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I kissed a girl, too. So?
She kissed a girl ... or so I hear.  
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What is a blog?  For us it is a short blurb that we write when the mood strikes us.  It can be first person, funny or informative. In short, a blog is whatever we want it to be. Published Aug. 7, 2008 at 3:01 p.m.
Tags: jill sobule, i kissed a girl, katy perry

Just this morning I kissed a girl. OK, it was a woman and she was my wife. I also kissed another girl, but she's a standard poodle. Still, you don't see me writing a song about it.

Of course, it's no surprise that everywhere I turn, I hear about Katy Perry's song "I Kissed A Girl." After all, it is the No. 1 record in America at the moment. Over a stiff dance beat, the young Perry sings:

I kissed a girl and I liked it,
the taste of her cherry chap stick.
I kissed a girl just to try it,
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it.
It felt so wrong,
it felt so right.
Don't mean I'm in love tonight.
I kissed a girl and I liked it.

Did you know the song is the 1,000th No. 1 Billboard hit of the "rock era"? Right, I yawned too when I read that. What seems more interesting is that in 2008 this kind of thing can cause controversy. Is it really that gasp-worthy that a woman admits to kissing another woman and liking it? And in a pop song, which is hardly the kind of testimony that would stand up in a court of law.

Moreover, Jill Sobule recorded a far superior song on the same subject and with the same name 13 years ago.

Sure, Perry's is a little more risque in that she appears to have met her anonymous kissable girl and gone out of her mind, unable to prevent her lips from writing that legendary check that her heart couldn't cash.

Sobule's kiss was more gradual, more between friends, more an extension of "fraternal" love than booze-fueled lust.

Genny came over and told me 'bout Fred
" He's such a hairy behemoth, " she said
" Dumb as a box of hammers
But he's such a handsome guy. "
And I opened up and told her 'bout Larry
And yesterday how he asked me to marry
I'm not giving him an answer yet
I think I can do better

So we laughed
Compared notes
We had a drink, we had a smoke
She took off her over coat
I kissed a girl

Maybe that's why it seems nobody batted an eyelid when that was a minor hit. Maybe it's because no one was really listening all that hard (sorry Jill, I just mean in comparison. I was listening, if that matters).

Anyway, I will continue -- I hope -- to kiss my girl and I may ponder writing a song about it. But, even if I do, I will expect neither controversy nor a Billboard hit. In the meantime, maybe you can tell me why anyone would be upset about an innocuous little ditty like Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl."

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Posted by Z_boy on Aug. 8, 2008 at 7:09 a.m. (report)

I'm not an active participant in pop music. I don't listen to it. But I have heard about this song. Do you know what's even cooler? I was out in the public not too long ago and I saw a hot girl kiss another hot girl ... and I liked it.

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Posted by T15 on Aug. 7, 2008 at 4:23 p.m. (report)

99% of popular american music is garbage like this. Songs written not not art or music but written for pandering shock factor bullocks to people who have no real taste. I don't know how all these people can listen to all these crappy songs and think their good. Just because someone else said these songs are good and that's why they think these songs are good I guess. People are so stupid.

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Posted by wauwatosa on Aug. 7, 2008 at 4:11 p.m. (report)

Katy Perry is a total fraud. In the early 2000's she was pushing christian music, when that fizzled her new record company dreamed up the "I kissed a girl" line.

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Posted by mke girl on Aug. 7, 2008 at 4:09 p.m. (report)

people are upset about this song? that IS weird! guess i haven't heard anything about that. i just thought it was so popular cuz it's a catchy tune - a little less poppy w/the extra hard guitar - never thought it was a big deal that she "kissed a girl." but then again, i'm a 34 year-old girl who has kissed too many girls to count!

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