Nailed it on their model for why Juicy was placed into the Victoria brand, to get 16-25 into the store, where eventually they 'upgrade' to the premium brand. It worked so well that they decided to rebrand the entire company to L-brands.

I wonder if Kaz is saying 'RRRRRRIIIIIGE RACER!!!' in his head to a funky Tokyo-pop PS2 beat as he walks through the pits with that big grin on his face.

You are right. I suddenly feel sorry that Katy has to race to the bottom with this guy competing for record sales.

Reading things and comments like this only confirms my view that Huff and the many girls who still slug it out in the trenches amid the twilight years of the Bullpen really need to firm up and work harder to call out bullshit as they see it.

The Katy brand has been all about mildly empowering lyrics wrapped in an equally offsetting marketing package. The only problem is this brand of pop-fem is being upstaged by Miley & RhiRhi who take it a bit beyond where Ms. Perry drew the line, by singing about S&M or hard addiction, whereas Katy drew a line under 1…