Katy Perry dodges question about her choice to work with Dr Luke

Pop megastar Katy Perry has attempted to defend her decision to collaborate with controversial producer Dr Luke, after coming beneath criticism from fans.

The “California Gurls” singer, 39, is preparing to launch her recent album, 143, following the launch of lead single “Woman’s World”, which became once produced by Dr Luke.

In 2023, the producer, true name Lukasz Gottwald, settled a 9-year factual fight with pop singer Kesha earlier than trial, for the interval of which he claimed she had defamed him in 2014 by accusing him of drugging and raping her after a social gathering in 2005. He vehemently denied the allegations.

Perry became once named in Dr Luke’s defamation lawsuit towards Kesha in July 2017, when he claimed that Kesha told pop megastar and actor Woman Gaga by device of text that he had additionally raped Perry. Perry denied such a assault took plot.

Acting on the Name Her Daddy podcast, Perry became once asked by host Alex Cooper why she chose to work with Dr Luke yet again.

“Perceive, I keep in mind that it started a lot of conversations, and he became once truly one of many collaborators that I collaborated with,” she said. “but, the actuality is it comes from me.

“The reality is I wrote these songs from my ride of my total life going by device of this metamorphosis, and he became once truly likely the most folks to support facilitate all that, truly likely the most writers, truly likely the most producers.”

Perry and Dr Luke first worked together on her 2d album, 2008’s One in every of the Boys, which produced hit singles equivalent to “I Kissed a Woman”, “Waking Up in Vegas” and “Sizzling n Chilly”.

They continued to work together on Perry’s third album, Teenage Dream, with chart-topping singles together with “Teenage Dream” and “Final Friday Evening”, and yet again on follow-up Prism in 2013.

Perry continued: “I am speaking from my possess ride, savor, once I bid from once I bid about ‘Ladies folks’s World’, I bid about feeling so empowered now as a mother, as a woman, giving birth, developing life, developing another plot of organs, a brain, a heart.

“I created a total ass heart, and I did it, and I’m restful doing it, and I’m restful a matriarch and feeling if truth be told grounded in that. That’s where I’m speaking from. And so, I created all of this with a lot of numerous collaborators, folks I’ve collaborated with in the previous, [the] Teenage Dream abilities, all of that.”

Perry became once criticised on social media for failing to give a straightforward response to the question.

“Her response to working with him… she deflected asserting she worked with other folks on the album too,” the pop tradition yarn Mr Pop wrote on X/Twitter.

“‘Why did you work with Dr Luke?’” one critic mocked. “Katy Perry: ‘Motherhood. I am a woman. Infants!!! I’m a woman.’”

“Woman’s World” landed at No 63 on Billboard’s Sizzling 100 upon its launch, signalling a disappointing originate to the pop singer’s comeback.

She became once broadly derided for lyrics described by The Neutral’s Adam White as a “faux-feminist pastiche”, which sound “alarmingly antiquated” in 2024.

The accompanying video became once additionally the topic of mockery, with viewers baffled by its apparently ironic scenes of Perry in a Rosie the Riveter-vogue outfit, Stars and Stripes bikini, and work overalls with her underwear showing.

Hollywood actor Abigail Breslin additionally looked to originate a thinly veiled dig on X/Twitter after the track’s launch, due to Dr Luke’s involvement.

“On another indicate, I savor @KeshaRose and he or she gave truly one of essentially the most efficient displays I’ve ever been to closing year… whisk Kesha!” she said.

Perry’s recent album 143 is scheduled for launch on 20 September.

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