I walked through hell to get my smile back: Katy Perry

The pop star's upcoming album celebrates hope and optimism; she wrote the songs while coming out of depression

Katy Perry in a Zoom interview with South-east Asian media yesterday. Besides putting out her new album, the singer is also expecting her first baby this month. PHOTO: UMG SINGAPORE
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Heavily pregnant Katy Perry is about to pop any time, but she has another "baby" on the way in the form of her sixth studio album, which will drop on Aug 28.

While a Katy Perry album is typically chock-full of bright and shiny pop tunes, she revealed that her latest, Smile, was borne of a particularly dark time in her life .

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on August 13, 2020, with the headline I walked through hell to get my smile back: Katy Perry. Subscribe