Katy Perry Is Cute and Outspoken in Glamour, February 2010

Katy Perry, perhaps the most lovable pin-up doll now active on the pop scene, is anything but a “doll” in real life. As Glamour magazine, the February 2010 issue, puts it, she also has a mouth and a brain and she’s not afraid to use both. This one artist has conquered the charts with her music and the hearts of her fans for being extremely down to earth and honest. The mag offers a look behind the glamorous image, into what Katy really is like in her everyday life.

For starters, Perry talks of the hit song that put her on the map, “I Kissed a Girl.” Despite allegations that she was just another poser who was looking for a way to shock, the singer says she does like girls, in the sense that she has “a soft spot” for women. Beauty is beauty no matter where she sees it, and the song was precisely about that. However, most of the interview is focused on Perry’s personal life, including her past relationships and her current romance with British comedian Russell Brand, with whom she recently got engaged.

“I’m excited to find a partner who can just be my teammate. And there’s got to be respect. For me, that’s hard because it’s easy for me to steamroll guys. I need a man who tells me the party’s over, that it’s time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning,” Katy says of her ideal man. She seems to have found all that in former hellraiser and ladies’ man Brand, who also vouches Katy is for him all that he ever looked for in a partner.

“When I was meeting people in L.A., guys always thought if they paid for dinner, they deserved a [expletive]. But generally, I’ll say this – and I’ll say it proudly – I can’t sleep with someone if I don’t have a connection with them,” the singer says of her past experiences with men. Everything changed when she met Russell, she goes on to add. “When he was filming ‘Get Him to the Greek,’ I did a cameo with him. My scene called for me to make out with him. And on the way down the stairs after the scene, I was hopping like a bunny. I hope like a bunny when I’m happy – I get a bit childlike,” she explains.

In the same interview, Perry also says that people often misunderstand her because she has “cartoon-ized” her public image to become the pin-up doll she’s today. Of course, in real life, she’s not really like that, which makes her somewhat uncomfortable when she meets someone new, for the simple reason that she fears they won’t accept her as she is. See here for the full interview with Katy Perry for Glamour.