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A major fashion and musical influence of mine these days is the 2008-2009 era Katy Perry. The best I can describe the theme is as a mix of summer, bubblegum, dough eyes, and everlasting misery, and it is best captured in the art for her first full album, “One of The Boys,” and songs from this period including “Cup of Coffee”, “Long Shot” (unreleased), “Self Inflicted”, and “Hackensack” (cover).
Anyway, this shoot vaguely resembles this aesthetic, I think, and I like it 😁☀️
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Growing up, before I consciously thought about the concepts of gender, sexuality, or cultural identity, I was inexplicably drawn to the 2008-2009 era Katy Perry. With her dyed jet black hair and Japanese style umbrella, she sang about kissing girls, not feeling seen, and her love of guitars, and that was good enough for her to become my first queer asian role model 🌈
Some more classic rock (in my books anyway) songs include One of The Boys, I Kissed A Girl, Hummingbird Heartbeat, If You Can Afford Me, Fingerprints, and Mannequin.
Some ballads worthy of honourable mention include Lost, Thinking of You, and Brick by Brick (also a cover).
Note: The most popular song to come from the album, Hot N Cold, is my least favourite and is exempt from my praise
Fun fact: “Breakout” and “The Driveway,” some of my favourites from Miley Cyrus’s (another musical influence of mine) first album, were originally on OOTB.