First and foremost: both songs titled “I Kissed a Girl” – the one by Katy Perry and the one by Jill Sobule – are awful. The Jill Sobule version is an eye-rolling albeit ignorable 90’s one-hit wonder. Katy Perry‘s ditty is one of the worst hit songs in recent memory. Top 10 worst of its year, to be sure. I just want to make sure we’re all on the same page.
Jill Sobule has penned this Huffington Post column to explain the comments she made in an interview with therumpus.net. Here are those comments:
Fuck you Katy Perry, you fucking stupid, maybe “not good for the gays,” title thieving, haven’t heard much else, so not quite sure if you’re talented, fucking little slut.
Daaamn! Faced! Nuked! Just kidding! Jill Sobule claims the comments were made “purposely out of character and completely in jest.” Too bad you have to actually be famous to have a “character” to subvert, and that the Katy Perry fans who were born the week Jill Sobule was on MTV don’t know that she’s kidding. A sampling of the tweets that greeted Jill on her Twitter page soon after the original interview:
“how DARE YOU. Calling Katy Perry a slut. srs. I’m so pissed at you right now. So are the rest of her fans. why did you do that?!”
“Hi gramma.. I mean Jill fuck face. You should probably get over yourself.. Your 1995 song. I kissed a girl is terrible”
The story’s happy ending: Jill wrote back to her most dogged tormentor (“Typhany”) to have an “honest civil dialogue” that concluded with them as Facebook friends. That makes sense. You can build a relationship on a foundation of shared bad taste in music.
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