When Katy Perry and Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden were spotted in the same place, at the same time, over Valentine's Day in Las Vegas, rumors began circulating that the pair was canoodling. However, Katy has taken to her blog to insist that's not the case.
In a blog post titled "I Wanna Be Like Grace Kelly," Perry, who broke up with Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy earlier this year, insisted that she and Madden are nothing more than friends. "Oh kittens! It's two pseudo-famous people sitting next to each other … doesn't mean we were bumping uglies!" she wrote. "You know I don't just do that with anyone! That's just how the media works, as you can tell.
"I was there celebrating a really fun show and a boozy Valentine's with all my good friends. We were like a group of 25." she continued. "Benji is a nice young fellow, but my heart really belongs to [my cat] Kitty Purry," she wrote, adding that it also belongs to her friend, actor Markus Molinari.
And in case you're wondering why Perry wants to be Grace Kelly, well perhaps her trip to Monte Carlo, where Kelly happened to be a crowned princess, has something to do with it. "Oh shayth do I have frequent flyer milez for days," she wrote. "I wonder if you can cash in frequent flyer miles for a boyfriend rather than just dinners and gift certificates for Starbucks? 'How many miles for Brad Pitt, pls?' "
Maybe at this point, we should assume everything Katy Perry says about her personal life is one big joke. And maybe we should assume that if she says one thing, the next day she just might backtrack and say that she meant something else.
Basically, we need to take every word uttered by Perry with one giant grain of salt. Why? Well, in today's edition of "I didn't mean what I said," Perry insists that yesterday's celibacy vow was taken out of context and was meant to be a joke.
Here's the quote: "I've actually taken a vow of celibacy this year," the Grammy nominee told TV Guide. "No kissing anyone. Just my cat: Kitty Purry."
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The new year is already a bummer, and not just because I missed out on a four-team parlay by taking the Vikings yesterday. (Thanks, Tarvaris Jackson!) No, the reason 2009 is starting on such a bad note is that my favorite couple of 2008 has called it quits. That's right, Katy Perry and Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy apparently are no more.
It's difficult to say that I didn't see this one coming. After all, Perry — who first appeared as a blip on the radar with a cameo in Gym Class Heroes' "Cupid's Chokehold" video — shot to worldwide fame in '08, thanks mostly to her penchant for kissing girls (and liking it). She became a sex symbol, a lightning rod for criticism and, uh, a doll. McCoy, on the other hand, released an album that got a fairly underwhelming response. Oh, and he got tattoos of Hall and Oates on his hands. Through it all, they appeared happy, but Perry had eclipsed McCoy and become the more famous of the two. She was the one people asked about in interviews — whether it was about "I Kissed a Girl" or her face-plant into a Quinceañera cake (or sometimes, both) — and McCoy was probably getting tired of it (he sure sounded that way in this blog post). Read more...
If Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera ever found themselves in the unlikely situation of a sing-off, Perry says that maybe — just maybe — she can use her background in gospel to take on the blond pop star on known for her strong vocal abilities.
"If Christina Aguilera wanted to have a run-off, I could maybe muster up that soul, that gospel that I grew up in," she told MTV UK. Perry, whose parents are evangelical Christian preachers, grew up in the church. But, ultimately, the "I Kissed a Girl" singer admits that even with gospel in her soul, she can't compete with Aguilera's killer pipes. "No, I can't," she admitted.
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By Steven Roberts
My day started off pretty great. "Steven! Go cover the VH1 Hip Hop Honors rehearsal! Bring back something good!" Yes, I thought. I'll get to produce something. I'll be able to direct a shooter, interview people I idolize and get out of the office for the day. Then I was handed a flipcam and a digital camera and told to "go have fun."
Flipcam or not, I decided I was going to get out there and bring back gold. Read more...
By Jordan Upmalis
Blogs have certainly leveled the playing field as far as reactions go -- if an artist doesn't like something someone has written, they can come to their own defense within minutes. Well, Gym Class Heroes' Travis McCoy has done just that in response to a Billboard report about The Quilt, his band's follow-up to 2006's As Cruel as School Children.
The article, which Billboard published on Friday, says that on the group's previous album, McCoy's lyrical "vice of choice was cocaine" and on this one "it's women," referring not only to the first single, "Cookie Jar," but two other tracks, titled "Innocent" and "Come Clean."
By Saturday, McCoy had responded on his personal blog with an entry entitled "Billboard 'REVIEW.'" In it, he calls Billboard one of "the most prominent music publications in the industry," but goes on to question their musical-interpretation abilities. "Do these people really listen to the music," he asks, "or do they just skim through it?" He admits that "Coming Clean" can be "misleading," as it refers to his "affair with music," but with the exception of "Cookie Jar" he says the theme of the record has little to nothing to do with infidelity, as Billboard speculated.
As fans await The Quilt's arrival on September 9, McCoy leaves the interpretation to them, saying, "I like to let our albums be somewhat of a 'choose your own adventure' listen."
We hung out with Kidz in the Hall today at the famous J & R Music World downtown and talked about their new album. The In Crowd drops today, and the guys used the sales skills they learned playing used car salesmen in their video for "Driving Down the Block" to help move units.
Naledge and Double-O talked about how their academic background played a part in the conception of their album (the two met at UPenn). And, of course, they talked about their new tracks, whose lyrics range from politics to the art of hip-hop and the power of addiction. We'll be bringing you news on their collabos with Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes and Estelle in the days to come.
I've seen these guys go from being an mtvU Freshmen Five artist to doing "My Block: Chicago." Now they're on "TRL"! But these guys never forget their roots, whether they're talking early 90's hip-hop or reminiscing about meeting Barack Obama in their friend's living room back when he was running for State Senate in Illinois...
Gym Class Heroes' new album will be called The Quilt, according to frontman Travis McCoy. He made the announcement via a post on his blog, which included a snippet of a song called "Don't Tell Me It's Over." The tune, now the second we know of on Quilt (McCoy mentioned another one, "Drunk Text Romeo," when MTV News spoke to him in January), seems to lend creedence to McCoy's claim that the record is "all over the place" (Get it? Quilt? All over the place? That McCoy's got METAPHORS!). "Don't Tell Me It's Over" is sorta in the vein of Phil Collins' "In The Air Tonight." And it also sounds a lot like Van Halen's "Right Now." Seriously.
