The latest 'We Must Protect the Children From the Real World' moment is brought to you by the Parents Television Council, who championed the cause of keeping Katy Perry of Sesame Street this week.
Katy Perry reworked her song 'Hot and Cold' to sing a song with Elmo. The clip posted a day early on You Tube and 'some parents' complained about the outfit Katy was wearing in the sketch.
Katy and Elmo sing and dance
I am a Katy Perry fan...I think most of her songs are fairly catchy, and she puts a slick product out there. There is no real need to discuss her great physical beauty, and yes, she is a well-endowed young lady.
The outfit in question is quite tame for Miss Perry. The green top part of the dress is low cut, but she also has mesh/lace...stuff...much like the material which makes up 50% of your average figure skaters outfit. If this material was not present, I being a red-blooded American male would still have no problem with the way she was dressed, but might be able to see the other sides position.
The lower part of her dress is short, exposing several inches of well-toned thigh above her knee...but so what. It is no different than wearing short, which they do on Sesame Street. At no time during this video does Katy Perry act as anything other than a wholesome, positive and somewhat quirky young lady, and that is what is important.
To test the target audience, I had both of my daughters watch the video with me on You Tube. Both of them highly enjoyed it, and there was much giggling. Neither of them made any comments about Katy's outfit...in fact, when I questioned them on it, they mentioned it was green and sparkly, like Tinkerbells.
Strange that a show which still portrays Bert and Ernie co-habitating bows to the complaints of 'some' parents to not show this clip. I would LOVE to see just how many parents 'some' is. As for this parent, I had to watch the video about 16 times to properly research things.
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