Katy Perry is on cloud nine. Not only is her career flourishing as with her stint as a judge on the popular series ‘American Idol’ but she’s also expecting her first child with her fiancé Orlando Bloom. However, she’s not slowing down as she embarks on her fifth musical era as she premieres her new single ‘Daisies’.
Hope is the central theme of the song as Katy sings about getting back up after being knocked down in the powerful track.
“I wrote this song just like it’s another anthem for myself. I came out of a pretty dark time on [2017’s] Witness and I’ve been writing a record for two years,” Katy says in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.
Perry added, “I wrote some of it while I was clinically depressed and trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel. And when I’m writing songs like ‘Firework’ or ‘Roar,’ it’s not because I’m feeling hunky dory. It’s literally because I am having really dark thoughts and trying to come out of it. And my soul sends a message to my intellect, to my head. It says, ‘You’re going to get through it. You’ve gotten through it before. And here’s a nugget of inspiration, how you’re going to do it.’ And it becomes a song and ‘Daisies’ was just a nugget of inspiration for me to go, look, I don’t need to change. I will stay true to my past.”
As she embarks on a new musical era, Katy admits she’s still figuring out when and how would be the perfect time to release it but has finally settled on an August 14 release date for the still-untitled project.
“I have this body of work and there was a question of, do I wait until next year? And I was like, one thing is for certain, I’m having a child this summer,” Katy explains. “My whole life is about to change and I’m sure I will have a whole new access to different emotions I never had, and will be able to write from, so I’m going to write a whole ‘nother record probably when that happens.”
In the meantime, we’re thrilled to have another banger from Katy – and we have a feeling it’s one we’re going to jam to for months.
Watch the music video here:
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