She also performed the song at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards, which she hosted. To promote "Hot n Cold", Perry marked the song's live debut with a performance on NBC's Today. To date, "Hot n Cold" has sold over 5.7 million copies in the US, making it one of Perry's highest-selling singles in the nation. It also became Perry's second top five single in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, and topped the charts in Finland, Germany, Canada, Norway, Spain, and Denmark, among others. The song reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Perry's second consecutive top three single, following "I Kissed a Girl". The lyrics address an unstable romantic relationship caused by a partner's mood swings. The track was released as the album's second single on September 9, 2008. Luke and Benny Blanco for her second studio album, One of the Boys (2008). Go ahead and get comfortable up there on that fence."Hot n Cold" is a song by American singer Katy Perry. The sky may very well be falling, or not falling, or only falling a little we should keep that in mind next time someone frames an issue as a case of only A or B. Binary has its place, and that place is not center-stage in our ways to view the world. So yes, we're hot and we're cold, but we're also usually lukewarm and cool. My point in this long, meandering, intentionally wishy-washy commentary is that most of the time we'll be somewhere in the middle on issues. Assuming the question has a binary answer, of course. It's a question with no real answer, unless you're willing to flip a coin and roll with one of the two relatively even sides. After all, it is good to change our minds on things, but it is also good to be focused, decisive, and confident in our positions. So the question is how we can be decisive without being impulsive, open to change without being flip floppers, and firm in our beliefs without being pig-headed. Similarly, an issue that presents itself as the logistical version of Pan's Labyrinth can paralyze us and lead to handwringing and rapid flip flopping. them" instead of the Gordian Knot it more closely resembles, people end up at each other's throats and stuck on a side they might not like. At least, they will if they're anything like me.īinary choices are typically easiest to decide between, and generally the most polarizing. Stick them in front of the ice-cream counter in Lofty Pursuits, and they'll dilly-dally for a while. Give someone a choice of vanilla or chocolate, and they usually decide pretty quickly.
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Small as my sample size is, I've noticed there is a lot of trouble making decisions on certain issues at certain times. Often times, the issues that turn us into rudderless sailboats are ones that don't inspire much passion.
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Somewhat confusingly, however, we also have a lot of things we are weathervanes on. Graduation we're certainly not short on strong opinions.
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That's often not our problem, since these days most everyone seems to have its mind made up about most everything: Ignite vs. Whether men are or aren't, the underlying point is that it's bad to have a windsock for a brain. The song talks about some unnamed schmuck who flippantly changes his mind "like a girl changes clothes," which is ostensibly a problem because men are stereotyped as the emotionally stoic ones. The specific song I'm talking about is Hot N Cold, and the wisdom it has basically goes as far as the title and maybe to a metaphor, if I do enough logical gymnastics. And while getting a lot of people to agree on something often means it is relatively simplistic, I think there's a certain wisdom to be found in one of her songs. She is, after all, a pop singer someone whose ability to make a living is predicated on getting as many people as possible to enjoy your music. When it comes to wisdom, I don't generally think of Katy Perry.