Naturally, I expected a mash-up of every worst possible Asian affront. which, whether a compliment or not, at least acknowledged that Perry, against all better judgment, "went there". Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton said, "Kimono-she-didn't!". Ravi Chandra of Psychology Today claimed Perry's performance was the racist equivalent of performing in blackface. Nolan Feeney wrote in The Atlantic that "it's these kinds of stereotypical visuals that play into white fetishization of Asian women – something Perry doesn't have to deal with when she takes off her costume".
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Jeff Yang of the Wall Street Journal decried Perry's "whiteface/yellowface performance" as "a harsh reminder of how deeply anchored the archetype of the exotic, self-sacrificing 'lotus blossom' is in the Western imagination". A quick primer for those who, like me, missed it the first time around: Katy Perry performed her new single "Unconditionally" while wearing a Japanese kimono, on a set festooned with cherry blossoms, rice paper screens, and fluttering fan dancers. I was reminded of that failed (and yes, definitively un-PC) costume yesterday, when friends and colleagues emailed links to strongly-worded articles about Katy Perry's performance during Sunday night's American Music Awards. The costume, for obvious reasons and beyond, was a bust I was upstaged by an actual geisha (kimono, tabi socks, and all), a mail order bride from the developing world, and the ball and chain toting Japanese schoolgirl from Kill Bill. I even had a prop: the man I showed up with was "The White Guy. I paired the dress with plastic chopsticks stuck into my hair, slapped some baby powder on my face, and called myself an "Asian Fetish".
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S trapped for a last-minute costume one Halloween, I rifled through the racks at Forever 21 before stumbling on inspiration: a red flower-print dress made of cheap cloth trying to pass itself off as shantung silk.