Bad Fashion Song Lyrics

The music industry and the fashion industry are often inextricably linked. For better or for worse, musical styles influence fashion trends (you'll remember a brief period in the early 1990s when wearing your jeans backwards didn't seem like a completely nutjob thing to do), while fashion is frequently used as a medium for expressing a preference for a particular musical genre, sometimes to the point of reaching cliché status. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, song lyrics regularly reference personal style, fashion, and of-the-moment clothing designers. It is here that I'd like to make a regular feature calling out the worst offenders; that is, fashion-oriented song lyrics trying really hard to mask terrible songwriting. This will be fun!

Now for our first offender, Katy Perry:

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She's "Kissed a Girl," and she's just "One of the Guys"; she's basically what you would get if Maxim magazine and a roomful of seventeen-year-old boys were hired to come up with an idea for a new female performer. Painstakingly styled and "safe" enough for mainstream radio, she's the summation of a thousand cheesy frat boy fantasies. Oh, and her songwriting is atrocious. From her new single, "Hot n Cold":

You change your mind, like a girl changes clothes.

I'm not sure which is worse: perpetuating stupid gender stereotypes or making incredibly weak analogies? If a concept is so profound or important to you that you must sing an entire song about it, then wouldn't you think of something more original to say? This is just plain lazy. I've done better with a bottle of wine and some magnetic poetry.

Readers, what do you think? Do you have any bad fashion lyrics to pass on? Tell me!