What will Katy Perry write next?
Chart-topper Katy Perry is at the O2 Academy in Newcastle next week. Entertainment Editor GORDON BARR has the details
HER song I Kissed A Girl was one of the catchiest summer anthems of last year.
Brit Award winner Katy Perry has since followed up its success with a string of smashes, all of which she will be performing when she plays the O2 Academy in Newcastle on Wednesday next week.
“I think people can appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides,” she says on her success.
“The whole angst thing is cool, but if that’s all you’ve got, it’s just boring.
“Everything I write, whether it’s happy or sad, has a sense of humour to it.
“Someone told me that I’m a bit like Lucille Ball. They said, ‘You look pretty put together on the outside, but inside there’s just something a bit wrong’.”
Comparisons to Lucille Ball only tell half the story. The Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter’s sassy confidence and feisty confessional songs have already had fans (including the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna) and savvy media singing her praises.
The harbinger of ‘what’s hot’, celeb blogger Perez Hilton, wrote of Perry on his website: “If Avril Lavigne were actually talented, pretty, and had an appealing personality, she’d be Katy Perry. She’s got the whole package!”
“I don’t care who I’m compared to as long as people listen to the music,” Perry says.
“Usually I find it funny to say I’m like a skinnier version of Lily Allen and a fatter version of Amy Winehouse. It always renders a good chuckle.”
It’s that sort of cheeky comment that encapsulates Perry’s irrepressible sense of humour.
Some may have questioned whether Katy Perry could follow up her Kissed A Girl success, but with her hit singles Hot n Cold and Thinking Of You, she proved without a doubt that she was no one-hit- wonder.
Along the way she has dived into a cake, flown onto our screens on a giant Banana and become a fashion icon.
Katy Perry is at the O2 Academy, Newcastle, on Wednesday next week.
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