Katy Perry’s ‘Part Of Me’ video slammed for propaganda

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Feminist author Naomi Wolf has a big problem with Katy Perry’s latest music video, ‘Part of Me.’ Wolf is asking the public to boycott the singer’s video because she claims it’s propaganda for the US Marines Corps. Perry’s latest video features the singer breaking up with a boyfriend and doing her best ‘G.I. Jane’ impersonation as she cuts her hair and joins the Marines. “Have you all seen the Katy Perry Marines video?” Wolf posted on her Facebook page on Sunday. “It is a total piece of propaganda for the Marines. I really want to find out if she was paid by them for making it. It is truly shameful.” The author added, “I would suggest a boycott of this singer whom I really liked-if you are as offended at this glorification of violence as I am.” Perry hasn’t said if she was paid by the military to feature them in her video, but she told MTV she deliberately chose them because they best represent the song. “It’s an affirmation of strength, so I wanted to go the strongest route I ever could,” she explained. “Literally, I was like, ‘I’m gonna join the service. I’m gonna join the Marines.’ For three days, I was a wannabe Marine, which was so difficult.”