I kissed an acoustic girl: Katy Perry strips it down on MTV Unplugged
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Katy Perry released her limited edition 7 track CD + DVD “MTV Unplugged” set today (in Germany; other countries follow Nov 16/17), including special live versions the songs “I Kissed A Girl”*, “Ur So Gay”, “Thinking Of You”, “Lost” and “Waking Up In Vegas” from her hit album “One Of The Boys” plus a new song and a cover song and bonus interview material.
To watch a trailer for the program click here.
Order your copy now here: Germany
Press release:
Coming off her third No. 1 single, “Waking Up in Vegas,” multi-platinum Capitol singer-songwriter KATY PERRY is set to put her unique signature on yet another defining signpost of global pop culture, releasing her upcoming appearance on MTV: UNPLUGGED in CD + DVD set in one package on November 17, 2009.
Recorded live in New York on July 22, 2009, Perry presents some of her most well-known songs in a whole new way, performing unplugged re-arrangements of her No. 1 hits “I Kissed A Girl” and “Waking Up In Vegas,” along with the No. 1 video hit “Thinking Of You,” and the popular tracks “Ur So Gay” and “Lost” from her debut album ONE OF THE BOYS, which has now sold five million worldwide.
The MTV: UNPLUGGED set list is rounded out with two brand-new tracks, a cover of the Fountains of Wayne song “Hackensack,” and the never before released original song “Brick By Brick.” The DVD release also features exclusive interview footage.
Individual songs from the program will be debuting during MTV’s morning all-music video block AMTV on November 16th, and the full program, along with interview material, will air on Palladia, MTV Networks’ high-definition music channel, on November 27th, at 9 PM and 12 AM. (http://www.palladia.tv/)
In this appearance, Katy Perry joins a distinguished roster of MTV: Unplugged performers, memorably including Eric Clapton, whose 1992 program featured “Tears in Heaven” and “Layla” and won six Grammys, among them Album of the Year, Tony Bennett, who won Grammy’s Album of the Year for his 1994 appearance, Nirvana and others. Katy Perry is only the fourth artist in history to have 4 hit singles, 3 of which went to No. 1 from a debut album. Katy’s first two single releases, the seven-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “I Kissed a Girl” and the No. 1 mainstream top 40 radio hit “Hot N Cold,” are RIAA-certified for triple-platinum sales. ONE OF THE BOYS also includes the < VH-1 Countdown ballad hit “Thinking of You.” Katy Perry is a Brit Award and MTV Europe Music Award winner, and is also a Grammy Award, MTV Video Music Award and Teen Choice Award nominee.
* Remember?: Katy Perry would have never written “I Kissed A Girl” without Dave Stewart!:
Katy Perry has revealed that her career is down to a chat she had with Eurythmics founder Dave Stewart in Surrey. The I Kissed A Girl star revealed the unlikely tale while chatting to Philip Schofield and Fern Britton on today’s This Morning. The recent Brit Award winner told the pair that she’d begun her career as a gospel singer as a young teenager and that religious songs and her faith had been very important to her.
But she said: “As well as me growing up and having all these new experiences as a young woman, I had an artistic breakthrough in Surrey with Dave Stewart. He said, ‘why don’t you write down all these things you’re going through’? After that, I didn’t have an edit button.”
(full article from March 2009 here)
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