Katy Perry has revealed that her daughter Daisy Dove inspired her new single “Lifetimes,” as she continues her musical comeback despite the underwhelming performance of her first track, “Woman’s World.”
The 39-year-old singer, who shares her daughter with fiancé Orlando Bloom, revealed on Thursday’s *The One Show* that her new song came from a sweet nightly exchange with Daisy.
She said, “‘Lifetimes’ is inspired by my daughter. I tell her ‘I love you’ every night before bed, and now I also ask, ‘Will you find me in every lifetime?’ She replies, ‘Yes.’”
“The sweetest thing is that, while traveling around Europe this summer, I bought a stack of chocolate gold coins. While we build sandcastles, I hide them in the sand for her to find, and she loves discovering them.”
‘So the other day I said ‘will you find me in every lifetime’ and she said ”yes and we’ll find chocolate coins together!”
‘So I just think you can find your soulmate, it can be your best friend, your pet, your daughter it can be your son, aunt, partner they come in many shapes and forms and they surprise you.’
The song is the latest single from Katy’s upcoming album 143, which is to be released on September 20th.
Discussing the title of the album, Katy explained: ‘That’s my angel numbers, it’s what I see when I need guidance or confirmation, or just confidence I’m in the right place, right time.
‘Some people need little feathers or 11:11, 143 is like my number.
‘I see it so much, it’s wild I see it in parking spots I see it on receipts I see it in so many different ways, and it just feels like a little message from the heavens that’s life: ”You’re going to be OK Katy,” because 143 I looked it up it means I Love you, and so I felt just so loved and safe.’
Katy also hinted that she and Orlando may be planning to spend time in the UK moving forward, after travelling to Britain to promote her new album.
She said: ‘Beyond Santa Barbara in California where I live, Orlando and I spend so much time in London, and we’ve been thinking about maybe splitting our time, we’d love to!
‘We feel like it is really refined. We spent all day in Hyde Park yesterday and went to the Princess Diana playground. It’s so great, great for kids.
‘[Daisy] literally went to a dinosaur themed high tea today, where else can you do that?’
Katy also showed off her racy sense of style in a daring grey bodysuit and a sheer black lace skirt as she arrived at BBC Studios to film her One Show appearance.
The outing comes after Katy’s long-awaited comeback single Woman’s World received a negative reception from fans and critics alike.
The song about female empowerment failed to crack the Top 10 and landed at number 63 in it’s first complete tracking week.
The pop anthem — from the singer’s forthcoming seventh studio album 143 — debuted at No. 65 on the Global 200 and at No. 47 on the UK charts.
Katy is said to be ‘freaking out’ and demanding that her team go ‘back to the drawing board’ to save her album from suffering the same fate.
In comparison, her last solo single Daisies, from her 2020 album Smile, peaked at No. 40 on the Billboard chart, before dropping off shortly afterwards.
Katy — who was recently seen filming a raunchy new music video with hunky shirtless model and stuntman Oscar Dorta — is ‘pointing the fingers at everyone but herself’ following the flop single, according to insiders – who claim she is desperately scrambling to devise a new plan to save her musical comeback.
The lead single from her upcoming album – billed as an empowering feminist anthem – was quickly dismissed as unoriginal, hypocritical and formulaic.
The Teenage Dream hitmaker also faced criticism for the sexualized nature of the accompanying video, as well as her decision to work with music producer Dr. Luke, 50, after his highly publicized legal battle with Tik Tock singer Kesha, 37.
‘Katy is freaking out right now because she is very aware of the feedback that Woman’s World is getting,’ an insider exclusively told DailyMail.com. ‘She is pointing the fingers at everyone but herself, but it is her own fault.’
The source claimed the biggest risk Katy had taken was reconnecting with Dr. Luke – the music producer who worked on her hit singles including 2008’s I Kissed a Girl and 2010’s California Gurls before later being accused of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse by Kesha.
The super producer, whose real name is Łukasz Gottwald, denied all allegations, including Kesha’s claim that he raped Katy – something she shut down.
A New York state judge ruled against Kesha in 2020 saying she had defamed her former producer with the claim, and an appeals court upheld that decision in 2021.
Music lovers have been vocal about their disdain for any artist choosing to work with the hitmaker following Kesha’s allegations, despite the pair reaching a settlement in 2023.
Some of Katy’s fans have defended the star by claiming she was forced to work with Dr. Luke due to contractual obligations. But Katy previously confirmed that she has no ties with the producer.
During her 2018 deposition for Kesha’s suit against Dr. Luke, Katy confirmed that she had only ever signed a three-album publishing deal with Dr. Luke’s Kemosabe Records and that the pair were no longer in a contractual relationship.
She also acknowledged what the public feedback would be if she chose to collaborate with Dr. Luke amid his battle with Kesha.
‘Working with him at this moment would mean – would not be – would not be received well because of this lawsuit,’ she stated.
When asked if she thought working with Dr. Luke would have a potential impact on the success of a future release, the Dark Horse singer responded: ‘[People would] protest against it, a smear campaign, just 20 different narratives than the one that I am.’
After DailyMail.com previously revealed that Katy had been warned not collaborate with Dr. Luke for the new album, the source confirmed that the Roar singer had ignored pleas.
‘She was insane to think that Dr. Luke was a good idea. She didn’t listen to anyone’, the insider stated. ‘Instead of diving deep and creating art she put something out that sounded like it could have been on an album of hers from 2010.’
Not only did the track see Katy team up with the producer, the track was also mainly written alongside men.
Dr. Luke, Aaron Joseph, Vaughn Oliver, and Rocco Did It Again! all co-wrote and produced the track – while Katy and Chloe Angelides are the only women who helped pen the song.
Not a single woman produced the album.
‘You don’t make a song about female empowerment with basically all men,’ the source said.
‘Katy cannot identify with other women because she lives in her celebrity bubble. She knows nothing about what it is like to be a woman in the real world.
‘She is not using her star power to make change in the world – she is using it to make money.’
Katy’s apparent response to critics who slammed the supposed message of the accompanying music video did little to help promote the lackluster single.
‘We’re kind of just having fun, being a bit sarcastic with it,’ she said in a clip from behind-the-scenes on set. ‘It’s very slapstick and very on the nose.
‘With this set it’s like, “Oooh, we’re not about the male gaze, but we really are about the male gaze.” And we’re really overplaying it and on the nose.’
In one of the more bizarre moments in the video, Katy is seen getting crushed when an anvil drops out of the sky. The flattened singer then goes on to re-inflate herself before she walks through a city wearing a futuristic look.
The former American Idol judge later explained the moment was meant as a ‘reset’ to help her embrace the ‘idea of feminine divine.’
With just weeks to go before she releases her new album, Katy is now desperately working with her team to ‘adjust’ the record in a bid to ensure a better reception.
The source explained: ‘Katy is now demanding that they go back to the drawing board ahead of the release of more singles and they are adjusting the album right now in a desperate attempt to salvage her comeback. She should be very grateful that they have three months to do this.’
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Source: CNN
