Album Of The Day: Katy Hudson by Katy Hudson

Album Art of Katy Hudson's self-titled album - A close-up photo of the right side of a white girl's face, cut off at the nose and just above the eye and below the mouth. She has blue eyes and pink lips and brown-blonde hair. The picture is pretty blown out so her skin looks mostly white. In the middle, on top of her cheek, there's a box where the colors seem to be inverted and it shows a black background with the brown hair looking blue off to the right. On the black is printed the artist's name in lowercase with a period after it. There's a small white border around the edges.

Released 25 years ago today, this is the debut album from Katy Perry, although at this moment she was going by her given name, Katy Hudson. This first album of Christian rock/pop songs was released on a small Christian record label, and somehow despite not being a great debut, Katy proceeded to climb to the top of the pop music world within a decade. What's clear from this album is that, at even 16 years old, Katy had some decent songs and was a capable, precocious young performer. Though I didn't really listen to this album until a few years later, it's a fun mix of lyrics about teenage insecurity, grappling with religious themes, and asking God for guidance. The record label went bankrupt shortly afterwards and Katy Perry probably has no interest in their fans hearing this early work, so it's not on streaming. But it's an album that's an interesting beginning for an international pop star and celebrity and an interesting look at the Christian music industry 25 years ago.

Release Year: 2001

A middle-aged white man photographed in a brightly-colored office room with black CD racks in the background full of CDs, a black lamp on the lower shelf on the left, and a black water tumbler on the left as well. The man is wearing a red T-shirt that says 'I Like Switchfoot' and is holding the Katy Hudson CD in his right hand and smiling.

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