SRS TRAX: Katy Perry ft. Kanye West - E.T.

Where we see how big of a Yeezy fan Raj really is.

Katy Perry ft. Kanye West - E.T. (0.25) youtube

JESSE: Remember when there was a lot of debate about Kanye West on here? Oof. Everything about the song's already painfully bad, but i think Kanye might actually make it, dare I say, worse. #theregoesyourindiecred (0)

ANDY: Gross.

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RAJ: If I hadn't paid attention to the lyrics, I probably would have thrown this like a 4 or a 5 - as shallow dance-pop goes, you can do a hell of a lot worse than this. But beyond the obvious fact that Kanye's verse is phoned-in/dumb (and come on, what else would you expect from this kind of thing?), this song seems pretty actively racist to me! It's a duet where Katy Perry is fantasizing about being raped by an alien whose touch is "so foreign" or whatever, where the alien is basically just a black person (Kanye). Meanwhile, Kanye seems perfectly happy fulfilling the black-savage-out-to-ravish-white-women stereotype with his verses. Not cool! (0)

PAT: Why the pointless Matthew Barney reference in the video? Merely a confirmation that Katy Perry is trying to out art-house Lady Gaga, and failing miserably. Point for cheetah woman Aimee Mullins, though... RAWR! (1)