Katy Perry on the Making of '143'

It's '143' release day! Let us celebrate with Katy giving us more details on how this project came together

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00:00So with this new album, I know on 143 you have some features on there.

00:05Was there anyone you discussed like collaborating with that it ended up

00:10falling apart beforehand and maybe we could potentially get for like a deluxe or the next album?

00:14Well, I'd hold that secret then for the future.

00:18All I know is that the 21 Savage collab on Gimme Gimme is really hypnotic and super fun.

00:25I'm so excited for people to hear it.

00:27You've been doing this too long.

00:28You were like, let's circle back to what is...

00:31Why talk about something that hasn't yet happened that is still swirling?

00:34You know what I'm saying?

00:35Yeah.

00:36So let's land it in reality.

00:38So did you have a song that was the easiest to come together on this album and the song that was the hardest?

00:44For 143, the song that was the easiest...

00:52Gosh, they all have their layers and they're all kind of easy to write and stuff.

01:01It's just when you're actually tracking them and pulling your sleeves up and doing the hard work and getting it right and finding the pocket.

01:07I would say the hardest one to come together probably was Gorgeous just because there was some rewrites on that just to get that right.

01:16Because it's a simple, beautiful, sexy song.

01:19Sure.

01:20And we just wanted to...

01:21That's featuring Kim Petras and we just wanted to attack it with just that feeling of like...

01:27I don't know.

01:28Even if you don't do makeup tutorials, you want to do a reveal when you hear this song.

01:34You want to go and walk somewhere catwalk style or do a slow motion or do some piece of creative content with it.

01:44It just feels like a reveal song.

01:47But it just makes you feel like you also just want to call your girlfriends and go out.

01:50I love it.

01:51What was the component, the last component to come together in that song where it clicked and you were like, ah, yes, okay.

01:56It was just deciding on like...

02:00We wrote a couple of different verses and some of it got scrapped and some of it stayed and then just a delivery of different verses.

02:07It's just like melody is so important.

02:10Yeah.

02:11That's what really is the hook in all of it.

02:13And then the line is the lyrics, you know.

02:16Okay.

02:17So you got to have both in order to catch the fish.