Video Of The Week: Katy Perry Feat. Snoop Dogg

Disclaimer: it's everywhere. It's the song of the summer, like it or not. And the video is absolutely beautiful, especially on 'mute'.

And Snoop Dogg's cameo is yet another where he does little else but spell his fucking name out (seriously, Snoop, we know you can spell your name, but we also know you can release amazing fucking records like Doggystyle and Tha Last Meal and can participate in great collabs like on The Chronic and The Chronic 2001, could you at least try to repeat once in a while, like, say, once a year? please?)

The song is pretty much the West Coast's answer to previous Video Of The Week Jay-Z's and Alicia Keys' Empire State Of Mind, where they replace the grittiness and neon lights with candy, pastels and sunshine, and they chose the right ambassadors for it, although the song itself is not up to par, in my opinion. Sure, at least it's pretty much free of autotune, which is pretty much a blessing in itself, but my ears are still bleeding from its pseudo-techno/90s dance sounds from when I last heard the song almost a week ago.

In any event, there's no escaping this fucking song, so no point in trying. YouTube it here; they don't allow me to embed it here.

Maybe I should have boycotted it for that reason alone. Meh, too late, I wrote the blurb. Here are not-so-subtle pictures of the video...