“Of course we should have seen Sarah Palin coming. All we had to do was look at the music charts. Which song dominated American radio airplay this summer? Not M.I.A.’s ‘Paper Planes,’ despite the deserved critical excitement when it jumped into the top five on the back of Pineapple Express; not Miley Cyrus; not the Jonas Brothers; and not even Coldplay. It was Katy Perry’s ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ a pseudofeminist exploitation number whose cynicism has been topped this year only by the RNC.”

Michaelangelo Matos: Katy Perry – “I Kissed A Girl”