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Katy Perry announces new album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 13 May 2010
Katy Perry has announced details of her second album. It’ll be called ‘Teenage Dream’ and will be released on 30 Aug. The first single from it, ‘California Gurls’, will be out on 20 Jun, and is apparently a response to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ ‘Empire State Of Mind’, which is nice.
Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, Perry said of the single: “I decided that we needed to make a response. I want people to want to book a ticket to California the first time they hear it”.
While we’re on the subject of responses, you may have noticed that ‘Teenage Dream’ is also very similar to the title of the most recent album by dream poppers Beach House, ‘Teen Dream’. Even if you haven’t, they have. Linking to the Wikipedia page for Perry’s album, the duo tweeted this week: “Can’t believe this. And not in a good way, guess we have to write a song called ‘I Kiss A Girl'”.
