A baby and a new album: Behind the new mother Katy Perry lies a very special week.
The new mother Katy Perry (35) is currently doing very quickly: While her fans have been wondering in recent weeks whether the album or her daughter would see the light of day first, the singer creates facts – on Thursday (27. She announced the birth of her daughter Daisy Dove, on Friday (August 28th) her new album "Smile" will be released.
"I wrote the title song of the album when I was just coming from one of the darkest times of my life and had lost my smile. The entire album is my journey back to the light – with stories about resilience, hope and love," wrote the singer in advance on Instagram. The new songs are bursting with joy and confidence – in stark contrast to the time between their current album and the previous "Witness" (2017), which was marked by depression and doubts.
Even if Katy Perry presents herself as a clown on her new album "Smile", not everything has been going well for the singer in the last few years. "I just crashed," she said in June on the radio show "q on cbc". Her career rose sharply, but the confirmation she received in her music influenced her less positively than before. There was also the temporary separation from her then boyfriend and now fiancé Orlando Bloom (43).
Katy Perry has her smile back
In the meantime, Perry is apparently better, you can feel it in her new songs. So she sings in "Smile": "I'm grateful / I have to say, it really has been a while / But now I've got that smile back". In "Not the End of the World" it says: "It's not the end of the world / Throw yourself into your fancy clothes and your fears into the fire / Don't lose hope".
Katy Perry can look forward to her new album and her newborn daughter as well as an imminent wedding to Bloom. The singer dedicated some of the songs on "Smile" to her two people who are close to her heart. "Never Really Over" seems to refer to the on-off relationship between Bloom and Perry. "My head keeps pulling me back / I thought it was over, but I think it was never really over," read a few lines in the lyrics.
Declaration of love to Orlando Bloom
"Champagne Problems" also sounds like a declaration of love to Orlando Bloom. "Could you be the love of my life until the day I die?" She asks in the lyrics. With reference to the previous separations, she emphasizes: "We have done the dirty work / Now we know that it is worth it / Now we are celebrating / I am so glad that we made it this far". The chorus says, "All we have now are luxury problems".
A motorcycle ride with Orlando Bloom in Hawaii inspired the singer to write the song "Harleys in Hawaii". In an interview on The Zach Sang Show, Katy Perry said, "Sitting on the back of a motorcycle in Hawaii and feeling the wind on your face is so beautiful." She whispered in her fiancé's ear that she would write a song called "Harleys in Hawaii". "And I just did it. It just popped into my head," she said.
Songs for daughter Daisy Dove
The song "Daisies" (Ger. "Gänseblümchen") was released as a single before the album was released. As early as May, Perry's fans rumored that Bloom and the singer could name their daughter Daisy. With that they hit the mark. The lyrics refer to an English nursery rhyme. In the original it reads: "Sticks and stones may break my bones / But words will never hurt me" (German: "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me"). The saying is used against bullying.
The last track on the album is also dedicated to her daughter. In an interview with the radio station Energy, Perry said in June that "What Makes A Woman" describes a hope that she also has for her child. "That there are no limits to what she dreams or what she wants to be," she said. "She can change whenever she wants. She can wear whatever she wants and find out what suits her." The song is "important to me and important to her".