KortneyKaty Perry spoke with Rolling Stone UK about why she felt “When I’m Gone” was the right release to come back with, if there’s satisfaction in being able to subvert people’s expectations, what Las Vegas requires for a good show, if becoming a mom has changed her perspective of music that she’ll release in the future, if she’s started to work on her new album, what she’s been listening to lately, what an “evolved space and new era” looks like to her and more.
Has becoming a mum changed the perspective of the music that you’re going to be putting out in the future? Katy: I mean, look, your life is better and fuller and bigger and brighter. And it’s almost like you’ve got a new lease on life because you see everything big to something completely mundane. I was watching her capture a bug in her hands yesterday, and the brightness in her eye and the awe and just the magic, it’s given me wings to see her go “what the hell is this?” There’s just so much joy and life and love. So I can only imagine that that will translate into some beautiful vibrations in the future. I mean I’m still trying to like, be hot. A yummy mummy.
Katy, you said in a recent interview that you wanted to move into an evolved space and a new era as an artist. What does that look like? Katy: I feel like I’m definitely always trying to evolve and always a new, different version of myself every single day. And I’m definitely not who I was five years ago and grateful for the growth every step of the way. But I guess for me that it’s just meaning doing what I love, and putting out the music that I love, and not thinking about the business side of it, I guess. Because there’s “what came first, the music or the music business?” I think it was the music and then there was, you know, capitalism on the other side, which is great because we all benefit from it.
But I think it’s fun to know that my main source of love and affection comes from my family, and from myself or whatever tools that I’m using and that it’s not in anyone else’s control anymore. I guess it would definitely be in my daughter’s control a little bit. But to know that that love is more unconditional and now I can just play and have fun and not think “oh, is something gonna work or not?” I’m just putting out what I’m feeling and vibing and hopefully that feels authentic and it isn’t about so much about “are we gonna win or are we making money?” But just like, “what’s the vibe?”
