Ontario, California, USA (AP) – In less than a year, Katy Perry has launched an album, campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris and, only this week, flew to space. While heading to Mexico City to start a world tour on Wednesday, pop superstar show no intention to lower intensity.
“I’m always open and say, ‘Why not?’ And ‘we are going to try,’ “he recently told The Associated Press in the midst of his essays in southern California. “The power of your thoughts is incredible because everything starts with a thought. I had this thought, ‘I want to go on tour.’ And here we are.”
With that opening to try, it is also accepted that not all efforts will be a victory. Her September album, “143”, received negative criticism, and she was also criticized for collaborating with the troubled producer Dr. Luke. Celebrities such as Olivia Munn and Emily Ratajkowski criticized the use of space flight resources such as superfluous and indulgent. And Harris finally lost November against President Donald Trump.
But Perry’s longevity and the scale of his fame since his 2008 success, “I Kissed to Girl”, are attributed at least partly at his disposal to get up after a setback, as he sings in his hymn of empowerment of 2013, “Roar”.
“I can control what I can control,” he said.
That mantra has refined in the last 15 years through its practice of transcendental meditation. The meditation technique has been adopted by a handful of celebrities, including – perhaps with more fervor – to the deceased David Lynch, whom Perry accredits for spreading the practice and his message.
“That changed my life. And I have undertaken a long inner trip to unravel some cables, answer some questions, be more focused, find power within myself,” he said.
Perry is fascinated by all the spiritual, coincidentally intertwining in conversation references to astrology, enneagram and cardology, which aims to impart mystical knowledge about the personality of an individual through game letters. Perry also attributes to his daughter, Daisy, having promoted her on a self -discovery trip and improving her “female divinity.”
“Being a mother simply makes you level up with that kind of power,” he said. “I think I have simply become the strong woman I always dreamed and idolatré.”
That trip has also directed its approach to music and the show, to the narrative of its science fiction theme Lifes Tour. Citing films like “Blade Runner” and “The Fifth Element” (“The Fifth Element”) as visual and thematic inspirations, Perry will play a video game character who faces evil forces.
“It really is about believing in oneself and leading with love. Those are always my messages, no matter how wrapping it or any tour it brings. It is love and empowerment,” he said. “When I can lead with the example, it simply spreads.”
The Perry tour, which has more than 80 presentations, will be mainly a sample of his career covering past successes, but with a touch of dance in some of the traditional pop songs. “I tell everyone that they have to wear comfortable shoes,” he explained.
In the almost two decades since Perry emerged as a pop star, he has made the ironic lyric – in line with his “very sarcastic” mood – and the sticky messages of empowerment the distinctive sign of his songs. The critical reception of his most recent albums has been less enthusiastic, but that has not stopped the 40 -year -old artist to give everything on this tour, qualifying her as “Disneyland on wheels.”
“I feel a responsibility for my audience that has really been with me on this trip throughout this life to give them that feeling they had when they heard for the first time ‘Teenage Dream,” he said.
This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
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