Posts Tagged ‘katy perry’

Play as a pop star, party like a Perry

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Katy supporting herself

The Sims. You must have heard of this video game series by now. It has been one of the most addictive games in the past decade where you spend your time making a fictitious character’s life so much better than yours.

I can’t count the amount of times I would be playing that game and say to myself “Oh, just half an hour more” when playing to suddenly see four hours had passed.

There have been three main Sims games, along with a plethora of expansion packs and side games to keep the series going. Just when I thought The Sims was starting to slow down, the creators decided to make another expansion pack.

In the game your character could get a job as one of many things, with careers choices ranging from culinary to criminal. The Sims: Ambitions expansion pack added firefighting, ghost hunting, and various other workplaces for your digital persona to work as.

Now you can add pop star to that list. And not just any pop star. Coming this march is the newest expansion, Sims: Showtime.

To get the series that lives off expansion packs, Mrs. (well I guess it’s Ms. now) Katy Perry has been thrown in the game for the special edition version, along with her hair types and other in-game additions.

It’s not the first celebrity-endorsed game. In fact, there’s a compilation video with the top 10 worst celebrity-endorsed video game.

Which person, whether it be celebrity or musician or artist that’ll never become mainstream, would you love to play a simulated version of?

Maybe you’ll want to avoid paparazzi by wagging your Nintendo Wii controller, or possibly using your XBox Kinect camera to work your magic on a photoshoot.

If the Kinect had the ability to take photos of you while looking like a fool, that would make for a great photo album. Our faces sure look strange when playing games.


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Bieber got nuthin’, so here’s sumfin’

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Cheer up, bub. You're rich.

Grammys are held purely to confuse the Nostradamuses (Nostradami?) of the world. Period.

Sure, Grammys were handed out like candies, but that’s nothing new.

It was the small things that made it worth following. The headline I laughed at the most was this one: ‘Bieber goes home empty-handed from Grammys’

I don’t know why, but I could just imagine him tearing up, wiping his face and just asking “Why?”

Considering the hype that boy had, I’m kind of glad he got a reality check.

That said, I’m also glad that indie group Arcade Fire scooped up ‘Album of the Year’ for ‘The Suburbs‘, beating Eminem, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga (the woman who arrived at the Grammys in an egg).

The sub-titled song always gets me in a good mood. And I figured Justin Bieber would need a bit of cheering up.

Lately I’ve been listening to a few albums that always lightens my day. So Biebs…this is for you, baby. Baby. Baby. Oh…

Doogs’ ‘Cheer Me Up’ albums for Biebs

1. Eagles of Death Metal – Death by Sexy
2. Beck – The Information
3. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – Up from Below

Listen to these, and you’ll realise life’s pretty great. :)


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Katy Perry’s cheeky Christmas cameo with Simpsons puppets

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

Sesame Street always had a knack for having guest stars on the show to be involved, giving adults something to appreciate while they re-learn the letter ‘L’ with their child. Some of the first guests to appear were Johnny Cash, John Candy, Bill Cosby and Whoopi Goldberg. And nowadays we’re seeing more recent celebs like Jonah Hill, Ricky Gervais and Will.I.Am.

Earlier this year Katy Perry was the gal of the week, singing ‘Hot N Cold’ and running around with Elmo and wearing a yellow dress and wedding veil. What came as a shock to parents was that her top was too revealing, showing more teet than street.

Even though this is the kind of style Katy’s known for, the clip was then banned from TV. It’s available online, and considering how well kids are with computers, it’s not too hard to find. But it seemed a bit much to ban it.

She then went on to Saturday Night Live and played a character with an Elmo shirt, complete with a perfect view of the illegal goods.

Then the writers of The Simpsons felt it would be a good idea to jump on the bandwagon of promiscuity and tongue-in-cheek with their Christmas episode.

Nevermind the fact that the whole segment is actually a fun salute to how Sesame Street’s puppetry has worked all these years, but the naughty jokes put in there is not so much a ‘Flipping the bird’ as it is ‘Look what we can do and get away with’.

Personally I think Katy’s nothing but tight dresses and cleavage, and that’s totally fine. If all I had to do was wear crazy clothes and……aaaaact….I’d be laughing. Is it really that bad? Search for the video if you haven’t seen it.

Can you think of any celebrity appearances that seemed off-kilter to you? Look awkward on-screen? Couldn’t act? Was there simply for their catchphrase?

Chris Martin from Coldplay’s mock appearance on The Extras was an amazing example of what I’m thinking of.

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Side note: I would like to retract my previous post’s statement that Bruce Lee died from a live gun on set. It was Brandon Lee, his son. A big thanks to Carl M and Chris for pointing that out. I feel like I’ve done an injustice to the legend now…

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Same here. Same here!

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

"Here take it. It worked for me!"

It’s no surprise that some pop songs can be very similar to ones before it. In fact, I think it’s an official rule that a song must sound almost exactly the same, just so there’s no risk in something new.

When someone splices two songs together to form an uber-song, this in turn creates an amplified version of the original’s effect.

For example, Nirvana’s anthem of grunge was spliced together with the love of the passionate Rick Astley for the song Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up.

There was also Amy Winehouse, Peter Bjorn and John’s Young Folks in Rehab, And the Franzie Boys (Franz Ferdinand and the Beastie Boys).

But when you dare put together songs that sound exactly the same, well…it’s kind of embarrassing if you liked them before.

Katy Perry’s California Gurls and Kesha’s Tik Tok are exactly the same musical structure and sound, as proven by this mashup.

More like...Dr Evil...yeah, I went there.

Both were produced by Dr. Luke, who got to use his Doctorate of Unoriginality in 2002 for Kelly Osbourne’s Shut Up. Since then, Kelly Clarkson, Paris Hilton, Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, Leona Lewis, Adam Lambert and Miley Cyrus have gotten a spoonful of his medicine. Mmm…sickening.

Interesting fact, Katy Perry was the woman responsible for giving Kesha her start in music when she offered her to sing backup to one of her songs ‘Right Around’. Uninteresting fact, she didn’t stop.

Then there’s Oasis, seen as one of the great rock ‘n’ roll bands to ever idolise The Beatles one step more than the rest. Who could resist the imaginative chord progression that ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, ‘Wonderwall’ and ‘Whatever’ had.

I’m not stepping on a high horse though. I’ve fallen prey to the blindness certain chords produce. In fact, it’s almost like a homage to all of them. Here’s one now.

It’s very difficult to come up with something new. Frequently new artists are being sued by older bands with demands for royalties to songs they wrote first.

Aussie tennis player Lleyton Hewitt was rejected trying to copyright his irritating “Come on!” quote. It’s like a fast food restaurantcopyright saying “Mmm” when you eat something. Not such a cheap meal after a few bites, Ronald.

In truth, there isn’t much you can do about it. I’m not giving rights to up-and-coming bands to start stealing old music and go “C’est la vie”. In contrast, stand-up comics who steal old material (*coughDaneCookcoughCarlosMenciacough*) are considered the lowest of the low.

Man I hate those guys.


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