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The cover of her new album, Teenage Dream, features the singer semi-naked draped on a bed of pink tufty clouds. Perry had each cover individually spritzed to smell like candyfloss. "It actually smells a bit like My Little Pony," she says, a frown threatening to form. "You know, the toys?" The frown disappears. "So it smells of your childhood, which is always endearing."
Perry is plenty endearing herself – unguarded, unpretentious, flirtatious in a slightly camp, Carry On kind of way. She swears like a sailor, rattling off the first thing that pops into her head, although her loose tongue has landed her in trouble in the past. When she described herself as a "fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a thinner version of Lily Allen", Allen came out blasting, "It's like, you're not English and you don't write your own songs, shut up!"
In fact, she writes her own lyrics; a producer helps flesh them out into songs. Teenage Dream features the already released single California Gurls, whose Velcro hook has probably already attached itself to the inside of your cranium, and a handful of love songs – Hummingbird Heartbeat, Not Like The Movies – inspired by Brand.
"One of the things that attracted me to him is his brain," Perry says. "He's one of the smartest men I've met. I feel smarter just standing next to him." At the MTV music awards, she engineered an introduction by throwing a bottle of water at his head. He tried to get her into bed; she insisted on dinner, and a few weeks later they were on holiday together in Thailand. There's been a rash of speculation about how she "tamed" the self-proclaimed "S&M Willy Wonka", although such talk misses the fact that Brand is the reformed hellraiser, 25-year-old Perry the pin-up for "gin-n-juice" hedonism. You wonder how that combination is going to work.
"He knows that I'm young and have friends and a social life, and he was attracted to me. Not, 'Oh let's find a version of myself in a female.' Every once in a while I need to remind him of that and he listens. It's all about communication. It's not about taming, because that won't last. Everyone gets saggy tits. Not everything stays perfect. We all start to slow down. I think he was ready for change. I mean, you just don't have the stamina to be in bed with 80 different women a week when you're 35 and trying to do good work." (Read More at the Guardian)
The cover of her new album, Teenage Dream, features the singer semi-naked draped on a bed of pink tufty clouds. Perry had each cover individually spritzed to smell like candyfloss. "It actually smells a bit like My Little Pony," she says, a frown threatening to form. "You know, the toys?" The frown disappears. "So it smells of your childhood, which is always endearing."
Perry is plenty endearing herself – unguarded, unpretentious, flirtatious in a slightly camp, Carry On kind of way. She swears like a sailor, rattling off the first thing that pops into her head, although her loose tongue has landed her in trouble in the past. When she described herself as a "fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a thinner version of Lily Allen", Allen came out blasting, "It's like, you're not English and you don't write your own songs, shut up!"
In fact, she writes her own lyrics; a producer helps flesh them out into songs. Teenage Dream features the already released single California Gurls, whose Velcro hook has probably already attached itself to the inside of your cranium, and a handful of love songs – Hummingbird Heartbeat, Not Like The Movies – inspired by Brand.
"One of the things that attracted me to him is his brain," Perry says. "He's one of the smartest men I've met. I feel smarter just standing next to him." At the MTV music awards, she engineered an introduction by throwing a bottle of water at his head. He tried to get her into bed; she insisted on dinner, and a few weeks later they were on holiday together in Thailand. There's been a rash of speculation about how she "tamed" the self-proclaimed "S&M Willy Wonka", although such talk misses the fact that Brand is the reformed hellraiser, 25-year-old Perry the pin-up for "gin-n-juice" hedonism. You wonder how that combination is going to work.
"He knows that I'm young and have friends and a social life, and he was attracted to me. Not, 'Oh let's find a version of myself in a female.' Every once in a while I need to remind him of that and he listens. It's all about communication. It's not about taming, because that won't last. Everyone gets saggy tits. Not everything stays perfect. We all start to slow down. I think he was ready for change. I mean, you just don't have the stamina to be in bed with 80 different women a week when you're 35 and trying to do good work." (Read More at the Guardian)
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