Speaker 1: Our next guest is a music legend, a.
Speaker 2: Household name who has probably put out more hits than
Speaker 2: the Mafia.
Speaker 3: Lady.
Speaker 4: If she's here in Australia to perform at the AFL
Speaker 4: Grand Final, please welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Kedy Bay, Katy Perry, welcome back to Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: See it's great to see how you did.
Speaker 2: In a minute. Huh, how long's it been since you
Speaker 2: were he lost six years? Well, no, not since I
Speaker 2: was here, but six years since I will have toured here.
Speaker 6: But you heat, just before the world stopped with COVID.
Speaker 2: Really at the MCG, I was with my sexy cricket
Speaker 2: bat and then I was pregnant and I was also
Speaker 2: staying in the same room that Tom Hanks was staying in.
Speaker 6: You were staying in the same room that Tom.
Speaker 2: Well, no, it wasn't that well, but after it was
Speaker 2: revealed that he was like the first one of the
Speaker 2: first people COVID and I was.
Speaker 6: Like, oh, you mean it's not a bigger.
Speaker 3: Bill now, but back then, Sanitizer because he kind of
Speaker 3: copped it for being.
Speaker 6: He was there. He was the first celebrity to have
Speaker 6: it in this earlier.
Speaker 2: From Elvis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought you meant money was and you were
Speaker 5: sharing with Tom patch Reader. Congratulations on the new album
Speaker 5: so much signal.
Speaker 1: Come on it, what is it?
Speaker 6: Don't I was doing it.
Speaker 3: We won pressures on one, four, three, and I keep
Speaker 3: going to two and a half.
Speaker 6: My little finger went.
Speaker 2: On for three.
Speaker 6: That way, he's much better.
Speaker 1: Because the three fingers curl.
Speaker 6: We worked out we're very old people.
Speaker 3: When we were downstairs having his commentsation, I mean it's up.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you know, you know you're definitely of
Speaker 2: a certain age when you're doing heart, when you're not
Speaker 2: doing hearts like this like that, like can you do this?
Speaker 6: Oh, hang on place hald.
Speaker 2: No, No, you're not doing it right. You got to
Speaker 2: do the okay, pointer fingers, hearts and then the middle finger.
Speaker 2: That's what separates the old guard the new guard.
Speaker 1: Just quickly, are you about to have a most on birthday?
Speaker 2: I am about to be forty years old.
Speaker 1: I knowngratulations. Welcome to the club.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I heard it's a really fun club.
Speaker 5: Well, Clinton, I reckon you like us? You still like
Speaker 5: twenty five, so it's like, well she can do.
Speaker 2: That's the question to everyone, how old would you be
Speaker 2: if you didn't know how old you.
Speaker 3: Were, I would have stuck at twenty five approach.
Speaker 2: Emotionally I feel emotually I feel thirty five, thirty seven,
Speaker 2: but physically I feel in my early thirties, if not younger.
Speaker 6: Was that your favorite age?
Speaker 3: Did you have an age that if you could just
Speaker 3: pinpoint and pause time?
Speaker 6: What age?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 2: No, I mean I feel so great. I mean, so
Speaker 2: much has changed. I went through a huge metamorphosis becoming
Speaker 2: a mother, and that's what the records about one four
Speaker 2: three is. I love you and I'm so full up
Speaker 2: on that love. So I want to share that love.
Speaker 2: And I think now more than ever, I just feel
Speaker 2: like at that crossroads of feeling like I've got some
Speaker 2: life wisdom under my belt and my body still works.
Speaker 3: I think that's the thing people get scared of turning forty,
Speaker 3: but it's actually the time where you know the most.
Speaker 2: Right well, I think so as far as I know.
Speaker 2: I mean, the fifty year olds are all laughing at
Speaker 2: us right now.
Speaker 1: You got to have a party, but you know we are.
Speaker 2: We are all living like three times our life span.
Speaker 2: So this I'm not even at the half way mart.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, you're a cold laved.
Speaker 2: Don't send me out to pasture life.
Speaker 1: Are you going to do a big party?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's a really big deal.
Speaker 3: Nice, but well you're here in Melbourne, I mean the
Speaker 3: Grand Final. Do you know much about AFL?
Speaker 2: What am I doing?
Speaker 1: Again?
Speaker 6: Has anyone like sat you down and made.
Speaker 2: You watch I love soccer?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 6: Do you know anything about the game?
Speaker 2: What I know is that the AFL has existed before
Speaker 2: the NFL. That's some big thing. That means, you know,
Speaker 2: you might like this, but I'm putting two into together.
Speaker 2: I guess Americans copied Australians.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, with the pioneers were the pioneers. But there
Speaker 3: are a lot of people going to the m c
Speaker 3: J on Saturday saying they're going to a Katie Perry concert,
Speaker 3: and then there are men running around in short shorts.
Speaker 2: Okay, well after that, thank you. Yeah, it's a big deal.
Speaker 2: One hundred thousand people, it's going to be huge.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I was trying to pick like one of the twelve
Speaker 2: of Melbourne, but it's so funny that none of them
Speaker 2: made it.
Speaker 6: To say that.
Speaker 2: I was just I was like twelve teams from Melbourne.
Speaker 2: I know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We really sat this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why a lot of people are going to
Speaker 3: the Katie Perry Contacts.
Speaker 2: Right the football is running around after I can't say
Speaker 2: I love one more than the other. I do love Sydney,
Speaker 2: but I have the best party in Brisbane.
Speaker 4: Brisbane brizzy boys got of dividing opinion already because it's
Speaker 4: Swan's versus Lions, and the Swans fans are a little
Speaker 4: bit jealous of raw.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that might become a Brisbane anthem.
Speaker 2: Potentially they're gonna co op it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, did you get told not to sing that
Speaker 3: song because it was supporting the Lions?
Speaker 2: I didn't, but I figured when that news came out,
Speaker 2: I was like, well, I guess you'll know my alliance.
Speaker 1: You have to sing it twice screw the Swans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need to write a Swan song, real bird song.
Speaker 5: Are you gonna stick around?
Speaker 1: Watch the get?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Just a little bit hot crush a beer, a
Speaker 2: real chin wag.
Speaker 6: Yes that and you need to learn Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, talk crap with people thing super keen. But you've
Speaker 1: played you've played the MCD before. As Lauren said eighty
Speaker 1: five ninety thousand at the T twenty cricket Final, what
Speaker 1: was that like I.
Speaker 2: Was pregnant and it was awesome and I'm just so
Speaker 2: grateful that they'll have me back. And I did leave
Speaker 2: all of my second sexy cricket bats here. I don't
Speaker 2: know where they are. They probably, you know, having a
Speaker 2: cigarette and brisbane at a bar somewhere. But it's a
Speaker 2: different show than that, for sure, and a lot has
Speaker 2: evolved since then.
Speaker 5: Now, I did hear you come out and say that
Speaker 5: there is a female Australian artist that might be making
Speaker 5: an appearance.
Speaker 2: Correct, I'm really good at she's a scorpio. Oh that's
Speaker 2: because I'm really good.
Speaker 1: I can look at my wife's.
Speaker 6: Peak, my Christmas present October.
Speaker 5: Should we run through some female out to see if
Speaker 5: we can get it?
Speaker 2: Try me, because when you play mafia with me, you
Speaker 2: lose Delta.
Speaker 1: Delta has already done it. So she was with Robbie
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. I'm saying Vanessa and Morosi.
Speaker 1: I'm saying carle Minok. Oh god, she's got face at
Speaker 1: the moment.
Speaker 6: Well, it was Delta last year. It can't be Delta again.
Speaker 3: We can't just keep rolling Delta out every time we
Speaker 3: get in the international Superstaring time.
Speaker 6: Maybe do you know this person?
Speaker 3: Well, Jess, melboy, it's Jess.
Speaker 1: She's got a poker face.
Speaker 6: It's Jess.
Speaker 1: Do you know the person? Well, now I do.
Speaker 3: Have they been rehearsing with you at the mcg or
Speaker 3: is this kept so far?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 6: So people know?
Speaker 2: But they have a code name. Oh, I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna I think it's going to hit accord on you
Speaker 2: that you are.
Speaker 6: Like, oh my god, oh is it a classic? Is
Speaker 6: it a classic banger? It's not magical?
Speaker 3: Neighbors, you don't know that.
Speaker 4: Katie an envelope and those ladies will come run and hey, Katie,
Speaker 4: I'm trying to get these too.
Speaker 5: I'm old school Katy Perry fan. So I've been trying
Speaker 5: to get these two to watch the Katy Perry movie.
Speaker 3: This morning, we go this morning ripped while we were
Speaker 3: live on it this morning, Jason ripped into us that
Speaker 3: we hadn't seen the Katy Perry movie.
Speaker 2: Part of me, yes, well, that's only one little part
Speaker 2: of me. That's not all of me.
Speaker 5: I know that's old school, like you know, like you said,
Speaker 5: very old school.
Speaker 2: That's almost like must be watching ten years fourteen years ago.
Speaker 2: It's interesting. I mean it was made at the beginning
Speaker 2: of my career and so much has happened and changed
Speaker 2: and evolved since then, so I definitely needed to do
Speaker 2: a follow up, like, yeah, Katy Perry another part or
Speaker 2: half of me? Yes, this half of me?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like the sound of it.
Speaker 3: Hey, the new album. I was listening to it this
Speaker 3: morning driving into work.
Speaker 2: To make you want to move?
Speaker 6: It made me want to dance.
Speaker 3: I said to these guys, I was like, I need
Speaker 3: to see this in like a club club gimet my
Speaker 3: club called Puffed Off, which is I got it. And
Speaker 3: I was like, Katy Mary needs to get on the
Speaker 3: stage and through these album It's so.
Speaker 2: Good that or you just like literally can work out
Speaker 2: to it, like I love working out and I will
Speaker 2: work out to that music and it goes so much
Speaker 2: faster on the elliptical.
Speaker 3: Same, yeah, he's never step footing.
Speaker 6: A gym is where people go and there's always machine.
Speaker 2: I don't love it like I don't. I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't love going to the gym. I like veiled workouts
Speaker 2: like dancing. So yeah, you could dance to this in
Speaker 2: the club and still get your heart rate up. And
Speaker 2: that's what the tour is going to be out about.
Speaker 6: The two, I tell us it's just been announced.
Speaker 3: Congratulations back yes in June.
Speaker 2: It's called the Lifetimes Tour, and I called it that
Speaker 2: because I have a song called Lifetimes, and I feel
Speaker 2: like I've grown up with my fans. It's almost been
Speaker 2: a lifetime fifteen sixteen, seventeen years that we've been hanging
Speaker 2: out and they've been using my music as you know,
Speaker 2: the soundtrack to their life. And so I'll be playing
Speaker 2: all those songs that they know and more. And there's
Speaker 2: two different circles. Slash Pits is really fun. There's like
Speaker 2: a club.
Speaker 3: And it's gonna be a club in the concert, like
Speaker 3: an area, an area.
Speaker 6: That's what I mean.
Speaker 2: There's two bars, you boss, but it's super high energy
Speaker 2: and prepared to bring your dance and shoes.
Speaker 5: This will be the first time going on tour now
Speaker 5: that you've got a family. Yes, and like today's work
Speaker 5: and I'm not sure if you're aware, but it's school
Speaker 5: holidays at the moment, so I've got three kids at
Speaker 5: home under ten. I just want to thank you for
Speaker 5: getting me out of the house today.
Speaker 2: Oh you're so welcome. You're like, I have to go
Speaker 2: and do this interview.
Speaker 6: Dad, He told his wife, we have you for three hours.
Speaker 2: To go listen. I know, like my daughter's four, and
Speaker 2: when I started taking her to preschool, it was like
Speaker 2: a revelation. I was like, what is time? I have time.
Speaker 2: I can get a coffee now, literally, And I was like,
Speaker 2: I looked around my town and I was like, I
Speaker 2: think I'm going to try a new coffee.
Speaker 6: Shop at do something different yet.
Speaker 5: Because at my kids school, I'll get hit up to
Speaker 5: do all the seeing of the charity events and stuff
Speaker 5: like that. I hit you up a pre school going we.
Speaker 6: Need a fundraiser.
Speaker 2: Always done it anyways, I've done a lot. I've do
Speaker 2: it for any fundraiser. I am their girl school to
Speaker 2: be hitting up. Yeah, she's not in real school just yet.
Speaker 2: So I've got some time and I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 2: I hope I can bring her out on tour. And
Speaker 2: so she came out here when Orlando was shooting a
Speaker 2: movie and you know, she got to touch a koala
Speaker 2: and all that. We went. We were in the Great
Speaker 2: Barrier Reef. We stayed at Lizard Island and when we
Speaker 2: had the most incredible Australian experience I've ever had, I
Speaker 2: was a full on tourist I loved it, so I
Speaker 2: hope I can parlay some of the muled She she
Speaker 2: really loves music. She loves listening to it. She requests
Speaker 2: songs all the time. And she's just started singing raw
Speaker 2: and it's adorable.
Speaker 6: I was going to say, does she try and sing
Speaker 6: your songs?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: She loves mummy.
Speaker 6: Does she know it?
Speaker 2: She does? She does pretty good. I've just now put
Speaker 2: her in music classes, but they're exploratory. It's kind of like,
Speaker 2: what instrument are you interested in?
Speaker 6: Let's try them all except the drums stone litter.
Speaker 1: She was drum that.
Speaker 5: Really hurts to listen to Spotify than already.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Congratulations, I've heard their dead enough exactly.
Speaker 5: Congratulations on the album. We are so to have you
Speaker 5: back than the m c J.
Speaker 1: So lucky. Nervous, Like do you get nervous?
Speaker 2: Am I nervous? I only get nervous when I'm not
Speaker 2: as prepared as I want to be. I prepare for
Speaker 2: everything and so that takes away the nerves. There'll be
Speaker 2: more butterflies than nerves.
Speaker 6: Have fun to see.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much.
Speaker 6: Can't be in the club on the tour with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, club club