Katy Perry returned this week with the release of her fifth album, Smile. The 12-track project features a number of singles she’s dropped over the past two years, including “Never Really Over,” “Daisies,” “Smile,” and “Harleys in Hawaii.” Production is handled by Zedd, Oscar Holter, OZGO, The Monsters & Strangerz, and more.
“People that survive and are still artists their whole lives, they haven’t always had an upward trajectory, it’s been peaks and valleys,” Perry recently told NPR. “But it’s about how you are in those valleys which takes you to the next peak. I think maybe I’ll look back and I’ll be like, ‘Oh, this is where the expansion happened. This is where the character was built. This is where the making of me showed up.’ Because I don’t think you really know who you are until you get thrown down the stairs of life and/or just punched in the face a couple of times. So I think this is going to be the beginning of the wholeness of me, not just one part.”
