I saw this Katy Perry music video the other day for her new single “Wide Awake” and it somewhat entrapped me. For one, I love the fact that social media has become such a social norm that artists are now incorporating it into their songs and videos. It might be the only thing Mark Zuckerberg can hold on to right now. Also, it demonstrates our need, as social media users, to find out all the details of someone’s life through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or whatever your network of choice may be. Although it wasn’t the most highly visual video, I kept waiting for the part of the video where the update would come up on her timeline saying “Katy Perry is no longer listed as married.” Unfortunately for my gossip magazine reading self, her timeline updates were all career related. If only we could see other artists’ real life Facebook timelines to a musical tune…cough*cough*, Chris Brown.
