Katy Perry returns to bring back summer in the Philippines with her sizzling new single “California Gurls.”An irresistible, hook-filled clarion call to throw on Daisy Dukes and a bikini top, “California Gurls” will “melt your popsicle,” Katy assures us. The sizzling track is the follow-up to her back-to-back-to-back No. 1 chart-toppers “I Kissed A Girl,” “Hot N Cold,” and “Waking Up In Vegas” from her CD, “One of the Boys.” It currently rules the Billboard Hot 100 and at the same spot on the digital song chart.
The Santa Barbara-born Perry was inspired to write “California Gurls” as she watched her friends go crazy at a party listening to Jay-Z’s salute to New York, “Empire State of Mind.”
“Everybody was holding their drinks in the air and dancing, and I thought, ‘We’re not in New York, we’re in Los Angeles! What about California? What about all the hommies, the gin and juice, the swaying palm trees, the sun-kissed skin 24-7,’” Perry recalls. “I decided that we needed to make a response. I want people to want to book a ticket to California the first time they hear it.
And because it’s practically un-American to release a song that mentions gin and juice without Snoop Dogg, Perry recruited the rap icon to contribute his inimitable vocals to “California Gurls.”
“We thought it would sound so cool and give the song another dimension,” she says. “Snoop is as West Coast as it gets.”
In Manila, “California Gurls” is on the playlist of Mellow 94.7 (which charted No. 2 after three weeks), Magic 89.9, RX 93.1 (also at No. 4 after three weeks) and MaxFM and 99.5 RT.
“California Gurls” is just a prelude to her brand-new album “Teenage Dream,” which will be released by Capitol Records and distributed by Polyeast Records in the Philippines on Aug. 30.
Perry visited the Philippines in November 2009. Soon after, a special re-packaged edition of Perry’s hit debut “One Of The Boys” including new remixes and her very commercially controversial music videos was released by Polyeast Records which eventually hit the Gold mark.
Katy has been one of the most talked-about artists of the past two years. She recently performed “California Gurls” at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards.
She has also presented awards (and gotten slimed) at the “Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards,” presented at the 2010 Grammy Awards (where “Hot N Cold” was nominated for “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance”), and performed at the Grammy Awards ceremony in 2009 when she was nominated in the same category for “I Kissed A Girl.”
Most recently, Katy appeared as a judge on the Fox juggernaut “American Idol” and was named one of People magazine’s “Most Beautiful People of 2010.”