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One Of The Boys | 
| Artist: Katy Perry
Label: Virgin
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 39
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099924279222
ASIN: B001EL8AH4
Release Date: September 22, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | One Of The Boys | | • | I Kissed A Girl | | • | Waking Up In Vegas | | • | Thinking Of You | | • | Mannequin | | • | Ur So Gay (Edited) | | • | Hot N Cold | | • | If You Can Afford Me | | • | Lost (Edited) | | • | Self Inflicted | | • | I'm Still Breathing | | • | Fingerprints |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Katy Perry is the all-new singing and sort-of-dancing-but-probably-too-cool-for-all-that, rebellious, girl-kissing, Avril Lavigne v2.0 bad-girl of high-production American pop. She's not exactly out to be ignored. In fact she's out to become both an idol for disenfranchised Britney fans and a poster-girl for emo-boys, not to mention tabloid-fodder and gossip-page regular. She is also, it should be noted, the daughter of two pastors and made her recorded debut with a Christian pop album aged 17 (she's now 23). And while a leopard changing its spots, or at least its wardrobe, might all be part of growing from a teenager to a feisty young woman, it is easy to be cynical about this package, headed up by the ready-to-download controversy of her "I Kissed a Girl" single. That tune at least has the bold beats and choreographed raw heat to match its sassy premise; it is a little disappointing that for someone resting on rebellion as her central cause that the music on One of the Boys is so conformist. "Mannequin" is Kelly Clarkson American-Idol style modern power-rock, the lyrically questionable "Ur So Gay" takes Lily Allen and adds a dash of Christina, "Hot 'n' Cold" is a Pink-esque floor-filler, "Thinking of You" a Britney ballad of some scale and the title track like an Avril Lavigne reworking of a brazen Cyndi Lauper classic. But while she brings little originality to the table, there are certainly no half measures covering the bases on this efficient debut. --James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Sing a lickle tune for da yout dem January 2, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
People's enjoyment of this woman's music has cheapened my opinion of humanity and from now on I will do my best end the world. On further listening I found tracks 5 and 7 annoyingly similar.
AMAZING DEBUT December 26, 2008
I got this CD for Christmas yesterday having asked for it as I love her songs I'd already heard on YouTube and on the radio like Ur So Gay, I Kissed A Girl, Hot N Cold and I'd listened to the first track, One of the Boys a long time ago at my friend's house. I tried listening to every track myself, and I actually love every single one! The music is so fresh and new, as no one is like Katy! I mean, which other female popstar has wrote a song about their emo boyfriend being gay? :)
Dissapointed for not getting in the top 5 in UK December 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the great pop album of the year Relesed this year, so dissopinted not getting in the top 5 of the album chart you all need this album, for you girlfriends for christmas and the songs are catchy.
A surprise December 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
i got this album for my birthday last month and i must admit, i had some doubts. i had heard her song "Ur So Gay" way before her singles "i kissed a girl" and "Hot N Cold" and i thought it was brilliant! original, creative and catchy. i kissed a girl however seemd to lack the edge that i had expected from her, it seemed she simply released it to get attention for the album, and it did just that. don't get me wrong, it's an alright song, but not the best song on the album by far!
Ever since my first listen i can't stop, it's brilliant and creative like the katy perry that i would expect!
she can go from feirce and powerful with "Waking Up In Vegas" & "If You Can Afford Me" to deep and emotional with "Lost" & "I'm Still Breathing". Not to mention the pure creativity of her songs with brilliantly edgy and creative lyrics such as "Ur So Gay", "Hot N Cold", "One Of The Boys" and "Mannequin".
All in all this is a great album, it has so many sides and has the power to make you feel at your highest and also makes you feel the emotion of her deeper songs.
this is an album for anyone who wants to experiance a edgy and addictive pop album.
brilliant.
 worst album of 2008 December 12, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
seriously katy perry has wasted a what could be a fantastic debut album...instead it grates so much upon every listen i had to return it, i should never have given it a listen it would have saved me a headache...already it is on music websites 'Worst 50 albums of the year etc.', the only decent effort it the recent single Hot N Cold, plus her Mannequin song is awful to extremes...if there's one Mannequin it's Britney's Mannequin on the fantastic CIRCUS.
One Of The Boys...give it a rest!!
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