Fans’ affinity for new shoe maven Katy Perry a bit too much

Katy Perry came to Vegas for the MAGIC fashion convention, launching a spring 2017 collection of shoes, some of which have little stars on them.

Yes, that’s the sum of my wisdom on women’s shoes. I’ll try harder:

Shoe saleswoman Perry wore yellow heels with a red outfit Monday at the Las Vegas Convention Center while posing in front of hundreds of rapt, respectful fans — some of whom called her “Mom?”

“Mom?” Must you call your idol “Mom?” Get a therapist on the phone, stat, it might be time to move out and get your own apartment. I say this out of love.

THE VEGAS TRINITY

The battle of the Caesars Entertainment divas (J-Lo, Mariah, Britney) rages on as Mariah Carey wants to give tourists a closer look at her body.

Carey’s new promo photo shows her lying on her side covered by a gold sheet. It shows less skin than NBC broadcasts on prime time.

But Orange County and Burbank airports wanted Carey’s image changed for billboards, and Caesars “wants a censored version of the billboard,” against Carey’s wishes, TMZ reports.

Carey’s come-hither photo, though, intensifies the battle of the bodies among the Vegas Trinity of Mariah/Britney Spears/Jennifer Lopez.

To wit: Carey has been performing in skimpy threads for months. Spears just upped her revealing game with a new bra, plastic skirt and peekaboo undies. And Lopez’s exposing costumes exhibit no false shame.

If these headliners wanted to break the internet, they’d put on a joint one-night-only, live-online-and-TV show in the Colosseum for all the world to judge in real time.

That’s what old Vegas would do. But old Vegas doesn’t make the rules anymore.

SPEAKING OF OLD VEGAS

Did you see the New York Post column about how “Vegas is trying to cheat you out of even more money”?

Writer Michael Kaplan wrote a scathing travel piece taking Las Vegas to task for all sorts of issues.

Usually we Las Vegans respond to such articles by saying, “Whatever, he’s just another parachute journalist ripping on our town — only WE get to rip on our town.”

But this time, Las Vegans shared the Post story in droves on social media, because Kaplan hit a nerve or five.

His complaints:

■ “Are casinos so desperate that they have to charge for parking?” He calls MGM properties’ exorbitant parking fees a “tariff.” Ouch.

■ The food’s too expensive thanks to “celebrity chefs and imported mixologists.”

■ Resort fees are “markups of $29 to $32 per night.”

■ “We’re seeing blackjack that pays 6-to-5 instead of 3-to-2, there’s no resplitting aces, and you can’t double down on anything other than a 10 or 11.”

■ And MGM bars are “decreasing shot pours” and issuing free drink vouchers only to people who gamble a lot.

“Vegas is tightening its belt to a suffocating degree,” he wrote.

As this viral story proves, word of mouth is now the entire online world. Unpopular top-down decisions create Humpty Dumptys — and you know what happened to Humpty Dumpty, right?

FLAVOR FLAV’S CHICKEN COUP

Las Vegas hip-hop royalty Flavor Flav is making a somewhat rare public appearance from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday to promote his chicken and book.

Flav devised a “signature recipe” called “Flavor Flav’s Chicken” to be sold at Rockhouse Las Vegas in The Venetian. His recipe used to be sold at different places, but Rockhouse pulled the coup and got the exclusive Flavor Flav flavor.

Flav will autograph his humbly titled book “Flavor Flav: The Icon The Memoir” for people who buy the book and chicken in that time frame, Rockhouse says.

Chicken bill: $14 for 10 pieces, $25 for 24 pieces.

SIGHTINGS

British model and TV star Melanie Sykes is in Vegas to pose for a charity calender, so she posted bikini-social pool selfies and exercise photos (doing “weighted donkey kicks,” whatever that is).

Wiz Khalifa ate short ribs and seabass at Tao restaurant before performing as DJ Daddy Kat in Marquee nightclub Monday.

Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue ate at Carmine’s in Caesars Palace’s Forum Shops on Monday, then posed for fan photos.

Robert Scott Wilson of “Days of Our Lives” partied with friends around a daybed at Tao Beach on Sunday.

Doug Elfman can be reached at delfman@reviewjournal.com. He blogs at reviewjournal.com/elfman. On Twitter: @VegasAnonymous