Katy Perry Breaks Silence on Criticism of Working With Dr. Luke

Katy Perry Responds to Criticism About "Woman’s World" Music Video

Katy Perry is speaking out.

The “Wide Awake” vocalist has responded to commentary surrounding her determination to enactment with controversia shaper Dr. Luke arsenic a collaborator connected her upcoming album, 143.

“I recognize that it started a batch of conversations,” Perry said connected the Sept. 4 occurrence of the Call Her Daddy With Alex Cooper podcast. “And helium was 1 of galore collaborators that I collaborated with.”

The brace person a agelong past together, stretching backmost to the producer’s engagement with her archetypal chart-topping azygous “I Kissed a Girl” successful 2008. However, the 39-year-old wanted fans to cognize that collaborations aside, the euphony comes from conscionable 1 place.

“But the world is it comes from me,” the “Woman’s World” vocalist noted. “The information is I wrote these songs from my acquisition of my full beingness going done this metamorphosis, and helium was 1 of the radical to assistance facilitate each that—one of the writers, 1 of the producers.”

“I americium speaking from my ain experience,” the performer, who shares girl Daisy with Orlando Bloom, explained. “When I talk astir ‘Woman’s World,’ I talk astir feeling truthful empowered present arsenic a mother, arsenic a woman, giving commencement creating life, creating different acceptable of organs, a brain, a heart. I created a whole-a-- bosom and I did it. I’m inactive doing it. And I’m inactive a matriarch. And feeling truly grounded successful that, that’s wherever I’m speaking from.”

As for her determination to merchandise caller music, the erstwhile American Idol justice noted that it was  purely an creator determination connected her part.

“I don’t consciousness similar I person to marque music,” she said. “I don’t consciousness similar I person to beryllium anything. I’m doing it present from a spot of solemnisation and love.”