"When she described herself as a 'fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a thinner version of Lily Allen', Allen came out blasting, 'It's like, you're not English and you don't write your own songs, shut up!'As we know, I find the crux of that sentence a little hard to believe. Especially since, looking at it, it's vague enough that it could mean Katy writes something like "I like Gummi Bears and cock" on a paper towel and it eventually gets "fleshed out" into "Teenage Dream."
"In fact, she writes her own lyrics; a producer helps flesh them out into songs."
That said, I'm still not sick of "Teenage Dream." And I grew tired of "California Gurls" after about listen number three. .
Anyway, below are more pics from the Guardian piece.