The Sun Brands Katy Perry No1 Idiot

Katy Perry is in the headlines this morning in the Sun newspaper in the UK. In this Wednesday's issue of Britain's best-selling paper she is branded as an idiot for glamorising the use of knives in order to promote her music.


A snapshot of the story on http://www.thesun.co.uk

POP star Katy Perry poses with a knife — an image which sparked fury last night after another teen was killed by a blade in Broken Britain.

Angry critics said 23-year-old Katy, who sold five million copies of her No1 hit I Kissed A Girl, was “out of her mind” for glamorising knives.

A quote from the Sun's story

Knifecrime is a huge issue in Britain, especially amongst youths and there have been a lot of tragedies where young people have been killed by blades. So this kind of imagery is obviously controversial and seen as bad taste.

I don't like Katy Perry - especially from what I saw of her behind the scenes and on stage at Warped Tour. Katy Perry's acoustic performance at Warped in Toronto was nothing but painful.
However, I think it is unfair to use Katy Perry's image as the headline for a story about knife crime in the UK. Yes, it's a stupid photo and ill-advised, but you can hardly hold the girl responsible for all the knife crime problems in Britain. Those problems have been going on since way before anybody had even heard of Katy Perry.
But hey, tabloid newspapers make sales by sensationalising stories, so I'm not surprised by these headlines.

Brian, the editor