Katy Perry: 'My Music is Annoying'

Katy Perry has described her own music as "annoying".

The 'I Kissed a Girl' singer admitted that she is trying to develop a more grown-up and "darker" sound on the follow-up to debut album One of the Boys.

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"The new music is still fun, but it's a bit darker," she told Nylon.

"It's not as annoying. If you do something over and over again, it's like Chinese water torture.

"If it hits your head enough times, you want to die. You have to just evolve."

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The 25-year-old went on to reveal that she wanted to achieve the same effect that Alanis Morissette had with her music in the 1990s.

"You've got GaGa, who's, like, from outer space; you've got Ke$ha, who's the beer-drinking, house-party girl; and then you've got Rihanna, who's transforming the urban world into her own outer space," she said.

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"But I feel like you're missing an Alanis Morissette in 2010. I love how she was a voice for a lot of people who couldn't explain their feelings.

"But it's not like I'm not gonna compete. I love a good dose of healthy competition. It's not going to be the same that they're doing."

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Perry recently claimed that people often have the misconception that she is a manufactured act. In an interview to Angry Ape she said she is an autonomous artist who is completely in control of her image and music.

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Запомните следующие слова:

annoying

to develop

follow-up

to reveal

to achieve

to transform

urban

to miss

competition

autonomous

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УПРАЖНЕНИЯ

Найдите в тексте перевод следующих выражений:

a)  снова и снова;

b)  космическое пространство, космос;

c)  преобразовывать мир;

d)  здоровая конкуренция.

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Найдите в тексте слова, соответствующие определениям:

a)  an act of deliberately hurting someone in order to force them to tell you something, to punish them, or to be cruel;

b)  to develop or make something develop by gradually changing;

c)  to try to be more successful than another person or organization, especially in business;

d)  an idea which is wrong or untrue, but which people believe because they do not understand it properly.

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Переведите на английский язык:

a)  Если ты делаешь что-то снова и снова, это словно китайская пытка водой.

b)  Аланис Мориссетт  была голосом многих людей, которые не могли объяснить свои чувства.

c)  Кэти Перри собирается соревноваться.

d)  Она любит здоровую конкуренцию.

e)  Певица полностью контролирует свой имидж и музыку.

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НЕМНОГО ГРАММАТИКИ

1. The new music is still fun, but it's a bit darker.

Обратите внимание на определенный артикль the в начале предложения. Он относится к слову «music». Вопрос: когда перед «music» надо употреблять артикль, а когда нет?

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2. The 25-year-old went on to reveal that she wanted to achieve the same effect that Alanis Morissette had with her music in the 1990s.

В каких случаях надо говорить «go on doing something», а когда – «go on to do something»?

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