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.
Stevie Nicks once advised Katy Perry not to have ‘rivals’: ‘It’s ridiculous’
nypost.comThe New Yorker and discussed her life in the spotlight.She told reporter Tavi Gevinson that she ran into Perry, 34, at the Corinthia Hotel in London back in 2012 and the pair talked about rivalries in the industry as well as how making enemies is not worth one’s time.“She said, ‘So Stevie, who are your rivals?’ And I said, ‘I don’t have rivals.’ And her big blue eyes got bigger and bluer,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer said. “And I said, ‘No Katy, I don’t, and neither do you.
You are Katy Perry, you’re who you are, you do what you do and you’re great at it. I’m Stevie Nicks, I do what I do and I’m great at it.
We don’t have rivals. That’s just ridiculous.'”The “California Girls” crooner then name-dropped Taylor Swift with whom she was rumored to have feuded with in their early years.“She said, ‘Well, there’s like, the Taylor Swift army and there’s like, the Katy army and there’s like—’ And I was like, ‘That’s just bulls—,'” Nicks added. “‘You have to just walk away from that.
Don’t carry that around in your mind because then they’re winning the game.'”However, Perry explained in a 2019 interview how she and Swift, 32, decided to move past their beef.
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