An inter­est­ing debate has been ongo­ing since the con­cep­tion of “I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry. Although I’ve per­son­ally enjoyed the song way more than I prob­a­bly should have, it’s undoubtably going to be one of, if not the top hit in 2008. Top­ping Billboard’s Hot 100 for seven weeks, the for­mer wannabe Chris­t­ian pop star got her first break on The Watch­ing Over You Tour with then-newsboy-gone-solo Phil Joel and Earth­suit (to be known later as Mute Math). There’s plenty of info on sites all over the net but that’s not really my rea­son­ing for bring­ing up the topic.

Recently, Fall Out Boy and their label announced a new music sam­pler includ­ing demos of new music. One of the tracks is called “I Kissed a Boy” by Cobra Star­ship. It’s just inter­est­ing to me how we as a cul­ture and gen­er­a­tion inter­pret and per­cieve things. “I Kissed a Girl” is a media-driven con­cept of for­bid­den sex­ual inten­sity (but main­tain­ing a cer­tain level of inno­cence) while “I Kissed a Boy” is broadly viewed as… sim­ply unknown and disgusting.

Per­sonal opin­ion doesn’t come into play here really, I was more inter­ested in the take of it as a cul­ture, gen­er­a­tion, and/or even per­haps a geo­graph­i­cal demo­graphic. Since the orig­i­nal Katy Perry ver­sion is all over, I won’t pro­vide it here… but here’s “I Kissed a Boy” (con­tent edited by me). Per­haps this was ironic tim­ing to release my new audio teaser.

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