Katy Perry looked stunning as she soaked up the sunshine in Saint Tropez with her fiancé Orlando Bloom this week – amid the disastrous release of her comeback single, Woman’s World.
The 39-year-old Teenage Dream hitmaker, who defended the sexualised video for the single as “slapstick”, brushed aside her chart-topping woes as she showed off her toned physique in a gingham bikini during her day at the beach with Bloom, 47.
The star showed off her waist and cleavage in the two-piece suit, which she paired with gold jewelry and chic sunglasses.
Lord of the Rings star Orlando showed off his toned physique in a tight blue top and shorts as he hugged Katy in the surf during their holiday with their four-year-old daughter Daisy.
The couple’s vacation comes as Katy’s comeback single has plummeted in the U.S. iTunes charts since its release on Thursday, July 11.
Katy Perry looked stunning as she soaked up the sun in St. Tropez with her fiancé Orlando Bloom this week – amid the disastrous release of her comeback single, Woman’s World
Lord of the Rings star Orlando hugged Katy in the surf during their vacation
The couple’s vacation comes as Katy’s comeback single has fallen on the US iTunes charts since its release on Thursday, July 11
The song has dropped to number 31 in the charts, behind hits by Eminem and Tom MacDonald.
The singer is currently promoting the lead single from her seventh studio album 143, but the song – billed as a powerful feminist anthem – is being dismissed as unoriginal, hypocritical and predictable.
The American star returned to music earlier this week with her new track, but has been criticized for the sexualized nature of the video, particularly notable for the moment in which she and her dancers perform sexy choreography on a construction site before she is “crushed” by an anvil and returns in a new costume.
In a recent behind-the-scenes video shared to Instagram, Perry said, “We’re just having fun, being a little sarcastic with it. It’s very slapstick and very direct.”
‘With this set it’s like, “Oooh, we’re not about the male gaze, but we are about the male gaze.” And we’re really overdoing it and being too direct about it.’
The former American Idol judge explained that the “anvil” moment was meant as a “reset” to help her embrace the “idea of the divine feminine.”
She added: ‘We wanted to make this video look like a super glossy pop star music video.’
Woman’s World is the first single from Perry’s upcoming album 143, due out September 20.
The long-term couple enjoyed some relaxation amid their busy schedules
Katy showed off her enviable body in a skimpy bikini on the day
Orlando showed off his muscular body in a tight blue top and shorts
Katy showed off her enviable bikini body as she walked along the beach
The couple was seen carrying their PDAs into the sea
The mother of one looked radiant as she soaked up the sunshine
Katy drank a refreshing drink during the day
Orlando showed off his hot body while enjoying the beautiful view
Orlando leaned in for a kiss with his fiancée on the day
The title is a code word for I love you, which was often used in messages sent via pagers in the 1990s.
It’s the star’s first album since 2020’s Smile, which failed to match the success of her previous records.
Shortly after its release on Friday, Woman’s World was panned by critics as a “monumental catastrophe” that sounds like a “warmed-up” Lady Gaga.
Pitchfork gave it a particularly negative review, saying it sounded like Perry had learned more about feminism from a simple Google search.
“The pop singer’s comeback single defies all sense of taste and is too dispiriting to even come close to camp. It’s awful,” the outlet’s Shaad D’Souza wrote.
Perry was criticized for basing her song on Lady Gaga’s 2020 hit Stupid Love, resulting in what some said was a mediocre imitation.
Katy looked sensational as she strutted down the beach
The star was seen during the day as she boarded a boat
Katy was seen hugging her partner in the sea
The couple looked in love as they relaxed in France
Orlando gave Katy a loving look during their day out
Katy showed off her enviable body during the day
The star appeared to be going makeup-free for the day
Katy showed off her toned curves during the beach day
Katy looked her typical gorgeous day at the beach
The star later wore an ab-flashing co-ord for the day
Additionally, she was heavily criticized for her collaboration on Woman’s World with Dr. Luke, the music producer who was accused of sexual abuse by Kesha in a lawsuit that was later dismissed. Dr. Luke has consistently denied the allegations
Additionally, she was heavily criticized for her collaboration on Woman’s World with Dr. Luke, the music producer who was accused of sexual assault by Kesha in a lawsuit that was later dismissed. Dr. Luke has consistently denied the allegations.
According to the Pitchfork review, her choice to work with Dr. Luke on a feminist anthem was “genuinely twisted, but not surprising.”
The song also received a scathing one-star review from The Guardian, which described the song as “a warmed-over version of Gaga” and accused it of borrowing lyrics straight from Chappell Roan’s single Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl.
“Woman’s World sounds like it was designed by a committee in a boardroom at Capitol Records for the sole purpose of synching up on RuPaul’s Drag Race and generating “you ate” comments from white gay men living in West Hollywood,” Alim Kheraj wrote in a scathing review for Dazed.
According to Mary Siroky’s review for Consequence Of Sound, the song, which features “lyrics that genuinely seemed AI-generated,” is “as flat as the bottom of the anvil Perry crushes halfway through the music video.”