Current Connection: Katy's Losing IT
It is apparent that Katy Perry is reaching stardom and with that she has to entertain the world, but what is the appropriate way to do that to make everyone proud? In the article Katy Perry's Dad Refers to her as a "devil child" in Sermons, Keith Hudson (Katie's Dad) urges his church to "pray for Katie". To me Katie is attracting the wrong crowd with her fame and is allowing herself to be influenced by worldly desires which hurts her relationship with her parents. Obviously she has been successful but as a preachers daughter she doesn't share the same interests as her father and it worries him about her spiritual faith. Hudson exclaims, " how can I preach if I produced a girl who sang about kissing another girl?" Although she had much success with this song, it is a very inappropriate message to Christians and of course to churches. This was a very poorly thought out song considering her dad preaches every Sunday and it had to have hurt is reputation to the community of the church.
Katie and her fathers relationship took an even more downward turn when her father attended one of her concerts that had more than 20,000 people attending. He stated, "it almost looked like a church" and cried saying "their worshiping the wrong thing". I will go ahead and say that neither of the two have an understanding towards each other. Katie's dad has to understand that in order to be as good of an artist as she is, she will have to make some explicit content to please her fans but she also has to realize that her dad is a preacher and everything that she does that is viewed inappropriate such as her song "Kissed a Girl" backfires back on him. Hudsons next mission is not to promote Katie for her works but to "heal her". I agree that this is the way to go for the fact that she is not in the 'right' with her christian walk with God. In order for Katie to regain the lost trust with her father she must almost rehabilitate herself and start a new chapter where her work still achieves success but also doesn't have a negative effect on her father and his work.
