Katy Perry does the wet look at the VMAs.
Perry recently spoke on Call Her Daddy about how she ended up in music. She never envisioned herself becoming a famous pop star.
“I mean, fame never came into my mind,” she said. “I think it’s a byproduct of everything that everyone’s successful at. I just wanted to be seen, period. End of story. And I found my magic trick when I was nine. I started singing, and then the room would freeze. And so I was like, oh, this is interesting. And then I enjoyed it. And it just soothed me. It healed me. My mother called me Bird from a very young age because I would sing myself to sleep when I was little. Then I picked up a guitar at 13. I started singing at church at nine. Started writing my own songs at 13. I made a gospel record when I was 16. And so I always wanted to be on the stage. My father was a minister, and he was on some stage, so I always watched that. I had a little bit of an example of that. Got my big break at 23, but before 23, I was in LA at 17. I was broke. I didn’t have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out. So what my Southern father would say.
“But I was hustling, and I was always saying, yes, I can,” she continued. “I’ll be there. I’ll fill in. Tap me in, coach. It was a struggle bus. I had two cars repossessed. I was signed and dropped by three different labels. People only know me maybe because of Teenage Dream and the whirlwind and success of that and the accolades, [but that’s not the full story].”
