She has received criticism from her fans after breaking her silence on her controversial decision to collaborate with music producer Dr. Luke.
However, Katy Perry ignored the scandal as she stepped out in Tribeca, New York, on Wednesday night.
The 39-year-old singer wasn’t alone on the outing, as she cradled her beloved teacup poodle Nugget on her trip for an iced coffee.
At the outing she looked casual in Celine tracksuit bottoms and a white vest that revealed a bit of her toned abdomen.
Although Katy tried to go incognito with a baseball cap and sunglasses, that didn’t stop fans from mobbing her for an autograph.
Katy Perry stepped out with her pet Nugget in New York on Wednesday after being accused of misleading fans with her response to her controversial collaboration with Dr. Luke.
However, the mother-of-one was certainly glad to receive some love from fans after the social media backlash she faced in recent days.
The singer has been accused of ‘diverting attention’ and ‘gaslighting’ after breaking her silence over her controversial decision to collaborate with music producer Dr Luke.
In June, it was revealed that Dr. Luke was among the producers attached to Katy’s upcoming seventh studio album, 143, and had co-written her feminist anthem, Woman’s World.
This sparked a backlash, as Katy’s partner Kesha had previously accused Dr. Luke of sexual and physical abuse. In 2014, he sued Kesha for defamation, but a settlement was reached in June 2023 before going to trial.
Since Katy’s new album focuses on “female empowerment,” many fans were left “upset” and “disappointed” by Dr. Luke’s involvement.
Katy first addressed the controversy on Wednesday’s episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, telling host Alex Cooper that Dr. Luke is just “one of many” producers who help “facilitate” her music.
But she insisted the album is based on her own experiences, not those of those she works with, before bizarrely turning the conversation to how motherhood has “empowered” her as an artist.
Fans quickly took to social media to react to Katy’s comments, with many accusing the Teenage Dream singer of completely “ignoring” the question.
“The way he didn’t even answer the question lol,” one fan tweeted on X (formerly Twitter).
Another wrote: ‘She practically said nothing? Let’s not be fooled because she basically just revealed that she didn’t have to collaborate with him, it was her choice…’
At the outing she looked casual in Celine track pants and a white vest that showed off her toned abdomen.
Katy cradled her beloved teacup poodle, Nugget, on her trip to grab an iced coffee.
Although Katy tried to go incognito with a baseball cap and sunglasses, that didn’t stop fans from mobbing her for an autograph.
Katy’s response was also criticized as an “evasion of classical principles” and one person noted that she “still chose to work with Dr. Luke even though she’s worked with several collaborators in the past.”
Some suggested it would have been better for Katy to “apologise” to her fans, as a last-ditch effort to salvage her once highly anticipated comeback.
“She could have apologized, now things are going to get worse for her,” wrote one X user.
Katy began her response by acknowledging the “conversations” her connection to Dr. Luke has sparked online in recent weeks.
“I understand that that started a lot of conversations. And he was one of the many collaborators that I collaborated with,” he said.
The Wide Awake singer insisted that Luke is simply someone who helps her “facilitate” her music.
However, the I Kissed A Girl hitmaker, who has a four-year-old daughter Daisy with fiancé Orlando Bloom, insists her lyrics come from her own personal experiences and do not reflect the views of the producer.
Katy continued: “But the reality is that it comes from me.
‘The truth is I wrote these songs from my lifelong experience going through this metamorphosis, and he was one of the people who helped facilitate all of that: one of the writers, one of the producers.
‘I speak from my own experience. When I talk about the world of women, I talk 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 heart and I did that. I still do that. And I’m still a matriarch. And I feel very grounded in that, and that’s where I speak from.”
Katy was accused of ‘diverting attention’ and ‘gaslighting’ after she broke her silence over her controversial decision to collaborate with music producer Dr Luke.
Katy’s new album is all about “female empowerment,” so fans were upset by Dr. Luke’s involvement due to his settled legal battle with Kesha (pictured in 2014)
Some suggested it would have been better for Katy to “apologize” to her fans, as a last-ditch effort to salvage her once long-awaited comeback.
Katy insisted that her music comes from a “place of celebration and love.”
She added: “I don’t feel like I have to make music. I don’t feel like I have to prove anything. I do it now from a place of celebration and love.”
Katy’s collaboration with Dr. Luke sparked a huge controversy ahead of her long-awaited comeback.
In June, Rolling Stone The Grammy-nominated artist was reported to be collaborating with Dr. Luke, as well as Max Martin, Sarah Hudson and Stargate on her sixth album.
Katy “knew exactly the album she wanted to make and assembled the team to make it happen,” a Capitol Records source told the outlet of the collection of talent the former American Idol judge assembled for her first release since 2020’s Smile.
The online comments took aim at both Katy and Dr. Luke, who last year settled a defamation lawsuit with Kesha after she claimed in a 2014 lawsuit that he had sexually and physically abused her.
Kesha, whose full name is Kesha Rose Sebert, tweeted “lol” following the news that Katy and Dr. Luke would be collaborating.
Katy’s partner Kesha had previously accused Dr. Luke of sexual and physical abuse; Luke was spotted in 2013
She then sued Kesha for defamation in 2014, but a settlement was reached in June 2023 before going to trial; Kesha seen in 2016
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