A Bad Taste In The Mouth

There are lots of things to be said about Katy Perry's dreadful Candyland-Gone-Wild video for the otherwise quite likable "California Gurls." Among them, that girls who really can't dance probably shouldn't make videos with significant dance sequences, and that someone might want to tell Ms. Perry that there's something kind of creepy about wrapping her non-white backup dancers in cellophane or trapping them in bubbles and having the dippy white girl set them free to join her whipped-cream entourage.