Why do I hate Katy Perry so much?

[Anonymous]

Could someone explain this to me? Every time I see her name or hear one of her songs or hear her name discussed I just think "Ugh!"

I'm disgusted by her. As in, I wouldn't want to sit next to her. I wouldn't want to let her borrow my pen. I would tune out in a meeting if she were talking.

I do recall being disgusted by her kissing a guy who auditioned on American Idol who said he was waiting to meet his future wife, but other than that, I don't know what she's done to get this reaction from me.

Since you're all total strangers, can you explain my hatred to me? If it helps, I also hate Dick Cheney.

[Anonymous]

She doesn’t need your pen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She doesn’t need your pen.

I would want to use hand sanitizer after borrowing her pen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She doesn’t need your pen.

I would want to use hand sanitizer after borrowing her pen.

Why would you borrow her pen if you hate her? You must really need a pen. Katy Perry, however, has no need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain this to me? Every time I see her name or hear one of her songs or hear her name discussed I just think "Ugh!"

I'm disgusted by her. As in, I wouldn't want to sit next to her. I wouldn't want to let her borrow my pen. I would tune out in a meeting if she were talking.

I do recall being disgusted by her kissing a guy who auditioned on American Idol who said he was waiting to meet his future wife, but other than that, I don't know what she's done to get this reaction from me.

Since you're all total strangers, can you explain my hatred to me? If it helps, I also hate Dick Cheney.

Maybe you are a racist person?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain this to me? Every time I see her name or hear one of her songs or hear her name discussed I just think "Ugh!"

I'm disgusted by her. As in, I wouldn't want to sit next to her. I wouldn't want to let her borrow my pen. I would tune out in a meeting if she were talking.

I do recall being disgusted by her kissing a guy who auditioned on American Idol who said he was waiting to meet his future wife, but other than that, I don't know what she's done to get this reaction from me.

Since you're all total strangers, can you explain my hatred to me? If it helps, I also hate Dick Cheney.

Maybe you are a racist person?

She's white. I'm white. ??

[Anonymous]

I find her manufactured. One commentator called her a reanimated styrofoam wig stand. That stuck with me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain this to me? Every time I see her name or hear one of her songs or hear her name discussed I just think "Ugh!"

I'm disgusted by her. As in, I wouldn't want to sit next to her. I wouldn't want to let her borrow my pen. I would tune out in a meeting if she were talking.

I do recall being disgusted by her kissing a guy who auditioned on American Idol who said he was waiting to meet his future wife, but other than that, I don't know what she's done to get this reaction from me.

Since you're all total strangers, can you explain my hatred to me? If it helps, I also hate Dick Cheney.

Maybe you are a racist person?

She's white. I'm white. ??

White on white crime (or hate). Its not well reported by the fake news.

[Anonymous]

She creeped me out after I saw her on Sesame Street wearing something that I found inappropriate for small children

[Anonymous]

Maybe you have this image in your mind?



That did it for me, plus that creepy kiss on American Idol that the PP referenced.

[Anonymous]

She is fake to me. A lot of stunts for attention and she kind of has an entitled sense to her. She comes across at times as obnoxious and over the top.

I don't like her but I don't have quite your level of disdain OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain this to me? Every time I see her name or hear one of her songs or hear her name discussed I just think "Ugh!"

I'm disgusted by her. As in, I wouldn't want to sit next to her. I wouldn't want to let her borrow my pen. I would tune out in a meeting if she were talking.

I do recall being disgusted by her kissing a guy who auditioned on American Idol who said he was waiting to meet his future wife, but other than that, I don't know what she's done to get this reaction from me.

Since you're all total strangers, can you explain my hatred to me? If it helps, I also hate Dick Cheney.

I don't know. That's your character flaw, not hers. It's like you've taken rat poison and are waiting for the rat to die or something. Super weird. Maybe seek therapy for this distorted way of thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is fake to me. A lot of stunts for attention and she kind of has an entitled sense to her. She comes across at times as obnoxious and over the top.

I don't like her but I don't have quite your level of disdain OP!

This.

[Anonymous]

I feel like I also have this instinct towards her and I think it comes down to two things.

1) Her schtick is very artificial. On purpose clearly, she has a very clear aesthetic and it isn't about natural genuine beauty it is about looking kind of doll like and creating replicas of time periods. I think in today's world that is seen as a little off putting.

2) She is a try hard. This one makes me feel bad. But I feel like she is like, the Christina Aquilera/Jessica Simpson to Taylor Swift's Britney Spears. The slightly lesser female celebrity pop star du jour that people take pleasure in cutting down. I don't think that metaphor totally works on a talent level because xtina is a way better singer than spears but in their heyday spears was WAY more famous and mainstream popular.

But intellectually I think it is really unfair to feel pained by her efforts to be THE female pop star. She is working hard and trying and that shouldn't be off putting. But seeing someone, particularly a woman, trying so hard to be something and not necessarily completely succeeding I think sets off some primitive feeling of repulsion in human social cues. And its compounded by the fact that she has this artificial schtick that just makes the try hard stand out more.

It is the feeling you get when a not quite perfect polished outsider girl is trying out for a cheer leading squad and not doing it quite right. Some swirl of sympathetic embarrassment that just makes you recoil in your core. But that is a cruel and unfair instinct and like I said I try to actually suppress it because she's just a hard working woman who is trying to build a career. And I love some of her songs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She doesn’t need your pen.