It’s an evening with friends. Among friends, to be more precise. This October evening in Los Angeles in 2016, everyone came at the invitation of singer Katy Perry. There’s also actress Jessica Alba, now a multimillionaire businesswoman, actress Amber Heard, who a few months earlier filed for divorce from Johnny Depp, accusing him of domestic violence and triggering a legal battle that will last for years, and model Emily Ratajkowski. A dream villa, an endless table, a candlelit dinner, gold cutlery, bouquets of overly red peonies… The setting for a Hollywood party like any other. Except for one detail.
That evening, the singer invited dozens of people to her home to raise funds for the Californian Democratic candidate for the Senate elections that would take place a month later: Kamala Harris. Present throughout the evening, the State Attorney General takes the floor, talking about her struggles to combat climate change, gun control, and raising the minimum wage… The public is won over, happy with the polls that could bring the second African-American senator to the upper house of the US Congress, twenty-four years after the historic election of Carol Moseley-Braun in the state of Illinois. Katy Perry is all smiles.
This summer, on August 23, the day after the official inauguration of the Democratic candidate, Katy Perry, who has supported the party since Barack Obama’s election, posted for her two hundred and five million subscribers on Instagram an image dating from this fall. Reception of 2016: a photo in which we see her with Kamala Harris. To accompany it, a link to women’s world, feminist anthem presented last month and first single from 143, his new album, which will be released on September 20.
“A real pop record that gets you moving”
One hundred and forty-three, like the one hundred and forty-three million records sold during a career that made her one of the most famous pop singers in the world. A journey peppered with superlatives and which saw her, a supreme achievement in American showbiz, perform at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2015. The singer had a series of hits with her cheerful pop: I Kissed a Girl, Hot n Cold, Fireworks, Teenage Dream, California Gurls, Last Friday Night (TGIF)…
Preceded by three singles, the last of which (I am his, he is mine.) in collaboration with rapper Doechii, This seventh album marks her return after four years: an eternity in the wringer that is the music industry. A great challenge for an artist who, however well-known she may be, is inseparable from the music of the 2010s. “I wanted an album that made you want to dance, a real pop record that made you move.” she smiled.
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