After months of teasing, Katy Perry formally kicked off the countdown to KP6 on Monday (June 17) with the announcement that the primary single from her upcoming sixth album, “Lady’s World,” will drop on July 11. The information was heralded with a short snippet of the empowering pop track in addition to the only’s eye-popping artwork, shot by British photographer Jack Bridgland.
The picture options Perry wearing a skimpy white bikini, her legs encased in what appear like metallic pegasus legs and her arms tucked into her voluminous black hair. “Lady’s World” is slated to drop at 7 p.m. ET on July 11, with the official music video to debut the subsequent day.
Perry uploaded a 15-second preview of the track on Monday morning as nicely, during which she poses and flips her hair whereas sporting the outfit from the only cowl accented by a chunky necklace whereas singing, “Attractive, assured, so clever/ She is heaven-sent, so smooth, so sturdy,” over a effervescent electro pop beat.
At press time, no further info was out there on the title of Perry’s sixth full-length studio album, the follow-up to 2020’s Smile. Perry started ramping up pleasure for her subsequent period final month when, after ending her seven-year run on American Idol, she modified her social media profile pic to a modern, futuristic silver brand along with her shiny initials floating inside a pair of parentheses.
In April Perry informed Entry Hollywood that her subsequent album was going to be one among her happiest LPs thus far. “I simply have but to make a document from a spot of feeling actually completely satisfied and entire and full of affection,” she stated on the time. “Typically artists are like, ‘Oh, that’s boring, you need to make music from sort of like a more durable place,’ however really it’s very vibrant and joyful, like pure pleasure and enjoyable and playful and celebratory and a celebration.”
Final August throughout a present on her Las Vegas residency, Perry informed the gang, “In case you can’t love me at my Witness and Smile period, then you definitely can’t love me in my KP6 period.” Technically, the upcoming album is the singer’s seventh, although she did launch her debut LP, Katy Hudson, in 2001 beneath her beginning identify, which had a extra Christian rock-themed vibe than her subsequent main label albums.
Try the “Lady’s World” preview under.