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Post by Admin on May 24, 2020 0:12:01 GMT
Katy Perry's latest single is a triumphant anthem about following your dreams. But according to the "California Girls" hitmaker, the impetus for her forthcoming album came from a much darker place.
Appearing Friday on "Good Morning America," a pregnant Perry reflected on motherhood, the coronavirus crisis and the mental health issues she experienced while working on her next studio collection.
"They can expect a record about resilience and finding a light at the end of the tunnel because I've been writing it over the past two years, and at the beginning of those two years, they were really difficult," she said. "I was kind of clinically depressed coming out of that and didn't know what my life was ... I couldn't really even imagine living, to be completely honest.”
The singer says she is now in a much better headspace, excited for the arrival of her new music and first child with fiance Orlando Bloom of "Pirates of the Caribbean" fame. Their baby girl is due this summer.
"Now I feel like I've done the work, and I'm still doing the work emotionally, spiritually, physically, psychologically," she continued. "Now I've come to this light at the end of the tunnel, which means I am going to live. And not only that, I'm going to bring life into the world. So it ends in a positive place so far.”
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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2020 19:04:28 GMT
Katy Perry stopped by a Connecticut radio station (virtually, of course) on Monday (June 22) to dish about a new song off her upcoming fifth studio album.
Speaking about life in quarantine, the pop star opened up about her decision to release the project in the middle of a pandemic. "I was gonna put a record out in June, I pushed it a little bit," she told KC1010's Adam Rivers. "There was conversation about not putting it out this year. I was like, 'We need some songs to dance through our tears through.'
With that, Perry then revealed the title of one of the as-yet-unheard tracks on the new studio set. "I mean, there is one song on the record called 'Teary Eyes,'" she revealed, "and it's really about just dancing through your tears. And I'm like, 'Wow that really resonates. That slaps, that hits hard for me right now.' So I'm excited for it. I'm excited for all of it."
During the chat, the superstar also broke down her simplistic approach to shooting the video for lead single "Daisies." "That was the only option," she said with a laugh. "It was like, 'Do you want to put out a visual while putting out the song or not?' 'Cause of course I didn't plan for it to be that naturalistic and that raw. And I guess it's a blessing in disguise. I think I'll look back at it in 10 years and go, 'Oh I gave myself a little gift to let my guard down and kind of be vulnerable and naturalistic, 'cause I'm not that -- I love glam, I love more is more. I'm a crow, I'm attracted to the shiny objects and the big things, you know?"
Whether "Teary Eyes" turns out to be a single or an album cut, the track will follow KP5's "Daisies," which Perry unveiled back in May following a series of standalone singles throughout 2019 and early 2020 including "Never Really Over," "Small Talk," "Harleys in Hawaii" and "Never Worn White." Though she has yet to reveal the title, the pregnant pop star's fifth LP is set to be released August 14 via Capitol Records.
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2020 7:16:35 GMT
Katy Perry might deliver her first baby with fiancé Orlando Bloom before or after her fifth studio album, but either way, the pop star has been preparing her KatyCats for both this summer. The "KP5" singles keep sprouting on streaming services and her baby bump keeps growing since she debuted it in the "Never Worn White" music video from early March. So let's retrace her steps before the pop star pops out both a baby and an album. See below for everything we know about Perry's fifth studio album so far. KP5 comes out on August 14 via Capitol Records. The singles Although not the lead single, "Never Worn White" came out first out of this bunch of KP5 singles, a wedding-themed ballad about securing a lifelong love with Bloom. Perry then dropped "Daisies" in mid-May, but the ray of sunshine beaming from it originated from her darkest times. "I wrote this song just like it's another anthem for myself. I came out of a pretty dark time on [2017's] Witness and I've been writing a record for two years," she told Apple Music's Zane Lowe on the release date. "I wrote some of it while I was clinically depressed and trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel. And when I'm writing songs like 'Firework' or 'Roar,' it's not because I'm feeling hunky-dory. It's literally because I am having really dark thoughts and trying to come out of it." http://instagram.com/p/CAdxJ1tH8zx During a remote interview with Connecticut radio station KC1010 in late June, Perry teased another single titled "Teary Eyes" and how it ties back to her goal of releasing a project during the coronavirus pandemic. "There was conversation about not putting it out this year. I was like, 'We need some songs to dance through our tears through," she said. "I mean, there is one song on the record called 'Teary Eyes,' and it's really about just dancing through your tears. And I'm like, 'Wow that really resonates. That slaps, that hits hard for me right now.' So I'm excited for it. I'm excited for all of it." During her Amazon Live mini-concert and Q&A session, the singer-songwriter said every song on her upcoming project exemplified "resilience, redemption, joy and empowerment" and served as a supplemental kind of therapy with her actual therapy to deal with clinical depression. The videos (and pregnancy announcement!) Her "Never Worn White" music video from early March gave the KatyCats the first glimpse of her baby bump, clarifying what she meant by a "jam packed summer." But Perry told SiriusXM Hits 1 the real kicker about her pregnancy announcement coming in this specific clip. "Honestly, I was getting way too fat to hide it, so I was like, 'Well, I think this song would be a great reveal! Let's start there," she joked with host Mike Piff. "And that's how I communicate things -- I communicate through music." When the 35-year-old pop star gave the powerful "Daisies" tune the music video treatment in mid-May, she exposed her gentle side while frolicking in a field of daisies and even caressing her then-smaller baby bump in a nude shot by a waterfall.
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2020 5:54:30 GMT
Katy Perry took to social media on Tuesday (June 23) to show off her growing baby bump covered in, well, daisies of course! On her Instagram Stories, the pop star posted a clip of herself wearing a green, daisy-print mini-dress while brushing her teeth and dancing around to the Oliver Heldens remix of her latest single "Daisies." (She also finished off the look with a matching green hair wrap, dangling daisy earrings and even floral-esque carpeting in the room where the video was taken.) http://instagram.com/p/CBzUyp9hdPE Perry also tagged viral social media star Rickey Thompson in her solo dance party, with the Stories coming just hours after she reposted a clip of the influencer getting down to the very same remix. http://instagram.com/p/CBzWTjdhptq The original version of "Daisies" serves as the lead single for Perry's forthcoming, as-yet-untitled fifth studio album, which is set to be released Aug. 14 via Capitol Records. (She'd previously announced her pregnancy in the closing moments of the music video for one-off single "Never Worn White.") While little else is known about the upcoming studio set, Perry also revealed in a new radio interview this week that the LP will feature a track titled "Teary Eyes."
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2020 20:00:32 GMT
Another day, another Katy Perry tease about KP5! On Tuesday (June 23), the pregnant pop star called into a Lebanese radio station to reveal there's a new song on the album dedicated to her unborn child.
"There is a song on the record called 'What Makes a Woman,'" Perry dished to NRJ Lebanon. "That is a hope I have for my future child, is that she doesn't have any limits on any of her dreams, or what she wants to be, or who she thinks she is. And, you know, she can change whenever she wants. She doesn't have to...she can try everything on if she wants; figure out what fits. And so I think that song is important to me and important for her."
This isn't the first big reveal about the upcoming studio set in recent days, either. The day before, Perry stopped by another local radio station -- this one in Connecticut -- and spilled the tea on another new song on the album called "Teary Eyes."
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