Katy Perry has a new source of inspiration for her upcoming music.
Speaking with Fox News Digital at the American Idol Top 10 Tastemaker Event at the Aster hotel in Hollywood, Perry revealed she gets to “create from a different space now.”
“I feel really happy and whole and loved, so that’s different for an artist because usually you’re writing songs out of pain,” she said. “But I actually think that’s kind of the biggest lie that any artist has been sold, is that you have to stay in pain in order to be a great creator.
“Actually, you can be happy and have a life and have a family and still contribute really great things to the world, so it’s going to be, I think the music’s going to be reflective of that love and joy.”
Perry welcomed her daughter, Daisy Dove, with fiancé Orlando Bloom in August 2020.
Perry acknowledged that balancing the joys of motherhood with being an international pop star can be tricky.
“The challenge is the balance of it, finding balance being a matriarch, being a mother, being a boss, being an artist, being a creator, being a leader,” she said. “The opportunity is there to find that balance.
“And the rewarding [part] is just the love, the unconditional love that everybody talks about. It’s a massive cliche, but that is actually it,” she joked.
“Like you climb all these mountains to see the view, and you think that that’s the view that you’re looking for. And honestly, for me, it’s not until I had my child that I realised, actually this is the view I’ve been looking for.”
There have been hints in the past few months that the best-selling artist has new music in the works.
Last week, her fiancé Bloom let it slip that “she’s got new music coming” while appearing on Today with Hoda & Jenna.
Host Jenna Bush noted that at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles April 13, Perry was carrying a clear bag with a piece of paper that said “KP6: Top Secret,” fuelling speculation about an upcoming album.
“Ah, yes, I better be careful about what I say,” Bloom said. “There’s a lot of cool things happening. But, essentially, there’s a schedule. You can imagine, there’s many moving parts to get us to do something like that.”
Before Bloom’s interview, Perry was asked by Extra about the purse, to which she replied, “Just drip-feeding a little bit.”
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