Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Katy Perry gets lucky and accidentally references "Pink Narcissus"



Is anybody seeing the visual connection between that Katy Perry "Teenage Dream" album single cover and James Bidgood's singular, beautiful-looking gay fantasia "Pink Narcissus"? The fag photographing Perry sure does borrow a lot of the visual signifiers of Bidgood's strange, seductive and little-seen 1971 film: bright neons bathed in a cool, blue, fluorescent glow; a sex-object subject cast in a half-sunny, half-icy pallor; and a mythological-ish nature motif.

I haven't seen Katy Perry repeat this specific visual reference anywhere else, but the first time I saw that photograph I couldn't help thinking of Bidgood's "Pink Narcissus" hustler boys, laying beautifully prostrate in scenes of glittery, faggy debris:



 

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