found this video on Youtube.
The website sells other Katy Perry merchandise such as T-Shirts and shorts, all of the merchandise promotes Katy Perry and her concerts. The bears on the T-Shirt is very bold as they are all different colours, there is synergy between the bears on the T-Shirt and the California Gurls music video which makes people realise that the T-Shirt is by Katy Perry. The star on the top left corner on the T-Shirt symbolises America, this conforms with the title of the song promoted on the T-Shirt. The title of the song is promoted on the T-Shirt to promote Katy Perry, some one will instantly recognise the single because it got to number 1 in six countries. On the top of the website where you can purchase this T-Shirt there is a still shot of Katy Perry from the California Gurls music video. The T-Shirt is unusual which suits Katy Perry as an artist.
These are Katy Perrys music videos from her early days and to her most recent music video. After watching all of the music videos it becomes apparent that a constant theme through her music videos are relationships and sexualising women by the female gaze.
Teenage Dream is the second mainstream and third studio album overal, by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry. It was released in the United States on August 24, 2010. This information is from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Dream_(Katy_Perry_album(Katy_Perry_album. Katy said she would "definitely keep it pop. 'Lovefool' by the Cardigans meets 'Into the Groove' by Madonna but a little more meat on the bones lyrically. I'm not just gonna talk about the beat and just dancing, I like to get into the meaning." Katy said that its compositions are more mature and honest about the songs of One of the Boys. In an interview with Associated Press, the singer commented that she reserved the details of the album for her and not for interviews, as used to do, saying that her perspectives have changed. The album worked with numerous artists and producers including Greg Wells, Guy Sigsworth, Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Ryan Tedder, Rivers Cuomo, Thaddis "Kuk" Harrell, Greg Kurstin, Benny Blanco, Darkchild, Cathy Dennis, Ester Dean, The-Dream and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, who told Rap-Up magazine in December 2009 that the sound of the album will be pop/rock, the same sound as One of the Boys. He added: "It’s a different gear for me. This is a very important project for me ’cause people are waiting to see what I’m gonna do". California Gurls featuring rapper Snoop Dogg was released as the album's lead single. It was sent to U.S. radio on May 7, 2010 and became available as a digital download on May 11, 2010. The song spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has sold over three million digital copies to date. Then the title track was released as the second single and sent to radio stations on July 22, 2010. Jocelyn Vena of MTV said it "picks up right where 'California Gurls' leaves off. With a strong beat to back her up, Perry sings about a boy who makes her feel like a teenager again" after hearing it at a listening event in New York City. The following day the single was released via iTunes. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number twenty. It has reached its peak of number-one on the chart, marking Perry's third number-one. According to Billboard, "Firework" will be the third single from the album and is due for release in October 2010. The music video is set to include competition winners from eastern Europe. It was said on her website and twitter account that she has been doing the music video for the shoot, but has no official info about the video. Prior to the release of the album, three promotional singles were released exclusively on Apple's iTunes Store as a countdown to Teenage Dream. "Not Like the Movies" was released on August 3, 2010, and made a debut of 53 on the Billboard Hot 100 before falling from the Hot 100 the following week. "Circle the Drain" was released on August 10, 2010, as the second promotional single and entered the Billboard Hot 100 at 58. "E.T." the final promotional single was released the following week on August 17, 2010 and charted at 42 on the Billboard Hot 100.There were many positive reviews for example, Leah Greenblatt wrote for Entertainment Weekly, "Beneath the fruity outfits and fart jokes, Perry is clearly serious about the business of hit songcraft; that doesn't make Dream nearly cohesive as an album, but it does provide, intermittently, exactly the kind of high-fructose rush she's aiming for". However, the most negative one was from Slant Magazine said :"Perry's ironic persona—all gum-smacking, eye-rolling sarcasm—signals that those tracks are, if nothing else, shallow by design; it's the album's second half, when Perry dons her serious artist face, that Teenage Dream transcends its own middling crappiness and becomes truly, remarkably shitty". The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 192,000 copies. In Canada, the album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart selling 26,000 copies. In Australia, the album also debuted at number one, as well as having been accredited with a Gold certification for sales of over 35,000 copies. In the UK Teenage Dream debuted at number one with sales of 54,176, doubling the sales of Eminem's Recovery.
This is Teenage Dream track listing: 1. Teenage Dream 2. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) 3. Californa Gurls featuring Snoop Dogg 4. Firework 5. Peacock 6. Circle the Drain 7. The One That Got Away 8. E.T. 9. Who Am I Living For? 10. Pearl 11. Hummingbird Heartbeat 12. Not like the Movies 13. Californa Gurls (remix) 14. Teenage Dream (remix)
This is the music video to Californa Gurls which was the first single released from the album.
One of the Boys is Katy Perry second debut album, in this album she changed her style to mainstream pop and she changed her surname. The album was released on the 17th June 2008 on Capitol Records. The album earned Perry two Grammy Award nominations in 2009 and 2010, and has sold 5 million copies worldwide. The information about the album is from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_the_Boys_(Katy_Perry_album Perry has stated that she had been working on the album since she was eighteen years old. Katy was influenced by artists and bands like Queen, The Beach Boys, Heart, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper and Alanis Morissette. All songs on the album were written by Perry - who was assisted by musicians Greg Wells, Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Cathy Dennis, Desmond Child, Andreas Carlsson, Dave Katz, Sam Hollander, Ted Bruner, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven, Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard. The album's lead single, "I Kissed a Girl" was released in early May and soared up the charts. "I Kissed a Girl" was a commercial success. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the 1000th chart-topper of the rock era. The song has since become a major worldwide hit, and along with the United States, it has topped the charts in more than 30 countries, including Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. It has sold over 3.8 million digital downloads in the U.S. as of June 2010. The second single, "Hot n Cold", made it onto the chart after the album came out due to digital downloads. It was released in early September, and peaked at number 3 on the US charts, making it Perry's second consecutive top 5 single. On November 14, the song became Perry's first number 1 on radio airplay. It also became number one on the iTunes comprehensive charts. It is officially one of the ten best-selling digitally downloaded songs of all time. It has sold over 4.4 million digital downloads in the U.S. as of June 2010. "Thinking of You" the penultimate single, which was originally planned to be the first single from the album, but was scrapped for "I Kissed a Girl" due to its surge in popularity. "Thinking of You" received a video in late April 2008, but the video was removed from YouTube and replaced by a new video after the single was re-released as the third international single from the album. Perry shot the second video with director Melina Matsoukas in the first week of December 2008. The video for the single was released on December 23. The track peaked at #14 on the iTunes comprehensive chart and peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week of February 12, 2009 where it remained for the next two weeks before declining to #31 in its seventh week on the chart. It has sold 864,000 digital downloads in the U.S. as of August 4, 2010. "Waking Up in Vegas" is the fourth and final single from the album. It went for radio adds on April 21 in the U.S. It was released to Australian radio on March 23, where it became the fourth most added song in its release week. Perry performed it on American Idol in May, resulting in a surge of sales for the song and propelling it all the way to number two on the iTunes comprehensive chart. The music video was shot by Joseph Kahn during March 2009 in Las Vegas and officially premiered on the iTunes store in the U.S. and Australia on April 28, 2009. The song has sold over 1.82 million digital downloads in the U.S. as of August 4, 2010. The title track "One of the Boys" peaked at number #40 in Australia Singles Top 50 for five weeks until January 2009. "If You Can Afford Me" peaked at #28 in the Top 40 New Zealand, where it remained for three weeks. The album received positive reviews from Billboard magazine who claimed, "not since Jagged Little Pill has a debut album been so packed with potential hits."However, there are more negative reviews such as NME who wrote that "Madonna and Perez Hilton may be fans, then, but if you’ve got even a passing interest in actually enjoying a record, don’t buy this one".
This is One of the Boys Track List: 1. One of the Boys 2. I Kissed a Girl 3. Waking Up in Vegas 4 Thinking of You 5. Mannequin 6. Ur So Gay 7. Hot n Cold 8. If You Can Afford Me 9. Lost 10. Self Inflicted 11. I'm Still Breathing 12. Fingerprints
This is the music video to Katy Perry- I kissed a girl which was her first single from the album and the aong reached number 1 in 30 countries.
At the age of 15 Katy Perry signed to the Christian music label Red Hill, under which she recorded her first album to a christian label Red Hill. Katy's album was self titled 'Katy Hudson' it was a gospel-rock album this was before she switched to mainstream pop music. The album was released on 23rd October 2001, the album received a good reviews from Russ Breimeier of Christianity Today, who applauded her voice and songwriting and called her "a remarkable young talent emerging, a gifted songwriter in her own right who will almost certainly go far in this business." However, people who wrote reviews on Rate your Music disagreed and said that the album was "not as interesting as her follow-up, but a far stronger vocal performance and a lot more varied sound". The album did not do well on distribution and the album ceased after Red Hill Records folded at the end of 2001. This is the track list of the album:
Katherine Elizabeth Hudson who is better known by her stage name Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She was born in Santa Barbara, Californa, on the 25th October 1984. Katy was raised by her Christian pastor parents; she grew up listening to gospel music and she sang in church at the age of 9 to 17. Katy yearly attended church camps and christian schools. Perry's maternal aunt and uncle were screenwriter Eleanor Perry and director Frank Perry, through whom she is also related to Charles M. Schwab, the founder of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
Katy Perry was not allowed to listen to the music which her mother called 'secular', Katy went to dance classes she learnt Swing, Lindy Hop and Jitterbug dance. Katy's parents took her to voice lessons at the age of nine till sixteen, She enrolled in at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and studied Italian opera for a short time.
At the age of 15, Perry's singing in church attracted the attention of rock veterans from Nashville, Tennessee, who brought her there to polish her writing skills. In Nashville, Perry started recording demos and was taught by country music veterans on how to craft songs and play guitar.
We have emailed Capitol Records to make sure that we are allowed to use Katy Perry- Teenage Dream and to ensure them that it is only for educational. If we did not email the record label and they saw our music video they could block our video from YouTube. We found it very difficult finding the producer of the song 'Teenage Dream' because the song and the album are both called Teenage Dream when we used search engines and websites such as Google and Wikipedia every producer of the album said Teenage Dream. Then we decided to get in touch with Katy Perrys current record label Capitol Records. This is our email.
Dear Capitol Records,
We are writing to ask for permission to use your song ‘Teenage Dream’ by Katy Perry; our names are: Michaela, Jessica, Dominique and Emily. We are currently studying media studies as an A level at Enfield County School, and as part of this we are making a music video for our coursework. We would very much like to use your song for this. We assure you that we have no intent to sell our video and there will not be any copyright issues as it will be solely used for educational purposes.
Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns.
Thank you for taking the time to read this email we look forward to hearing from you.
These are the lyrics to Katy Perry- Teenage Dream.
You think I'm pretty Without any make-up on You think I'm funny When I tell the punch line wrong I know you get me So I'll let my walls come down, down
Before you met me I was a wreck But things were kinda heavy You brought me to life Now every February You'll be my valentine, valentine
Let's go all the way tonight No regrets, just love We can dance until we die You and I We'll be young forever
You make me Feel like I'm living a Teenage Dream The way you turn me on I can't sleep Let's runaway And don't ever look back Don't ever look back
My heart stops When you look at me Just one touch Now baby I believe This is real So take a chance And don't ever look back Don't ever look back
We drove to Cali And got drunk on the beach Got a motel and Built a fort out of sheets I finally found you My missing puzzle piece I'm complete
Let's go all the way tonight No regrets, just love We can dance until we die You and I We'll be young forever
You make me Feel like I'm living a Teenage Dream The way you turn me on I can't sleep Let's runaway And don't ever look back Don't ever look back
My heart stops When you look at me Just one touch Now baby I believe This is real So take a chance And don't ever look back Don't ever look back
I might get your heart racing In my skin-tight jeans Be your teenage dream tonight
Let you put your hands on me In my skin-tight jeans Be your teenage dream tonight
You make me Feel like I'm living a Teenage Dream The way you turn me on I can't sleep Let's runaway And don't ever look back Don't ever look back
My heart stops When you look at me Just one touch Now baby I believe This is real So take a chance And don't ever look back Don't ever look back
When reading the lyrics we immediately thought of many ideas and symbols for our music video for example, "You think I'm funny when I tell the punch line wrong" we thought of the girl telling a joke in front her group of friends and the love interest is the only one who is laughing. During the line "My missing puzzle piece" we thought of having an aerial shot filming a puzzle set which has a picture of the couple, when filming we would put one piece together and then we would edit it to make it seems smooth. Our inspiration for this idea is Kate Nash- Foundations as she includes animation in the video to create two tooth brushes moving next to each other as a symbol of love. Also, we thought of having an older couple looking back on their relationship because the song speaks in past tense, the song expresses the artist feeling like she feels like she is a teenager again "You make me feel like I'm living a Teenage Dream" which expresses that her boyfriend is her first love and first everything.
In the summer of 2009 I went to Capital Radios Summertime Ball, the concert was at the Emerates Stadium which is home to the Arsenal football team.
ich was the last song because the song reached the number 1 in the United Kingdom. According to Offical UK Charts Company the song sold over 535,000 copies in the United Kingdom, it was also the first Virgin label single to sell more than half a million copies since the Spice Girl's- Goodbye (1998). Also, she performed Waking Up In Vegas, Thinking of You and Hot N Cold which was the opening song. I took these photographs are from Capital Radios Summertime Ball showing the Emerates Stadium, the stage when Katy Perry was performing and Katy Perry on the screen.
ich was the last song because the song reached the number 1 in the United Kingdom. According to Offical UK Charts Company the song sold over 535,000 copies in the United Kingdom, it was also the first Virgin label single to sell more than half a million copies since the Spice Girl's- Goodbye (1998). Also, she performed Waking Up In Vegas, Thinking of You and Hot N Cold which was the opening song. I took these photographs are from Capital Radios Summertime Ball showing the Emerates Stadium, the stage when Katy Perry was performing and Katy Perry on the screen.
erry live I know that she is a good performer because she keeps the audience entertained, through the whole set she ran along the stage to make everyone be able to see her. 
erry live I know that she is a good performer because she keeps the audience entertained, through the whole set she ran along the stage to make everyone be able to see her. 
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