Katy Perry appears in the latest issue of Hollywood Reporter to promote her upcoming 3-D movie, Part of Me. If you can believe it, Katy earned $44 million last year, which is even more than highest paid-actress Kristen Stewart’s $34.5 million paycheck. Naturally, Katy isn’t done grabbing your dollars by a long shot and is still capitalizing upon her divorce from Russell Brand, who requested to be removed from her movie, but Katy said no way. Now Katy has sat down for an interview with Hollywood Reporter (because she’s now a producer, yo), and discusses many things, including the short-lived “Kardsashian” marraige, but she’s essentially talking about herself. Here are some excerpts:
On the Kardashian wedding mess: “Nobody knows what really happened except the two people who are in it.”
She invested $2 mill in the Part of Me movie: “My frugal business manager, God bless him, was sweating, and I was like, ‘Please trust me.’ That’s kind of been the mantra I’ve said to everyone my whole life” ‘Trust me, I have a vision.'”
On songwriting: “Honesty has always worked for me. So if it ain’t broke, why f–ing fix it?” That transparency includes candid moments in the movie, which, two years ago, Perry readily admits she “wouldn’t feel completely comfortable with people seeing — me crying or looking like a hot mess. What was going on in my personal life was so overwhelming that I had to bend over to let those tears fall straight out of my eye sockets and not my false lashes just as I’m about to go up on that ramp and sing ‘Teenage Dream.’ I had to smack myself across the face and say, ‘These problems are my problems, they are not my audience’s problems, learn to separate that.'”
On her image: “People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn’t the case. Even though they don’t necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That’s always been their perspective. I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it’s very easy to be caught up in this world.”
Her hopes for the future: “I want to do something with my life. I want it to stand out like a sore thumb. I don’t want to just be like everyone else. I have never, like, gone outside of my body and seen myself, you know? And this is me seeing everything.”
She’s a homebody: Katy “insists she’d rather stay in than ‘go out and get twisted. … Because I probably have to wake up and work in the morning. And I have a lot more to lose.”
She’s going to open her own record label: “I’m preparing for it now.. And when this record label does come to fruition, I’m going to try and avoid the things that take away any fighting chance for an artist to have financial success. As people are coming to me with opportunities, I’m thinking, ‘How would I want to be treated?'”
Is she still “Teenage Dream” optimistic? “Absolutely. I still believe in love and marriage. I’ve just learned lessons along the way. I regret nothing.”
[From Hollywood Reporter]
It’s interesting how Katy never mentions her new pseudo-hardcore goth image in this interview, right? I’ll assume that there was a purpose to this omission since everything in Katy’s (public) life is carefully calculated. And that’s not an insult either — her people are masters of manipulating audience perception.
Now let’s talk about his photoshoot just for a moment. Katy looks really demure and respectful here. The Hollywood Reporter really knows its stuff, right?
Photos courtesy of Hollywood Reporter
I hate defending her, but maybe her look and music are evolving a bit. I don’t think it is goth, just the more adult KP. She can’t stay a teenage dream forever. We mock other artists cough, Madonna, b, etc fornot moving on, but slam KP for it.
I can’t hate her too much, even though I am not a pop girl. She’s a bit jsimpleton to me, harmless. At least maybe she is going for a new and more appropriate demographic.
Good point, Tiffany. Despite KP’s growing up sounds like a 13-year-old middle class emo’s diary, at least she’s trying to develop.
Ha! True. But hey, she’s trying. At least no more cupcake bras?
“And I have a lot more to lose.”
Did this rub anyone else the wrong way?
Some people don’t want what you have, Ms. Perry. I, for example, want Russell Brand on speaking terms with me.
Yup, It’s an obnoxious statement. Who can go out and get “twisted” without consequences? I’d argue that any non-celebrity would have more to lose because we don’t have team of handlers to spin our actions and clean up our messes. Her pr team needs to polish her message.
“I’d argue that any non-celebrity would have more to lose because we don’t have team of handlers to spin our actions and clean up our messes”
THIS! Most of us wouldn’t take the chances that say, a Lindsay Lohan would. We’re all too fearful of losing the things we worked so hard for. So many of the young celebs these days get 4th and 5th chances, whereas the average joe only gets one.
THIS
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It looks like women in music are taking better control of their careers than women in movies.
As for Katie, she still rubs me the wrong way. Nobody knows what happened, but everybody would judge you on what you have stated PUBLICLY. So please, do not expect people to respect your constant ex-bashing, no matter what you, and he, have done and said to each other behind closed doors.
Where it should have stayed, were you so preoccupied with your public image.
“Trust me, I have vision”.. of screwing kids out of a ton of moolah with my candy coated crap..
And look you guys, Katy’s so hard now-she dropped the f-bomb in an interview, ha.. this woman makes me nauseous..
and nobody wants to know.
I’ve probably said this before but you know you need to do some self-evaluation when Russell Brand comes across as the dignified, respectful person in the situation. The man was almost fired for telling someone he f**ked their grand daughter on air.
There’s nothing wrong with turning to your personal life for inspiration, Pink’s Funhouse album was all about her divorce but the way KP does it is just so cheap, exploitive and immature, I can’t put my finger on why.
My God I wish she would go away….
Is just me or in the second pic she looks like Megan Fox?
Those stripper heels are awful.
To me she’s meh.
Sheesh, Im so tired of the bland open mouthed face that seems to be the thing right now. Hey photographers and editors: looking like an effing emotionless mouthbreather is not fashionable!!! Do you want to emulate The Cracken? NO!!
“Nobody knows what happened” = KP’s PR team doing damage control.
No one knows what happened…
until her career starts slipping.
I truly hope I’m wrong, but I’ve a bad feeling Katy’s going to be the Jennifer Aniston of the music business.
Yeah I got nothing except those shoes in the top pic are fug, fug, fug!
Second that menlisa; on a separate note, yesterday’s Wall street journal had an interesting article on Universal’s attempted takeover of EMI (KP’s on EMI), the pic accompanying the story featured a picture of KP taken from that useless canadian award show referencing her as an “artist” If you carefully read the article it quotes her twice and it shows what a corporate whore she is, you can’t be GOth if you up the arse of your paymasters; you don’t have to agree with the WSJ’s politics, but their art,lit,music,fashion reviews and pieces,especially on their weekend edition, are top notch. THis girl is a complete fake and a label puppet.
I don’t understand why this blog keeps picking on Katy Perry for her new “goth” image. To my knowledge, she only mentioned making her music “darker” once or twice on Twitter, and at least one of those times seemed like an intentional joke to me.
Why do you keep acting like this is something she swore to? Frankly, it seems to me that this blog will hate Katy Perry no matter what she does. I’m not even a KP fan, but it’s starting to annoy me how this woman can’t ever catch a break on this site. She seems harmless enough to me.
Personally, I thought this interview was reasonably well grounded for someone who made so much money last year. Yes, she’s no rocket scientist. But, when you reach that level of fame, I have to think having any connection to sane thoughts (however fleeting) is something of an accomplishment.
I think she’s beautiful and I love her hair but she’s been so annoying this era. She milked the f*ck out of that bland album and I don’t see this movie doing that well. What makes her think that her fans will go to see her movie when they don’t even buy her damn albums.
She thinks she is deep but she isn’t deep at all.
I don’t understand all the anti-KP sentiment. She’s pretty harmless. I don’t take any ‘look’ she has as having much meaning, it serves a temporary purpose. The same as many other artists, though on a more extreme look-at-me level.
The adults in the room can read between the lines and decode her PR speak… it can be explained it to the kids (fans, not bloggers or commentators on CB) later.
She has a vision. Right.
I can’t…
Based on how boring this interview is, I can’t imagine spending not only today’s movie ticket price, but a 3-D movie ticket price to watch her talk incessantly about herself and “dance” around half naked. I’ll wait for the Russell Brand interviews where he is asked for his reaction to her movie. He was the most interesting thing about her anyway.
She and Russell have both been really classy about the divorce so kudos to them both.