“It was not fun, but I did that - I’m still doing that.”Ĭhange is also the theme of the throbbing “Witness,” an introspective, less pop-driven album that’s a departure from her last two records, “Prism” (2013) and “Teenage Dream” (2010). “I went to that dark place that I had been avoiding, and I dug out the mold,” she said. Perry, who was born Katheryn Hudson, was raised in a strict religious tradition. Her parents are Pentecostal pastors, and Ms. 15, and she has been attending group therapy with her family. She said she stopped drinking (for now) on Jan. She has sold 6.5 million albums and nearly 71 million digital songs in the United States, according to Nielsen Music notched 14 Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits performed at the 2015 Super Bowl halftime show and landed a gig as a judge on the revamped “American Idol,” which is to return in September on ABC.
Perry, who released her fourth major label album, “Witness,” on June 9, stands as one of the biggest successes in the industry, alongside Madonna, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. And for a minute, two of the biggest pop stars in the world held hands.Īlliances aren’t easily made in the superstar stratosphere, where elbows are often sharp. There they were, “Gaga and I just looking at each other, and being like, it, we need to touch each other,” Ms. She started downing drinks and reached out to the nearest person for physical support: Lady Gaga, also there to celebrate the election of the first female president. “It was a revelation, it was a reckoning,” she said of Mrs. Clinton was not on her way there - news that Ms. The mood rapidly shifted when word started to spread that Mrs. 8 began “with everybody looking fancy and beautiful and high on their horses,” she recalled in an interview several weeks after her YouTube set. Perry, who prominently supported Hillary Clinton’s campaign, that party on Nov. The last time she was in the building was election night, when she had been preparing to toast the victory of Mr. Intrepid, snarling traffic outside the Javits Convention Center, where Katy Perry was performing at a corporate showcase for her new partner, YouTube. A dizzying array of police lights flashed up and down the West Side Highway on a damp Thursday in May.
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