To promote the single, Perry has performed on various occasions, including a geisha-themed performance of it on the American Music Awards of 2013, which attracted negative press, controversy and accusations of cultural appropriation.
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Her win came after Katy Perry dazzled with her show-opening performance, Lady Gaga found another inventive way to grab your attention, Rihanna starred with her mother and Miley Cyrus closed the performances with the assistance of a giant lip-syncing CGI kitty on her song "Wrecking Ball." "I'm really out of breath," Swift said after taking the stage in a sequined mini-dress. "I was really going hard with the 'Wrecking Ball' thing." The 23-year-old pop star also won country album of the year for "Red" and favorite female country artist and pop/rock artist. She spoke directly to her fans as she picked up her final award of the night. "My lucky number is 13, and so far you guys have made 2013 the most magical year of my life so far," she said. "I cannot thank you enough. This validates that if you voted for this that we are heartbroken the same way and we fall in love the same way and we're happy the same way. And the fact that you would listen to my music means ... we're pretty much in it together, aren't we?" Justin Timberlake was next with three wins — soul/R&B album, soul/R&B male artist and pop/rock male artist. One Direction and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won two awards and Rihanna was given the AMA's first Icon Award to go with her win as favorite soul/R&B female artist. Rihanna and her mother took center stage midway through the show when Monica Fenty presented her pop star daughter with the first Icon Award at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. "Can we talk about how cute Rihanna's mom is?" Justin Timberlake asked while accepting one of his three awards, before affecting a Caribbean accent. "She's so proud of the Icon. I am too, Rihanna, I love you." Fenty told Rihanna how proud she was of her daughter's success, saying, "I know the journey in your career has not always been an easy one." Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande was named favorite new artist, Florida Georgia Line won single of the year for "Cruise" with Nelly in something of a surprise, Luke Bryan won favorite male country artist, and favorite rap/hip-hop act Macklemore & Ryan Lewis used their rap/hip-hop album acceptance speech to send a message of tolerance. Ben Haggerty, the rapper known as Macklemore, accepted the award for favorite rap/hip-hop album, then quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in a live satellite feed from the rap group's latest tour stop. "Due to the fact that we are in Florida tonight accepting this award I want to acknowledge Trayvon Martin and the hundreds and hundreds of kids each year that are dying due to racial profiling and the violence that follows it," he said. Florida became a focal point after Martin's killer was freed under the state's stand your ground law. 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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20131129212613/http://entertainment.time.com:80/2013/11/25/how-offensive-was-katy-perrys-ama-performance/ # Entertainment ### Sections HomeNewsFeedU.S.PoliticsWorldBusinessTechHealthScienceEntertainmentVideoTIME 100PhotosMagazineLIFE.comListsSports ### Music # How Offensive Was Katy Perry's AMA Performance? The pop star has been accused of appropriating Japanese and Chinese culture By Megan Gibson / London @MeganJGibsonNov. 25, 20130 Follow @TIMECulture Katy Perry kicked off Sunday's American Music Awards ceremony with a performance of her single "Unconditionally," which immediately prompted the question: Is this racist? Perry sang while dressed as a geisha — though her costume was really a mixture of the Japanese kimono and a Chinese cheongsam, reports Kotaku — while her back-up dancers were also dressed as geishas and spun paper fans. Other Japanese-influenced aspects to the performance included cherry blossoms, Japanese garden-like sets and The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Many viewers took to social media to praise the performance, but there were some who quickly dubbed Perry's performance racist. Psychology Today's Ravi Chandra writes why some Asian-Americans were offended by the costumes and sets, noting that, "I've watched our cultures misappropriated and commodified time after time. Frankly, many of us feel used as props to glorify White artists." While Perry has been known to dress in Japanese-inspired costumes before, the performance did bring to mind another pop star's award show performance that was accused of cultural appropriation, which we are all still trying to recover from: Miley Cyrus's now infamous VMAs appearance. 16 comments Sign in + Follow Post comment Newest | Oldest Not one performer in the show was dressed as a geisha, and to say they were just because they had on a kimono and traditional japanese style makeup, is in itself, pretty ignorant and racist, as it perpetuates the misinformation that only geishas wore/wear kimonos and their makeup like that. I saw her performance as being about the Sakura ( cherry blossom) season and what it represents in japanese culture. To sum it up, the cherry blossom is a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short, and in modern times has come to represent the love beginning and love ending, The blooming of the blossoms representing the beginning, and the falling represent a love lost. In my opinion, and the opinion of every japanese per I've asked, it's not offensive at all, and it's executed very well. If this is racist, then it's racist for Japanese game developers to use 'white' characters in their games. Stop co-opting my culture and race to sell copies of your video games without understanding my culture! Anybody else noticing that the majority of the people calling it racist aren't even of that race? I'm Asian too and I didn't find that to be racist! Even in Asian shows do you know how many times we have mixed cultures? Check out the show "Paris By Night", we're mixing Chinese, Vietnamese, and American culture all together. I thought it was really stupid. I'm not Asian and I sat there wondering what this had to do with the song. I thought "Does she even know the meaning, usage and history behind this stuff or is it just a fad for her?" I was offended. Cultural things are very precious and sacred to some and for someone to use it as just a spectacle is demeaning. She was doing gestures as well and I highly doubt she knows what any of it means. If she's been fully immersed in that culture and she understands it, she can dress like that. But she used it just to have a unique performance and I thought that was superficial and in bad taste. She can wear an item in isolation, but she appropriated an entire Asian theme , likely without the right knowledge, cultural awareness and reverence. It made me uncomfortable as I watched it, I couldn't get over how obtuse and clueless she was. Her lyrics are dumb enough; she didn't need this. I felt it was racially frivolous and insulting, but not racist, per se. Cultural things aren't for shock value, idiot. I don't think this is racist at all. The prop looked stunning and you could see there was no intentions of sending a racist message across. She is just putting on a show, which is what she's paid for. Either way, it's not racist to dress up as someone from a culture different to your own. It wouldn't have been racist either if she dressed up as a flamenco dancer - trying to represent Spain, or a matrioska - trying to represent Russia or anything else. We are in a world were different cultures are closer than ever to one another so there should be no harm in adopting ideas to yourself. I found a blog that I think sums up everyone's attitude perfectly: http://wishwantdream.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/is-blacking-up-always-racist-i-dont-think-so/ Yeah, this is so simple: it's racist. It's gross and stupid. Celebrities shouldn't appear in black-face/yellow-face and expect not to be called out as racist. Katy Perry should be ashamed of herself (is that possible?). @TopherGlenn That is hardly the same thing. If the Japanese were to lampoon what they thought of White Americans, they'd make everyone look iike they weigh 200 pounds. They don't do that in videogames, do they? @cheezlasagna Have you also noticed people saying they are Asian because they hide behind a computer screen when they really aren't? Kinda sad, isn't it. @cheezlasagna i find that these people have too much time around... First World problems Her performance was tastefully done..leave her alone @maria.eugenia.errobidarte I understand your point, but you're wrong. There is harm and great offense in "adopting ideas to yourself" (otherwise known as Cultural Appropriation). Think about this; every year when Halloween rolls around, hundreds of kids take to the street dressed as "Mexicans" or "terrorists" or simply "Chinese." The problem with this becomes that you can't encapsulate an entire culture in one costume on one person, so imagery and cultural customs and traditional dress are "borrowed" from the cultural background and smushed together into something that is not only easily recognizable, but also not representative of that culture. Often offensively so. What's more, these elements aren't used with the intent of educating the public about the culture in question, they're often used to make something seem "exotic" and eye-catching so more people will buy it(or watch it). The problem here is not only inaccuracy (such as perry's costume, and for that matter entire performance, being a muddling of Chinese and Japanese cultures), but insensitivity to an entire (or in this case TWO) cultural history. So. You're wrong. Not because trying to represent a different culture accurately is wrong (diversity should always be cherished). But because representing a culture with only stereotypes and easily recognizable imagery is not representing a culture at all. It's representing the stereotypes. And that's racism. #libtardedamerica wearing a kimono and tying your hair back in a bun isn't "appearing in yellowface." this is nothing more than PC libtards getting butthurt over nothing @KimHughes Can blackface be tastefully done? No, it can't and neither can this. How much does she have to commit to "acting asian" before it's insensitive and ignorant. At some point you have to realize as a person who is of equal worth and value, their culture is part who and why they are who they are and you don't have a right to use their heritage as your accessory of the day. @#libtardedamerica @kglnyc I'm Japanese, and I found it tasteless, gross, disrepectful, stereotyped appropriation of "Asian" culture. Don't you get that she's riffing off of Madam Butterfly (because the song is "Unconditional"), which, of course, was another piece of Orientalism by an Italian by way of an Englishman? And that stereotype of the "submissive Oriental woman" has plagued me for decades. 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"Roar" was serviced to mainstream radio stations on August 10, 2013 as the album's lead single, and its digital release followed two days later. It received mixed-to-positive commentary from music critics, who commended its "easy" and "poppy" beat, while some were ambivalent towards its clichéd lyrics. Commercially, it was a success, topping the "Billboard" Hot 100 and charts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. It became Australia's best performing song of 2013 with 560,000 copies sold by the end of the year and spending 9 weeks atop the nation's charts. The song was nominated for the Song of the Year and the Best Pop Solo Performance awards at the 56th Grammy Awards. 
 "Unconditionally" was released as the album's second single on October 16, 2013. It received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised it for being "soaring" and "effortless". A lyric video for the song was released two days after its debut, and its official music video was released on November 19, 2013.