Prism, Katy Perry's newest album out today. It finds her crushed, exposed, defiant and hopeful, fortified by newfound wisdom and self-awareness.
Prism's radiant and uplifting direction wasn't Katy Perry's first impulse while rebounding from a painful and public divorce. She started at the darker end of the pop spectrum.
"There were good songs that I left off, like Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Reborn," she says. "It's gritty and angry and has a dark side, and it didn't fit how I feel now. Sometimes you have to write those songs to get them out of the way."
Katy Perry’s new album "Prism", that contains 13 songs, is full of the bouncy, joyous pop tunes that she’s known for. But perhaps the most surprising aspect is her bluntness when writing about her 2012 divorce from Russell Brand in the poignant-but-hopeful closing track “By the Grace of God.” In it, Perry sings that post-break-up she could be found on her bathroom floor crying.
“Well, imagine what you go through,” she tells. “Imagine what happens when you go through a break up. We all go through break ups and we all get very depressed and desperate. The lyrics are very exact and autobiographical. That’s how I write. But the one thing about those lyrics is you can hear me finding my strength throughout the song. It starts off really low and then I kind of stand up for myself and say, ‘No!’”
"When you have loss in your life, you can go down a spiral and turn to alcohol or substances. I've never been down that road too hard. I went the opposite way. I went into a self-reflective, meditative, learning-of-lessons period. In astrology, it's called the return of Saturn. It happens when you're young, a quarter-life crisis. Either you welcome those lessons or you reject them and they come back as your midlife crisis."
"Ghost" references the text sent by British actor/comic Russell Brand requesting the divorce that ended their 14-month marriage. And "By the Grace of God" finds Perry in a suicidal gloom, leaning on her sister and emerging renewed.
Both songs are "100% autobiographical," Perry says. "I was a ball of vulnerability. People say, 'How did you get through it?' I did vitamins, supplements, therapy. At the end of the day, it was by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening."
She adds: “Sometimes you look in the mirror when you’re crying and if you look in the mirror it will make you cry more because you’re feeling sorry for yourself. And then sometimes you look in the mirror and you cry and I’ve been like: ‘Snap out of it! It’s time to — come on — grow up! No!’ There’s almost like this inner warfare that comes out, this inner battle between the good angel and the bad devil.”
Katy Perry, who says her recent single “Unconditionally” was partially influenced by current boyfriend John Mayer, specifies that “By the Grace of God” is the lone track from Prism specifically about her relationship with Brand. “All the other songs are stories from different times in my life,” she says. “It’s people making assumptions. It’s kind of hard because I am so vulnerable and I am [such an] open book, but I don’t feel like I want to hand over a specific story about each and every song. I don’t feel like I want every song to come with a little package, a little tabloid-al package because it’s like, ‘Why don’t you let the song be a little unspecific to the listener? Then the listener can use it and relate to it in their own way. So, not every song comes up with an excerpt. They’re biographical but all you’re going to get in the songs is just that.”About Blog: Idle Channel
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