Katy Perry: Getting Intimate (2014) - full transcript

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- Katy Perry is officially among
the most successful and

celebrated female
entertainers on the planet

Since her 2008 debut,
America's reigning pop queen

has sealed her place
in music royalty.

- Hi everybody. Welcome
to the behind-the-scenes

of the Hello Katy tour.

Ah!



Shh.

I think we should go
and just say hi.

They might freak out a
little bit.

Should we do it?

Yes? Yes? Yes?

( cheering )

- Katy's assent to mega stardom
has been so dramatic,

that she's the only woman
in history to have

five number one singles
from the same album.

Few know the real story
of Katy's bumpy ride

to super stardom and how success
very nearly passed her by.

- She was very, very, very, very
nervous, literally shaking.

She was right next to me,
and she was just,

like, her whole body
was convulsing.



- It's been quite the journey.

I was signed to major
labels and dropped.

They wanted me to be
like whatever was popular,

like the Avril Lavigne,
the Ashley Simpson,

the Kelly Clarkson at the time,
who I... I like those girls,

but I just wanted to be me.

When I was a kid, I grew up
in this very sheltered,

kind of suppressive atmosphere.

- She wasn't allowed
to watch any TV.

Bedtime stories were
just Bible verses.

Church was all she knew.

- Her parents are
Pentecostal ministers.

They came to the show in Paris

and they were
very reserved people.

- And when everything went mad
about Russell Brand and her,

and she was on the front
cover of every magazine,

it was a weekly kind
of Katy Perry fix.

- My comedy now is all about
sort of domesticity

and looking after cats
and burglar alarms

and oh, cleaning your
teeth together

When it used to be about roaring
through the London streets

with razor blades
and ticker tape and glitter

all over your tongue.

- We're getting married,
and we're gonna wear white.

- I was really surprised
because they just met

and then all of a sudden
they're getting married.

- It's extraordinary how
when Katy and Russell

got together the speed at
which they kind of

committed to each other.

- We interviewed Katy around
the time she was about

to get married to Russell,
and she said, you know,

when someone's the one
you just know.

She's a real romantic like that.

- Katy was in her mid-twenties,

awash with sex hormones
at that age.

Your biology is
positively screaming

I want to find someone
to have babies with.

- She was going with
her gut instinct.

- Now, when you're awash
with those hormones

and you connect at the kind
of animal level,

then you don't
make good choices.

- The romantic element
I keep private

because it's between me
and my lovely wife.

The crazy element,
you've seen my books.

Waking up in rooms full
of refugees,

hanging off of boats,
arrested in crack houses.

I had a ridiculous life.

- When you break up after
a whirlwind relationship,

you know people are thinking,
I told you so.

And how foolish would you
feel when you

had this ridiculously
huge marriage in India,

and then it all falls apart,
you know, like a year later.

- After coming through a
dark period

and a dark time where I lost
a lot of my self-confidence

because I was let down, or...
And I got very upset

in my personal life,

and so through that I lost
a lot of my strength.

And I had to turn inward.

- You love who you love.

You can't make yourself
stop dreaming

of who you're dreaming
of you know?

- I don't know.

I still believe in love,
most definitely.

I'm just gonna
let that take the lead.

- One thing is certain,
the ups and downs

of Katy Perry's spectacular life

will always work their
way into her music.

There is much that's paradoxical
about Katy Perry.

It's all part of
her unique charm.

Behind the kittens
and cupcake cuteness,

there lies a steely,
unsentimental attitude

towards the industry
that sustains her.

- I'm gonna take you on a
little tour, no pun intended.

This is Vern.

He makes this happen,
runs things.

That's where we keep
all the bad people.

The bad fans.

- Katy Perry isn't
a classic pop princess.

She's a real tigress.

- There are definitely
two Katys.

She treated us very well,
was very gracious.

Katy's personality is quite
difficult to gauge because

she does seem to exist in
two places,

and the Katy Perry persona
has one personality

which is obviously
the projection,

and then there's her.

- We don't have
the damn strawberries.

Bradford, this sucks.

We don't have strawberries.

- You gave them all
away last night.

- I gave my strawberries
away last night.

We have these specially-made
strawberries that you

can probably see all
over the Internet

because we get them made.

They're larger than life.
They're about this big.

And then we toss them out
into the audience

and they kind of, like, bounce
them around like beach balls.

- There were a couple of moments
on the first two gigs

when the video screens
didn't work.

A couple of the production
managers got bawled out.

We saw them running away
from the production office

sort of looking
very disgruntled.

So she runs a tight ship,
and she wasn't very happy
about that.

- Where's my cherry Chapstick?

Bradford, do you have my
cherry Chapstick?

A man should never have
a woman's cherry Chapstick.

- Katy is very different
from a lot of stars.

While we were there rehearsing,

she was just nice enough
to introduce herself

to everyone, and she didn't
come in like she...

She owned the place,
even though it was

all about her, you know,
it was her show.

She was just really humble,
which was nice to work with.

- Hello.

Oh, yes, my microphone stand.

Hold on, stay right here.

- When we got onto her tour bus,
that was definitely

the peek behind the curtain,
and you felt like

you were meeting
the real Katy there.

And having just been exposed
to Katy Perry for four weeks,

and that larger-than-life
persona, and she looks like

a doll, and her eyelashes
are insane and, you know,

she's wearing six-inch heels
whenever you see her,

so she towers over you,
and then you meet

the real person and
she's just this sort of

quite fragile girl in a
Juicy couture track suit

and some Uggs with her hair
in a scrunchie.

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- So I like a theme, like
I told you, kittens and fruit.

I don't know why.

- I would expect from Katy
to turn up

in some glamorous outfit, like,
looking amazing, and she just

turned up in track
suit bottoms, hat, sunglasses,

and she was like, let's go.

- What you see is what you get.

She's like a normal girl.

- I'm not a very complex girl.
I just like certain things.

And so I had them make an
LED fruit-glittered
microphone stand.

LED lights basically
this lights up

into different colors
of the rainbow when it's on,

and it can pulsate and
it can flash different...

Different rhythms and different
colors to match the song

if it's... like a song called
"Hot and Cold,"

it will go up and down,
and these fruit glitter.

And it's kind of heavy.

And then I have my microphone
crystallized with cherries.

It's these little things
that keep me really happy

to be on the road 365 days
out of the year.

- I also have danced for Pink.

Comparing those two,
Katy was very, very much

like a new girl to the scene,

very shy, kind of smiled to us,

whereas Pink was with us
on stage, right guys,

like, directing us literally.

So the difference, you know,
was massive at the time.

- So I have to tell you,
I started...

Everybody always asks, is there
something you do before a show.

And I never used to have
a ritual per se,

besides warming up
and stretching, but then

after singing every other
day for, like, five days for

a whole year and a half...
Five days a week,

my voice started getting
a little bit tired,

and I needed to come up
with more of a ritual.

And my very close friend
and manager said,

when Roy Orbison was alive,
he used to drink a Coca-Cola

and have a Tylenol
an hour before his show,

and he put on a performance
like no other,

every single night.

And K.D. Lang does it as well,
and I guess I started doing it.

So every night,
an hour before my show,

I have some Coca-Cola
and a Tylenol.

And I don't know if
it's good or bad, but I think

it just messes with my mind
to let me know

we're gonna have a great show.

It's probably not
the greatest idea

because caffeine isn't
usually good for singers.

I'm having... I'm probably
freaking out so many vocalists

that are watching
this right now.

They're like,
that is a horrible idea.

Well, Roy Orbison did it,
and he's a classic.

Come on!

- She seemed very young
and quite vulnerable, and yeah,

she seemed tired,
but that's to be expected.

You know, the weight of
the world is on her shoulders.

She is literally carrying
all of these people

in this huge sort
of monolithic career

she's built for herself.

- My mother never
let me drink Coca-Cola.

That's really
why I think I do it.

- The amount of pressure
those thousands of people

that are out there every
night waiting to see her.

- The pressure on Katy
would be absolutely enormous

to keep going the way she does.

But you have to remember,
someone who makes it

to the top in the world that
she has, is incredibly focused.

- Trapped in an elevator.

- They are determined,
they are goal-directed.

Those are psychological traits
that set them up to get there.

As long as she has a
good support group around her,

she will manage
the pressure around her.

- She's very much in
her bubble and looked after.

- We're here.

- A lot of her friends from
back home are part of the crew.

She wants to keep them
around her, which I thought

was really charming and,

you know, suggests she's
a really good person.

- This is my band.
- Hi.

- Hello,
random television camera.

- We have one, only-Japanese
speaking person in the band.

He doesn't speak English

- I can't understand
a word you're saying.

- We only make fun of him.

- She was there for everyone,

and she was just working
as a whole team.

- I hate to keep on using
the word gracious,

but it describes her behavior.

- She's an amazing artist
and a performer, but she's real,

and that's why I think people
just absolutely love her.

- Should we tell the camera
who is here tonight?

- Her publicist always says,
oh, Katy's so funny,

like, she just doesn't
take herself too seriously.

Just you can have
a laugh with her.

- Okay. So my...

- There's a rumor Prince Harry...

- Prince Harry is here.
- Not William.

- I love a hot gin.

No, I don't. Um, really...

- Just kidding.
- Just kidding.

My sister is a ginger.

I've had enough of that
in my life already.

- She's really sort
of charismatic and really fun

and bubbly, just a barrel
of laughs to go out with.

- I think she's fabulous.

You know, she's a wonderful
role model.

She gets out there,
she does her own thing.

- I'm very independent.

I can take care of
myself, and yeah,

I want to cuddle sometimes, and
yeah, I get hungry sometimes.

And I'm nice generally, but
I want to do my own thing.

- She's not afraid to be normal.

- That's definitely part
of her personality

and something that
she's always trying to project

that she's approachable and,
you know, down to earth.

- Come on, show us the...
This is the prom king.

This is the prom queen.

I always want to
really relatable, like,

when I reach out there, I want
them to be able to reach back.

Every night I go into
the crowd, and I get, like,

into the crowd and,
you know, after I come back,

everyone's like, you're crazy,
you got to stop doing that.

And I'm like, why?
They don't expect it.

That's that one extra
thing that they don't expect

that's kind of like, wow,
she's normal,

or she's like a real person.

I hate the idea that
I'm any different than them

or that they couldn't do this.

I hate when musicians
think they're better

than other people, or they
stop relating or connecting.

I think it's all about
the connection,

and I always want to connect
with my audience.

I want them to know that
we're kind of on the same team.

We are on the same team.

( cheering )

- Thank you so much.

- Since the inception
of her career,

Katy Perry has become
a global brand.

In the midst of promoting
her music,

the perpetually busy star
has been building

a multimillion dollar
product empire.

With an impressive array
of commercial achievements

ranging from album sales
and merchandise to touring

and endorsements,
in every category,

Katy is at the forefront.

- I'm really happy
to present Purr here in London

first and foremost,
next week in New York City,

it will be fantastic.

- Does it represent Katy?
- I think it does.

- Yeah. Yeah.
- It's very, very sexy, so...

- Yeah.
- I want to go and buy it.

- We just think she's amazing.

- Katy is
the ultimate businesswoman,

has endorsed lots and
lots of products.

She's a true businesswoman.

- She has three fragrances.

- Killer Queen, Purr, and Meow.

- She has, like,
her pop chips endorsement,

and her GHD endorsement.

- She has had a range
of nails, and a range

of nail varnish from OPI.

- She also has her own
range of fake eyelashes.

- Her statement look
is her false eyelashes.

- She's the face of
the cosmetics brand Cover Girl,

and she's also had a role in
the console game, Sims 3.

- This is a woman who is
very astute and very clever.

She was the first person
to wear tiger print nails

or put Smurfs on her nails.

And in fact, when she
wore some yellow nail varnish

to the MTV awards,
it sold out afterwards.

- It's important to kind of
have a brand

and create your own, you know,

excitement, but Katy does that,

but the music is always first.

- Hearts on my butt.

We look smashing, don't we?
Okay, not really.

I'm not a one-hit wonder.
I'm not a two-hit wonder.

Hopefully not
a three-hit wonder.

I'm just happy.

I'm happy that it's happened

and it's happened to go
for so long.

- Before she roared onto
the pop scene

as the incarnation of
a global megabrand,

Katy Perry's formative
years were less starry.

In the 1960s, Katy's father,
Keith Hudson

lived a hedonistic,
party lifestyle.

He was part of the
Strawberry Fields Forever group,

a hippy movement
which dealt in LSD

and campaigned for
controversial drug advocate,

Timothy Leary, to be elected
as governor.

- Keith and Mary Hudson,
they both actually

had kind of wild child pasts.

A typical hippie Keith was.

He's known to have
taken LSD in the past.

And one day, I'm not sure
if he'd been taking LSD

or not that day, but he was
in an apple orchard

when he suddenly had
these amazing visions

of Bible verses in the sky,

and he knew that his calling
was to become a preacher.

- Katy's mother, Mary Perry,
was an equally free spirit.

A flamboyant wild child
who traveled the world,

and dated legendary
guitarist, Jimi Hendrix.

- Mary, she was a bit of wild
child in her past as well.

She used to hang out with
Jimi Hendrix at one time.

And then she had gone
off to Zimbabwe.

She married a one-legged
race car driver,

but that didn't work out.

She came back and she became
a news reporter,

and it was while covering
a church event

that she ran into Keith.

She fell for him, and she
fell for God on the same day.

- The couple gave up life
in the fast lane.

They found God,
and Katy's destiny

as a preacher's child was set.

The contrast between
Katy's past and present

couldn't be more stark.

Born in 1984 in the sleepy
coastal village of

Goleta, California,
Katy grew up in a happy,

but sheltered, household,

utterly protected from
the outside world.

- I love Easter.

If Easter could be
every single holiday,

that would be perfect for me.

Because I remember
loving Easter so much,

dressing up in those
big dresses and the hats

and going to church,
and I'm like, yes

I look like an Easter egg.
I'm so happy right now.

I'm only ten years old.
I don't know.

I'm attracted to colors and
things that make people smile.

- Katy was born in 1984 in a
very quiet part of California.

- She comes from a really sweet
family, the all-American family.

- Katy has two siblings, a
brother David and sister Angela.

- She's very close with her
brother and sister.

- Her sister was
on the tour with us,

and she seemed
to interact with her a lot

and delegate stuff to her.

They're quite close
and they work together.

- When I tour,
I take my sister with me.

She's essential.

She doesn't care how
many records I've sold

or what I'm doing or
who I'm playing for or,

you know, yadda yadda yadda.
She puts me in my place.

She loves putting me
in my place actually.

And I... I fearfully respect her.

Because of that I have this,
like, fear, you know those...

That fear you have
of your parents

when you're little
of like, okay, yes.

It's kind of the same fear
I have of my sister.

We love each other,
from a distance.

I'm just kidding.
It's like Bodyguard.

No, it's not.
Hopefully, God, it's not.

- Christianity played
a huge part

in Katy Hudson's upbringing.

Her devout Pentecostal parents

had strict beliefs
and practices.

- She had a very
unusual childhood

and was sort of cocooned
from normal society.

- Both of her parents
are pastors.

They're very religious.

- They were extremely
strict parents,

but it was more the value
and the very strict

conditions that her
parents put on the children

that affected her somewhat.

- Coming from her
family religious background

and stuff, it must have been
extra hard to make it.

- The religious upbringing
that Katy had would have had

a tremendous impact
on her personality.

- Katy's come out publicly
and said quite a lot

of negative things
about her childhood.

She in fact once said she
didn't have a childhood.

- Katy's parents became
traveling ministers.

From the age of three,
her childhood was

spent traveling across
America as her parents

founded new churches.

With no fixed home, the family
lived in Oklahoma,

Arizona, and Florida.

Freelance ministry is not
a lucrative line of work.

The family gave their all to God

and often struggled financially.

- Between the ages of 3 and 11,
she actually traveled a lot

with the family because
they were traveling from town

to town preaching
this fire and brimstone.

You know, hell, Satan,
it was all very real to her.

- You've got to remember
that those sort of

quite serious religions like
the Pentecostal religion

that her parents are a part of,
lay down a very strict path.

You know, you have
to follow that path.

Katy's not a natural follower.

- In the Hudson household,

the devil was made out
to be a real person.

Her mother, in fact,
banned the word "lucky"

entirely from the
household because she said

it had connotations of
Lucifer, the devil.

- She did have to rebel
against her background

and her upbringing,
so it probably took

quite a lot of strength
for her to do it

and that's what we really
admire about her.

- It's surprising because
she certainly wears

some pretty full-on outfits.

- She's cheeky.

- Her past was a lot
more sort of good girl, really,

whereas now I think she's got
a bit of a naughty side.

- And there's
my cherry Chapstick.

We have a couple versions
of this Cherry Chapstick,

a larger one and then
the little sister one.

And I bring this out every night
because for some reason

even though "I Kissed a Girl"
has been playing for maybe

a year and a few months now,
people still forget

to bring their
Cherry Chapsticks to the show

It's very perplexing.

All these girls in
the front row forget

to bring their cherry Chapstick,
so then they miss

the opportunity to lock lips
with yours truly.

So luckily for them,
I bring my own.

I carry it thousands of miles.

It's been to Japan, it's been
to Moscow, it's been to London.

Well, we're in London.

It's been everywhere and
we have to get it cleaned

every single night because
sometimes girls

end up kissing it.

And at the end of the night,
I kiss a girl.

That's right.

I've kissed over
a hundred girls.

- By the time Katy was 11,
the Hudson family had settled

in Santa Barbara, California,

where she spent
her teenage years.

Despite Katy's
strict upbringing,

or perhaps because of it,
her quirky style began

to shine through before
she reached her teens.

- I remember when
I was in sixth grade.

I've always been obsessed
with clothes,

and as a little girl till now,

the obsession has
gotten a lot worse.

But I remember seeing
a fake vintage leopard coat

in an antique store.

I really wanted it, and
I think it was, like, $60,

which was a lot
of money and, you know,

I don't come from anything,
and that was a big present.

But I remember I opened
it up on Christmas day

and I got it and
I wore it in California,

which is not winter weather,
you know,

and it's this heavy,
like, leopard jacket.

And I remember after that
break of Christmas break

and then going back to school,
everybody wears

their new outfits and
they're so excited.

Everything is, like,
squeaky and glossy,

and everybody looks like
a walking model, you know,

and I wore my leopard coat,
and I got so made fun of.

All the kids hated it, but
I knew I was doing something

really good because all
the moms that were picking up

the kids were, like,
sweetheart, where did you
happen to get that coat?

It's fabulous.

And it was like,
you just wait and see.

You may only be 12,
but your 30-year old mom

loves it, and she might
know something.

She reads Vogue,
you read Teen People.

- Katy actually confessed
to Cosmo about how she wasn't

actually even allowed
to read Cosmo when she was

a teenage girl because
it had too much sex in there,

which is quite funny now

because she's been on
the cover so many times

She told us it was because
her parents didn't approve

of the sex content
and didn't like the fact

that there was a girl
on the front cover

with a bit of cleavage showing.

And now she is indeed one
of those girls with her cleavage

out on Cosmo and she loves it.

She feels empowered by it.

When I think about
who I want to go on the cover,

I always think about Katy,
and it's crazy

that as a teenager she
wasn't allowed to read it.

But it's come full circle now

and she's very pleased
with that transformation.

- Have you ever kissed a girl?

- I haven't. I'm saving myself
for Miley Cyrus.

- She's a wonderful role model.
She gets out there.

She does her own thing.

She actually made people
feel fine with her saying

that as a preacher's daughter
you've been saying that,

you know, I kissed a girl
and I liked it.

- It seems as though that was
an attention-grabbing thing

to talk about,
sort of very provocative,

but absolutely not when
you meet her and you can see

that this is absolutely her.

She's quirky.

- Actually, it's kind of one
of those things where, like,

you open up a magazine

and you look to your
significant other

and you're like, I'm not gonna
lie, if Scarlett Johansson

walked into the room
and she wanted to kiss me,

might let her.
I hope you're okay with that.

It's one of those, like,
that's my one.

And it talks about, like,
just like the magical beauty

of a woman and how,
like, special that is,

and how we can pretty
much do anything.

We are the dominant species.

- Katy's parents
weren't accepting,

especially after she came
out with songs like,

"I Kissed a Girl," which
the Hudsons actually publicly

decried as shameful
and disgusting.

- It was so daring for her
to do that and to make

other people feel good
about experimenting,

and I think that's a very
healthy role model to have.

- At the time, it was
really unheard of, you know,

this really sexy girl singing
about kissing girls.

And I thought,
oh, my God, that's so cool

- You think that maybe
the relationship between

Katy and her parents now
would be a little strained,

but they actually
all get on very well,

and her parents support her
in what she does.

- I think the "I Kissed
a Girl"s were never like,

ooh, let's see how I can stir up
the pot of scandalous, you know?

It was actually
just me telling my story

and that is how I see
the world, you know?

And that's kind of like
the funny, messed up way

I live my life, I guess, with
a dark kind of undertone...

Sarcastic, dark undertone.

Humor is so important
in my life.

Laughing is just, like,
it feels so good,

and it's a main ingredient
for, you know,

everything I do because
it can be really stressful,

and there can be a lot
of responsibilities.

And sometimes you just
gotta let it roll off your back

and have a laugh about it,
or turn it into

that kind of thing, like, oh,
what can you do, you know?

If I start to edit myself
and the things I'm saying,

then I don't think
the people that first

bought my record will
really know that

it's coming from an
honest place, you know?

I'm not trying to edit
myself for other people

and write a record
that other people want.

I'm writing a record
that I want.

- Katy Perry may have rebelled
against a Christian past,

but her upbringing
is undoubtedly responsible

in some part for
her overwhelming appeal.

Gospel music propelled
Katy into the music world,

and still remains at her core.

- Katy is still
religious to this day.

She has publicly said
that she believes in God.

- She has a tattoo that
says Jesus on one wrist.

- She got the tattoo
at the age of 18

to remind her where
she comes from.

- She hasn't had it removed,
so you have to assume

that there is a level
of faith there.

- She does have these
real traditional values,

but her career has been anything
but traditional, you know?

She's been quite outlandish.

- Although the
Pentecostal religion

would have been imprinted
on her, sort of whole psyche,

she's found her own way to
go through life,

and she seems to straddle
both her religious background

and being in
the pop world, which,

let's face it,
the music industry

can be quite a dirty world.

- She's been quite provocative
and sexy at times,

and that's what
we love about her.

- She's just so real,
and she's just...

She's just like this
normal girl that's happened

to follow her passion,
never give up.

You can really, really see
that in her career path.

- In one sense her religious
upbringing would have given her

a kind of inner strength,
but in another sense,

she would have also felt
quite naturally, well,

I'm going to follow my own path,

because she's a
very strong personality.

- When you do end up
in the spotlight,

there's still all those things
going on in relationships,

in friendships, in your family,
and you definitely

don't air them out as much,
or I never really did

in the first place much.

But that's where kind of like
my songwriting comes from,

is my own therapeutic moments
I need to have with myself

to get over a situation, or
get over a problem I'm having,

or deal with something
I'm going through.

I usually write a song about it.

And I've been through a lot.

- The natural music ability
which would make Katy a star

was apparent by the age of
13 when she began

to play the guitar
and write her own songs.

- The first times I started
singing was in church.

But then when I
started playing guitar,

I would go into the newspaper
and I would find, you know,

karaoke... not karaoke,
open mic sessions

and coffee shops that would
let anybody sign up to play,

although I was pretty
good at karaoke.

And I would go there and I would
just pull out my guitar

and play these little rough
drafts of songs

and get people's feedback and
really see if it was connecting,

if people really related to it,

or if they would even listen,
you know?

- Katy Hudson, as
she was known then,

has always been very,
very interested in music.

Her family called her
Katybird or the songbird

because she was just
always warbling away.

And it was about at the age
of nine that her mother

suggested she start
to get singing lessons,

and they quickly
noticed her talent.

- She was in a gospel choir,

and she is an accomplished
guitarist.

- Katy asked for
her first guitar at age 13,

which she received
for her birthday,

and she started writing songs
pretty much straightaway.

A lot of them were about
God and gospel songs,

but she did privately,
behind her parents' back,

also start writing
little tunes about boys

and normal teenage stuff.

- It would be a sad day for me
if I sang songs that I felt like

any other pop artist could just
put their vocals on or sing.

I'm happy to be pop.

I'm happy that the music
is very mainstream,

but I also need it
to be storytelling.

- With a talent for
translating personal pain

into professional triumph,
Katy unifies her audience who

relate to her autobiographical
lyrics on a personal level.

- She's very, very
good on stage.

She's worth seeing because,
like, it's... like, I don't like

when you go see a show and,

like, the artist doesn't
really connect with the crowd.

But she's always got
a story to tell,

and she's always quite funny
even though at every show

she says she's not
a very good public speaker,

it doesn't stop her.

- Lyrics are so important to me.

I mean, how many times
do you turn on the radio

and hear and song and
you're like, what in the...

What are they saying?

What... what is it
that they're saying?

I know they're talking
about the club and the beat

and the DJ and the dance,

but does it mean anything
at the end of the day, so...

- Katy Perry is not your
average manufactured act.

A lot of people think she
has nothing to do

with her own songwriting,

but actually in fact
she is very involved.

She does work with
other producers, of course,

however, all her lyrics
come from, you know,

real life experiences and
are very personal to her.

- Max Martin is a very big
songwriter from Sweden.

He helps me with melodies and
then I... and then I'll slap

all of my lyrics on top of it,
and for some reason,

a kid that's four years old
can sing it to a person

that's 85, my grandmother even.

- The queen of modern pop
is no stranger

to a suggestive song lyric,
but raw emotions are

the driving force behind
the Perry phenomenon.

- To my personal life and
in interviews and

when I sit down to talk
about things,

sometimes I don't give as
much detail as I used to,

but I think I am saving it
for the songs,

and the songs I'm just
gushing, you know?

- Katy won't always talk
about her personal experiences

in interviews, but she will talk
about it through her music.

- She tell a story
through her songs.

It's not just a song
for a song's sake.

You listen to her album
and you feel

like you've gone
through it all with her.

- At heart she's a naturally
creative person

as a singer songwriter,
and we know in art therapy

and music therapy,
how powerful they are

as tools at a therapeutic level.

- She seems to really relate
to people with her lyrics.

- She writes it herself and
then the lyrics are written

from personal experience.

You can totally imagine
it's about that breakup

and what she'd been through,

and that's why I love
her music so much.

Lyrics we all could cry
to sometimes

because we think about
a boy or a breakup

and we can put ourselves
completely in her shoes.

- She was kind of
doing her own therapy

by being creative, pouring
her heart into her lyrics.

That is a powerful way of sort
of moving yourself forward.

- During Katy's childhood,

the Hudson family
lived a sheltered life.

She and her two siblings
were not permitted

to watch cable channels
like MTV,

and pop music
was banned in the household.

- I didn't really have a whole
lot of MTV in my life

growing up, but I know that
when I did see

the bits and pieces I saw,
they were really, like,

powerful and it really
affected me,

and I kind of grew up always,
you know, having that

in the back of my mind saying,

oh, I want to be a part
of something like that.

- Katy was exposed to gospel
music only through her family.

She was actually banned
from watching TV,

she told us it was because
her parents didn't approve.

- She wasn't allowed
to watch any TV,

but obviously they
couldn't block everything out,

and so, you know as
she became a young teenager

and she went to friends'
places, she'd watch MTV.

- When I was a kid,
I remember getting a hold

of that "Jagged Little Pill"
record by Alanis Morissette.

I felt like I was the only
person going through whatever

I was going through and
then she sang songs

and wrote songs about it,
and I was like,

"okay, I'm not alone, great."

- Katy seems to have a lot
of different influences.

- She loved Alanis Morissette
which is quite at odds

with her where she's playing
the guitar

and she's singing
Christian songs.

She's a real country girl.

- Early style icons
were Gwen Stefani

and Shirley Manson in Garbage.

- Other influences included
Madonna, Joni Mitchell,

and Gwen Stefani in particular.

- She liked these sort
of rock star women.

That's why her career took
a while to progress.

It was about finding herself
and finding her sound.

- She's obviously
this pop phenomenon now.

She tried to go down
that slightly more

underground route first.

- It took her a while to do
that because she did

have to rebel against her
background and her upbringing.

So it probably took quite
a lot of strength for her to do

it and that's what we
really admire about her.

- I would have to add
to that Madonna

has been a real
inspiration for her.

Certainly you can see
the kind of 80s,

"Desperately Seeking Susan" in
Katy quite a lot of the time.

- I want to be that what is
she doing next artist.

I really do because all
the people that I am inspired

by are those types of artists,
so...

Like Freddy Mercury, Madonna.

Everybody's always like,
what are they gonna do next,

or what did he do next, or...
You know what I'm saying?

So I definitely want
to push the envelope

and just play music, good music.

I'm a female pop,
you know, person.

I feel like sometimes
you're missing those females

in the pop music industry
that actually bring it.

- The first time she
heard Freddy Mercury's voice,

it was just like time
stood still for her.

- You wouldn't imagine
her liking somebody

as rock as Queen,
but she really did.

- I had that moment when
I was 15, and I had come

from this sheltered upbringing

and didn't know really the name
of a Madonna song, you know?

I didn't know really any
of that type of stuff

that everybody was
just like, duh, to.

And my best friend put on
a soundtrack to our day

as we were, you know,
raiding her closet,

and I remember
"Killer Queen" came on.

And it was like I heard
the song and we were, you know,

trying on these dresses on
top of her bed

in this full length mirror,
and this song came on,

and I just, like, had to sit
down on the edge of the bed

and listen to these lyrics,
and I was just like,

oh, my gosh, I never
thought that anybody

could write lyrics like these,
especially a guy.

Brian May from the band
Queen is here,

gonna watch the show tonight,

so I'm a little
nervous actually.

- We're gonna invite him...
- No, you're not.

- Yes. He was talking
to me about playing.

- No, you're not. I'll throw up.

I'll... I won't be
able to perform.

( wretches )

- All right. Pink flamingos.

- I saw that movie.

- Pink flamingos. Everybody
say John Waters on three.

- One, two, three...
John Waters!

- Go, stretch, go!

( cheering )

- One, two, three.

( cheering )

- Brian May came
to a show in London.

I had actually been
stalking him and, you know,

having some of the people
that I worked with

send emails saying, oh, by
the way, we're in town again.

F you ever have a night off,

we'd love for you to come
out and see the show.

I was really nervous when
he actually decided

he was going to show up,
but he was lovely

and supportive and cool and
hung out with my bandmates,

you know, when he probably has
a million other things to do.

- By the time she was 15,
Katy Hudson's passion

for music had grown.

Chaperoned by her parents,
she began taking trips

to Nashville, Tennessee
to pursue a career in

the Christian music industry.

- Katy left school at age
15 when she went off

to Nashville to make
her first album.

- She was taking trips
to Nashville and exploring

the music scene when she
was 15 years old.

She went back and forth.

- She did end up finishing her
high school diploma later on.

- She got signed by a label,

then she released
a Christian album.

- Katy's first album,
Katy Hudson,

was released in 2001.
It was gospel music only.

- It wasn't successful.

- A Christian gospel album,
and sold, like, 200 copies.

- Unfortunately,
the label went bust.

- It was just a case of finding
herself, and I think that's

why it was great that
she didn't make it

in those early years with
those country albums,

because that wasn't her,
and this is her now

and it's really empowering
that she can be that.

- Hi everyone.

( cheering )

- This is kind of awesome.

( cheering )

- Can you hear me all
the way back there?

( cheering )

- Listen, so this is the
thing that's gonna happen.

I have to act like
a professional on

this pink carpet for a second,
and after I'm done acting

like a professional,
I'm gonna come out

and get wild with you, okay?

( cheering )

- Disappointed but undaunted
by the failure

of her first album,

Katy Hudson adopted
a new surname,

abandoned the gospel genre,
and age just 17,

headed to Los Angeles
to pursue her dream of

stardom on the pop circuit.

- I started out playing
in this place

in Los Angeles called
Hotel Café.

A lot of musicians
come through there,

a lot of singer songwriters.

But you never know
who's going to show up.

You can go into, like,
a bar and play a song

and not have anybody listen and
you really kind of made it.

- After her first album's
non-event, she wasn't deterred.

She decided to go to California

and to pursue a career
in pop music.

- She'd actually been
working really hard

behind the scenes for many
years and trying to make it.

- Katy changed her last
name from Hudson to Perry,

which is her
mother's maiden name,

because she was worried that
she would get associated

with the Hollywood
actress Kate Hudson,

because she was convinced
that she would become famous.

- After her arrival in L.A.,
Katy was introduced to one

of America's foremost
producers, Glen Ballard,

who was responsible for
Alanis Morissette's

chart-topping hit,
"Jagged Little Pill."

- Katy met with Glen and
he was straightaway

convinced that
she would be a star.

Things started going
really well at first.

She was writing heaps
and heaps of songs,

and it looked like she would
get an album out.

However, things stalled
quite quickly, and the next

few years would be incredibly
frustrating for Katy.

- Unable to secure a record
deal though Island Def Jam,

Katy subsequently signed
with Columbia records,

but they too let her go.

- Originally her managers
wanted her to front a band

in a Joan Jett style,
like a rock and roll band,

and that didn't work out,
and they tried

different incarnations.

- She was trying
lots of different tacks

to get her music out there.

- Given that her management
company also managed the B-52s,

it's not that much of a leap
to think that that's

probably originally how
they'd envisioned her

as something more underground.

- They kept saying you could
be the next Avril Lavigne

or Kelly Clarkson, and
she didn't want to be.

She just wanted
to be the first Katy.

- By 2006, having been dropped
by three record labels,

Katy was broke and on the edge.

- The guys that really
didn't understand

my artistic vision
were like, no, we...

We're not gonna put
her record out.

And I played my songs,
I kept playing my songs,

and what was responding
were the people.

They were there for me.

And people were
supporting these songs

and they were telling me this...

That this was
the right thing to do.

- She had a period in 2006
where she was quite down

and she was struggling
to get her first album out.

She admits she went out drinking

quite a bit at that stage.

- She's not had an easy journey.

She's worked hard
for her success.

- There's that definite sense
of incredible determination.

- Katy is a billion trillion
percent dedicated to her craft.

- If you want to succeed
in anything,

you've got to just
absolutely dedicate

your life to it, and she has.

- Katy's undeniable talent
and willful determination

to succeed paid off in 2007

when she was signed by
the Capitol Music Group.

By November that year,
a digital release

of "You're So Gay"
was unleashed.

- It's important for me
to come out and support

Katy Perry because I've been
a big fan of hers

for a long time, before Madonna.

In case you don't know,
Madonna gave her a shout out

a few times saying that one
her songs, "You're So Gay,"

was her favorite song
of the moment.

But I wrote about Katy first,

and I think I introduced
her to Madonna.

- For Madonna to know somebody's
first and last name, what?

Madonna. What are you thinking?

I reached out for
my inhaler most definitely.

When I heard that I was like,
ooh, I can't breathe,

I can't breathe,
I can't breathe.

So most definitely amazing.

- She did "You're So Gay,"
free released in 2007.

- "You're So Gay" was a free
download on her MySpace page.

It was received pretty well
by her followers at the time.

- The debut single,
"You're So Gay"

generated some media attention,
but failed to chart.

- In 2008, Katy teamed up
with power pop writing

duo Max Martin and Dr. Luke,
the collaborators

behind the hits of
Britney Spears,

Pink, and Taylor Swift.

- The label suggested
that Katy get in the studio

with a couple of
really happening producers,

Dr. Luke and Max Martin.

- She walked into a
rehearsal studio and said,

you know, that's it, I'm going
to be part of the problem.

And they said, what do you
mean, and she said,

I just want to make
sure that this happens,

so I'm going to be a pop star.

And that was, like,
the moment she decided

to become Katy Perry almost.

- They had quickly come up
with about

three different songs, one of
which was "I Kissed a Girl."

- The California dreamer
had achieved her goal.

In true fairy tale fashion,
she rebranded herself

and exploded onto the mainstream

with the 2008 release
of the infectious single,

"I Kissed a Girl."

- I would like to thank
Dr. Luke for ordering lunch

for us and for
setting up the hookah,

and for calling the tech

when the computer crashes,

and for making me rich!

I love you!
You're a pain in the ass!

- The single provide to be
one of the most infectious

power-pop anthems of
the decade, and established

Katy's metamorphosis
into America's pop sweetheart,

and the world's
best-selling star.

- It was, you know,
something that I didn't think

ever could really
happen because, I mean,

my record only came out,
like, five months ago.

I should still be at
home eating mac and cheese

watching the VMAs,
but I hosted it.

It was larger than life.

- It was only when she
did something as controversial

as singing about kissing
a girl, that she made it.

- It's got that sort
of salacious vibe to it,

but as her career
has progressed,

that song has made
a lot more sense.

- It's a massive, massive
commercial success.

- Quite often I will hear
of musicians and singers many,

many years before
they make it big,

and they'll be a bit of a buzz,
but I literally didn't hear

of her until that summer, and
it was just Katy's summer.

- "I Kissed a Girl" was
instantly a worldwide hit.

- It went to number one,
and we heard it everywhere.

- It was like, bang,
overnight success.

- I'm gonna call my friends
and say,

please don't order
without me, I'm starving.

And by the way, I got nominated.

Booyah.

- Katy's first mainstream album,
"One of the Boys,"

shot into the top ten
in America,

and produced a string of hits,
including "Hot and Cold,"

and "Waking Up in Vegas."

Katy's stardom has been
soaring ever since.

- When I wrote
"Waking Up in Vegas,"

it was just basically about
getting into trouble.

I don't know if you
know anything about Vegas,

but it's a place where
you get into trouble.

You probably don't write home
about it necessarily.

And usually you take your
best friend or your boyfriend

or, you know, that person you
can have trouble with,

and you really
can't apologize afterwards,

even if you look like crap
the next day or you ended up

having to bail yourself out
of some kind of situation.

It's a fun kind of party
anthemic song

just about having a
great time, you know?

- By the end of 2008,
"One of the Boys"

had reached platinum success,
and Katy's professional career

continued to progress
full steam ahead.

- Are you confident
this evening,

are you confident
about your chances?

- No. Not at all.

It's very competitive
in my... in my category.

- Are you a fan of the Brits,

is it something
you've watched before?

- I haven't watched it because
I live in the States,

but I know...
I know it's important.

I know it's, you know,
as important as the Grammys,

and to be a foreigner on,
you know, be a foreigner

here and to be nominated is
a big deal, so thanks.

- Six MTV Music Awards and
two Grammy Award nominations

later, the multifaceted
artist began writing tracks

for her career-defining
"Teenage Dream" album.

- I don't feel completely
different than when I started.

I feel like I have a lot
to prove still,

and I still have that ambition
and that drive that I had,

you know, when I didn't
have anybody

or when I didn't know what
was going to happen

in the future, if I was going
to make it or anything.

I still kind of fell that
way of, like, oh, this is great,

I had a great hit record and
I know that I'm good at this,

and this is my gift, but I know
I have to work at it

and continue to kind of
keep shaping it and not just,

like, let it sit out and,
you know, oh, now,

I'm famous and I have 12 people
doing it all for me, you know?

No. I can't do that type
of stuff, or it won't work.

Like, you know, all that stuff
I've been going through

and perspective I see life now
and the relationships

I have with people, you know,
all that's kind of bubbling

to the top, and it's going
to spill over

and it's definitely going
to seep into all of my songs.

I guess, you know,
I'm over my period.

I'm... I know how
to handle boys now.

Actually, I don't even
mess with boys anymore.

I mess with men, you know?

- Katy's highly publicized
romances with celebrity bad boys

have always ensured
she dominates the headlines.

- I'm doing a ton of festivals,
and usually will actually have

a couple of my girlfriends out
because I told them come out.

I'm gonna go and do
a couple festivals,

and I'll be backstage,
and there's lot of

hot, hot band boys hanging out.

You should come and
you can creep on them.

And we get into trouble, yeah.

We definitely do.

- Katy first met British actor
and controversial comedian

Russell Brand in 2009
during filming for

a cameo appearance for the movie
"Get Him to the Greek."

- Distinction and
difference from each other,

I think is really,
really important,

and genuine affection, I think.

Genuine affection
but difference, I think,

creates good chemistry.

- Katy first encountered
Russell Brand in the movie

"Get Him to the Greek."

She was filmed in a cameo
role where she actually had

to kiss Russell, but it got cut,

so it never appeared
in the final movie.

- I nearly choked on
my coffee when I first heard

that she was going out
with Russell Brand.

- It was weird when they
got together actually,

because knowing them
separately, you would never,

ever, ever put them together.

- They looked like such
incredibly different characters.

You know, he always has the dark
and kind of seedy side to him

and she was this kind
of fresh, you know, vibrant,

energetic pop princess
who really knows her own mind,

but she still had
that kind of very fresh

and innocent look about her.

- He looked like this kind
of challenge and this guy

that she could help,
and we know she's

so positive and amazing.

- So in one sense it
was kind of like,

whoa, they're going
to make it work.

- She took quite a fancy to him,

but, you know, he was trying to,

like, get her to go out with
him that night, and she said,

no, you're going to have
to wine and dine me,

and it sort of developed
from there.

- Russell Brand achieved
notoriety in Britain

as a television host
and stand-up comedian.

- Who is using this as an
opportunity shoplift?

Yeah.

I definitely would because
a lot of the security

is distracted at a time
like this, so yeah, feel free.

- Russell was really fun

and I thought he was
quite charming to begin with.

- Working in London since
I was 18, I've known Russell

on the scene before
he moved to L.A.

To say that he was a lothario
is an understatement, you know.

He would leave venues
and clubs with like,

four or five girls.

- He has a really
short attention span

and gets bored easily,
and just go, go, go.

- Katy's kissing scene was
cut from "Get Him to the Greek,"

but in September 2009,
the on screen passion

bubbled over into real life
when the couple's paths

crossed again at
the MTV Video Music Awards.

- I don't think she realized
the impact that

that would have on me, like...
Because it was sort of,

like, you know, there's not
a person in my life

that I haven't
at some point sulked about

and not spoken to for
at least a few days.

But it was like reaching
back into your childhood,

taking the injured nincompoop
of the boy I was

and sort of putting
a laurel upon his brow.

It was, like, marvelous,
and plus she looked amazing.

- They met at the MTV Awards
and they had a play fight and,

you know, I bet he would
have been very funny and fun

and that would have been really
nice and refreshing for her.

Because I suppose
that most guys that she meets

are kind of, like,
a bit intimidated by her.

- She is a feisty woman.

She's not going
to choose a doormat.

She would be utterly
bored with a man

who followed her around
like a puppy.

She's a challenge herself,
so of course she's going

to choose challenging men.

- He prefers to sort of
date a string of women.

He has had problems with sex
and passion addiction.

- Now, another aspect,
of course, to that kind

of womanizing is the sense
of the thrill that they get.

Russell has spoken
about that very honestly.

Like a love pirate,
he kind of made his way

through all these sort of women,

and at some level, women
are attracted to that.

- They both seemed to fall
in love with each other

very quickly,
very deeply, madly.

- Katy wouldn't talk about it
as such, but she couldn't

resist kind of talking about
it a little bit

because she was so happy and
she was planning their wedding.

- The couple became engaged
on New Year's Eve 2009

while on holiday
in Rajasthan, India.

- We're getting married.

It's going to be somewhere
fabulous, but I can't say.

It's definitely not
in India because we

already went there,
I was already engaged,

I was there for two weeks.
Over it.

Japan!

- British comedian Russell Brand

and American pop star Katy Perry
have tied the knot.

The couple has issued
a statement confirming

they were married Saturday
in a private

and spiritual ceremony
in northern India.

A Christian minister
and long-time friend

of Perry's family helped
the couple exchange vows.

The wedding was reportedly
held at a luxury resort

in a tiger reserve attended
by family members

and close friends.

Security was tight at
the hotel with private guards

stationed there, and
at other nearby hotels.

The couple and their
guests started arriving

in Jaipur for the six-day
celebration on Wednesday.

Brand proposed to Perry
in the historic Indian city

back in January.

Ross Simpson,
the Associated Press.

- The real Russell Brand,
wherever the hell he is

has been tamed. - He has.

- With dog sweets.

- I was just happy
for them both.

- I was, like, Russell and Katy,

okay, getting married,
that's cool.

- They seemed really cute
and really loved up,

so of course you would like
to see someone that you know

happy, if it's not with you,
with somebody else.

- Anything that flagged
up to me that they were not

going to work out was
the fact that they had

that huge over-the-top
wedding which,

when people put everything
into show, often underneath

it it's because there's nothing
really there to support it,

and they feel
they overcompensate

at a psychological level
by showing to the world how

big their love is when
actually it's quite fragile.

- They hadn't known each
other that long,

but she was just feeling
this romance,

and she fell totally
in love with him, and him her,

and they went for it.

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- Sorry. Sorry.

- Every day is a laugh
with this crazy ass one.

Let's go eat.

- Bye-bye.

- In 2010, Katy returned
with yet another hit machine.

The album "Teenage Dream"
took her career

to record-breaking heights
when she became

the first female artist
in history to produce

five number one hits
from a single album.

- I am on
the battlefield myself,

but I'm just singing pop songs.

But yeah, I'm away from
my hubby every once in a while

and we use Skype and iChat and,
you know, that really helps.

And so I just hope
that everybody can find,

you know, a great Christmas
and, you know, be blessed.

- In 2010, "Teenage Dream"
was released,

and that basically
eclipsed everything

that had come before it

as far as Katy's recording
career was concerned.

- Her second album, that was
phenomenally successful

in a record-breaking way.

She is the only female artist
who have got

five number one singles
from an album ever.

That was just an amazing
accomplishment for Katy,

especially at such a young age.

The only other person to
do that was Michael Jackson.

So it was crazy successful
and she's still flying.

- Previously in the past
years I've had a nomination

for best female pop performance,
and I was nominated

for that award this year,
third time, plus three more.

So I feel a lot
of love coming my way.

I feel like I made
the right decisions

with the record and, you know,
once again, like,

my gut feeling, my instincts
have paid off for me, so...

- Riding high on the phenomenal
success of "Teenage Dream,"

in February 2011, Katy launched
a second extravagant

world tour, "California Dreams."

- I think that's what
I'm all about is having fun

and making people realize
that music can still be

very fun and entertaining.

And I do like to, you know,
be... have my serious points,

but generally, life is really
serious and it's nice to kind

of take a breather from
that for an hour and a half

when you come to the show.

- In 2011 Katy embarked
on her second major tour.

This one was called
California Dreams.

It was 123 dates across
three continents.

- It was absolutely huge
in terms of the size

of the arenas, which ranged
from about 6,000 to 12,000.

The scope of it was
mind-blowing, really.

- It was just incredible.
It took her a year to do.

- You've never seen
anything like it.

She had eight juggernauts with
the stage in them,

and then she had about
ten tour buses.

She had 80 crew which
were her riggers, sparks,

she had a boatload of
dancers, choreographers.

She had about four costumiers,
a masseuse, a personal trainer.

She had her two managers with
her, her sister,

her P.A. and a full catering.

- When I tour I take
a few people with me.

My band and all the productions
and things like that.

A lot of times I usually
ask for baby wipes backstage

because they're great
for makeup,

they're great for when you
don't have a shower,

and they're good
for other things.

And I love having a humidifier
in my room at all times.

- I was hired at Katy's dancer.

I stood next to her
because we're very

similar height, so as we
enter the stage,

she was right next to me,
and she was shaking.

I grabbed her hand,
and I looked at her

and I was like,
you gonna be all right?

And she, like, in this,
like, cute little

American accent, she's like,
yeah, I know, I know.

And she just, like,
that steely focus,

and she smashed it.

- And she has this persona
of being a semi-50s pinup,

but there's
a lot of double entendre

and innuendo
in her performances.

- She had a huge prop,
she came out with

this massive lipstick,
like riding up with,

like, a big helmet on.

So she was on this Chapstick
that looked a male sexual organ.

So I'm remember on rehearsals,
like, she came riding

and she's, you know,
like, oh, yeah, oh, my God,

it's so good, it's so hot.

So, you know, we all
thought it was brilliant.

- Katy had fireworks in
the background,

so the pyrotechnic that
we had to use on stage,

we had these backpacks
that looked like
Ninja Turtle backpacks,

these circular things,
and they have fireworks

that spin around and create
a giant Catherine wheel
behind you.

If it goes wrong,
it could be dangerous.

They were quite scary.

They made me nervous
just before the show,

but as soon as we got out there,
she lit up the whole crowd.

The moment she went
out there, thousands of people

in that audience,
they were going crazy.

- There is nothing like
the sound of 12,000 people

all singing at the top
of their lungs.

That is, like, so stupendous

it's impossible
to kind of articulate.

- My aim is just to have a
fun time and make sure that,

you know, these kids go
away having a good time,

feeling good inside, feeling
like they were entertained.

Maybe they learned
something about who I am and

my music, or they were
inspired in a creative way.

- When it comes
to rocking fashion,

Katy's inimitable style
is celebrated almost

as much as the music itself.

- Katy is definitely
not a slave to fashion.

She completely creates
her own look.

In fact, I say she's a kind
of zeitgeist of fashion.

- Not many women could get
away with what she wears.

- She is like a kind of
kaleidoscope explosion

of color and popular culture.

- She is completely that
showgirl with whipped cream

shooting out of her bosoms,
you know

That is Katy.

- Katy is often seen on
the front row of shows.

She has a huge relationship
with Chanel.

She is especially
close to Karl Lagerfeld

and always on his front row.

- I have been researching a
lot of the vintage Chanel.

Everywhere I go, I was just
in Berlin, I was just in London,

I always go to
the vintage stores

and ask for all, like,
the 1990s vintage Chanel

if you have it.

So I think that
the pieces that you buy

from Chanel only
appreciate in value.

It's kind of like a man's watch.

- Her style is kind
of confusing and chaotic,

and it changes all the time.

- She uses style
to express herself,

and she uses it to cheer
herself up as well, you know.

When you're feeling down,
if you put on a crazy frock

that's got strawberries
all over it,

it's gonna make you feel better.

- You know, when a girl
gets a new outfit,

it gives her this extra oomph.

And when I get a new outfit,
I usually wear it the same day

and I don't know what it is.

It's just like
that new dress makes you feel

fun and alive and vibrant.

Katy looks like
a Hollywood starlet

from the 1940s and she dresses
her curves in that way.

But also she's
very reminiscent to me

of Vivian Leigh and Greta Garbo.

She says that the 1940s is
the best style of clothes on her

- She does the done up look
so well, and she kind of

has this bit of an
old school feel about her.

- It's a bit like
a Dita Von Teese look.

- She really bring that
50s look, the Dita Von Teese,

the pale skin and the flicky
eyelashes, you know.

A lot of girls are caught up
in the fake tan

and the very fake look,
whereas Katy, you know,

she's more natural and
she's got the pale skin.

She's more of like... she's
almost like an English rose,

but she does like
the really precise makeup

and the 50s look.

- Her makeup is pretty heavy.

She hates to go bare faced.

- Her stage makeup takes
at least two hours to apply.

- It would take her roughly
about two hours to get ready,

but she'd get ready
for different things.

- Like she would normally
arrive to the venue

at about 4:00, and then
she'd sort of semi get ready,

like, sort of Katy Perry light,

and wear a little body
con outfit.

And then she'd go and meet
a load of fans

and do a meet and greet
with them,

and then she'd go back
into her dressing room

and do the full-on
Katy Perry thing

and come out at about
7:00, Perry'd up.

- She does the brightly
colored costumes

and hair and
she's really pared that back,

and she's really calmed it down.

I like now that
she's changed her look

a little bit to become a
bit more sophisticated.

- She has definitely grown up,

and her style evolution
shows that as well.

She's a serious artist.
She's got nothing to prove.

She's successful
and she looks great.

- In December 2011,
a mere 14 months

after exchanging vows in India,

Russell Brand filed for divorce

citing irreconcilable
differences.

- The news broke on
New Year's Day,

and you really felt for her
because you could tell

she was totally in love with him
and wanted to make it work.

- It all fell apart
because they just simply

came from such
very different worlds.

And then to add insult
to injury,

everyone discovered that
she was dumped by text.

- I was shocked, but he can
be quite a nasty person.

- That's not really a manly
thing to do though, is it?

- She found herself lying
on the bathroom floor

considering whether
to end it all.

Very callous and just awful.
Poor Katy.

- What that tells you at
a psychological level

is you think I was
only worth a text,

and that is
incredibly devastating.

So it's no surprise that
that breakup was so painful

for Katy in particular.

- I needed to do a lot
of self-reflection

because I went through
a difficult time in my life,

and so I needed to go inside
and do a lot of work

and therapy and mending.

I went through the transition,
and I did a cleanse for,

like, three months, a mind and
body and soul type of cleanse.

And it made my life
so much better

and gave me more perspective and
helped me live very consciously.

- In July 2012, Katy made
the leap to the big screen

when her biopic movie
"Part of Me" was released.

- I think it was important
for me to leave some of

the more difficult things
in the film so that

it wasn't just a
narcissistic fanfare film
about how great I am.

I think it was important
to show that there are

obstacles and problems
in people's lives,

and it's okay if you have them,
you just have to overcome them.

- Following the collapse
of her marriage,

Katy was ready to start
a new chapter.

In October 2012,
she found time to support

Barack Obama's
re-election campaign.

The following month,
Billboard announced

that she would take home
the Woman of the Year award.

The star also sat
the rumor mills buzzing

when she began dating
fellow musician, John Mayer.

- Your no one until
some lets you down.

We live in this time
right now where

everybody' expectations are
so astronomically high,

that everybody is
settling, quote unquote.

To be with anybody is to settle,

because it really means settling
for not being by yourself.

- When I first heard that
Katy was dating John Mayer,

I just thought, oh, no,
not another one.

- He's got a bad reputation
for being a naughty boy.

- When you look at
the psychology of relationships,

the relationship post-divorce
is most likely to fail,

and that's because people
are obviously harboring

a lot of emotional baggage

and they haven't quite
dealt with it.

- So it's no surprise that
with Katy and John

you've got that sort of
start then stop then

start again relationship.

- I'm very monogamous,
and so once I decide

I'm going to like someone,
I like them for a long time.

And usually I don't do...
I don't...

Usually I have not done dates.

I do a lot of,
like, communication,

talking, phone or email.

- 2013 brought a new chapter
of optimism to Katy's life.

Adding a further title to
her list of achievements,

the singer/songwriter
was appointed

as UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador.

- I'm very excited
to take on this responsibility

and this role to be able
to take all the attention

that I have and all
the spotlight and shine it on

the children that
need to be illuminated

and highlighted and saved
and helped.

UNICEF in particular
was special to me

because I took a trip with them.

Whatever I decide to
do whether it's be a part

an organization or a brand
or anything I do,

it's because I've had
an experience with them.

I saw all these children
interacting with each other.

There is so much
love between them.

There is so much compassion,
and they don't have anything.

They don't have any
material possessions.

They don't have
any social status.

It's an unconditional love.

I want to wash my hands too.

I was really inspired to write
the song "Unconditionally,"

seeing these children

just have the currency of
love between them.

- After record-setting
success and personal loss,

in October 2013,
the multi-faceted star

struck back with the release
of her fourth album, "Prism."

- Well, the new record is a
very self-reflective record.

It's a record that was
influenced by me letting

a lot of positivity
into my life,

a lot of light into my life,

especially after coming through

a dark period and a dark time.

And so, you know,
I think the record covers

a lot of hope and a lot
of joy, a lot of strength.

Basically I called it
"Prism" because I let a lot

of light into my life.

It influenced all the songs

and now I get to beam it back
out into the listener.

So I feel very prismatic
and full of these

wonderful colors, and I just
kind of like to be a light.

- Katy Perry's rise to the top
is a true story of inspiration.

Whether touring the globe,
or launching

an out-of-this-world fragrance,

the reigning queen of
pop continues to conquer.

- I'm going to be a crazy fruit
cat lady when I get older.

No husband, just 20 cats,
in my muumuu

that's brightly
covered in fruit.

- Katy Perry is one of
the greatest female artists of

the 21st century,
and ten years from now

her music will definitely
be around.

- Katy will be around as long
as she wants to be around,

but whether she wants to
or not, I'm not sure.

I think she really would
like the traditional

marriage and kids at
some point as well.

- She's forming a brand,
so we're just gonna see

a new kind of horizon
of Katy Perry.

Gone will be the kind
of dressing up as a snowman

on stage or having flashing
lights on a swimming costume.

It will be much more about
a screen goddess and a siren.

I think she will
take herself into that phase.

- I'd like to start
a small fashion line,

but very small,
I think, for now.

And I would like
to be a mom one day.

That's a challenge, I'm sure.

And I'd like to make
an acoustic record.

That would be a challenge.

- Katy's legacy will
be the bubblegum pop star

with a real heart.

- Her music will be her
legacy for years to come.

- How you doing, Times Square?

I'm not all great.

There might be moments
of greatness,

but they are very hard worked.

Thank you so much for
believing in my weirdness.

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