Put her on a candy-cane stool and Katy Perry can actually bring it pretty well live, haters.
Looking like a bridesmaid at Julia Goolia‘s wedding and singing like Sophie B. Hawkins with a Hova fetish, Perry tore into acoustic versions of friend (and birthday girl) Rihanna’s “Only Girl in the World,” Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’,” and Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” at a concert in Lisbon last night.
Bonus points for bedazzled-flute karaoke, delivered via velvet pillow:
Katy Perry – Only Girl In The World x Big Pimpi…, posted with vodpod
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I saw Katy Perry live at a small venue in 2009 and she really does have an awesome voice and is great on the guitar. I think people hate on her because they think someone that beautiful can’t possibly be talented.
People don’t hate on her because she’s attractive, I think people just hate on anyone who is popular/sings pop music. According to the comments on EW most people in the entertainment industry are untalented.
WHY WON’T SHE COVER PIERCE THE VEIL
WHY WON’T SHE JUST GET NAKED?
Katy has earned her rep as a bad singer from the hideous performances she has given at awards shows. She is never in tune, always pitchy and shrill. Even in recordings, like Teenage Dream, she sounds like she is going to bust a vocal chord because she pushes soooo hard. Awful, awful voice.
uh, i too have had the displeasure of hearing her live. she sounds like a banshee in heat half the time. not pitch, no problem!
love that she’s covering other people’s hits…must help when u only have a handful of decent songs you can’t sing.
funny no1 has noticed she “lip played” the flute, as evidenced by the fact that it kept going, when she had already put the flute down
i thought she lipsynched the flute as well but played it again and the video freezes, then the flute stops and when it picks up again the video shows she is playing the flute so i think it is the camer phone in error, not her lipsynching.
It wouldn’t make much sense to do a flute solo if she didn’t play it. She could have played the guitar instead. besides the flute was played at the level of a high school music education, it was adequate, but not special. I thought the performance was adequate.
When I see her in concert on TV (Palladia) she gave a great performance in both the concerts they show of her.
camera phone, not camer phone:)
and apparently recorder, not flute.
or maybe she did fake it. the video is out of sync with the sound but i did hear someone laughing…
um, I think it’s pretty obvious that that part a joke. After the first set of “recorder” (a flute is different) notes she turns to the audience to say thankyou and misses her cue, then instead of trying to fake, she gives a sad, embarrassed face. She tried to pull a joke, the audience seemed to get it, the EW boards did not.
Please search YouTube for Katy attempting to sing “Firework” live, and you’ll experience the pain we all hear when she tries to sing live. The crowd completely drowns her out on “Only Girl” here, so who knows if she sounded great, but from what I can hear, she doesn’t sound great.
totally agree. The crowd overpowers her, plus those songs are sooo easy to sing. ‘Only girl’ has like 4 notes.
please search youtube for “thinking of you mtv unplugged” proof she can sing.
I find her voice to be incredibly shrill. Whenever she performs at awards shows, she is always pitchy. It has nothing to do with the way she looks, their are tons of gorgeous girls who can sing.
totally agree with you ,i love her so much got you back
no, she still sucks, better than Taylor Swift live, but thats not saying much
and better than Rihanna live.
Lefty, I have seen them both live, and TRUST ME, Rihanna blows Katy out of the water.
Nah, I don’t trust you, D2. Perry’s voice isn’t great, but everybody beats Rhianna’s tonedeaf goat impression. *shudders*
I have also seen Rihanna and Katy. Rihanna definitely had the better voice in concert. Katy is also an amazing artist, but Rihanna does have a better voice IMO.
lol seen katy, rihanna and taylor live and they are nothing compare to taylor lol….she can sing and play and instrument by herself and can command a room of thousands of people….i admit, i cried during her acoustic performances.
“You know those songs you’re tired of? Well here they are again, only even worse.” — Katy Perry
She sounds great on Only Girl!
People singing at shows is annoying. We paid to hear the singer, not you a-holes.
So you’re not allowed to sing along with your favorite song? Yeah right.
Lee Harvey FTW!
I actually liked this quite a bit!
She sounds great.
Love Katy Perry and think she sounds great! But haters ‘gon hate no matter what.
Perry has to work at it, and sitting and singing improves things. But poplet need to sing and dance, and therein likes the problem. Katy seems to have great writers, she picks great songs, and she’s a heck of an entertainer. She just isn’t great at moving and singing at the same time.
Never heard of ‘em.
It was a recorder, not a flute. I was entertained.
Um yeah, so not playing the flute, very obvious and sad …
it’s a video error, not her faking it. watch it carefully. the moment she isn’t playing skips to her suddenly holding the recorder in her hand.
that “flute” you speak of is called a recorder. and it was kinda obvious it was fake.
i loved this performance tho.
i admire her voice. its very unique
People don’t hate on Katy Perry because she’s beautiful (which she is). They’re annoyed that she’s not growing as an artist. Her lyrics are lacking – she should pay attention to what Pink is achieving. You can’t simply put “Oh, Oh, Oh,” in every song and expect us to like it.
In my opinion, “Teenage Dream” is better than anything Pink ever did.
But once you take it out of the realm of once personal opinion and look at it objectively, Pink’s carreer has been pretty stellar. And, mind you, she writes her own material.
Writing your own material is key. Teenage Dream is one of her better songs, but my point is she’s not growing as an artist. Pink has grown over the years and just keeps getting more mature and her writing shows it. Taylor Swift – a very young girl is even writing better and growing as an artist. I don’t think Katy sucks – I think she should be better and she’s going to blow her own career out by not evolving.
Really? Pink? Seriously? “What’s the Deal-io?”
Yeah..maybe early Pink. These days all she is cheesy repetitive songs. Can’t hide that behind “attitude”.
Her medley of popular hits reminds me of what Barenaked Ladies used to do in concert. The good old days.