My favorite Katy Perry fact is that she dated the brother of Paramore's Taylor York when she was a teenager. His dad worked at a Christian record label in Nashville so it makes sense that they would have run in the same circles.
For sure! I FOUND Paramore through Christian Katy Perry. I listened to Christian punk, emo, and scene music and followed a lot of the bands Live Journals and they would often repost Paramore and that’s how I discovered Paramore. A year or two later Misery Business came out, shortly after that Katy Perry debuted with You’re So Gay. Kind of crazy in retrospect.
I met Katy backstage at the last day of Warped tour in LA, she stood outside her bus and took pics with everyone who wanted one. She was extremely sweet and although I dont dig all her music I will always remember how she treated her fans that day.
Here's another wild fact--Katy Perry sings on the 2006 POD song Goodbye For Now, and performs in both the music video and one of those late night talk shows...as a background vocalist. Crazy!!
I can’t believe Katy Hudson toured with Earthsuit (which they deserve there own video as well) Earthsuit then went on to become MuteMath. Paul Meany, who was the keyboardist and singer of both bands is now working with Twenty One Pilots as a co-producer since Trench. Small freakin world indeed.
As another commenter said, she also dated Matt theissen of Relient k (a band that deserves a video on this channel). Not only that, but they also wrote a song together called “long shot” which u should check out it’s actually pretty good.
Fun fact, I live in maryland and a girl I went to hs with moved to Tennessee right after hs. She became best friends with a singer there named taylor. When she moved back here we dated and by then taylor swift was getting huge. I then learned they were friends. She went on multiple morning shows with Taylor and has many pics together and got me a happy bday call from Taylor even though I’m not really a fan it was cool. Well she also met and got to know Katy and they have many pics together too. Crazy world
this was a cute vid, i really liked katy when she first appeared & was still a lil underground. her style was perfect & she carried herself well, so articulate.
I'm not done watching but i just had to say: to hear Family Force 5 mentioned really took me back to my high school days lol. Definitely watching your video on them after this!
I had this album. Sold it on eBay at the peak of Perry's popularity. Not a good thing as the buyer reported they never received it and I had to refund the whole thing lol. At least I kept the MP3s on my computer, so even today this is clacking around in my iTunes. As the video states, it's not a bad album. You can definitely feel the fingerprints of late 90s/early 00s Christian music production values on it-mixing the voice to be more prominent, more simplistic instrumentation in the background in case any of the songs end up blowing up in the praise & worship scene-but it's definitely worth a listen as more than just a piece of Katy Perry ephemera. I don't know what sort of history exists for Christian labels during that time period and how they stacked against each other, but as someone who was knee-deep in Christian music at the time, I would not call Pamplin a top-5 Christian label. Red Hill wasn't even a blip on the radar.
Search Me is a song that I wish would’ve gotten more traction through Christian radio. It’s a great song, and I feel it aligns well with the sound of that era.
7:10 And I’ll add- I owned this! One of the original released CDs. I BEGGED my parents to order it off her website. She was being penned the “Christian Fiona Apple” and I was obsessed with Fiona Apple and at that time adult contemporary was shifting to Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton, very poppy. The Sad Girls weren’t sad anymore. And I was reading Seventeen or YM and there’s was an article on Christian Rock that featured her! AND that’s how I got into Christian Rock because oddly it was the only music that was still…trying to have depth??? That’s not fair. But it was BIG pop like Britney, N*Sync, BSB, Flex Hip-hop (the shift when hip-hop became less about black struggle or identity and more about black luxury), OR angry/spicy white boy music, Eminem, Korn, etc. So as an Afrasian/Austronesian Catholic in predominantly white rural Nevada Mormon country and a recent Social Anxiety Disorder and chronic illness diagnosis I did not fit into any of the aforementioned categories and gravitated towards Christian rock for its melancholic and sometimes existential musings. So I love this album. If I’m having a bad day, I turn on Trust in Me and I’m ok.
At the time Katy Hudson came out, I was working for a small-town California newspaper. There was a huge church in the town that brought in Christian acts for concerts all the time and I interviewed every one that came through. Katy was one of them. At the time, I listened to her album and thought great voice... but the rest of it. Meh. I don't listen to Christian music or pop music (I prefer mostly hard rock and metal) . Years later, new career for me, long gone from that small town living in San Francisco, Katy Perry blows up. She was already big, but I didn't listen to pop, so I knew of the name, heard the hits here and there, but never paid attention to it. One night me and my roommates are watching some concert festival thing on TV, and she comes on. I was watching and listening to her for the first time while really paying attention and said to my roommates "She sounds a lot like a Christian singer I interviewed years ago." About 60 seconds later just listening to her and watching her, I said "That's her." My roommate, who was huge into Perry, said "No way. You interviewed Katy Perry." I replied "No, I interviewed a girl named Kristy Hudson" (I had mis-remembered the first name). "That's her. She is, or was at one time, a Christian singer." My roommate didn't believe it. I went into my files and pulled the old article out. "Oh, her name was Katy Hudson. That has to be her." The article had pictures and my roommate looked at them and said "Oh shit, that is her." She went out to Amoeba Records the next day and found a used copy of the record for $1... I also interviewed Jennifer Knapp as well. Haven't heard that name in 20+ years.
I'm friends with the guy that did the graphic design for this record. He told me the story of meeting her in a meeting with the label. She was there for part of the meeting and then had to go somewhere and left. After she left, he told them there is no way they will be able to control her. She's too creative and focused on what she wants to do. When she came out as "Katy Perry", he wasn't surprised at all.
Omg after seeing your tweet I knew it was gonna be her! One Of the Boys was one of the first cds I ever bought back in middle school, it altered my brain chemistry the first time I listened thru it lol
Nice video man! I’ve enjoyed watching your videos for a couple years especially the Panic at the disco and fall out boy videos. I’m a recently new Patreon member and just wondering if you accept video suggestions? Would love to see a video about the rise and fall of Tokio Hotel 😊
Her first secular song was a gay song as a loyalty pledge to the music industry. It was a minor sacrifice of values but something that would alienate her Christian audience. Then compare that to her song bon appetit where she is eating people, you see how it progresses
Some of the music you showed us from the 2001 album would be really cool to hear a reworked secular version, I’m sure a lot of the material just wouldn’t work in a non Christ humping fashion but maybe a small ep with a few of those unique songs reworked would be super sick.
I didn't realize Katy's Christian music was out there! I assumed it was lost to the sands of time. (Or purposely buried by her management lol.) I've always been curious about it, thanks!
Lovely! Thank you! The album sold far more than 200 copies--that's literally a joke, lol. The follow-up to KH was going to be Christian, but that changed. The years from 2003-2007 are even more interesting, imo, than 2001-2002... another video? lol
I guess I've never went back and rewatched the Cupid's Chokehold video since the song came out, I didn't know Katy Perry was in that video, 'cause I wouldn't have known who she was back then. Also with Cupid's Chokehold, it took me like a decade and change until I realized that song's chorus/main vocal hook (provided by Patrick Stump) was taken from an existing song, Supertramp's "Breakfast in America". I knew of Supertramp from listening to oldies stations in my area, but of the 4 singles off their Breakfast in America album, the oldies stations just never played the title track. I never looked into Supertramp beyond what I heard on those stations, so I never clocked the interpolation in Cupid's Chokehold til an embarrassingly long time later.
Would love to see you cover Bonnie McKee's first album Trouble, and it would be a great comparison with Katy Perry since they later started working together and they were around the same circles. Bonnie McKee Hot City
Speaking of Avril and that first album, the producers of all the hits from Let Go the Matrix made an album and Katy was one of two vocalists featured on that album.
I read a really exhaustive article about the Christian music industry. A lot of the people are not Christians but kind of fell into it if they got signed its like a minor league music industry.
I was dating a christian girl in 2001.Who played me this album. Saying "she's gonna be big" Forward to 2009. I saw the video for "i kissed a girl" and thought. Guess Jesus at the wheel wasn't working right? 😂
Katy Hudson is a sound I prefer to Katy Perry. I’ve never been particularly fond of the latter, even hearing her for the first time as an impressionable teen lol
Honestly the 2009- sound of mainstream pop was a sound that I have never liked, started w I kissed a girl I guess. Not opposed to the message ofc, just like the superficiality of her image didn’t feel great after the post-grunge craze
How did you do all your research and not come across the video where she admitted selling her soul to the devil? I totally thought you were going to segway into that clip at the end.
As a former evangelical Christian myself: Christianity is far more weird, crazy, and dangerous than most people realize. So glad I found my way to atheism and secular humanism.
RIP 2001 katy perry, you would’ve loved girl defined
RIP Katy Hudson you would've hated Katy Perry
My favorite Katy Perry fact is that she dated the brother of Paramore's Taylor York when she was a teenager. His dad worked at a Christian record label in Nashville so it makes sense that they would have run in the same circles.
She dated Taylor York??? What???
@caitlingill I think she meant Taylor's brother.
But I didn't know this at all! Interesting
@@ally4516 Yes, it was his brother! :)
She also dated Matt Theissen of Relient K
For sure! I FOUND Paramore through Christian Katy Perry. I listened to Christian punk, emo, and scene music and followed a lot of the bands Live Journals and they would often repost Paramore and that’s how I discovered Paramore. A year or two later Misery Business came out, shortly after that Katy Perry debuted with You’re So Gay. Kind of crazy in retrospect.
I met Katy backstage at the last day of Warped tour in LA, she stood outside her bus and took pics with everyone who wanted one. She was extremely sweet and although I dont dig all her music I will always remember how she treated her fans that day.
She doesn't seem like a bad person, but hearing her speak makes me wonder how she even functions.
Here's another wild fact--Katy Perry sings on the 2006 POD song Goodbye For Now, and performs in both the music video and one of those late night talk shows...as a background vocalist. Crazy!!
I remember that!
Interesting considering P.O.D. is also a Christian band, so I wonder if they met through that Christian music scene.
P.O.D. Was huge when I was in high school 00-04.
I can’t believe Katy Hudson toured with Earthsuit (which they deserve there own video as well) Earthsuit then went on to become MuteMath. Paul Meany, who was the keyboardist and singer of both bands is now working with Twenty One Pilots as a co-producer since Trench. Small freakin world indeed.
As another commenter said, she also dated Matt theissen of Relient k (a band that deserves a video on this channel). Not only that, but they also wrote a song together called “long shot” which u should check out it’s actually pretty good.
Came here to say this
Relient K is the best band on the planet.
kelly clarkson later recorded and released a version of long shot!
I almost always watch every single TCR video. Cozy’s personality is really fun the way he tells a story.
Now do SENSES FAIL or HIT THE LIGHTS !!
Went through a little rabbit hole and discovered that the company that owned Red Hill Records is the same company that made Bibleman
Seeing that Pamplin logo gave me Evangelical flashbacks. Those Bibleman VHS tapes were played frequently in my childhood home.
Same haha
Fun fact, I live in maryland and a girl I went to hs with moved to Tennessee right after hs. She became best friends with a singer there named taylor. When she moved back here we dated and by then taylor swift was getting huge. I then learned they were friends. She went on multiple morning shows with Taylor and has many pics together and got me a happy bday call from Taylor even though I’m not really a fan it was cool. Well she also met and got to know Katy and they have many pics together too. Crazy world
weird I was literally thinking about how she started as a Christian artist the other day and you just happen to drop this xD
She was also the guest vocalist on P.O.D.’s song “Goodbye for Now”. She’s also hard to miss in the music video lol
Since you mentioned Earthsuit. The keyboardist/vocalist of Earthsuit produced 3 Twenty One Pilots albums.
and was the frontman for mutemath. insanely good band.
earth suit is amazing
Cozy! This video was great, you dont have to explain yourself when you branch out. Your quality only gets better. Much love
I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that around the time of this album's release she was dating Matt Thiessen of Relient K
Ik I was waiting for him to talk about that 😔
There's also a video of Katy stage diving at a Relient K concert in 2003
Cool but this video was only supposed to be about her very first album…
@@soloflare9696 and it's while they're playing a pop punk cover of "lose yourself." wild, weird moment lmao.
And they’re Christian too.
Never expected to see you talk about Katy Perry, but I'm stoked nonetheless!!
this was a cute vid, i really liked katy when she first appeared & was still a lil underground. her style was perfect & she carried herself well, so articulate.
I'm not done watching but i just had to say: to hear Family Force 5 mentioned really took me back to my high school days lol. Definitely watching your video on them after this!
RIP 2001 Katy Perry, I shipped you and Relient K frontman Matthew Thiessen so hard. That was such a moment
I had this album. Sold it on eBay at the peak of Perry's popularity. Not a good thing as the buyer reported they never received it and I had to refund the whole thing lol. At least I kept the MP3s on my computer, so even today this is clacking around in my iTunes. As the video states, it's not a bad album. You can definitely feel the fingerprints of late 90s/early 00s Christian music production values on it-mixing the voice to be more prominent, more simplistic instrumentation in the background in case any of the songs end up blowing up in the praise & worship scene-but it's definitely worth a listen as more than just a piece of Katy Perry ephemera.
I don't know what sort of history exists for Christian labels during that time period and how they stacked against each other, but as someone who was knee-deep in Christian music at the time, I would not call Pamplin a top-5 Christian label. Red Hill wasn't even a blip on the radar.
Search Me is a song that I wish would’ve gotten more traction through Christian radio. It’s a great song, and I feel it aligns well with the sound of that era.
7:10 And I’ll add- I owned this! One of the original released CDs. I BEGGED my parents to order it off her website. She was being penned the “Christian Fiona Apple” and I was obsessed with Fiona Apple and at that time adult contemporary was shifting to Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton, very poppy. The Sad Girls weren’t sad anymore. And I was reading Seventeen or YM and there’s was an article on Christian Rock that featured her! AND that’s how I got into Christian Rock because oddly it was the only music that was still…trying to have depth??? That’s not fair. But it was BIG pop like Britney, N*Sync, BSB, Flex Hip-hop (the shift when hip-hop became less about black struggle or identity and more about black luxury), OR angry/spicy white boy music, Eminem, Korn, etc. So as an Afrasian/Austronesian Catholic in predominantly white rural Nevada Mormon country and a recent Social Anxiety Disorder and chronic illness diagnosis I did not fit into any of the aforementioned categories and gravitated towards Christian rock for its melancholic and sometimes existential musings. So I love this album. If I’m having a bad day, I turn on Trust in Me and I’m ok.
blink twice if you lived in centennial Hills 😂 you just described my life
Just gotta say - I've been here since your second upload. You're insanely talented & entertaining. Keep being you dude, you're the best
At the time Katy Hudson came out, I was working for a small-town California newspaper. There was a huge church in the town that brought in Christian acts for concerts all the time and I interviewed every one that came through. Katy was one of them. At the time, I listened to her album and thought great voice... but the rest of it. Meh. I don't listen to Christian music or pop music (I prefer mostly hard rock and metal) . Years later, new career for me, long gone from that small town living in San Francisco, Katy Perry blows up. She was already big, but I didn't listen to pop, so I knew of the name, heard the hits here and there, but never paid attention to it. One night me and my roommates are watching some concert festival thing on TV, and she comes on. I was watching and listening to her for the first time while really paying attention and said to my roommates "She sounds a lot like a Christian singer I interviewed years ago." About 60 seconds later just listening to her and watching her, I said "That's her." My roommate, who was huge into Perry, said "No way. You interviewed Katy Perry." I replied "No, I interviewed a girl named Kristy Hudson" (I had mis-remembered the first name). "That's her. She is, or was at one time, a Christian singer." My roommate didn't believe it. I went into my files and pulled the old article out. "Oh, her name was Katy Hudson. That has to be her." The article had pictures and my roommate looked at them and said "Oh shit, that is her." She went out to Amoeba Records the next day and found a used copy of the record for $1... I also interviewed Jennifer Knapp as well. Haven't heard that name in 20+ years.
I'm friends with the guy that did the graphic design for this record. He told me the story of meeting her in a meeting with the label. She was there for part of the meeting and then had to go somewhere and left. After she left, he told them there is no way they will be able to control her. She's too creative and focused on what she wants to do. When she came out as "Katy Perry", he wasn't surprised at all.
Cozy Rep quoting the Irish Times was not on my 2024 bingo card, you really did dig deep for that!
Omg after seeing your tweet I knew it was gonna be her! One Of the Boys was one of the first cds I ever bought back in middle school, it altered my brain chemistry the first time I listened thru it lol
I love that you cover a variety of artists from this time period that all existed within the same world. Pls do a review of one of the boys!
ive been really into emo-pop lately and glad i just found this channel.
Nice video man! I’ve enjoyed watching your videos for a couple years especially the Panic at the disco and fall out boy videos. I’m a recently new Patreon member and just wondering if you accept video suggestions? Would love to see a video about the rise and fall of Tokio Hotel 😊
Love the new pfp.
brah i been waiting for a new video from u!! been too long!
I’d love a video on One of the Boys!
She was also on a song with Matt Thiessen and POD’s “Goodbye For Now”
i would love a gym class heroes deep dive SO much !!!!
Supposedly, she went to my high school when she moved after her debut
My warped tour era was like 2000 so I missed the whole emo Christian train.
unrelated but please do one on forgive durden!!!!! need that ASAP! love you❤️
Would love another Katy Perry video!
Please so a video on emo rap and bring back the podcast!
Her first secular song was a gay song as a loyalty pledge to the music industry. It was a minor sacrifice of values but something that would alienate her Christian audience. Then compare that to her song bon appetit where she is eating people, you see how it progresses
I pressed the subscribe button as soon as I saw the SMFS tee shirt.
Some of the music you showed us from the 2001 album would be really cool to hear a reworked secular version, I’m sure a lot of the material just wouldn’t work in a non Christ humping fashion but maybe a small ep with a few of those unique songs reworked would be super sick.
Interesting video, never expected to see Katy Perry on your channel but I guess it makes sense
I didn't realize Katy's Christian music was out there! I assumed it was lost to the sands of time. (Or purposely buried by her management lol.) I've always been curious about it, thanks!
Watching this feeling like a plastic bag.. floating in the wind...
This is great man! Thank you!
i feel like you have the greatest 2000s spotify playlist of all time
Lovely! Thank you! The album sold far more than 200 copies--that's literally a joke, lol. The follow-up to KH was going to be Christian, but that changed. The years from 2003-2007 are even more interesting, imo, than 2001-2002... another video? lol
She would've ended up catering to the Christian emo crowd had she succeeded
I guess I've never went back and rewatched the Cupid's Chokehold video since the song came out, I didn't know Katy Perry was in that video, 'cause I wouldn't have known who she was back then. Also with Cupid's Chokehold, it took me like a decade and change until I realized that song's chorus/main vocal hook (provided by Patrick Stump) was taken from an existing song, Supertramp's "Breakfast in America". I knew of Supertramp from listening to oldies stations in my area, but of the 4 singles off their Breakfast in America album, the oldies stations just never played the title track. I never looked into Supertramp beyond what I heard on those stations, so I never clocked the interpolation in Cupid's Chokehold til an embarrassingly long time later.
The video that I never knew I needed to watch.
She toured with Earthsuit???? Phil Meany (frontman for MuteMath) was their keyboardist/rapper
Would love to see you cover Bonnie McKee's first album Trouble, and it would be a great comparison with Katy Perry since they later started working together and they were around the same circles. Bonnie McKee Hot City
Love the channel brotha. I wish it was the 2000s 😢
Speaking of Avril and that first album, the producers of all the hits from Let Go the Matrix made an album and Katy was one of two vocalists featured on that album.
Here’s a music video from it, the song isn’t that great but it’s pretty cool to see. th-cam.com/video/soX3g3Qdju4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1wTV9tELMWPwgsbd
You're so Cozy
suprised u didn't mention about the rumor of katy perry writing "you're so gay" about pete wentz. maybe in the next video about her debut?
I read a really exhaustive article about the Christian music industry. A lot of the people are not Christians but kind of fell into it if they got signed its like a minor league music industry.
YESSSS i had a feeling it’d be a vid on katy perry and im not mad at all
Also, shoutout to Hurricane Harbor in OKC lol.
I might not be a fan of most Christian music, but I’d love to add a song from this album onto one of my playlists… if it was available on Spotify.
also i love your room!
Great video 👍🏾
Earthsuit is basically the early version of MuteMath btw.
7:48 If we just pretend like it’s called something else, it’s okay - but if the sinners do it, condemn them.
Not gonna lie, the album artwork on her Christian album goes HARD
"I don't' know what it was." $$.
hi cozyrep 😼
Yoooooo Katy was on that angel Eggs beat too???
It will never not be funny the fact she hated Pete enough to make "Ur So Gay". I never understood were that came from.
Still can’t ignore her… she gets tons of play on and around July 4th…every year since release.
Her first record was excellent.
Yes!!! One of the best shows on the internet!
Subbed
I was dating a christian girl in 2001.Who played me this album. Saying "she's gonna be big"
Forward to 2009.
I saw the video for "i kissed a girl" and thought.
Guess Jesus at the wheel wasn't working right? 😂
This is very validating as someone who always fucking hated Katy Perry
Katy Hudson is a sound I prefer to Katy Perry. I’ve never been particularly fond of the latter, even hearing her for the first time as an impressionable teen lol
Honestly the 2009- sound of mainstream pop was a sound that I have never liked, started w I kissed a girl I guess. Not opposed to the message ofc, just like the superficiality of her image didn’t feel great after the post-grunge craze
How did you do all your research and not come across the video where she admitted selling her soul to the devil? I totally thought you were going to segway into that clip at the end.
I think her family was dirt poor and probably thought they could live off of her if she became a famous musician. That's just one theory I have
I never hear about Katy Perry anymore. Is her career dead? Never mind, I see she has been on American Idol recently or something. I wouldn’t know.
I'm ngl you give stoner grandma vibes
the second clip played from her album sounds supwr barlowgirl to me
Katt Williams might know
YESSSSSS
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As a former evangelical Christian myself: Christianity is far more weird, crazy, and dangerous than most people realize. So glad I found my way to atheism and secular humanism.
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Hard to believe that Russell Brand grew up & she's still.... Katy Perry
He’s a washed up nutjob and a sexual predator and she’s still a relevant pop icon…try again chad
If you call spreading conspiracy theories and serially assaulting women "growing up," sure...
@@petalchild Blah blah. Usual word salad with you people. Her boobs arent getting her as far these days.
glad for a post but bring back emo lol not this trash