Chapter 5: I Kissed A Girl: Every Man's Fantasy Well, if you're going to build a career around the idea of being an ironic feminist then an over the top song about every man's fantasy is a great place to start. I Kissed A Girl was Katy's calling card and it skyrocketed her from obscure, Alanis-esque indie/pop singer to hot-to-trot, controversially sexy pop star. When people heard the song and saw the video they were shocked, this straight girl can't sing about lesbian experimentation! What is wrong with her! It's not like every girl has never been to a party, gotten a few drinks in her and then had drooling men try to get her to make out with a member of her gender. That never happens! So what was it about this song that separated it from other sexually implicit pop songs? It probably had a little to do with the fact that nothing in this song was implied, it was all said, straight (or gay) out in the open, "I kissed a girl and I liked it."

This was never the way I planned, not my intention I got so brave, drink in hand, lost my discretion It's not what I'm used to, just wanna try you on I'm curious for you caught my attention

The song is explicit and over the top in nature, feeding off a man's fantasy of girls in pink satin (or black lace, whichever fantasy you fancy, why not both?!) petting a pussy... I mean cat (that's not symbolic), dancing together, having a pillow fight and standing in a fountain (I do that with my girlfriends all the time!) The best part of the video, however, was not that these images are obvious plays on a stereotypical hetero-male fantasy, but the end shows Katy waking up (next to her boyfriend no less) because it was all a dream! Whooo-oooh! Spooky! Delving further into the fantasy that men have that women already fantasize about kissing other women! (That syntax could have been better.) Follow Katy's O-face into the next chapter! Come hither!