Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. I have with me

Brittany Spanos and we're going to be playing Brittany's excellent interview

with Katie Perry who has a new album out called Smile.

And also congratulations to Katie Perry because she just had a baby.

She had a baby girl named Daisy Dove Bloom and Brittany talked to her right before she gave birth

really and again it's a great time to be Katie Perry we're very happy for her on a

professional level it's probably a little bit of a weird time to be

Katie Perry because the pop landscape has shifted so dramatically and she is

still Katie Perry. This is something we've been talking about for a while it's

interesting to talk about and Brittany it's not so much

Katie has changed. She hasn't changed at all. It's just the world has changed around her. How do you see all that working? I mean she came out at a time when it was kind of

it was very cool to be a little trolly in music and it was kind of cool to I mean she was

on the warp tour circuit for a

first album one of the boys like her entire thing was like she was a little bit of

like the all pop girl when she first came out and a lot of the stuff that she

saying early on quickly has become sort of being very problematic has been you know, I kissed a girl at being the big single and sounds like

you're so gay, stuff like that. Like there's like a lot of stuff that just like has not

aged as well as a lot of other pop signs. It's not to say that other pop stars haven't had songs that haven't aged as well.

But, you know, I think that there was a slew of them and a lot of other stuff that followed her for a long time.

You know, there's a lot of like very appropriate things that she's done and

over the course of albums following.

So there's a lot of elements of like really her music career up till like recently that's been sort of

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