Fact 1268 — “I Kissed a Girl” and a magazine image

The story that Scarlett Johansson inspired “I Kissed a Girl” (2008) comes from contemporary media retellings, but Katy Perry gave different explanations. In an interview with *The Advocate*, she recalled looking through a magazine with her then-boyfriend and saying she would kiss Angelina Jolie; another interview reported her mentioning a picture of Johansson or Megan Fox. In 2017, Perry explained that the song was also connected to a girl she met at 17, and clarified that Johansson was not someone she had kissed. So the Scarlett magazine image is one reported inspiration or image, not an established single source for the song.