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Insiders claim the pop singer is ready to give up her music career following the controversy surrounding her comeback<\/p>\n
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Insiders say Katy is devastated over the reaction to her pop comeback<\/p>\n
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Katy Perry made her long-awaited return to pop music this month with the release of her seventh studio album, 143, marking her first in four years. But her big comeback has been plagued by criticism and controversy, with many calling it a \u2018complete flop\u2019.<\/p>\n
Others have branded it \u2018mediocre\u2019 and \u2018generic\u2019, while her lead single Woman\u2019s World \u2013 which stalled at number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100\u00a0\u2013 has been described by some as \u2018dated\u2019 and \u2018out of touch\u2019. One critic even claimed that the album is \u2018rife with clich\u00e9s, as though it was generated through AI\u2019.<\/p>\n
The singer also faced a string of backlash ahead of its release over her decision to work with record producer Dr Luke, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, after he settled his longstanding defamation lawsuit with pop star Kesha last year. She accused him of raping, drugging and emotionally abusing her, something he vehemently denied.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The popstar is said to be reconsidering her music career (performing at the VMAs earlier this month)<\/p>\n
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And now insiders have revealed that Katy, 39, has been left devastated by the negativity, so much so that she\u2019s ready to quit her 16-year long music career.<\/p>\n
‘Katy feels like she\u2019s breaking up with her pop career \u2013 it\u2019s heartbreaking. She’s been struggling to get through the days, crying onstage and trying to block out all the negativity. She can’t believe how vicious some of the critics and former fans have been online. She’s always known you need a thick skin in showbusiness, but this is taking it to another level,\u2019 a source tells\u00a0Closer.<\/p>\n
\u2018Katy has always been very hands on with her career, operating her own Twitter account and engaging with fans, but now she has to get other people to do it because there’s so much vile abuse and hatred towards her which feel completely unwarranted. She doesn’t feel like she can put a foot right at the moment, but she’s also not going to allow herself to be a punchbag or a punchline.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Katy has faced backlash for continuing to work with Dr Luke<\/p>\n
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Our source says that Katy has turned to her fianc\u00e9 Orlando Bloom \u2013 who she\u2019s been engaged to since February 2019 and shares four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove with \u2013 for support, and has even been asking the actor for some career advice.<\/p>\n
They continue, \u2018She can only take so many knocks and feels her pop career might not be worth it, so she’s really been leaning on Orlando throughout this ordeal. She wants his support and advice and he\u2019s been vowing to stay by her side no matter what.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018She wants to bend his ear about acting because it\u2019s something she feels she has never really put her full attention to and would rather play someone else than the character of Katy Perry right now \u2013 as everyone seems to be against her and it\u2019s not fair. Once her obligations to tour and promote the album are over, Katy has said she wants to completely disappear from the limelight for a bit to regroup and think about a rebrand. She feels the music and pop world is completely toxic and wants to break up with it.\u2019<\/p>\n
The insider adds, \u2018She knows she’s been accused of being anti-feminist by working with Dr Luke and feels the need to just run away from the industry. If she does make music again, she’s even thought about putting something out under her real name Katheryn Hudson and doing something stripped back and acoustic and starting from scratch.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Katy has been with Orlando since 2016<\/p>\n
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Opening up about the release of 143 \u2013 which represents the expression \u2018I love you\u2019 and is what Katy considers to be her symbolic \u2018angel number\u2019 \u2013 she said, \u2018I set out to create a bold, exuberant, celebratory dance-pop album with the symbolic 143 numerical expression of love as a throughline message.\u2019<\/p>\n
And speaking on the\u00a0Call Her Daddy\u00a0podcast, she also discussed working with Dr Luke, who produced 10 out of the 11 songs on the album. \u2018I understand that [working with him] started a lot of conversations, and he was one of many collaborators that I collaborated with. But the reality is, it comes from me,\u2019 she said. \u2018The truth is, I wrote these songs from my experience of my whole life going through this metamorphosis, and he was one of the people to help facilitate all that. One of the writers, one of the producers. I am speaking from my own experience.\u2019<\/p>\n
She added, \u2018When I speak about Woman\u2019s World, I speak about feeling so empowered now, as a mother, as a woman \u2026 I created all of this with several different collaborators, people that I\u2019ve collaborated with from the past, from Teenage Dream era. All of that.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Katy starred in The Smurfs movie back in 2011<\/p>\n
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Katy first burst onto the music scene in 2008 aged 23 with her single, I Kissed a Girl, and went on to release hits like Firework, Roar and Dark Horse. Her albums including Teenage Dream and Prism have sold millions of copies worldwide, and her music videos and concert tours are known for their elaborate productions.<\/p>\n
While she\u2019s one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 143\u00a0million units worldwide, her last album Smile \u2013 which she released in 2020, two days after giving birth to her daughter \u2013 received mixed reviews and sold just over\u00a060,000 copies.<\/p>\n
As well as being a judge on American Idol, the star has also dipped her toes into other work projects, including acting. She voiced Smurfette in the 2011 Smurfs movie and made a cameo in Get Him to the Greek alongside ex-husband Russell Brand in 2010.<\/p>\n
And now, our source reiterates that she\u2019s seriously considering a career change and is considering going down the acting route again.<\/p>\n
\u2018She would love to pivot to acting with the help of Orlando,\u2019 they say. \u2018She has proven her comic timing in her music video and she wants to give acting a proper go. Right now, it feels like the universe is pulling her away from the pain of her pop career, and making her decide on a new career, with the help of Orlando by her side. She’s told him she can’t do it alone and needs him now more than ever.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
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