Music Video Monday… California Gurls

by Devil’s Food Cake

It’s widely accepted that, when it comes to most things, the original is the best. Fame, The Karate Kid, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? – though copies and subsequent versions have been made of many things, the originals often are, in fact, the best.

Not always though.

Though I wanted to hate Katy Perry’s song California Gurls from the first moment I heard it, there are some things that are so infectious you can’t help but want to hear them again and again. Once I saw the video though, I was somewhat appeased – at least there was one thing I could hate about it. Though the song itself is catchy as hell, the accompanying video is somewhat disappointing, with lacklustre dancing, questionable confectionary clothing, the somewhat disturbing consumption of a gingerbread man with a heart and uh… that ending. Observe:

And then, the other day on Jezebel, I found this.

I’ve been saying it for years: gays do it better.