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.
Photos courtesy of WENN
Katy Perry goes for goth at the NARM awards: ridiculous or not that bad?
How about a third option: “Trying so hard it makes me cringe”?
Really? I totally buy that she’s a badass now. Totally. Yes.
ha ha ha, and for all the doubters out there she will be making a play for MM in a few short weeks, yes-I can totally see that happening.. don’t hate me, but i kinda like the shoes..
WTF is NARM awards?!
The whole looks of these three women literally SUCKETH!!!!!!!
I like the hair color in general.
Isn’t she more know for wearing cupcake bras and such? Why so serious?
I had two big stripes in my hair a few years back, they looked really cool. I usually had to do dark pink because the violet lasted,exactly one wash.
Love her shoes. That is all.
My goodness what a try hard. i cant tell the difference between her, gaga, minaj, rihanna and that jesse girl anymore. they all seem to try that whole “look i’m dressing strange so i must be a talented artist” schtick. ugh!
her hair looks amazing, it looks really good, the combo of purple dye and soft curls make it look wonderful.
I L.O.V.E. Katy’s look here! Fabulous!
I agree! I have the same coloring as her and think the hair is gorgeous. I love goth Katy!
LOL. Okay then.
Is this the has been awards?
So I guess she went from dressing like cotton candy to looking like Marilyn Mansons little sister? Whatever Katy Perry!
She looks good here. I like the dress and the shoes. Dark hair flatters her and the purple is just fine – she looked washed out with the blonde and pink colors.
I really like the hair color.
Lisa Marie looks great! She used to be much heavier. Love Katy’s shoes.
I like Katy’s look in pieces, but not all together.
Mainly I’m here for my QUEEN Lisa Marie Presley. Love her!
I kind of can’t wait to hear this new “dark” music from Katy Perry, mostly because it will be absolutely hilarious. Trying way, way too hard. Her hair looks kind of thin, she needs to stop dying it so much and just go back to black!
Dark music… oh goodness…. I wait on bated breath. Maybe I will whip out the old Manson CDs or go hog wild and look for some Ministry cassettes.
Sisters of Mercy anyone? Let’s go real old school with Lords of the new Church. Stiv was always extra creepy.
Katy looks fine. She’s all about costuming her look. I don’t see what the issue is with Brandy’s hair either. Would you prefer she straighten it?
Ugh! I guess she is in the second stage of getting over her divorce. “Dress like an angry try hard with too much time on her hands with no friends to tell her how stupid she looks.” It is the worse stage after a major breakup and no one should go through it alone. Not even this massive tool. Yeah, I am bringing “massive tool” back.
Katy Perry looks like an ass. She is one so why not look like one. I would have to guess that Adele was busy doing her hair so they gave the artist of the year award to the payola princess because no one else bothered to show up. She can wear as much black as she wants but she’s still the candyland, bubblegum, whipped cream-boobed idiot we all know and hate.
Katie is stunning with pale skin and black hair. She is so not edgy and none of her looks are working, and two new actresses on TV are rocking the dark banged hair with pale skin and look so striking and are stealing her thunder.
I dunno, I kind of like the purple hair on her. I really hated the blue hair. Sometimes though I just wish she’d look and dress normal. Her costumes are tired.
Kind of gives me a Grace Slick mid 70’s
look She pulls off this off pretty well
All about marketing….
omg no! 70’s Grace Slick would’ve eaten this girl for lunch.
Good gawd.. the word “Poseur” just came to mind. But it’s showbiz, they are all posing…
She’s just been so bubblegum– ridiculous perky happy… going ‘goth’ is disingenuous of her, completely insincere except to stage her career and sell pseudo-“edgy” songs. Pfffffffff
Is she going to start quoting Sisters of Mercy, Danielle Dax and Xymox as her influences all this time now?
Brandy looks fab. Love her look.
GO AWAY Haley Reinhart !!!!!!!
Katy annoys me. I don’t care what she wears.
Agreed. She has the maturity of a 10 year old and her voice is so shrill and harsh. Nothing appealing about her.
This chick ALWAYS looks ridiculous. I just don’t understand what the appeal is with her.
I weirdly kind of like the purple hair, better than the Smurf blue at least. How is her hair not falling out by now? It must be like straw.
But the overall look isn’t good for her.
Brandy looks terribly uncomfortable in that little dress.
Lose the lipstick Katy – it ruins the look.
Brandy looks rather weird, like she’s had way too much work done on her face.
This isn’t just so unbearably try-hard. This is high school try-hard. Honest to God, someone get her a leather jacket and some text books with the star of David mistakenly drawn as a pentagram scribbled all over them and she’s set.
Bad. She is to old to dress like a jr high goth.
yeah I’m sure all the vampires love her music
If she wasn’t a frothy pop star it would be cute. Also the lipstick and the hair clash. A goth girl would know where to get purple lipstick.
I bet my fellow former rocker girl, Lisa Marie Presley, is trying not to laugh in Katy’s face.
She always looks like a 14 year old going to a Halloween party.
I would have less of a problem with it if she laid off the cement-thick dark foundation. The lipstick and hair would look so much better if she’d gone paler and more natural with the foundation
Hideous. Not pretty.
Actually i think she looks great, Katy Perry. I wish she stayed with Russell Brand though, i think they were a great couple together.