At last night’s NARM Music Biz Awards, Katy Perry (who won the “Artist of the Year” award) decided to go for the gothy, hardcore look that she also tried to pull off (with slightly more success) during Paris Fashion Week. Katy donned a black, sheer-panelled dress that looked fine on her body, but it just wasn’t Katy at all, and dark lipstick is nothing that she should attempt ever again. Perhaps I’m being too cruel here, but this look is suspicious to me in light of Katy’s recent declaration that “my music is about get real f&#*ing dark.“ So Katy’s look is very calculated here, but I guess that’s par for the Perry course.

Now I might have liked this dress a little bit more if it had ended as a miniskirt and dispensed with all of the panelling underneath. Katy could’ve actually rocked this look with a much shorter skirt and an updo. Instead, Katy looks like a slutty, pop-tart version of Morticia Adams who just colored her own hair in the high-school locker room.

Even Katy’s studded Louboutin heels fit the ill-advised, faux-gothy theme of the night.

In this closeup, you can really see how little Katy’s plum-colored hair compliments her coloring. She really needs to go back to black hair, but even the blue was preferable to this.

Lisa Marie Presley showed up (in pants?) with her husband, Michael Lockwood. His hair is shorter now and looks much less “Tom Petty” these days. She’s still got the best bitchface in the business.

Brandy Norwood was there too and wearing an uncomfortable looking little black number. She’s got such a hot body, but the hair is a little bit too much for the entire ensemble.

Here’s Haley Reinhart (she was one of the top three on “American Idol,” season 10) in a kicky little dress. She must have thought she was attending the CMAs.

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