Is Katy Perry’s New Single "It's A Choice" a Rebuttal to Lady Gaga's “Born This Way”?

Lady Gaga has called “Born This Way,” the title song off her latest album, a gay anthem. The latest song by Katy Perry, “It’s A Choice,” is already being called an anti-gay anthem – although the singer insists it doesn’t mean she’s anti-gay.

We're not entirely convinced, given the song’s lyrics include:

God sure does make mistakes
Or r u sayin' mosquitoes and cancer are good things?
If you think you're beautiful the way you are
You obviously need a new mirror

Don’t be yourself, be someone else
If you love yourself, who are you going to hold hands with in the park? Yourself?
Don’t you realize how stupid you’ll look?
You weren’t born this way – it’s a choice

“It has nothing to do with being gay or Lady Gaga!” Perry insisted to Rolling Stone. “I don’t see how anyone could possibly think it does.”

This would not be the first time a Perry song has been perceived as less than gay-friendly. Many people thought her 2007 track “Ur So Gay” implied that gay-baiting was acceptable, while the 2008 song “I Kissed a Girl” was exploitative, obviously designed to attract attention.

Other reasons for Perry’s rocky relationship with the GLBT community include her 2009 assassination attempt on Elton John, and a particularly tacky dress she wore to the 2010 American Music Awards.

Lady Gaga herself released a statement about the controversy yesterday, written in colored glass shards on the top of a giant Denver omelet. It read: “Katy Perry, eat me. Peace, Gaga.”

Despite Perry’s public disavowal, people in the music industry are interpreting the song as a direct rebuttal to the earlier Gaga song and are taking a stand.

Diva goddess Madonna, performing last night at a charity benefit for foot corns, rewrote the lyrics to her song “Express Yourself” on the fly, singing, “Don’t express yourself … you’ve got to shut up, Katie Perry … don’t express yourself … and by the way, don’t my biceps look freakishly toned?”

And Adele has reportedly started work on a rebuttal-rebuttal single, “I Was Right Before: You Do Rely on Your Tits for Hits, You Bloody Twit.”

But Adele has been quick to point out that the song isn’t directed specifically at Perry. “It’s about all untalented pop singers who write gay-baiting pop songs and who are only famous because they flaunt their tits,” she said.

Clockwise from top left: Katy Perry, Madonna, Lady Gaga and Adele

Much more ominously for Perry, the inventor of Auto-Tune is a gay man. Should the company disallow its license for her to use the device, as appears increasingly likely, Perry’s career would effectively be over.

Even so, Perry is finding support in unlikely places. In a move that will no doubt further the controversy, Glee creator Ryan Murphy has announced that he will be prominently featuring the song in an upcoming episode of the hit Fox show, to be performed by Blaine, Kurt, and the Warblers, no less.

When asked why, Murphy told AfterElton.com, “Basically, just to piss people off. Please. Did anyone even watch Nip/Tuck?”

Meanwhile, in a move she claims is unrelated to the Katy Perry controversy, National Organization for Marriage president Maggie Gallagher announced the creation of a celebrity “We Are the World”-type charity single that will raise money for the fight against the legal recognition of same-sex marriage.

The song, co-written by Orson Scott Card and Clarence Thomas’s wife Virginia Thomas, is called, “There’s Already Way Too Much Love in the World.”

The “A-list” talent committed so far includes Kirk Cameron, Pat Boone, Victoria Jackson, Mel Gibson, Anita Bryant, the late Jimmy Stewart, and 82-year-old Shirley Temple, who will also be recording a new version of her signature song, retitled, “On the Good Ship Lollipop … You Will Be Arrested for Sucking on Anything Other Than Gumdrops.”

When contacted for comment, Katy Perry told AfterElton.com, “That’s a pretty funny April Fool’s Day joke. But please let everyone know you made the whole thing up, okay?”

And don't forget to check out Perry's brand new real video "E.T."

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Our previous April Fool’s articles:

• Kevin and Scotty Moving From Brothers & Sisters to African American spin-off Brothas & Sistahs
• Kirk is Bisexual, Kisses Spock in Upcoming Star Trek Movie
• T.R. Knight Out as Katherine Heigl’s “Best Gay Pal”