Staggering amount Katy Perry will be paid for AFL grand final – as she makes ‘diva demands over the setlist’
Katy Perry is reportedly being paid a staggering $5 million to perform at the AFL finals in Melbourne on Saturday.
The American pop star is being paid a whopping sum to sing five songs in front of a roaring crowd of 100,000 at the MCG before Sydney take on Brisbane, the Herald Sun reports.
The huge sum the 39-year-old is receiving for her brief pre-match performance reportedly comes with a few conditions: she is allowed to sing a selection of older, well-known hits, instead of songs from her new LP 143.
Australian pop legend Tina Arena is also rumoured to be performing alongside Katy at the major sporting event.
“There will be a surprise performance from a favourite Australian artist who I look up to,” Katy revealed on Channel Seven’s morning show Sunrise.
“She’ll sing a little with me, I’ll sing a little with her. I’m sworn to secrecy, locked up, chained, everything.”
Katy’s telling use of the word “chains” led viewers to suspect she was hinting at a performance with Tina, who had a huge hit with a song of the same name in 1994.
Channel Nine reporter Tom Morris revealed on Monday that AFL bigwigs had told the singer they expected her to sing her older hits such as Firework, Roar and I Kissed A Girl.
Katy Perry (pictured) is reportedly being paid a staggering $5 million to perform at the AFL finals in Melbourne on Saturday
Appearing on SEN Breakfast, the veteran AFL journalist claimed Katy’s team had resisted a request from the AFL that the Teenage Dream hitmaker only perform one new song.
“She plays about five songs and the AFL really wanted her to play five classic songs. She wanted to play two new ones,” he said.
Tom added that both camps had reached a compromise, with Katy reportedly agreeing to just one new song.
“They ended up meeting halfway and she plays one new song and four classics,” he said.
The American pop star, 39, is being paid a whopping sum to sing five of her songs to a boisterous crowd of 100,000 at the MCG before Sydney take on Brisbane, the Herald Sun reports
Co-host and AFL legend Kane Cornes admitted he was a Katy Perry fan and added that the AFL should have a say in the planning of the hit stadium show.
“The AFL says, ‘We only want your hits. We only want your bangers. We want Roar, Teenage Dream, Firework.’ They want all the songs we know and love. And they’ve backed down and said, ‘No, I want to play two of my new songs.’
He added: ‘You know, when you go to a concert and they’re maybe old and you only want their good stuff. You want their greatest hits.’
The huge sum the 39-year-old is receiving for her brief pre-match performance is said to come with a number of conditions: she would play a selection of older hits, rather than songs from her new LP 143.