Katy Perry is the new Rihanna. Like "Umbrella" last year, "I Kissed a Girl" has become the anthem of summer 2008. You can't turn on the radio without hearing it (not that we're complaining)! Then again, she's also reminiscent of Madonna, thanks to all the controversy her uninhibited lyrics have created. But after chatting with Katy, we've decided that there's no use trying to pigeonhole this pop rocker -- to borrow a phrase from her ultimate same-sex star smooch, she's just being Katy!

Did you know "I Kissed a Girl" would be so huge when you wrote it?
When I wrote "I Kissed a Girl," I knew that it was gonna make a splash, but I didn't know that it was going to be such a huge cannon ball. So I'm happy that it did. I'm excited that it did.

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