Thursday, September 20, 2012
POP
Today's movie was the musical doc
I got this because I find her interesting among the new pop stars. I see and hear them at the gym.
Often compared to GaGa, there is no comparison. Not better or worse. They are just not in the same stream at all.
This film covers a wide range of Perry activity. Her personal history (she is the daughter of pentecostal preachers--left the fold but not her parents), her difficult ascendance as a pop star (fighting the suits that wanted to make her the new whatever), her CEO-ness in running a great show that did a world wide tour for a year (we see many of the numbers) and the difficulty of having a personal life (the breakup of her marriage to Russell Brand).
The film is very well done as, apparently, is almost everything involving Ms. Perry.
She is a star but not, it seems, a diva. Has a lot of personal friends in her troupe and has a lot of fun in her life.
I liked it but not enough to see it again. I did not know that she has this wild following of teens. I thought her more an adult attraction. Not that there is anything wrong with this. Just not known to me. I am pretty sheltered from pop.
I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5. She is one hell of a singer.
