One of the boys... uh ohhh

Maybe I'm more Katy Perry than I realized...

My roommate recently gave me her CD (thanks Liv!!). I had already known how jealous I was that she had already written the song "UR so Gay," because one of my brilliant "never been done and so needs to" hooks somewhat relates to this.

Maybe it's not similar enough, but still, now it feels tainted.

Then I discovered the title song on the album... "One Of The Boys." Maybe I had a little source amnesia (oh hey psych major), but I definitely thought recently that it would be very cool and very me to write a song about how I can be such a girl but also pride myself on liking "boy things." How I love pool and pride myself on being surprisingly skilled at it, how I really love the combination of beer and sports -football (Bills. Woot), the Knicks (Nate Robinson and "the Rooster"), and baseball... I've loved the Yankees since my first game at age 7. Also in the Hamptons this summer I went fishing instead of shopping one morning (and baited my own hook(!), because I preferred that to waiting for someone to do it for me and losing!) and! caught more fish than both my dad and grandfather. My mom jokingly called me Carl as we left at 6 am. Pride points. I am simultaneously a ridiculous girlie girl, (the list is too long to itemize) more so than most girls, so maybe it's a different, not to be scrapped song concept...

I mean, her song is more focused on how she's rebelling from being one of the boys and used to do boyish things, as if it's mutually exclusive, in order to get guys to stop thinking of her just as "one of the boys." I totally had a quote related to this in my facebook profile before her song was released anyway. No qualms. :)

Still, it surprises me that she and I think alike. Also in that sometimes my lyrics end up racier than I ideally would want my image to be... Alex was a little surprised one time at the lyrics that I had in me, ha! Maybe it's just easier to be tongue in cheek? Or just easier for me... ? Interesting.