What should we make of Katy Perry and her Christian upbringing?
Katy Perry is the latest pop-star to become fodder for the gossip columns. Last month her husband Russell Brand announced that he was filing for divorce after just 14 months of marriage, on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. But there’s more to Perry than a short-lived marriage to the comedian that Britain loves to hate.
The artist formerly known as…
Perry shot to fame in 2008 with the controversial and infuriatingly catchy track ‘I Kissed a Girl’: ‘I kissed a girl just to try it […] / It felt so wrong, it felt so right’. The song was deliberately provocative, but was even more so for those who recognised the singer as Katy Hudson, an artist who had previously released an album of Christian gospel music.
