Katy Perry

Katy Perry fans will have the opportunity to sing along with the pop star during a performance of "I Kissed a Girl" at the Grammy Awards on Feb. 8. Fans can upload a 30- to 60-second audio clip of them singing along to Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" to the CBS website through Jan. 22. CBS will announce the top 20 videos the following day, and fan voting will run through Feb. 6. According to the CBS site, there is some cash involved as well, with the...

Halfway through her brief 50-minute set Monday at Hollywood's Hotel Café, Katy Perry apologized for her subdued stage presence -- "I'm really sick right now," she wheezed -- and told the capacity crowd that she hoped they'd be at the Wiltern on Jan. 31 for the local date of her first headlining tour. "There will be so many amazing things to see," Perry promised.

Katy Perry: In a photo caption with an article on music and theatrics in Sunday's Arts & Books, singer Katy Perry's first name was misspelled as Katie.

Katy Perry: A caption under a photograph of singer Katy Perry last Sunday misspelled her first name as Katie.

The first single and title track from Adam Lambert's soon-to-be-released debut album couldn't be more of an announcement. "For Your Entertainment" strides into the room, snaps its fingers and declares 2010 the year of Our Gorgeously Airbrushed Overlord. With a toy whip in his hand and a glittery gleam in his eye, Glambert croons familiar phrases about making it hot, getting rough and staying in control. Scandinavian hit-maker Dr. Luke wrote and produced the track, and it has that compressed, noisy rock 'n' roll circus sound he's created for others, including Britney, Pink and that other neo-vaudevillian troublemaker, Katy Perry.

KATY PERRY is squatting over a big duffel bag, rifling through printed dresses, retro rompers, hats, turquoise suede heels and other anti-wallflower accessories, deciding what to wear for the second take of her photo shoot. She holds up a red straw hat with a brim the size of a truck tire, then fishes out a beaded red purse shaped like an apple. "See," Perry says, her huge blue eyes widening. "I love anything fruit."

IF THE travails of the record business were bruises, Katy Perry would be all dolled up in black and blue, rather than the look-at-me neon prints that have made her an "It" girl with the folks who know Johnny Cupcakes from Johnny Rotten. "Musical chairs is what the industry should be called," she says. "But now that I've grown up in it, I realize there are things beyond my control. All those years it wasn't about my music."

You KNOW what bothers me about Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" -- now officially the song of the summer, after spending five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100? Not the auto-erotic tease of the lyrics, which keeps Perry inside her head rather than beneath the waistband of some lovely's Victoria's Secret finery. Not her groaning vocal delivery, which is kind of sexy, built around a neo-burlesque bump of a track and the luscious word hook "cherry Chapstick."