Katy Perry Is Half-Fish, Too: Let The Mermaid Battle Begin!

Katy Perry has already shaken her tail feathers as a “Peacock” on her California Dreams tour, and now she’s taking on an entirely different sort of animal-inspired backside: that of a fish. Which would be great and all, if Lady Gaga hadn’t just announced that her long-gestating desire to be a music video mermaid wasn’t so dead in the water after all. Last night the patriotic planker tweeted a photo of herself in lavender-tressed Little Mermaid garb (planking again), ill-timed since it was right after we learned Gaga plans to go legless in the vid for her unnamed next single. See the full pic and learn more after the jump.

The newly ginger songbird already got a bit of flack from those who thought her out-there “E.T.” video was a little too close to Gaga’s “Born This Way” space oddity. This certainly won’t help, considering Gaga’s mermaid idea was made public two months ago (though apparently scrapped in favor of a more land-locked “Edge Of Glory” visual, until recently). But let’s not jump to the conclusion that Katy Perry is an idea-thieving sea witch just yet.

We’re not sure if Katy’s pic is from the set of a music video, a photo shoot, or what, and probably it was planned long before Gaga resurfaced with her deep-sea diva plans. Most likely, it’s just an unfortunate coincidence, which happens in pop culture sometimes. Surely there are worse things than an overabundance of pop stars with fish tails, right?

Just keep swimming, ladies. And don’t make us bring in Hans Christian Anderson to settle this.