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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