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| | Katy Perry took 64 friends on a 10-day trip to Egypt for her 35th birthday | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Ancient Egyptians believed that when you pass on your heart had to be weighed. It had to be lighter than a feather to be qualified for the trip to the afterlife. My mother has called me feather since I was a little girl and I hope after all is said and done my heart is as light as one. This is 35.
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| | Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse' was copyright infringement, according to an LA jury | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A few weeks ago, Katy Perry was in court in Los Angeles because she had to testify about an alleged copyright infringement. As it turns out, Katy was being sued by Christian rapper Marcus Gray (aka Flame), who claimed Katy copied parts of his song ?Joyful Noise? with her Dr. Luke-produced song ?Dark Horse.? I remember when ?Dark Horse? came out and it sounded different than most of Katy?s songs at the time, but it never occurred to me that she had lifted the beat from Flame. Well, the trial lasted a week and? Katy Perry is guilty of copyright infringement, according to a jury.
After a weeklong trial, a California jury has concluded that Katy Perrys Dark Horse is a copyright infringement. The lawsuit was brought by Christian rapper Marcus Gray, professionally known as Flame, who asserted that Perrys 2013 hit tread on his own work titled Joyful Noise. In particular, the plaintiff alleged that the Dr. Luke-produced song took his underlying beat.
At trial, both Perry and Luke insisted they had never heard of Joyful Noise, while Gray pointed to his songs success in a niche market. He offered the theory that the defendants may have heard it at the Grammy Awards or seen it on YouTube or MySpace, where the song was played millions of times. The defendants also attempted to knock the plaintiffs ownership of infringing material by pointing to how the beat was allegedly preexisting material. Finally, Perry and Luke called experts to the witness stand in an effort to show a lack of any substantial similarity of protected expression. The trial had colorful moments, from Perry offering to perform her hit live amid difficulties with the courtroom sound system, to a shooting that took place just outside the courthouse on the day Dr. Luke testified.
Most copyright cases either settle or are dismissed before ever getting to trial, but Dark Horse joined Blurred Lines and Stairway to Heaven as songcraft thats been put to a jury this decade. Jurors began deliberating after closing arguments Thursday, and returned their decision Monday afternoon. The verdict means the case will proceed to a damages phase, which will begin Tuesday. Still pending is a motion from Perrys lawyers on Thursday asking U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder to rule that no reasonable jury could find copyright infringement based on the evidence presented at trial.
[From The Hollywood Reporter]
I?m including the separate songs below, plus a YouTube-user-made video comparing the songs side-by-side. To me, it feels like the ?Blurred Lines? infringement was a lot clearer. I also remember another case where Tom Petty?s people (when Petty was still alive) went to Sam Smith privately and told Smith that they thought ?Stay With Me? sounded a lot like ?Won?t Back Down.? Smith and Petty worked out everything out of court, and I believe Petty even has some kind of songwriting credit for ?Stay With Me? now. My point is that I wonder if Flame went to Katy?s people and tried to work this stuff out privately, or whether he filed the lawsuit first.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Katy Perry busted her buns while dressed as a hamburger at the gala afterparties | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Most celebrities go out and party after the Met Gala. There are probably a dozen major afterparties around New York following the gala, and many celebrities change into more comfortable ensembles post-gala. Not Katy Perry. Katy was dressed like a friggin? chandelier at the Met Gala, then she changed into a hamburger costume for the afterparties. Which was more comfortable, I wonder? It did make for some funny moments though Katy ran into Lizzo, who laughed and asked her ?are you a fking slider?? I?m also including photos of Katy running into Celine Dion on the street and Celine was trying desperately to give the Katyburger a big hug. This also happened to Katyburger:
Met Gala fashionistas feasted their eyes in amazement on Katy Perry, who wiped out in a giant hamburger costume at Gucci?s wild after-party ? and then was unable to get back up. Perry took the gala?s camp theme to the next level by changing into a burger costume late Monday night, complete with all the trimmings ? bun, beef patty, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and cheese, plus a toothpick hat ? from which the singer?s hands only partly protruded.
Witnesses said Perry was so encased in the burger ensemble that others were forced to help feed her because she couldn?t reach her mouth. But despite being encased in a Jeremy Scott-designed barrel of rubber, Perry didn?t hold back on the dance floor at the late-night after-party at Hunter College?s basketball court. She was seen dancing with pals including model Karlie Kloss, enthusiastically shimmying her oversize slider and bumping the burger up and down to beats from DJ Mark Ronson.
That is, she did until around 1 a.m., when Perry fell flat on her buns on the dance floor, and lay there motionless, unable to get back up, while her little legs were seen wiggling out of the bottom of the whopper of a costume. Two partygoers came to the aid of the stricken star, hauling her back to her feet, before Perry wobbled away.
An eyewitness said, ?It was the funniest thing I?ve ever seen. Katy .?.?. just toppled over. Once she was on the floor, she couldn?t get up .?.?. She rolled around a little, but she was stuck because she had no arms. People rushed over and literally picked her up.?
[From Page Six]
Page Six has a way with imagery, right? ?Her little legs were seen wiggling out of the bottom of the whopper of a costume?? Just the thought of the Katyburger lying there, flat on her lettuce, trying to figure out a way to get up. It?s perfect.
Meanwhile, the gossip is that Jeremy Scott who designed Katy?s hamburger costume and her chandelier costume threw a bad afterparty at the Playboy Club. One person called it a ?disaster? and another called it a ?debacle.?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Katy Perry describes how Orlando Bloom's proposal was kind of a disaster | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Controversial opinion: I love Katy Perry?s current hairstyle. The color could be softer but the style is darling and I kind of wish I could pull it off. Katy, as we know, recently got engaged to her maybe-we-are-maybe-we-aren?t partner, Orlando Bloom. Honestly, I didn?t think they had it in them to go the distance, but I was surprised at how happy I was to hear the news. So far, all we knew was that they got engaged and what Katy?s ring looked like. But while on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote American Idol, Katy gave some details about the proposal, and it sounds simply? hilarious. Apparently, it was supposed to be a grand romantic adventure and it turned into a wine-soaked debacle, which is good for us because that?s a more interesting story.
It was Valentine?s Day, usually people are breaking up or having major displays of affection. This one was a good one. We went to dinner and I thought we were going to see some art after dinner, but we pulled up to a helicopter. It was really sweet, he asked me to marry him in a helicopter. Actually, the funny part is, we had champagne in the helicopter and the box was in his pocket and he had written a note with everything he wanted to say in a note you know, to divert, right? He was going to pull (the ring) out while I?m reading it. So I?m reading it, but I?m hearing, like, the champagne is broken, the bottle?s everywhere and I?m still looking at the note because he?s pulling out this box that?s too big for his coat pocket and it rips his coat pocket and his elbow goes into the champagne and I?m, like, ?No, I?m just reading the note, I know you?re not doing anything.?
Katy said that when the helicopter landed, her family and friends were waiting to congratulate them so it all worked out and she was very happy. I?m glad it?s the proposal she wanted. I did not want a dramatic or public proposal, mainly because I didn?t want anyone to know I was getting proposed to before me. But if I were to have something over the top, I would definitely have wanted it to go t!ts up like this one. I won?t even start on the logistics of getting an oversized box into a too-small pocket, but could you imagine? All the planning and effort and things start, literally, coming apart at the seams. And I?m just inferring here, but I?d guess Orlando forewent the bended knee because he didn?t want a trouser leg drenched in champagne for the engagement party awaiting them. He?s lucky the ring didn?t go flying out the window. Some bobcat would be running around Malibu Canyon telling hikers she?d just landed Legolas. As for the ring, Katy told Kimmel that she?d ?voiced her opinion? on which ring she wanted. Considering how similar it looks to the former Mrs. Bloom?s, one wonders where she got her inspiration.
Katy started the clip talking about In N Out Burger and how she and Orlando originally bonded over it. I wonder of the rest if you get tired of Californians talking about In N Out? I feel like we talk about it way too much, especially since *warning ? second controversial opinion* it?s just okay. Our avocados, however, now there?s something to go on about.
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| | Katy Perry & Orlando Bloom got engaged on Valentine's Day | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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full bloom
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| | Katy Perry's budget fashion line made shoes which look like 'blackface' | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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This year?s Black History Month has been one for the ages, and we?re not even halfway through the month. Just in the past 11 days, we?ve had the racist shenanigans here in Virginia, the attempts to discredit the African-American presidential candidates, Cindy McCain calling security on a mother and child who weren?t the same race, Joy Behar also having a blackface incident in her past, and on and on. Adding to all of that, the fashion industry has gone buck fking wild with racist bullsh-t, and it?s all coming to a head this month. Last week, Gucci pulled these sweaters from their stores:
Gucci has apologized and discontinued selling a sweater after criticism that it resembles blackface https://t.co/AU7RVR9Xj6 pic.twitter.com/GBf0rdsNDk
CNN International (@cnni) February 7, 2019
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| | Katy Perry was suspended in 6th grade for humping a tree she called Tom Cruise | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I don?t know why Katy Perry felt compelled to tell us she humped a tree but she did and now we need to address it. Katy posted a photo on her Instagram Stories of a suspension peport from when she attended Santa Barbara Christian School. Over the photo, she wrote the caption: When I was suspended in 6th grade for humping a tree and I guess other stuff The report itself, made out in Katy?s original name, Katy Hudson, proceeds to give several details that didn?t exactly seem necessary to include, like the fact that the tree was standing in for Tom Cruise.
IMAGINE BEING CALLED ?BRATS? BY Katy Perry OMG pic.twitter.com/CRXDqk5IpP
luca (@katysecstasy) January 14, 2019
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| | Katy Perry & Orlando Bloom walked their first carpet together with the Monaco royals | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos from the Global Ocean Gala in Monte Carlo last night. Prince Albert of Monaco has several big causes, and the environment and protecting the oceans are two of his biggest (he?s also a huge supporter of the Olympics and the Red Cross). You know the Global Ocean Gala was important because Princess Charlene even came out for it. And good lord, she looks like she?s been ?medicated.? Her gown is terrible, as is her makeup. And hair, for the matter.
The big story from the Ocean Gala was that Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom attended? and this is their first time making a coupled-up red carpet appearance. They?ve been at the same events before, and Orlando has even been Katy?s ?date? at some events, but she?s never let him walk the red carpet with her, which is sort of funny. She?s like ?actually I don?t want to remind people that we?re together, we cool?? Katy?s hair, makeup and gown are also hideous, almost like she was really trying to look as awful as Charlene.
Oooh, look at Pierre Casiraghi and his wife Beatrice Casiraghi. She?s crazy-beautiful, but her terrible gown made me laugh. Even beautiful women sometimes choose terrible clothes.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Katy Perry on Duchess Meghan's wedding gown: 'I would have done one more fitting' | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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For the life of me, I still don?t understand the criticism of Meghan Markle?s Givenchy wedding gown. Critics claimed that it wasn?t fit properly, or that Meghan had lost a significant amount of weight just before the wedding. Like, a team of ateliers was working on this gown and they would have done anything to get it just right. So what makes people think they didn?t get it right? Because it was a bit loose? Because it wasn?t skin-tight? Clearly, Meghan didn?t WANT body-con. She didn?t want it too be crazy-tight. She wanted some ?give? because she knew she would be standing and sitting and walking. But some people just have to pick-pick-pick. People like? Katy Perry.
Katy Perry tells it like it is! On Sunday, the 33-year-old pop star opened up to ET?s Lauren Zima about this weekend?s biggest event ? Prince Harry and Meghan Markles royal wedding ? during night one of the American Idol finals.
?I would have done one more fitting,? Perry quipped of Markle?s stunning Givenchy gown. ?I?m never not going to tell the truth! One more fitting, but I love you.?
The Idol judge added that she preferred Kate Middleton?s 2011 Alexander McQueen bridal look, declaring, ?Kate, Kate, Kate won, Kate won!? Despite her slight criticism of Markle?s dress, Perry couldnt be more thrilled for the newlyweds.
?I?m so happy for them, and, you know, I don?t know them from Adam, but it?s amazing what she?s doing with all this, her humanitarian efforts, she said. You know, the fact that she?s a proud feminist, I love all that. I support her as another woman and love her and wish them both well.?
[From Yahoo]
Since Katy did the comparison, I?ll go along: Kate and Meghan?s wedding gowns reflect their personalities. Kate?s gown was a tight, pinched and fussy, with extra doily realness. Meg?s was elegant and deceptively simple. Meg?s was comfortable-looking and chic, and Kate?s was obvious. As I said? with the quality of people working on Meghan?s gown, why do you think that it didn?t fit her exactly the way she wanted it to fit?
Photos courtesy of WENN, Pacific Coast News.
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| | Katy Perry was literally an angel in custom Versace at the Met Gala: stunning? | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The theme of the 2018 Met Gala was ?Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,? and oh my God, was this one of the best themes in the history of the Met Gala. People had so much FUN with it. Some interpretations were very literal like, people dressed up in New Fashion-Forward Pope Gear but many people used religious art, gospel, and Catholic imagery to create their own twists on the theme. Katy Perry was one of the more literal-themed people. Katy came dressed as an angel. And it was awesome?? I think it was awesome. This is a custom Versace and on the cream-and-gold carpet, Katy posed like a kneeling (perhaps fallen?) angel. The Versace dress was gold chainmail and her wings spanned six feet? but it looks like more. She almost knocked out her stylist with her wings!
Complete with her own set of wings, @katyperry gets comfortable on the #MetGala carpet. #MetHeavenlyBodies #KatyPerry pic.twitter.com/DPjdslLgUM
The Met (@metmuseum) May 7, 2018
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