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According to Perry, "California Gurls" is an answer song to "Empire State of Mind" (2009), by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. Its mid-tempo production incorporates disco-pop and funk-pop with influences of new wave and electropop. Its lyrics are an ode to the state of California, in which both Perry and Snoop Dogg were born and raised.
"California Girls" inspired the Beatles' parody "Back in the U.S.S.R." and many songs with similar or identical titles, including Big Star's "September Gurls", the Magnetic Fields' "California Girls", and Katy Perry's "California Gurls". In 1984, David Lee Roth recorded a cover version that also peaked at number 3.
The title of Katy Perry's 2010 number one hit "California Gurls" was spelled thus as a tribute to Chilton and Big Star. Perry's manager is a fan of the band, and asked her to spell "girls" with a "u".
Disney/Eric McCandless Katy Perry doesn’t take herself too seriously, and fans love her all the more for it. In a clip posted via Instagram on Sunday, April 21, the singer, 39, was asked if she ...
Katy Perry’s new single is a depressingly retrograde racket, a faux-feminist pastiche paying tribute to the “feminine divine”. Titled “Woman’s World”, it would have been mortifying ...
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born on October 25, 1984, in Santa Barbara, California, to Pentecostal pastors Mary Christine (née Perry) and Maurice Keith Hudson. [1] [2] Both of her parents turned to religion after a "wild youth". [3]
Perry first joined American Idol for season 16 in 2018 and during her tenure, dropped 2020's Smile, which became her first LP of original material since 2010's Teenage Dream to not debut atop the ...
"California Gurls", 2010 song by Katy Perry "California Girl", a 1976 song by Chilliwack ... California Girls, a 2016 mixtape by Lil Peep, re-released in 2021;