Release and Promotion
See also: Warped Tour 2008, Summer Tour 2009 (No Doubt), and Hello Katy TourThe album was first released on June 17, 2008. It was released in separate editions: the standard edition; the Australia Tour edition, which contains the standard CD plus a bonus CD with exclusive songs, an acoustic version of "Thinking of You" and remixes; the special edition, which is packaged in a digipak and contains four bonus tracks; and the Japan re-issue. Europe, Japan, and iTunes editions contains bonus tracks.
Upon its release, the singer has been heavily criticized for her song, "Ur So Gay", considered by the site The New Gay to be homophobic. The author of the publication added, "It's time to Katy Perry to stop talking nonsense" because "the song trots out a number of tired gay stereotypes to condemn one of Perry's ex-boyfriends and includes a paradoxical chorus". The editor of British magazine content lesbian Diva Jane Czyzselska, commented in an article in The Guardian that "Perry's song is a rather sweet, refreshing antidote to the avalanche of overtly sexualised boy-grinds-girl songs." She promoted the song in Portugal, and it was not very well received by the public. Her first single, "I Kissed a Girl", became a huge controversy worldwide. Despite the context, Perry is heterosexual. She has been strongly criticized by the LGBT community, who believe that the singer used music to make money and not on behalf of homosexuals, and by some supporters of traditional moral values who claim that music leads the girls to be lesbian. The song was criticized by the local headquarters of the evangelical Havens Corners Church, which has set the following sentence in its garden in September 2008: "I kissed a girl and liked it. So I went to hell." To promote the album Perry embarked on three tours, Warped Tour 2008, and her first solo world tour Hello Katy Tour with 89 shows performed, and as opening act in No Doubt's Summer Tour 2009.
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