Track Listing

1. One Of The Boys
2. I Kissed A Girl
3. Waking Up In Vegas
4. Thinking Of You
5. Mannequin
6. Ur So Gay (Edited)
7. Hot N Cold
8. If You Can Afford Me
9. Lost (Edited)
10. Self Inflicted
11. I'm Still Breathing
12. Fingerprints

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #446 in Music
• Released on: 2008-09-22
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Katy Perry is the all-new singing and sort-of-dancing-but-probably-too-cool-for-all-that, rebellious, girl-kissing, Avril Lavigne v2.0 bad-girl of high-production American pop. She's not exactly out to be ignored. In fact she's out to become both an idol for disenfranchised Britney fans and a poster-girl for emo-boys, not to mention tabloid-fodder and gossip-page regular. She is also, it should be noted, the daughter of two pastors and made her recorded debut with a Christian pop album aged 17 (she's now 23). And while a leopard changing its spots, or at least its wardrobe, might all be part of growing from a teenager to a feisty young woman, it is easy to be cynical about this package, headed up by the ready-to-download controversy of her "I Kissed a Girl" single. That tune at least has the bold beats and choreographed raw heat to match its sassy premise; it is a little disappointing that for someone resting on rebellion as her central cause that the music on One of the Boys is so conformist. "Mannequin" is Kelly Clarkson American-Idol style modern power-rock, the lyrically questionable "Ur So Gay" takes Lily Allen and adds a dash of Christina, "Hot 'n' Cold" is a Pink-esque floor-filler, "Thinking of You" a Britney ballad of some scale and the title track like an Avril Lavigne reworking of a brazen Cyndi Lauper classic. But while she brings little originality to the table, there are certainly no half measures covering the bases on this efficient debut. --James Berry

CD Description
Hailing from California and boasting a UK and Billboard chart-topping hit with single 'I Kissed A Girl', Katy Perry hashad a formidable impact on the music world prior to the release of her debut album. 'One Of The Boys' is full of catchyand often risque hooks that are brought to life with memorable beats, produced by Max Martin (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys) and Greg Wells (Mika, Rufus Wainwright) among others. Also included is the single 'Ur So Gay'.

Customer Reviews

A Happy Little Highway To Hell
First things first.

Does it offend ?

We are being led to believe that Ms Perry's (nee Hudson) debut album
has ruffled a few feathers within the sweaty-palmed enclaves of America's
moral majority and beyond.

Indeed, even her evangelical parents are allegedly outraged.

Lighten up Mom and Dad - You have every reason to be proud of your lovely daughter!

On a scale of one-to-ten 'One Of The Boys' has not registered even a paltry
0.0001 on The Wolf's disgust-o-meter.
There are many more creatively perverse ways of hitching a ride to hell
than listening to this splendid little album.

Whether Ms Perry has, or has not, discovered pleasure in mouth-to-mouth
contact with another female of her species is not the issue (for goodness-sake
in The Home Forest squirrels are doing it all the time).

These twelve songs deliver as much fun as it is feasibly possible to have
with a four-and-a half inch diameter piece of shiny plastic.

Our heroine emerges with her "cherry chapstick' (...not chopstick as your
reviewer initially believed he had heard) entirely intact.

This is uber-competent power-pop of the very first order. Truly stonking stuff.

'Waking Up In Vegas', 'If You Can Afford Me', 'Self Inflicted', 'Fingerprints' and 'Hot and Cold',
however formulaic, are all barnstorming models of foot tapping singalong perfection.

The formula is a good one.

'Thinking Of You', 'Lost' and 'I'm Still Breathing' demonstrate her capacity to
vary the emotional palette and pace without losing our attention.

'Ur So Gay' is a metrosexual hoot. Dig out your favorite recording of Die Zauberflote
( my own preference remains the 1964 Karl Bohm / BPO set ) and play along !

'Mannequin' is as fine a pop song as you will hear anywhere in the musical firmament this year.

Unreserved praise, then, for this cracking little offering !

Highly Recommended.

KP: Nuts? Nope, just fashionably kooky.
I kissed a girl and yes, I actually liked it. Don't particularly remember the taste of her cherry chapstick - I think it was pickled onion Monster Munch, to be quite honest. Nevertheless, three cheers for Katy Perry for commenting on my life experiences with such sage veracity. Sometimes, I'm also in the mood for something and then, mysteriously, on other occasions I'm not. It's just like I run both hot and then cold, like a moody old bath tap. Imagine my surprise when I found that Ms Perry had also written a song about just that phenomenon. I immediately checked in my sock drawer to make sure she wasn't hiding there, monitoring my every move and taking notes but no. I can only surmise that Katy and I are soul-mates or that she is some kind of doll-faced Cassandra, as everything she sings about has happened in my life too. I'm now waiting for the tracks on her new album: 'Cutting My Toenails `cos I'm So Bored', 'I Ate a Sandwich (It Was Nice)' and 'Prescription Renewal Day Blues'.

This isn't strictly the review I originally intended to publish but some of my content was deemed unsuitable for Amazon by the Powers That Be. Pity really, because it was an rip-roaring ride through the minefield that is gender politics in the 21st Century! I guess I'll blog it or something...

This Album is Censored
It should be noted that this album is the censored version, though this is not clearly marked in the product details, hence the rating. It's extremely annoying to buy a child safe version of this album unintentionally because it is not clearly marked in the product details. On the other hand for parents wanted to buy for small children, this version is fairly tame though it does contain one reference to male genitalia in the form you'd find it in a text book (are reviews censored?) and some fairly interesting lyrics likely to go over the head of most children too young to appreciate their meaning.