Cover Versions
A second cover version, by Barnicle, entered the UK Singles Chart (published August 3, 2008) at position #116. British girl-band The Saturdays did another cover version, never released commercially. The band performed it in each of their The Work Tour venues. An incomplete version, unreleased version of the song was covered in the Pilot episode of Glee. The song is alluded to by Smurfette, voiced by Perry, in the 2011 film The Smurfs. When mentioning songs to Patrick Winslow (Neil Patrick Harris), Smurfette mentions "I Kissed a Smurf (and I Liked It)". On March 9 (UK) and March 10 (US) metalcore band, Attack Attack! released a cover for the song for the Punk Goes Pop 2 compilation. Because of the success of the cover versions, the official release of Perry's version was brought forward from September 1 to July 30, 2008. On August 3, 2008, the song, which had entered the UK Singles Chart at number 139 the week before, climbed 135 places to reach position number 4. The song has become one of the most requested on Radio 1's request hour. The following week it climbed 3 places to reach number 1. The following week it stayed at the top spot for a second consecutive week and then went on to spend 5 consecutive weeks at #1. The song was covered by The Vibrators on the Troops of Tomorrow single released in 2009 on Cleopatra Records. In 2010 Chris Pohl's project Terminal Choice made an electro dark-wave cover.
Even parodies of "I Kissed a Girl" are seeing chart success. Dr. Demento ranked Robert Lund's spoof "I Peed in the Pool" his #1 song of August 2008, and one of his Funny 25 for the year. The song climbed back into the top 20 (reaching #19) in the UK on January 4, 2009, five months after it was first released. The Blackout also covered this song on their single "Children of the Night". The song is featured in "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Alpocalypse in his polka medley "Polka Face".
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