Well, friends, it’s happened: the Lady Gaga fans have declared war on the Katy Perry fans. (Apparently, these are not the same people.) The beef? Only a few weeks after Gaga appeared as Yuyi the Mermaid on French TV and news spread that the character would featured in her next music video, Katy Perry tweeted a photo of herself dressed as Ariel. So the mermaid feud is on (minus, it would seem, the interest of either pop star). Now, here at Flavorpill, we’re big fans of our finned friends and will take all the pop-culture mermaids we can get. In fact, we’ve collected 40 of our favorites after the jump.
Darryl Hannah in Splash
John William Waterhouse, A Mermaid (1901)
Ann Blyth in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Shel Silverstein’s “The Mermaid” (covered, above, by Bobby Bare)
Project Runway winner Christian Siriano as a mermaid
Bette Midler as a mermaid
Cher, Winona Ryder, and Christina Ricci in Mermaids
Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid
Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Hipster Ariel
Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue
Mermaid Man, Spongebob Squarepants
Osamu Tezuka’s “Mermaid”
Mississippi Mermaid
Esther Williams, aka “America’s Mermaid”
XTC’s “Mermaid Smiled”
Petunia, The Adventures of Pete & Pete
Donna Martin as a mermaid, Beverly Hills, 90210
Coney Island’s beloved Bambi the Mermaid
Luna’s “Mermaid Eyes”
Frank L. Baum’s The Sea Fairies
French mid-century comic-book heroine Arabelle, “the last mermaid”
Jaime Pressly as a mermaid on Charmed
The singing, dancing mermaids of Weeki Wachee
Sue Monk Kidd’s The Mermaid Chair
Joanna Newsom’s “Colleen”
Ponyo
P.T. Barnum’s “Fiji Mermaid”
The Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Phosphorescent’s “The Mermaid Parade”
The O.C.‘s Mermaid Inn
Sade’s “No Ordinary Love” music video
Gemma Ward as Tamara, Queen of the Mermaids in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Starbucks mermaid
Billy Bragg and Wilco’s Mermaid Avenue
Flight of the Conchords’ “Mermaids”
The Fisherman and the Siren by Frederic Leighton (1856-58)
“Mermaid Love” by Man or Astro-Man?
