http://newyork.metromix.com/music/article/katy-perry-crashes-the/517536/content
Katy Perry crashes the boys’ club
A minister’s daughter turned pop provocateur brings some candy-colored girl power to the Warped Tour
By Scott Thill
Special to Metromix
July 21, 2008
Katy Perry grew up singing in the choir as a minister's daughter in Santa Barbara, Calif., but now she's singing songs about girls kissing girls, guyliner-wearing emo dudes and other secular topics on her debut full-length, “One of the Boys.” What happened?
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Your album cover riffs on the original film adaptation of Nabokov's “Lolita.” Are you a fan?
It's my favorite movie in the world. I have this weird obsession with her. I love the Kubrick movie, but I also love the other movie with Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain. I've been obsessed with that movie for years now. I just got a soft pink Gibson Les Paul and I named it Lolita.
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