- 2024-07-12
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MUSIC
Katy Perry Announces New Album “143”, Shares New Song “Woman's World”
American singer-songwriter Katy Perry has announced her sixth studio album “143” will be released on September 20, 2024 via Capitol Records.
The album title “143” means code for “I love you”.
The album is her first LP in four years since the 2020 album “Smile” and comprises a 11-track.
On the album, she worked with various produces such as Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Stargate, Vaughn Oliver, and Rocco Did It Again!.
Especially, Max Martin, Dr. Luke and Stargate produced her most successful album “Teenage Dream”, which was released in 2010.
Katy Perry said of the album in a statement, “I set out to create a bold, exuberant, celebratory dance-pop album with the symbolic 143 numerical expression of love as a throughline message.”- From the album, she unveiled the first single called “Woman's World” on July 11, 2024.
The track was written by Aaron Joseph, Chloe Angelides, Katy Perry, Rocco Valdes, Vaughn Oliver, and Łukasz Gottwald.
Produced by Aaron Joseph, Dr. Luke, Rocco Did It Again!, and Vaughn Oliver.
The accompanying music video was directed by Charlotte Rutherford.
Katy Perry told Zane Lowe of Apple music about the song, “I'm full up now. So I am creating from a place of happiness and wholeness, which is super rare, I think. And scary for artists because I think the biggest lie that we've ever been sold is that we have to stay in pain in order to create great art. But once you're full up, there's this you're operating from the light and joy and like, beauty and you can share that with the world. Now woman's world is if not the whole record, right? And I know you got to hear some of the record. It's actually truly I think, the bridge for me, it's the bridge because from..” - She continued, “I think that people, they kind of when they think of me, they think of 'Roar' or they think of 'Firework' sometimes they think of 'I kissed a Girl' but I think mostly, they think of these kind of empowering songs, songs with a message songs that are like, captions on T shirts and stuff like that, or things that help people get through. And I love that I love hearing the stories and really I write these songs from a place where I need to get through something. But so I wanted to continue with that. And also, this is the first contribution I've given since becoming a mother and since feeling really connected to my feminine divine, so I wanted to start with that. Now that feminine divine has unlocked a lot of other things. It's unlocked this like grounded sexuality, the strength, it's a really it's a security.”
Photo by Cynthia Parkhurst
Background Photo by Jack Bridgland - source : Apple Music