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Plastic Bag: Xray Spex as critique of Katy Perry’s liberal individualism

October 17, 2010 · by Robin James · in xray spex; katy perry; halberstam; political negativity; liberalism; punk; feminism; queer; poly styrene

I was listening to Katy Perry’s most recent single “Firework,” and I noticed that this song used a “plastic bag” metaphor to connote the supposedly alienated, mass-produced subject of post-industrial consumer society. This then reminded me of one of my…

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