ANOTHER KATY PERRY COVER. Jesus, how many times to you really want to see her cleavage? They’re just BOOBS. That’s all she is. Boobs and a budget Dita Von Teese look. I guess Rolling Stone thought it was fine to give Katy yet another cover because they recently did a real singer, Adele. Sure. That doesn’t mean that I have to find Katy Perry exciting or significant in any way. I will give her one small thing, though. This photo, below, is maybe the loveliest picture I’ve ever seen of Katy:

Nice, right? She can be quite attractive when it’s not all about her boobs and her candy fetish. Here are the highlights from the Rolling Stone piece:

Katy’s political awakening: “It just feels like the thing running our country is a bank, money,” she says. “I know it sounds like an intense viewpoint, but I’m only slowly but surely getting the wool taken off my eyes. When I was a kid, I asked questions about my faith. Now I’m asking questions about the world. I think we are largely in desperate need of revolutionary change in the way our mindset is. Our priority is fame, and people’s wellness is way low. I saw this knowing full well that I’m a part of the problem. I’m playing the game, though I am trying to reroute. Anyway, not to get all politically divulging and introspective, but the fact that America doesn’t have free health care drives me f’ing absolutely crazy, and is so wrong.”

It took Perry a while to learn to embrace her body. “I started praying for [breasts] when I was, like, 11,” she says. “And God answered that prayer above and beyond, by, like, 100 times, until I was like, ‘Please, stop, God. I can’t see my feet anymore. Please stop!’ I was a lot more rectangular then. I didn’t understand my body. Someone in sixth grade called me ‘Over-the-shoulder boulder holder.’ I didn’t know I could use them. So, what I did was, I started taping them down. How long did I tape them down for? Probably until I was about 19. And, no, I don’t have any psychological pain because of it.”

Katy on her critics: Perry is the first artist to ever have at least one song ranked in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 for a full year – but she remains a polarizing figure. “Whenever people ask me about having bad reviews, I’m like, ‘Have you seen the run I’ve had? Have you see the numbers?'” she says. “Numbers do not lie!” At the same time, she recognizes the limitations of pop music. “I’m not a dummy,” she says. “I know ‘California Gurls’ isn’t going to save the world. But I got a lot of heart from my upbringing and I put a lot of heart in my songs.”

She’s recently become obsessed with the History Channel show Ancient Aliens. “Oh my God,” she says. “When it talks about the sky people , how everyone comes from the sky and how the Pyramids were used for star observations, it’s too much for me. It all seems to connect the dots. It’s blowing my mind.”

Gwen Stefani is not a C-U-Next-Tuesday: “I remember coming to L.A. for the first time and meeting Gwen Stefani and how gracious and wonderful she was, and then meeting another favorite artist of mine and what a c–t she was. It ruined my dreams of that person, the c–t, and I will always be a fan of the person who was gracious.”

On Russell Brand: “He’s changed so much. If I have a hangover, I look at him and say, ‘How the f–k did you do heroin every day, when I can’t even have three glasses of wine and not want to ever drink again?’ I’m so happy he lived, of course. God bless him.”

[From Rolling Stone]

“It just feels like the thing running our country is a bank, money. I know it sounds like an intense viewpoint, but I’m only slowly but surely getting the wool taken off my eyes.” Ah, Katy. It’s not an “intense viewpoint,” it’s a prosaic viewpoint, but thanks for playing. She must have picked up Russell Brand’s newspaper one day and had her mind blown.

That “Ancient Aliens” show is really good, though. I love the History Channel’s alien programs. They really bring out the wing nut conspiracy theorist in me too.

 

Photos courtesy of Terry Richardson/Rolling Stone.