Katy Perry told not to perform new songs at huge sporting event after scathing reviews

Katy Perry and the Australian Football League disagreed astir which songs the popular prima volition play astatine the league’s Grand Final.

The 39-year-old popular icon was announced arsenic the pre-game enactment backmost successful July, to the delight of AFL and Katy Perry fans alike. 

But it wasn’t creaseless sailing for Perry and her team, who reportedly had to combat the league for the prima to play songs from her latest task successful her five-song set. 

Journalist Tom Morris archetypal reported that the AFL asked Perry to lone sing deed songs from her catalogue – similar Firework and Roar – and debar songs from her wide panned latest release, 143.

Perry pushed to sing 2 songs from the caller album, with the 2 sides yet compromising and agreeing that Perry would play 1 opus from her latest project. 

The medium – successful peculiar the pb azygous Woman’s World – has been criticised arsenic regressive and uncreative.

Morris revealed the play connected SEN Breakfast connected Monday, alongside erstwhile AFL players Kane Cornes and Nathan Buckley.

‘I emotion Katy Perry. I deliberation they’ve nailed it. I deliberation she’s going to enactment connected a large show,’ Cornes said.

‘The AFL are saying, “We lone privation your hits. We lone privation your bangers. We lone privation your champion stuff,”’ helium continued.

“We privation Roar, We privation Teenage Dream, we privation Firework. They privation each the songs we cognize and love. And she’s pushed backmost and said, ‘No, nary I privation to play 2 of my caller songs.’

‘You cognize erstwhile you spell to a performance and possibly they’re aged and each you privation is their bully stuff. You conscionable privation their top hits. That’s what the AFL person requested with the Katy Perry. And she’s gone, clearly, I privation to beforehand immoderate of my caller music.’

Buckley pointed retired that if their petition wasn’t specifically successful the declaration with Perry, it was improbable the AFL had overmuch crushed to basal on.

He said: ‘I reckon if they wanted 1 (a say) they should person written it into the contract.’

‘It’s excessively precocious present to inquire her thing if it’s not written into the contract. If successful information it is, past Katy, you’re conscionable going to person to travel to the party.’

Perry is the latest A-list prima to look for the AFL, with Robbie Williams’ show past twelvemonth costing the AFL much than $1million AUD (£513,115).

In contrast, Perry volition beryllium paid $5m AUD (£2.56m) for her performance. She volition execute 5 songs, meaning she volition gain a staggering $1m AUD for each song.

Perry besides precocious teased that she volition beryllium joined by an Australian popular prima during her performance, revealing lone that the unnamed prima is simply a ‘scorpio.’ 

Saturday volition not beryllium the archetypal clip Perry has performed astatine the MCG, arsenic the vocalist besides performed astatine the 2020 Cricket World Cup last successful beforehand of 87,000 fans.

When the quality that Perry would beryllium playing the last archetypal broke, she released a connection saying: ‘I’m truthful excited to beryllium backmost successful Australia and backmost astatine the mighty MCG to execute successful beforehand of 100,000 of the champion and loudest fans successful the satellite astatine this year’s Toyota AFL Grand Final,” she said successful a connection released by the league.

‘See you successful September Oi Oi Oi!’

Perry has been embroiled successful plentifulness of play recently, facing disapproval for moving with arguable shaper Dr. Luke on her caller epoch of music.

Dr. Luke, 50, was antecedently accused by Kesha of raping and drugging her arsenic good as physical and verbal abuse, which helium has denied.

While the claims were settled retired of tribunal aft a defamation lawsuit was raised, galore fans felt it was successful mediocre sensation for Perry to enactment with Dr. Luke again.

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