Katy Perry covers the July issue of Vogue, and the full interview and spread won’t be out until tomorrow, but the cover has leaked, so Vogue has gone ahead and revealed it on their site with the title, “Beauty and the Beat,” which just happens to be the name of a Justin Bieber song as well. The cover, which was photographed by Annie Leibovitz, isn’t bad at all where Katy is concerned. The Rodarte dress is quite lovely and suits Katy’s pale skin and dark hair, and I’m glad she’s (for now) grown out of her rainbow-colored hair phase. Still, this almost seems like a fall cover and not-so-summery, and Katy’s face has obviously been Photoshopped to the max. There’s something going on around the cheekbones, eyes, and forehead areas that doesn’t look quite natural.
Also, are we pleased to see Katy Perry on the cover of Vogue? It’s a bit of an odd choice on the part of Anna Wintour, and Katy’s not even promoting anything right now since she’s just heading into the studio to work on a new album. Yet I’m interested to see the editorial and see if Katy talks at all about Russell Brand in the interview.
In other Katy news, she’s appearing in a just-released commercial for one of her biggest sponsors, Popchips. Has anyone tried these things? I always see them at the grocery store and feel mildly annoyed because I worry that trying them might lead to addiction. Sort of like Pringles, you know. You can’t eat just 25 of them. Anyway, this new ad will probably keep me away from Popchips forever because it’s super grating and features “Katy And The Popcats,” who spend their days fighting an evil villain, Fat Cat, who wants people to eat “fatty snacks.” It’s so dumb, and Katy is actually rapping alongside wig-wearing felines. See if you can watch longer than 10 seconds.
Photos courtesy of Vogue & YouTube
Would never expect KP on the cover of Vogue and her face looks bad (stoned and dead, for someone who is usually very ‘on’) but I like the styling and the contrast of the dress against the background.
I don’t know how Annie Leibovitz got as famous as she did, or maybe she just lost it along the way. She’s a lousy fashion photographer. The last few times I’ve seen shoots of hers, they were horrible. Her subjects look stiff and unnatural.
Annie Liebovitch is fiercely talented, but she has some weird financial problems and might be taking jobs where somebody tells her what to do (“we don’t want Katy looking perky and lollipops”).
I was surprised her photo was Photoshopped BEYOND RECOGNITION. Katy Perry is a very plain girl so they pulled out all the stops to make her Vogue worthy. Not sure why.
What a joke! Vogue is like People mag today only has more pages and better paper. There nothing exclusive about it anymore. Anna Wintour lost her touch and needs to retire.
Agree we’ve gone from the supermodels of the 80s/90s to any random celebutard; compare this cover to any cover with Naomi, cindy, christy,linda,etc. This is what happens when conglomerates call the shots – KP is on a major label and they probably bought the cover – so much for fashion.
Any idea re: the dress designer?
It’s Rodarte : )
Which I’d know, if I actually paid attention to the words in the article >.< Reading: it's what you after looking at all the pictures.
ha ha Anna, why does Katy have a cleft chin in the Vogue picture but not in any others? It’s so pronounced, do they photo shop it out of her other photos?
Or photo-shopped it in!
All I can think of when looking at her is JOHN MAYER, JOHN MAYER, JOHN MAYER!
Nah. Wintour is destroying the magazine. Ugh.
Yup. It’s annoying.
Beauty and the Beat I believe was the name of an album by The Go-gos before it was a song title by Justin Bieber…
It was! I loved the Go Go’s.
A new low at Vogue
I love fashion mags, but I never could get into Vogue. The editorials are always either boring or or unrelatable. At least with say, Lucky or Glamour, they demonstrate how to wear stuff in real life – it’s balanced between inventive and still tasteful.
In Vogue they pick out a cheesy subject line like ‘GOTH GLAM’ and then find a $4,000 black lace clutch with a spider glued on it. Ugh.
She looks unusually wholesome on the cover. Not a bad look.
Why does Anna Wintour keeps putting trashy celebrities on the cover of vogue. I miss the 80’s when it was all about supermodels ruling every magazine cover. They were so beautfiful.
Sorry whenever I look at this woman the words that come to mind besides trashy, is skunky, vulgar and cheap.
Agree – and many share your opinion.
That commercial is so horrible. Worst commercial ever.
I love this dress. LOVE IT.
Shouldn’t she be getting back to the studio? It’s been awhile.
She looks like Khloe Kardashian in the second picture.
Pop chips are good but not addictive but then I would never consider Pringles addictive.
Hahahaha, evil FatCat is German. So good. The commercial itself…naaaah. Can you imagine her filming it? The director being like “no, not good enough. One more take…Katy, I want you to really search your feelings. You HATE FatCat! When he gets you, he will force-feed you with Schnitzel until you die in a giant meat explosion and the world is coming to a fatty end” (by the way, now we know what REALLY happened to Charlie Harper! Evil Cat is to blame!!).
But then again, for me as a German U.S.- commercials always look a little over the top.
@OhMadda – I noticed that too, that the ‘evil genius villain masterminds’ always seem to be German, for some reason. Several decades ago, I could’ve understood, but now? Couldn’t they have just as convincingly used Donald Trump?
Ok cover, gorgeous dress! Call me crazy, I like Katy. Her music is fun. I don’t get the hate.
@Vee – I find her to be completely obnoxious, & yet for some reason I can’t explain, can’t seem to ‘not’ like her. There’s something ‘endearing’. I can definitely understand why a lot of people find her irritating, She is *always* ‘over the top’.
But I think a lot of the ‘hate’ people have comes from all the musical/album/chart records she’s broken, even though her music (while undeniably catchy) isn’t anywhere near the quality of the artists & songs (like Michael Jackson) who held those records (more deservingly) before her.
But I think that’s entirely due to the way the industry, & the way we now obtain our music (files instead of singles/radio) has changed. When I used to buy cd singles, I wouldn’t have spent the effort to buy a Katy Perry song. But when it became as easy as just hitting a button to download a file…
Well, there’s a lot of music on my ipod that I wouldn’t have, if I relied on cd’s again.
She’s an odd choice for the cover.
Popchips are just OK, IMO.
I don’t like katy perry. to me she mixes faux innocence with sexuality. she has a young audience but she wears cones on her breasts. she wears a low cut top on sesame street. it’s just weird to me, how she mixes sexuality into her “innocent” routine
I agree. If you are going to CHOOSE kids as part of your demographic, then you should alter how you present yourself to them. If you choose to cater to adults, then you have the freedom to do whatever you like.
Selling sex to kids is easy, but so very wrong.
@Joanna – Personally, I always saw Katy as trying to represent a more ‘mid-teen’ version of sexuality, bright colors, glitter & rainbow hair-colors… (As someone who likes anime & that culture, it strikes me a lot as what you see commonly in the Japanese entertainment industry, like Gwen Stefani did with her ‘Harajuku’ styles).
She *did* go on Sesame Street, & should’ve made a better choice for that. But in general, I’ve always seen her (& her music) are more ‘catering’ to the teen age group, in regards to sexuality.
(Not that I don’t see your point, or disagree that you have to be careful how sexuality is represented to kids.)
Do not get the appeal of this woman. I remember when my 10 year old niece and i first heard ‘Firework’ and the lyric ‘Do you ever feel like a plastic bag’, we fell about the place laughing at the idiocy. How do you sing that line and not be deeply embarrassed? 😀
Has anybody ever seen Katy’s birth certificate, because she looks way older than 28. Maybe it’s the truck load of make up she wears but she looks terrible. I saw her on The Graham Norton Show, and um.. she doesn’t seem the brightest. It will be interesting to see where her career goes as she enters her 30’s. Maybe this Vogue cover is a move to be taken more seriously? Next thing we will hear she wants to be the next Meryl Streep….
LOL! I know! My sisters and I have it as an inside joke. When we call/see each other, we say, “Do you feel like a plastic bag?”
lol, truly awful! I should look up a few live performances of her singing that line, just to see if she looks like it’s a deep lyric!
I made it through to 26 seconds! Yay me!
Anna Wintour has lost the exclusivity, which was the secret to her success. It feels as though for the past few years, she has given Vogue covers to women who would never have passed the “Vogue Test” from years past.
The Met gala reflects this- it used to be a mix of fashion designers, top models, and A-List celebs. As much as we mocked Goopy’s disdain this year, it was warranted. This year was an explosion of C-List.
Katy Perry is perfect for pop chips – they’re both overhyped, want to be interesting, but not actually something I’d go out of my way to see/eat because in reality, they’re just bland.
(And pop chips cost more than Zapps, which is my potato crack of choice, so yeah).
vogue fail.
kim kardashian cover can’t be far off.
annie leibovitz is a pathetic hack. maybe because she had to sell her soul to pay her bills so she’s decided to make everyone look like she feels?
Pochips are gross. The ranch “tortilla” ones are the worst. We get lunch catered all the time and those are frequently at my work, but nobody eats them. Just awful. The texture is like compressed sawdust and there is a funky aftertaste.
Heh, kinda like Katy’s music.
I get that weird aftertaste too. It weirdos me out so I’ve never eaten them again. Plus they aren’t that yummy anyways.
I know right? I always try one, thinking it’s got to be better than the others I’ve tried and am disappointed. You’d think I’d learn.
For the same thing without the strange aftertaste, I eat Special K cracker chips. I’m trying to eat less processed sawdust, though.
I love popchips. I can eat a whole bag in one sitting! But there isn’t a lot in a bag. I bought the kettle corn flavor not realizing it was KP’s special creation for them – if I had, I might not have bought it. But it is seriously amazing. Their best flavor yet. I hope they never get rid of it.
Popchips are good! And I like that they’re half the calories of regular chips. If you’re gonna eat chips might as well eat something that’s just as good but with half the fat! I like the BBQ and Sour Cream flavors.
They managed to soften her style enough but that doesn’t change the fact that to me she just always seems like total airhead. Like half of the Hollywood anyway (pretty much the female half).
Cover leaked? Ya right! Boring A cover!! Dress looks thrift store not vogue.
Confession time: I only just realised Annie Leibovitz is not the person who did all those photos of babies in pots. (That would apparently be Anne Geddes.)
The nacho cheese pop chips are seriously addictive. I love them!
I will eat pop chips but the bag is always so small so u can eat them up in 2 sittings. They aren’t as good as kettle chips but they are a low fat option.
Does this cover remind anyone else of Anne Hathaway’s when she was promoting Les Mis? Same weird styling, same wonky look..
I put the commercial on mute and laughed at the cats with wigs xD.
Is Katy still trying to be an actress? Anyone considering casting her should watch this commercial. She can’t even act convincingly in a potato chip commercial. What horrible delivery she has.
Well, as an intelligent adult, the commercial was excruciating. But as they were obviously trying to get the attention of *much* younger viewers, I have to give them at least a little credit. & at least, even in the skintight jumpsuit & heels, they didn’t overtly sexualize Katy as badly as they usually do.
Annoying, of course. But probably effective, too. I’ve never tried PopChips. Seeing so many mixed opinions from others here makes me curious, though.
Vogue Cover – I can’t seem to get passed the weird ‘drawn on/exaggerated’ cleft in her chin, what the hell? And her face looks flat (1 dimensional). Awful.