Despite going through a public divorce from her husband of only a year, Russell Brand, Katy Perry explained that she took a different approach than say, Taylor Swift, would when working on her latest album Prism.
Perry said rather than making someone out to be the “villain,” the album is more “self-reflective.”
"I think that I'm not always trying to point the finger,” she told MTV News. “I think on this record, the whole Prism record, it's very self-reflective and you hear that I've kind of gone inside more so and looked at where I can make myself better, did a patchwork thing, rather than like 'Screw you. You're crazy. F--- you.'"
She cites her song “It Takes Two” as an example, saying when she breaks up with someone she tries to figure out her contribution to the break-up as well.
“Because it's really easy when relationships end to be like 'That guy was a f---ing douchebag.' But really if you laid it down, and you saw the whole span of the relationship, you saw that you were in love, you saw the intimate moments, you saw the pain, you saw all the emotions and you have to kind of say 'Well, what responsibility can I take for myself in all of this,’" she explained.
Perry just released her music video for her new single “Unconditionally,” which she says was “meant to evoke this power of love.”
Perry, who is happily dating John Mayer, will open the American Music Awards with the song on Sunday.
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