Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager.
Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her debut studio album Katy Hudson under her birth name in 2001, which was commercially unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into secular music after Red Hill ceased operations and she subsequently began working with producers Glen Ballard, Dr. Luke, and Max Martin.
After adopting the stage name Katy Perry and being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records, she signed a recording contract with Capitol Records in April 2007.
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Fallen Idol: Katy Perry’s comeback album is nothing to ‘Roar’ about
nypost.comKaty Perry was beefing with Taylor Swift about dancers.The story goes that Perry stole three dancers away from Swift’s “Red” Tour to join her “Prism” Tour.
At the time, they were dueling divas at the very top of pop. The feud even inspired Swift to write “Bad Blood,” her chart-topping hit that appeared on her “1989” later in 2014.A decade later, that feels like a whole different era.Perry’s next album, 2017’s “Witness,” was a bust by the standards of 2013’s “Prism” and certainly 2010’s blockbuster “Teenage Dream,” which had a record-tying five No.
1 singles.Then, in 2018, Perry became a well-compensated judge — at a $25 million salary — on “American Idol” when it was revived on ABC.But her own career as a pop idol was sinking just as Swift’s was soaring.
Perry’s 2020 “Smile” album failed to produce any Top 10 hits just as Swift’s “Folklore” LP was taking her to new heights. (As Swift genially cheered Perry on during her Video Vanguard Award performance at last week’s MTV VMAs, it was very much clear who had won.)Now, after leaving “American Idol” in May, Perry is refocusing on her recording career with “143,” her seventh studio album — named after her angel number — that dropped on Friday.But a month before she turns 40, this is hardly the comeback that Perry needed.
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