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The ‘Smile’ singer is frustrated by fans who are constantly trying to stir up controversy by comparing her to fellow female singers like Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande.
Aug 22, 2020
AceShowbiz – Katy Perry hates constantly being pitted against other female singers by fans.
The “Roar” hitmaker, who famously feuded with Taylor Swift before they called a truce, complained to Zane Lowe on his Apple Music podcast that she gets daily comments comparing her to artists like Taylor, Ariana Grande, and Lady Gaga, and suggested male singers don’t have the same struggle.
“We never see Niall Horan and Shawn Mendes fighting, you don’t read about Ed Sheeran… and Justin Bieber fighting, right? You never hear that. But take any female performer and you hear about it every single day,” the pregnant singer told Zane, reported Metro.
“You wanna read my Twitter comments? No, you don’t, because it’s like, ‘who’s better than who? Who’s skinnier than who? Who’s sold more number ones than who? Who’s doing better this year than who? Who made this much more?’ Ok, well, what about just liking the music? Why is it about… why?”
While she admitted she is competitive, Katy insisted she is “not competitive with women.”
“I truly just want every single female in the industry to feel supported and loved and feel like they can speak their truth and deliver their message no matter how many of us women are in the industry.”
She added, “There’s only five other people in the world that are going through this and you’re in the same room, can we please just have some f**king wine and talk about how hard this is?”
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Katy and Taylor initially fell out when the “Bad Blood” singer accused her of stealing three of her backing dancers for her tour. But Katy insisted she wants nothing but the best for her fellow female star.
“It’s hard for young girls growing up (with) cliques and high school and pettiness and all that stuff, so now we’re super friendly.”

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Directed by Matthew Cullen, the video finds the pregnant songstress getting hooked to a game called Smile in which she plays a video game version of herself.
Aug 15, 2020
AceShowbiz – Less than a month before the release of her new LP, Katy Perry has treated fans to the visuals of the title track of her effort. The music video was released exclusively on Facebook on Thursday, August 13, before making its way out on other platforms like YouTube the following morning.
Directed by Matthew Cullen, the video finds Katy getting hooked to a video game called Smile in which she plays a video game version of herself who conquers various kinds of obstacles such as giant spiders and circus-trapeze acts while dressed as a clown. As the songstress progresses through the game, she magically transforms into a real-life version of her video game character.
“Yeah, I’m thankful/ Scratch that, baby, I’m grateful/ Gotta say it’s really been a while/ But now I got back that smile/ Smile,” so Katy sings in the music video, which ends with the singer happily smashing the pie in her face after she defeats the final boss of the game.
“Smile” serves as the title track of Katy’s upcoming LP. She previously said of the song, “I wrote the title track from the album when I was coming through one of the darkest periods of my life and had lost my smile. This whole album is my journey towards the light — with stories of resilience, hope, and love.”
“Smile” is expected to hit the stores on August 28 after a postponement. Speaking of the effort in an interview, Katy explained that the track “What Makes a Woman” has an empowering message that she hopes her daughter will take it to heart. “It’s a song about how you are gonna have a tough time measuring what truly makes a woman because women are so many things,” she said. “And I like to say not one thing, not just one thing. And such chameleons, and so adaptable, and so malleable and transformative. And can handle the weight of the world on their backs and do it all in heels. And make it look pretty effortless sometimes.”

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The ‘Roar’ singer reveals she went to therapist to help her survive the ‘darkest’ years of her life amid depression following the lukewarm reception of her album ‘Witness’.
Aug 6, 2020
AceShowbiz – Katy Perry went on a gruelling weeklong therapy retreat as a part of her “mental and spiritual journey” back from depression.
The pregnant pop superstar was forced to cancel her planned destination wedding to fiance Orlando Bloom and push back the release of her sixth studio album “Smile”, out later this month (Aug20). due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In an interview with People magazine, the “Firework” hitmaker admitted that undergoing intense therapy has helped her to survive the “darkest” years of her life, and left her well-equipped to handle unexpected challenges.
“Having a great partner, having a sound mind, continuing to do the work, I’m not as flinchable,” explains the star, who has been open about her battle with depression, sparked by the flop of her 2017 album Witness”. “I’m not untouchable or invincible, but it’s a little bit more like water off a duck’s back.”
Now Perry insists, ahead of the release of “Smile”, she is “full of resilience, full of joy and love.”
“After being on a rocket ship and just going straight up, it was just a small change in the trajectory, but it felt seismic,” says Perry, who also pressed pause on her romance with Bloom during her mental health battle. “It’s been two-and-a-half years of trying to find my footing. It’s so easy for me to work, work, work and avoid, but I had to go on a mental and spiritual journey.”

Perry compared her lowest moments to a “nightmare,” adding, “You feel like you’re being attacked, and you can’t wake up.”
The singer credited the Hoffman Process (a weeklong personal-development retreat that helps participants dig into negative behaviours conditioned from childhood) – for helping her to be able “to take the wheel back.”
“It got me out of this desperate loop of being the best pop star ever,” she insists. “I just really want to be a human being and have the dimension of life.”
“I get to live life, and I get to bring life into the world. Finding the gratitude in this pain has been a real journey, but the outcome is worth it.”

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The soon-to-be-mom is set to perform this coming weekend at a virtual concert which will be her last one for some time before she prepares for baby delivery.
Jul 24, 2020
AceShowbiz – Katy Perry is getting so close to becoming a mother she thinks her weekend performance at the Tomorrowland Around the World virtual concert will be her last for some time.
The “Roar” singer staged an online press conference on Thursday (23Jul20), ahead of the big show, and confessed she’s getting ready to play mum.
Asked if the show would be her last for the foreseeable future, Katy said, “I think it’s possible, yeah – other than, like, in my own shower.”
“I’m happy and I know my body feels good and so that means I can give a great performance.”
Perry will headline the event, featuring performances from DJs Steve Aoki and David Guetta, among others.
“Even though I’m like an extra 40 pounds, no one cares, but I’m still dancing around and still bringing that kind of sparkle in life, and fun, and joy,” she added, insisting her swan song gig could be one of her best.
“The performances are not on Zoom, and not from our couches, and they are a high level,” she explained. “They’re gonna be different than anything that you’ve tuned into during this time over quarantine. I think it’s gonna be worth a ticket for sure.”
Meanwhile, Perry’s new album, “Smile”, will be released on 14 August (20).

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During an appearance on shock jock Howard Stern’s radio show, the ‘Firework’ hitmaker admits she felt ‘so ashamed’ for having to take medication when she battled depression.
Jul 22, 2020
AceShowbiz – Katy Perry decided her latest album should be called “Smile” after realising she had lost hers during a battle with depression.
The pop star admits she was in a very dark place when she started work on the project and couldn’t find happiness in dating and shopping – the things she used to turn to when faced with the blues.
“I’ve always had a playful thing about my music and I lost that… I had really lost my smile,” she told shock jock Howard Stern during an appearance on his radio show on Tuesday, July 21, revealing the criticism she received about her previous album, Witness, really upset her.
“You create art and you’re excited for it to be received by the world. When it’s not received by the world, when it’s kind of like, ‘No, thank you’, you think, ‘Oh s**t, that doesn’t feel good’.”
“It was more (depression) than I had ever faced in my life. I’d had bouts of depression before, but I had been able to avoid falling into the really dark depression by making music. It’s like all these things you do to distract – you eat, you work, you get a new boyfriend, you shop.”
Things go so bad that Katy had to start taking medication.
“I was so ashamed… because I was like…, ‘I wrote Firework!’ But it was one of those things where I’d sprained my brain a little bit.”
Pregnant Perry’s new album, “Smile”, will be released next month.

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The ‘Fireworks’ hitmaker wears a red nose and shows no smile at all on the artwork of her upcoming sixth studio installment despite the title being ‘Smile’.
Jul 10, 2020
AceShowbiz – Katy Perry has shared the cover of her new album, “Smile”, with fans.
The “Roar” singer sent the image of herself looking down and fed up, while wearing a red nose, to devotees via her online newsletter, urging them to pre-order the release now.
The album, featuring the hits “Daisies” and “Harleys in Hawaii”, actually drops on 14 August (20), around the time of another major Perry release – the birth of her first child.

Smile comes with a collection of new merchandise, including rainbow socks, T-shirts, a jigsaw and a $20 (£15.80) face mask.
Meanwhile, the singer recently revealed she’s planning to take a long break following the album’s release, so she can focus on motherhood and plan her wedding to fiance Orlando Bloom.
“After my child comes, I’m going to go into my own other version of quarantine and I would like this record that I’ve been working on for two years to come out and be a gift to the public, because I think they’re all gonna be dancing in the street at some point when it’s safe,” Katy told “Good Morning America”.
She also admitted she started work on the new album – her fifth – when she was in a dark place two years ago, and feels the project is a kind of a rebirth.
“It’s a record about resilience and finding kinda the light at the end of the tunnel, because I’ve been writing over the past two years and in the beginning of those two years… I was kinda like clinically depressed and coming out of that and I didn’t know what my life was… and I couldn’t really imagine living, to be completely honest,” she explained.
“And now, I feel like I’ve done the work and I’m still doing the work, emotionally, spiritually, physically, psychologically and now I’ve come to this light at the end of the tunnel… I am gonna live and not only that, I’m gonna bring life into the world.”

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