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Katy Perry to “step off the cloud” on next album

By | Published on Wednesday 4 July 2012

Katy Perry

Katy Perry has said that her third album will be wall to wall miserable songs about her divorce from Russell Brand earlier this year. So that’s something to look forward to. Well, she didn’t exactly say that, but she did say there’ll be less “cotton candy” and more “meat and potatoes”. I liked it better how I put it.

Speaking to the Radio Times, Perry said: “I feel I have a lot to say on the next record. I have a lot to flush out of the system. I’m not saying that I’m not going to be the candy queen any more, but I think it’s time for more meat and potatoes. With [last album] ‘Teenage Dream’, I created this cotton candy cloud with a kind of a wink and a kiss, and it was all cute and fun and playful. Now it’s as if I have had to step off this cloud and face reality. It’s like I’m falling from cloud nine and crashing from the sky, crashing from the sweetness of that moment”.

Giving an insight into the possible subject matter of her new songs, she spoke about the difficulty of trying to keep her marriage to Brand stable while maintaining an international career, saying: ‘Every ten days or so [while on tour] I would put everybody on pause for three or four days so I could go back and re-charge and see to my relationship and give that time, which was very intense for me because the show was still on the road. But I made that sacrifice because it was important for me and I had made a commitment at that time. Sometimes I had to fly in on the day of the show, completely jet-lagged and feeling like I had been hung by my ankles, and have to go on stage. But it’s like I pushed a button when I walked out [on stage]”.

So there you go, the marriage broke down despite frequent plane flights across the world. At least we know who to speak to when the polar icecaps melt away.

Perry was in London for the premiere of her new documentary film, ‘Katy Perry: Part Of Me’.



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