Katy Perry is empowered or something.
The prodigal, problematic pop princess Katy Perry has returned with her fourth major-label album, Witness, becoming the second female pop star this year to reach number one on the charts (the first was electropop star Halsey for her new album, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom). Since Witness dropped on June 9, it’s sold 6.5 million copies and been downloaded 71 million times. And Perry wants us all to know how woke she is now.
“I feel very empowered… extremely liberated, liberated from the conditioning of the way I used to think, spiritually liberated, politically liberated, sexually liberated, liberated from things that don’t serve me,” she told the New York Times in an interview last month. Wow, that’s a lot of liberation, Katy!