From 'I Kissed a Girl' to 'By the Grace of God,' she's soundtracked a generation's highs and lows.
If you want the full picture, listen to 'I Kissed a Girl' back-to-back with 'Thinking of You.' One's all brash energy, the other's just a voice and a guitar, and both sound like her.
When 'I Kissed a Girl' hit in 2008, it wasn't just a pop song, it was a conversation starter that landed in dorm rooms and car radios everywhere. She followed it with albums like 'Teenage Dream' and 'Prism' that kept the hooks coming, but songs like 'By the Grace of God' showed she could write about something heavier when she needed to. That mix of glitter and grit is why her name still means something fifteen years later.
She started releasing music in 2001, but it was 'One of the Boys' in 2008 that broke through. The albums kept coming through the 2010s, and by 2023 she was doing a Las Vegas residency called 'Play.' Along the way she's worked with everyone from Snoop Dogg to Nicki Minaj.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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