Oh hi, it’s me, the Halloween scrooge back to scrooge all over Halloween. You don’t have to scrooge all over it with me but can we agree it’s a pain in the ass? No? Fine. I’ll keep my sh-tty attitude to myself and give you some Halloween cheer.
Here’s Katy Perry in New York today dressed as a sloth on her way to LIVE with Kelly and Ryan. You know how certain popstars have claimed certain holidays? Like for Taylor Swift, it’s the Fourth of July, or at least it used to be. And of course Christmas belongs to Mariah Carey. Kate Hudson has a Halloween party every year but I don’t think she owns the spirit of Halloween. Plus she’s not a popstar. To me, the perfect popstar for Halloween is Katy Perry. Think about it. Katy Perry’s style is caricature. Her clothes always look like they’ve been cartooned. Everything she wears, even when it’s not a costume, looks like a Halloween costume, not only in the colours and the shapes but also in the quality. Halloween costumes are never high quality – the stitching looks like it’ll barely hold together, the whole point is that it’s temporary and therefore not worth the time to put the quality into. That’s how Katy Perry dresses! She is Halloween! Her Super Bowl halftime show was Halloween! Like I saw these photos of her at on the agency database and almost skipped over them because they seemed so normal to me. There’s Katy, looking exactly the way Katy does all the time.
Katy, by the way, is in New York for American Idol auditions…WHAT? Tell me that’s also how you reacted too. They’re doing another season with her, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan as judges. I missed the news that it was renewed back in May even though the ratings weren’t exactly lighting anyone on fire. Apparently it was airing on Sunday and Monday nights last spring. You know what’s anticipated to come back on Sunday nights for six weeks this spring? Game of Thrones. Not that they’re direct competitors but the season 7 finale of Game of Thrones was watched by 16.5 million people. American Idol averaged half of that, about 7-ish million people. I wonder whether or not broadcasters right now are waiting on HBO to announce when, exactly, GoT is coming back because it’s not likely that GoT ratings are going to go down in the final season. Do you get the f-ck out of the way or do you forge ahead blindly and hope you can retain viewers in spite of the fact that, you know, nobody will be caring about much else?
