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“Killer Queen” is about a high-class call girl. Katy Perry based her persona, perfume, and empowerment anthem on it—without catching the subtext. This isn’t just irony. It’s industrial-grade obliviousness.
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https://songreading.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/katy-perrys-swish-swish-killer-queen-clueless-pop-star/

Katy Perry’s ‘Swish Swish’: Killer Queen, Clueless Pop Star

In “Swish Swish” (2017), Katy Perry calls herself “a courtside killer queen.” “Killer Queen” is the name of one of the perfumes that Perry shills and the Queen song that inspired her to pursue show…

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