![]() ![]() ![]() To the Beach Boys, it’s a mythologizing recollection – supported by generalizations drawn from firsthand experience by the Beach Boys meeting women as they tour around the country.įor Perry, it’s a jingoistic anthem, perhaps written as a third-wave feminist “girl power” anthem about how “melting popsicles” with one’s sexiness is empowering. These songs, just to state the obvious, are about how women who live in California are allegedly more sexually desirable than women who live in other places in the United States. And they’re from, guess where? California! ![]() What do these songs have in common, what is different, and why do neither of the videos show girls in California? This and more, after the jump – The first is the 2010 summer jam “California Gurls” by Katy Perry, which features third-wave feminism, cynical exploitation of the historical East Coat / West Coast hip hop feud, and Snoop Dogg in his least gangsta video to date:Īnd the second is, of course, the Beach Boys’ “California Girls,” from 1965, a song that seems a lot simpler than it is: Today’s post, like my last post, is about two songs with a complex and suspect legacy. ![]()
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