Katy Perry brushed off the disappointing reception to her long-awaited return to music as she got back to work filming her new music video.
In stark contrast to the kooky video for her controversial track Women’s World, the hitmaker, 39, slipped into a dramatic silver balloon dress to film a daring aerial stunt.
Katy sported a bold metallic two-piece as she joined hunky Spanish stuntman Oscar Dorta for the airborne dance performance.
Despite the poor performance of her comeback song, Katy has ploughed forward with building anticipation for her new album 143.
The star teamed her silver co-ord with heeled snakeskin boots and the oversized grey dress, performing an array of air-borne raunchy moves with the stuntman.
Katy is said to be ‘freaking out’ and demanding that her team go ‘back to the drawing board’ to save her album, after her single Women’s World bombed on the Billboard and Spotify charts.
Katy — who was recently seen filming more raunchy music video scenes with hunky shirtless model and stuntman Oscar — is ‘pointing the fingers at everyone but herself’ following the flop single, according to insiders – who claim she is desperately scrambling to devise a new plan to save her musical comeback.
The lead single from her upcoming album – billed as an empowering feminist anthem – was quickly dismissed as unoriginal, hypocritical and formulaic.
The Teenage Dream hitmaker also faced criticism for the Sєxualized nature of the accompanying video, as well as her decision to work with music producer Dr. Luke, 50, after his highly publicised legal battle with Tik Tock singer Kesha, 37.
‘Katy is freaking out right now because she is very aware of the feedback that Woman’s World is getting,’ an insider exclusively told DailyMail.com. ‘She is pointing the fingers at everyone but herself, but it is her own fault.’
The source claimed the biggest risk Katy had taken was reconnecting with Dr. Luke – the music producer who worked on her hit singles including 2008’s I Kissed a Girl and 2010’s California Gurls before later being accused of Sєxual, physical, and emotional abuse by Kesha.
The super producer, whose real name is Łukasz Gottwald, denied all allegations, including Kesha’s claim that he raped Katy – something she shut down.
A New York state judge ruled against Kesha in 2020 saying she had defamed her former producer with the claim, and an appeals court upheld that decision in 2021.
