It’s been a rough couple of months for singer Katy Perry. Not only did she recently break up with her boyfriend, get totally dissed at the Grammy Awards, pick a fight with Lily Allen and get mistaken for some girl who looks a lot like her posting nude photos of herself on the Internet, but now she has to give back her recent NRJ Music Award for her hit single “I Kissed a Girl” due to a voting glitch.
US pop star Kate Perry was given the international song of the year award for “I Kissed a Girl” at a French music award, but it turns out her song wasn’t the best after all.
The host of the NRJ Music Award in the Riviera resort of Cannes announced at the end of the show Saturday that there had been a mistake in vote-counting and that Perry was not the winner.
The award instead went to Barbados-born singer Rihanna for “Disturbia.”
The trophies were handed out based on results of audience votes on NRJ’s website in the weeks leading up to the awards ceremony.
Perry, who had stepped up to the podium to pick up the award for international song of the year, did however win in another category — best international album for “One of the Boys”.
The international female artist of the year award went to Britney Spears who was not present to receive the honour. The Pussycat Dolls won for best international group and Enrique Iglesias was named top international male artist.
The Pussycat Dolls are the best international group? Maybe the best international group of hookers/lip syncers. Anyway, it had to be embarrassing for Katy to give the award back. In my opinion, if the stupid people in charge of the award can’t count the votes right, they should just let her keep the thing. It’s not like it’s an Academy Award or something – I’ve never even heard the NRJs. Hopefully, Katy’s year gets a little better. Maybe her upcoming world tour will keep her out of trouble.
Katy Perry is shown at the NRJ Music Awards on 1/17/09. Credit: WENN
That outfit makes her look much older than she is. But modesty is kind of refreshing these days, lol.
Rihanna? eww… I hate all her songs, especially since she cant come up with an origional song, she always needs to take a strand of someone elses music and put it with hers.
Her 15 minutes aren’t over yet?
Shouldn’t they have realized there was an error when the “winner” was Katy Perry?
well, at least she looks great.