Katy Perry’s ‘Part of Me’: Using Music Videos to Recruit New
Soldiers  Vigilant Citizen – Vigilant Citizen.com March 26, 2012
In her music video ‘Part of Me’, Katy Perry ditches her wigs and
latex dresses to put on a military uniform. While some might
find this style change “refreshing”, the video for ‘Part of Me’
has a very specific agenda: To entice young people to enlist in
the military. We’ll look at how ‘Part of Me’ is a three-minute
long advertisement to recruit new soldiers for the U.S.
military.  Katy Perry is usually known for wearing blue wigs and
sexy dresses, but she gives it all up in Part of Me. Yup, watch
out terrorists, Katy Perry is an army girl now. While “pop
culture observers” welcomed Katy Perry’s image change,
qualifying it as “refreshing”, most missed an important fact: In
Part of Me, Katy Perry is used to push yet another agenda of the
elite – the recruitment of young people into the military. If we
look at it objectively, Part of Me is, in fact, a three-and-
half-minute long “Join the