The above video is Katy Perry's new song and video "E.T." featuring Kanye West, the black rapper who interrupted (shoved aside, more like) Taylor Swift when she was accepting a "Best Female Video" award at the Video Music Awards in 2009, by telling her and everybody else that Beyonce should have won. Scroll down for the clip here.
I'm not sure for how long Katy Perry's E.T. will be available on Youtube, so I have posted below some stills from the video. More available here.
Katy Perry meets the "alien" who could be the devil or an angel, (words from the song's lyrics which I've posted below).
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Yet, here is Katy looking like a feminine (feminist?) Pan herself.
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It is infinitely interesting that Kanye West is not the alien brought to life (no acting roles for him) holding hands with the real Katy Perry - she doesn't need (or want) an alien double. West is not about to mingle alien steps with a feminized Pan, who is also white to boot. Now, Beyonce, she who got robbed of her prize by that Taylor was it White?, is bootyliciously supernatural, and Kanye might have reconsidered changing his prestigious human form just for her.
Such is the (alien) world we inhabit.
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Lyrics to the song. No need for explanation or interpretation.
E.T. By Katy Perry
[Kanye West]
I got a dirty mind
I got filthy ways
I’m tryna Bath my Ape in your Milky Way
I’m a legend, I’m irreverent
I be reverand
I be so fa-a-ar up, we don’t give a f-f-f-f-ck
Welcome to the danger zone
Step into the fantasy
You are not invited to the otherside of sanity
They calling me an alien
A big headed astronaut
Maybe it’s because your boy Yeezy get ass a lot
[Katy Perry]
You're so hypnotizing
Could you be the devil
Could you be an angel
Your touch magnetizing
Feels like I am floating
Leaves my body glowing
They say be afraid
You're not like the others
Futuristic lover
Different DNA
They don't understand you
Your from a whole other world
A different dimension
You open my eyes
And I'm ready to go
Lead me into the light
[Chorus: Katy Perry]
Kiss me, ki-ki-kiss me
Infect me with your love and
Fill me with your poison
Take me, ta-ta-take me
Wanna be a victim
Ready for abduction
Boy, you're an alien
Your touch are foreign
It's supernatural
Extraterrestrial
Your so supersonic
Wanna feel your powers
Stun me with your lasers
Your kiss is cosmic
Every move is magic
Your from a whole other world
A different dimension
You open my eyes
And I'm ready to go
Lead me into the light
[Chorus: Katy Perry]
Kiss me, ki-ki-kiss me
Infect me with your love and
Fill me with your poison
Take me, ta-ta-take me
Wanna be a victim
Ready for abduction
Boy, you're an alien
Your touch are foreign
It's supernatural
Extraterrestrial
There is this transcendental
On another level
Boy, you're my lucky star
I wanna walk on your wave length
And be there when you vibrate
For you I'll risk it all
All
[Kanye West]
I know a bar out in Mars
Where they driving spaceships instead of cars
Cop a Prada spacesuit about the stars
Getting stupid ass straight out the jar
Pockets on Shrek, Rockets on deck
Tell me what’s next, alien sex
I’ma disrobe you, than I’mma probe you
See I abducted you, so I tell ya what to do
I tell ya what to do, what to do, what to do
[Chorus: Katy Perry]
Kiss me, ki-ki-kiss me
Infect me with your love and
Fill me with your poison
Take me, ta-ta-take me
Wanna be a victim
Ready for abduction
Boy, you're an alien
Your touch are foreign
It's supernatural
Extraterrestrial
Extraterrestrial
Extraterrestrial
Boy, you're an alien
Your touch are foreign
It's supernatural
Extraterrestrial
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About a year ago, film director James Cameron (a Canadian transplant to Hollywood) made his highly successful - commercially - film Avatar, which broached this same subject of aliens as "the Other." Below are my two posts on the movie, and its ideas.
- Conservatives Still Cannot Get Away from the Noble Savage Myth
- Political Correctness at the Golden Globes