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From gospel to godless: Katy Perry movie

The change from Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson to Katy Hudson and finally to Katy Perry (along with the alter ego Kathy Beth Terry) appears to not have merely been a change in name. Interestingly enough, within the Bible we find that name changes reflect a change in character, when the new name will reflect the person’s new circumstances, etc. Examples are Abram to Abraham, Sarai to Sarah, very tellingly from the book of Ruth 1:20, “Do not call me Naomi [beautiful]; call me Mara [bitter]” and, as will come into play in the next segment, lucifer (light bearer) to satan (adversary).

The Bible rhetorically asks: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”—Mark 8:36

Sadly, this came into play when Katheryn became Katy as the following Q&A took place during an interview (see video attached to this article):

“Interviewer: You’re doing really well now but didn’t you release a CD like, ten years ago?
Katy Perry: Yeah, I mean I released a gospel record…I wanted to be, like, the Amy Grant of music but, it didn’t work out and so I sold my soul to the devil.”

The change is also exemplified in the movie poster attached to this article where the little dreamer Katheryn is in her room singing into a comb with her alter ego Katy the star is in the mirror (along, by the way, with the occult symbolism of a white rabbit and an owl). The movie is called “Katy Perry: Part of Me” and is quite accurate as it only represents part of her and not the full story.

She was raised in a Christian home by parents who were ministers of the gospel. She went from releasing a gospel record to, for example, singing “I kissed a girl.” This song is actually about her kissing a girl, which is something she did not intend on doing “This was never the way I planned / Not my intention” but something she did in an apparent drunken stupor whereby she lost control, “I got so brave, drink in hand / Lost my discretion.”

She concludes, “I kissed a girl and I liked it” even whilst being unfaithful, “I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it.” While she is conflicted, “It felt so wrong / It felt so right” she assures us that it was meaningless, “Don’t mean I’m in love tonight” of course not, she is glorifying animalistic, uncommitted sexuality (as opposed to sensuality, see the video How sexual liberation destroys sensuality), “No, I don’t even know your name / It doesn’t matter / You’re my experimental game / Just human nature.”

Since “It’s not what / Good girls do / Not how they should behave” what does that tell us about Perry? If not good then what? She continues, “My head gets so confused / Hard to obey” sure it is hard to obey and easy to give into fallen human nature but her parents raised her to tap into the power to Jesus to not cheat on her boyfriend by kissing a perfect stranger in a drunken stupor.

She concludes that “Us girls we are so magical…Hard to resist so touchable / Too good to deny it” but in the end she is not conflicted after all because, “Ain’t no big deal, it’s innocent.”

Whether this is a true story or not is not the point, the point is that she went from signing the gospel of forgiveness, grace and YHVH’s love, to preaching a pseudo-gospel of losing sexual control and drunkenness as being innocent.

“She began to break away from the church around the time she decided sex did not have to wait until marriage. “I was like, I don’t know if I can hold that promise because this guy at camp is really cute,” she says with a giggle.”[1]

Now the married and divorced Perry can be seen childishly dancing on a Candyland game board shooting whipped cream from her breasts. But that might be the least of it as in the next segment we will consider just one example of the messages that she, and or someone, is placing in her lyrics and videos as we consider the content of both within her song “E.T.”

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[1] Shirley Halperin, “Katy Perry Interview,” Cosmopolitan


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