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Okay, seriously...
Now, I know people love this song by Katy Perry and the Dee-Oh-Double-Gee, but I’m gonna’ step out on a limb here and be Johnny Raincloud.
Sure, chest mounted whipped-cream-cannons probably grabbed a couple of cheap views, but in all the film clip was… Well… Bad.
So the song was released on radio, and it hit the charts like a sack of potatoes dropped from a thirty-two storey window. People everywhere were downloading this song to the point where it even made it onto the iTunes most downloaded.
The film clip however, was not released at the same time as the song was. Now considering the quality of the film clip.. Bad move.
When I typed the song name into YouTube, I was expecting a film clip that actually referred to what the song was sung about… California?
Instead, when I hit the link, my poor eyes were transported to some mystical candy land, where rude little gummy bears flipped you off, Katy Perry opens fire with whipped cream launchers, and all whilst Snoop Dogg passes Go on a sugary Monopoly table.
And all the while, I didn’t see one single Heart Foundation tick of approval, which will probably wind up creating some sort of headline: “KATY PERRY VIDEO THE CAUSE OF OBESITY!”
Not meaning to ask too much, but where were “girls that live on the beach?” or the “driving of the Jeep” or the “place where the grass is really greener?”
Credit where credit’s due, the song topped just about every major radio show chart in the country, without a film clip to accompany it. Which I think was the way it should have stayed.
The clip on YouTube had a little over 32,000,000 views, which surprises me, unless you people really, really loved that whipped cream scene.
Song was epic in its time, film clip… Not so.
Check it out if you feel the slightest bit hungry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwE-SLnLkqY&feature=av2e
5/10
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