2016 was the year I finally got on the Katy Perry Train. I’d always been sort of meh on her as an artist and as a celebrity. But it felt like she grew up, got political, put her time and money where her mouth is, and generally started taking no prisoners. I also think she came out ahead, long-term, with the whole Taylor Swift thing, but other people are free to disagree. In any case, I was looking forward to Katy’s next chapter and I had high hopes for her new album. But the first single kind of sucks (it’s just too generic-pop) and I’m not liking her new “look” either. Her hair looks so much like Khloe Kardashian’s hair. And Katy’s Tom Ford dress at the Grammys was… no bueno. It was super-unflattering and I couldn’t even believe it was Tom Ford. She just looks like a Real Housewife now. Ugh.
I feel like I’m so old but I have zero idea why I should care about Kelsea Ballerini or the way she spells her name (KELSEA are you joking?). But here she is. She looks a bit like Elisabeth Moss, right? She wore Ines di Santo. I don’t hate it? It feels like something Taylor Swift would have worn five years ago.
Camila Cabello is famous for being one part of Fifth Harmony… before she split with the group last year, in what was an absorbing drama for tweens. This was Camila’s “first time” at the Grammys as a solo celebrity, and her fans were waiting for her. Like, I saw so much stuff about her on Twitter, and I was sitting there like, “Really? The Fifth Harmony girl?” Anyway, Camila wore this MIRI Couture gown which… seems a bit princess-y for the Grammys. It’s rock and roll, not the Golden Globes! (Also, this looks like a mall dress, which is probably on-brand for her.)
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I feel very old. I only know half of these peeps.
Katy’s dress…? I can’t believe it’s Tom Ford either 😳 It’s truly heinous.
Heinous about covers it!!! Like an android and a muppet mated. She was so rude about Britney Spears, wow. What was she thinking spouting off like that?
I know! I just read an article showing all (there have been many) times Katie has referenced Britney’s spears head shaving meltdown – all in a self congratulatory way (ie. proud she hasn’t had a mental health crisis) … I was beginning to like her but I’m pretty unimpressed by this
She looks like an Afghan dog, and not in a good way! 😉
I feel badly for her off day, but Katy Perry just looks deranged.
I know, Tom Ford must be drinking again or something.
The idea for Kate’s dress is cook, but the top should have been longer or more loose…..very unflattering.
Interesting, I thought the top should be shorter because right now it makes it look like she’s got really short legs. Or indeed so long that it would be obvious it’s not all her waist anymore.
Yeah, I was thinking this would look great on a very tall narrow-hipped model but not Katy.
Right it looks almost like the dress was too shirt so they stuck the feather skirt on under it and pulled the gold dress down as far as it would go. Esp the way she has her hands on her hips it looks odd.
Katy Perry’s skin is so ash-y, she must be a 4-pack a day smoker. No blood flow whatsoever.
I used to love KP but the new single is a disappointment and her snide remarks about Britney were in poor taste and for someone who’s meant to be so woke it was kind of showing …
Exactly. Everyone on social media was saying the same. For someone who is so “woke”, those comments were shocking.
Same her comments were so disappointing
What happened with Britney?
What did she say about Britney?
She made a mental health “joke” while talking to Seacrest and referenced Britney shaving her head. (I think KP said she had taken time off of music to work on her mental health, Seacrest asked, “How’d that go?”, and KP said, “Well, I haven’t shaved my head”… or something)
@tegteg
I watched that but I assumed there was another anti Britney incident because this was pretty tame. She was obviously just making conversation and not taking a personal dig.
She then made a second joke…the reporter asked her about her hair color, to which she responded, “I have gone through every possible color, all that’s left for me to do is go bald, which i’m leaving for a very public melt down, i’m all for that”
I genuinely thought Katy was Elie Goulding in the first photo of her in this ensemble that I saw (on another site). She’s so fantastic usually but not in this get-up.
F Katy for making fun of Britney’s mental breakdown from a few years back twice on the red carpet last night. Britney never bothers anyone and she just had a really crap week with what happened to her niece and that trifling heifer had the gall to throw shade at Spears shaving her head at one of the lowest points in her life. Mental illness is not a joke.
Agree 100%. she did it TWICE. It was not a mistake or a slip of the tongue.
Yeah that is low.
I do so agree with you!
It was so strange she made the joke and did it again… Katy, just one word for you: karma
I firmly believe that Katy Perry is a gorgeous human. She has amazing features and a bangin figure. But that hair… nooooooo. The color is all wrong for her, the cut is unflattering, the styling is sh!t, and it looks fried. She looks her best with dark hair.
I’m loving the hair!
But, gven the fact that she put her money where her mouth is, got political, and refuses to just shut up and sing like some of her contemporaries – I am officially a Katy apologist
Really? I’ve always found her so ordinary-looking. She could look great as a blonde but that shade is all wrong.
She is a natural blonde, but not this canary yellow. Barbarella circa 1968.
Idk I just think her facial features are really beautiful. She has great eyes, and the dark hair really makes them pop.
I think her eyes are beautiful, but she doesn’t have a crazy amazing bone structure or any other standout features. She does have a great face for makeup – I mean that as a compliment in that her features and proportions allow her to try a lot of different looks and she almost always pulls them off.
I actually think the shade of hair looks amazing on her but the cut and styling are awful! And why is it so fried looking? Did she go from black to blonde in one session? Because it looks super fried and she has access to the best hair dressers. SO while I agree her hair does NOT look good, I actually think the shade is doing amazing things for her face and she should stay blonde for a while but girl get some hair oil or something!
pinetree13: She is a natural blonde. I don’t know how they keep their hair using all the chemicals. Especially, those going from very dark to blonde, like Gwen Stefani and Madonna. Surprised they have hair left. The other one…Kristen Stewart is blonde that goes dark. Crazy girls, generally you look best in the color you were born with that goes with natural complexion, etc. Katy looks great with her natural blonde, but as you say, that hair is DAMAGED, looks very Kellyanne Conwayish!
I like her hair. For the dress, I have no words.
Kelsea looks very nice.
That Camilla girl seems so unlikable.
i felt loke the dress Camilla worn had been worn by Katy Perry in the past, maybe the color/pattern/something? it’s giving me some dejavu.
KP’s meanwhile looks like a cross between an oscar statue and a sesame streeter.
I quite love her makeup and hair. The dress, I don’t so much, but I think the dress could have something to do with the new image she is pushing for her new album. I was wondering when someone was gonna bring up her dig at Britney. She did it not once, but twice, and she knew what she was doing because when the reporter asked her about her song she said “ofcourse that’s why I’m here, not to cause controversy” What was she trying to do? Very happy she brought Skip Marley out though, that was the only good thing about that song.
I’m actually feeling her as a blond but her remarks alluding to Britney’s mental illness was in poor taste.
The problem with Katy’s dress is that the proportions are all wrong. The long waist emphasizes how short her legs are and so with the difference in textures she looks extremely short with a giant head. And the Botox! Stop.
Kelsea pretty much wants to be Taylor (or, have her career anyways) so it’s an apt comparison. She’s definitely trying to copy that trajectory from country to pop. Her dad is in the business and pulled a lot of strings to get her a record deal (sound familiar?). But, Taylor can at least write a hit song.
Sorry, I haven’t been a Kelsea fan ever since she said country radio doesn’t have a women problem (this was after a radio big wig said women on country radio are the “tomatoes” and the boys are the “salad” which just confirms what anyone who listens knows — they play 6 guy songs for every 1 song by a woman). So, she’s not great.
Camila is not even 20, so I’m not mad about the dress. I love her hair though.
Kelsea looks pretty; and katy looks terrible. What she said about Britney was in very bad taste. She can pretend to be “woke” all she wants, but this + her well known past of cultural appropriation , for me shows that she is just pretending
I just see it more as an example of how a person can be woke on some issues but behind or really tone-deaf on others.
Most of the red carpet looks were very disappointing.
That hair. No. It’s like Christina Applegate on Married With Children. Just no.
Wow. I’m old, I don’t know 70 percent of the people in these Grammy posts. Lol.
I DO know Katy Perry, and I’m with you all, that song is…meh. Shocked she’d make that the first single from her first album in a few years. I was flipping channels and happened upon her performance. I don’t know how to verbalized this but I was overwhelmed by how awkward and underwhelming her song and performance was.
No discussion about her performance?
I loved her performance: The white pantsuit, the Planned Parenthood lapel pin, the “Resist” armband, the fence, the Constitution visual at the end, “We the People,” the “No hate” ending. I loved Bob Marley’s grandson’s part in it.
It wasn’t contrived. Katy was very involved in Hillary’s campaign, lending her time to it, and to her belief in the Democratic National Convention’s platform, which is so far from Trump’s agenda. I felt a lot of thought went into melding the political with entertainment and feeling sincere.
Rock on, Katy.
I also loved her performance. It was so not like anything we’ve ever seen from her. I liked the song too (first time hearing it).
Exactly! The performance was very worthy discussion and as a former Katy-hater I think it’s important to bring up her work in a post about her attendance at the given event. Weird to omit any mention of her performance.
I agree. And I made a typo. It was a “Persist” armband, not “Resist.”
Me too! I didn’t like the song on the lyric video, but liked it a lot live, and her energy and performance were impressive. Also loved how the fence sections were held by dancers and came apart at the end! I thought it was the best of the night.
Exactly. I came here this morning for pictures and hopefully some video of that Katy Perry performance. She was a HUGE Hilary supporter and campaigned up until the last day. I will always love her for that. PERSIST and I’m with PP!
I’ve grown to like Katy in the past year as well…but I’m not sure what’s up with her right now. I mean, she can do way better.
If Katy’s dress had been the same simmery material the whole way down, I think she could have easily killed that look. And I do like haircut/colour on her.
I’m surprised, but I do like the cut and color on her.
HIDEOUS look.
Also, BRITNEY will have something that katy will probably never, a GRAMMY.
#FOH
I don’t even know where to start with Katy Perry: Bad messy hair -and terrible colour on her- and that dress is just horrible in every way. Wtf?
“I’d always been sort of meh on her as an artist”. Kaiser – I totally read this as “meth”. Sorry, off for more coffee.
Major dislike of this whole look for Katy, and shame on her for the snide on Brittany.
Not once but twice did she “joke” about shaving her head a la Britney. Absolutely not ok. That was a level of personal anguish and sad mental health that I just can’t poke fun about. And she did it twice! So obviously ok in her book since she didn’t bother to check herself.
While watching KP Grammy performance I was thinking, ‘is this a joke? This sucks’, the entire time.
Katy Perry’s whole Shtick is dumb and Bland and Childish AF as are her Remedial Performance skills without corny props as is This particular song BUT: Her Performance Outfit was amazing and should have been the only thing she wore AND she looks good as a Blonde AND good for her for finding something to be passionate about to to pass SOMETHING of value to her fans other than bland corny music
WHY does Katy Perry insists on her hair looking like nineties damage and Melrose Place???
WHY
WHY
WHY?
I thought that was Kate Gosselin in the thumb nail image!
Getting attention is Katie’s priority and she got mine. She’s not the prettiest* girl in Hollywood so she relies on kooky looks (and sometimes her boobs) to standout. No tea, no shade- this strategy has served her well over the past decade.
So bad! Just… not good!
Re: KP-
So much no from head to toe.
*shudders*
I feel the same way about the Fifth Harmony girl. I was shocked that it was such a thing.
I personally feel that Katy Perry’s political activism can actually harm more than it helps. Having celebrity backing does nothing and in many ways can hinder, because the people who swung the election this time around put almost no stock in celebrity endorsements.
Well it’s clear Tom Ford hates Katy Perry…
Blonde hair is not Katy’s friend.
I am 22 and I also have no idea who Kelsea (that spelling!) Ballerini is. It is definitely not a mark of your age…also, Katy Perry’s whole new aesthetic is good in THEORY, but I think it falls apart in practice and looks cheap. On the other hand, it seems like she’s feeling herself, so good for her.
I like the princess dress at the bottom. Maybe she wanted to look like a princess to stand out from the crowd.
For a second I thought it was Kaley Cuoco…if she’s a natural blonde, she should stick to her natural shade, but this shade looks like a very cheap bottle-blond. The dress is awful and the comments about Britney are even worse.
Katie Perry’s dress is so off-putting. It looks like human hair which is weird and icky. The top is too long for a skirt that puffs out so it cuts her off at a bad spot. Makes her look short or stumpy. I usually don’t like Tom Ford designs because there is typically something off-putting about his gowns. This one is really a miss. Surprised it is his work.
Katy: American Apparel top over a Forever 21 long tou tou -> mall rat.