Katy Perry vs. LMFAO for the song of summer
Sunday, September 18th, 2011 | Katy Perry
Shut the door. Have a seat. It’s September. With Labor Day having all but arrived and the calendar turned away from August, summertime is officially over. (Pause here for head shaking and teeth gnashing.) To celebrate this totally crappy turn of events, yours truly will be using the next few blog posts to fondly remember the summer of 2011.
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Christopher Rosen of 42 Inch Television is an entertainment writer living in New York. He’s a senior editor at Movieline, and has written for Complex, the New York Observer, the New York Times online, Vulture and Fancast.
Christopher has appeared on numerous radio broadcasts, participated in two panel discussions at The Paley Center for Media, and was a guest entertainment commentator on Fox News.
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First up, the music!
The biggest problem with pop music this summer was that there was no clear cut Song of the Summer. While 2010 had “California Gurls” and 2009 had “I Gotta Feeling,” 2011 had… well, not much. Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory” was great, but it felt like the fourth single from an album that gets released in January. (Her new single, “You and I,” came out too late for summer consideration, but will likely kill during the next few months.) Ke$ha’s “Blow” never reached ubiquity, despite being comically dirty and catchy; same with Rihanna’s “SM.” The wonderful Adele had “Rolling in the Deep” on the top of the charts all summer, but
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