"Katy Perry: Part Of Me" - Red Carpet

HEY I JUST MET YOU. Sorry. Sorry to you, and to my neighbors, who are surely sick of my caterwauling that at random times. AND THIS IS CRAZY. Or IS IT? I actually think they might both be sort of cute?

Carly Rae Jepson

"Sort of" being the operative term. I have some concerns about the Sleeve Thing. And I think that...okay, listen, when I say, "she might be a little too old for this," I DO NOT mean that she IS old. I am older than she is! But she's also 27, and I think the Powers That Be are dressing her like she's Selena's age, and it's not doing her any favors. I mean, listen, that's still VERY YOUTHFUL -- would that I had my 27 year old facial collagen! -- and she looks cute enough. But the neon shoes AND the cutesy bag AND the bangs read a little young for her. Whereas if I think she dressed a little more sophisticatedly, she would paradoxically look YOUNGER. You dig?

Selena Gomez

Speaking of young. I actually think this is kind of perfect on Selena. For me, this is like the beach house version of Emma Stone's Met Ball dress, and I really think it works here. Like, you have to consider the person wearing the dress, the dress itself, and the event, and this....it just sells itself. But what do you think?

Fug or Fab: Carly Rae Jepsen and Selena Gomez

It was mere weeks ago that I made fun of Carly Rae Jepsen on these very pages when I noted that, fifteen years from now, she would totally be the person from this year's Wango Tango who we'd all go, "I don't even know who that IS" and then I compared her to Ashlee Simpson. I have to say: I kind of stand by that. I also have to say, though, that not a week goes by that I don't burst into a random line from "Call Me Maybe" while, like, washing the dishes or painting my toenails. When I said it was "freakishly catchy," I don't know that I put that sufficiently strongly. THAT SONG IS CATCHING LIKE TYPHOID. I have danced MANY a car dance to it. I have hit "repeat" on it MANY a time. I embrace it. And I invite you -- if you haven't yet -- to watch the Harvard baseball team lip sync to it. No. I promise. Watch it. Are you back? Let's look at the girls. [poll id="7892"]