I'M STILL NOT OVER THE BIZARRE 2025 KATY PERRY HAD
Most celebrities ease into reinvention with a new haircut or a season of True Detective. Not Katy Perry.
The 41-year-old pop star spent 2025 behaving as if she were the star of an experimental performance-art piece about how wealth, fame, and unlimited access to private aviation erode any sense of coherent identity.
Her whole year was so disjointed and strange; on paper, it reads like a script written by a writers’ room of feuding couples on the brink of divorce, each anonymously adding plotlines that the others would later deny.
Things were already wobbly when she attempted her grand pop comeback at the end of last year. 143, the album she framed as her love letter to fans, arrived with lengthy Instagram essays about healing, history, angels, and seeing the number 341 everywhere.
But none of it landed quite how she hoped. The lead single Woman’s World was called vapid, outdated, and ‘as empowering as a Vagisil advert,’ by critics. Fans complained it sounded like a money-laundering scheme.
And her decision to collaborate with Dr. Luke on her new music, a producer who was accused of sexually abusing popstar Kesha for years, was something that many people found not just disappointing but genuinely morally compromising.
So no, I am not over the bizarre year Katy Perry had in 2025 or her weird Instagram numerology essays that she posted with the emotional urgency of a woman who just got broken up with in an airport Pret.
It was chaotic, fascinating, and deeply revealing: a pop star trying to live in a fantasy world when the rest of us are stuck in the burning real one.
If 2010 Katy Perry gave us the fantasy and escapism of Teenage Dream, 2025 Katy Perry gave us something else entirely – a live-action dismantling of celebrity privilege and the corrupting, disconnecting power of wealth and late-stage capitalism.
And in a strange way, it might be her most memorable, powerful era yet — whether she intended it or not.
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