Katy Perry Responds to Criticism of Working With Dr. Luke on New Album ‘143’

Katy Perry has addressed the criticism regarding her collaboration with Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald on her new album ‘143’. In a recent interview with ‘Call Her Daddy’, Perry acknowledged the controversy surrounding Dr. Luke.

Who has been a key figure in her career, working on hits like ‘I Kissed a Girl’ and ‘Teenage Dream’. Despite his involvement in a lengthy legal battle with Kesha, Perry emphasised that he was just one of many collaborators on the album. 

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“I understand that it started a lot of conversations and he was one of many collaborators that I collaborated with. But the reality is, it comes from me,” she said. 

“The truth is, I wrote these songs from my experience of my whole life going through this metamorphosis, and he was one of the people to help facilitate all that.” Perry then highlighted the empowering nature of her new album’s lead single, “Woman’s World.” 

“When I speak about ‘Woman’s World,’ I speak about feeling so empowered now, as a mother, as a woman, giving birth, creating life, creating another set of organs. A brain! A heart! I created a whole ass heart! And I did it, and I’m still doing it,” she shared.

She added, “I’m still a matriarch and feeling really grounded in that, that’s where I’m speaking from. So I created all of this with several different collaborators, people that I’ve collaborated with from the past, from the Teenage Dream era. All of that.”

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