Luke, Max Martin, benny blanco), but it's her songwriting, her image, her balance of playfulness and confidence that pull the package together. (Perry named her fragrance Killer Queen, after one of the band’s signature songs.) Club tracks, ballads, classic pop-rock, and contemporary electronic music-Perry’s production collaborators are brilliant (Dr. At some point during adolescence, she discovered Queen, a band whose mix of flamboyance, power, and sexualized wit cracked her creative world open. But she also might just be what she is: a girl from Southern California who worked like crazy and didn’t flinch.īorn in 1984 to Pentecostal pastors in Santa Barbara, Perry (originally Katy Hudson) grew up on gospel music, putting out her first album, 2001’s Katy Hudson, on a Christian label. They are trying to expand the boundaries of what I think, and trying to learn from all this opportunity.” She might actually be a superhero. Talking to Apple Music in 2019, Katy Perry said she leads with her gut and lets her mind follow, and doesn’t make much sense of any of it until the work is done. Under all the sparkle and glitter, you could sense an artist grappling with messy human contradictions-about sexuality, about self-love, about asserting femininity in a man’s world. But she’s also an avatar for the modern female pop star in a post-Madonna world-the liberated woman who kicks open doors without knocking. She’s a little Disney, a little Betty Boop. The candy-coated pinup and the well of inner strength.
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