Katy Perry puts so much energy into each of her concerts that she’s “depleted” by the end of a tour.
The popstar is currently performing a string of shows around the world in support of her fifth studio album, Witness, which was released in June 2017.
Witness: The Tour kicked off in Canada last September and Katy is currently on the Oceania leg of the trek, but she knows she’ll need a break after finishing a total of 115 shows.
“Sometimes I’m not feeling 100 per cent, sometimes I’m extremely jet-lagged, sometimes there are personal issues that I’m having to deal with right before the moment I go on stage,” she told Vogue Australia, adding that large-scale performances take their toll. “I am depleted. I am a plastic bag, to quote my own song (2010’s Firework), at the end of every tour.”
However, Katy is determined to continuing giving her all when on long treks and is willing to invest in costumes, stage sets, pyrotechnics, acrobats and the whole spectacle in order to give fans the experience they deserve. And over the duration of a two-hour long Witness show, the star only departs the stage for outfit changes.
“I spend a lot of money because I want to put on a great show. I understand kids’ attention spans these days: they’re scrolling on their phones all day and having a zillion dopamine hits per second, so the idea of coming to a live music show can’t be like: ‘That’s it?’” the 33-year-old said.
During the interview, Katy also discussed how she had learned techniques to cope with the stresses of her life during a week-long programme at the Hoffman Institute in California at the beginning of the year.
Following the course, one of the brunette beauty’s realisations was that the idea of the tortured artist is a false one.
“I was with someone recently who asked: ‘Well, don’t you think that if you do too much therapy it will take away your artistic process?’ And I told them: ‘The biggest lie that we’ve ever been sold is that we as artists have to stay in pain to create,’” she added.
