Katy Perry wrote single 'I Kissed A Girl' to get back at her religious parents
Katy Perry has admitted that she wrote her catchy hit single, 'I Kissed A Girl', to deliberately shock her strict and religious parents. And it definitely did the trick...
The 24-year-old star's mother is an evangelical Christian preacher, who has claimed that she does find some of her daughter's lyrics "shameful."
And Katy's religious upbringing meant the singer was forbidden from ever swearing or saying anything remotely blasphemous. So the outspoken singer sought revenge with her controversial lyrics.
She explained: "My religious upbringing was comically strict - even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed to refer to devilled eggs. We had to call them angelic eggs."
She added: "We were never allowed to swear. I'd get into trouble just for saying 'Hell no'. If you dropped a hammer on your toe in our house you had to say something like 'Jiminy Christmas'. The only music we were allowed to listen to was gospel. No wonder I rebelled".
And getting a No.1 hit single out of it isn't a bad either...
Katy Perry has admitted that she wrote her catchy hit single, 'I Kissed A Girl', to deliberately shock her strict and religious parents. And it definitely did the trick...
The 24-year-old star's mother is an evangelical Christian preacher, who has claimed that she does find some of her daughter's lyrics "shameful."
And Katy's religious upbringing meant the singer was forbidden from ever swearing or saying anything remotely blasphemous. So the outspoken singer sought revenge with her controversial lyrics.
She explained: "My religious upbringing was comically strict - even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed to refer to devilled eggs. We had to call them angelic eggs."
She added: "We were never allowed to swear. I'd get into trouble just for saying 'Hell no'. If you dropped a hammer on your toe in our house you had to say something like 'Jiminy Christmas'. The only music we were allowed to listen to was gospel. No wonder I rebelled".
And getting a No.1 hit single out of it isn't a bad either...
