Katy Perry
Jul 4, 2011
Katy Perry is red hot on the cover of the June 24th issue of Rolling Stone magazine, and in the issue she talks her politics, her body, and her new obsession with the History channel.
Katy gave the magazine the inside to the kick-off concert of her California Dreams tour happening now and between the elaborate rehearsals and three-hour make-up sessions, Perry reveals that she's recently undergone a political awakening.
"It just feels like the thing running our country is a bank, money," she says. "I know it sounds like an intense viewpoint, but I'm only slowly but surely getting the wool taken off my eyes. When I was a kid, I asked questions about my faith. Now I'm asking questions about the world."
It took Perry a while to learn to embrace her body. "I started praying for [breasts] when I was, like, 11," she says. "And God answered that prayer above and beyond, by, like, 100 times, until I was like, 'Please, stop, God. I can't see my feet anymore. Please stop!' I was a lot more rectangular then. I didn't understand my body. Someone in sixth grade called me 'Over-the-shoulder boulder holder.' I didn't know I could use them. So, what I did was, I started taping them down. How long did I tape them down for? Probably until I was about 19. And, no, I don't have any psychological pain because of it."
She's also recently become obsessed with the History Channel show Ancient Aliens. "Oh my God," she says. "When it talks about the sky people, how everyone comes from the sky and how the Pyramids were used for star observations, it's too much for me. It all seems to connect the dots. It's blowing my mind."
- California Dream Tour Dates:
- July 5 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
- July 7 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest - Marcus Amphitheatre
- July 8 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
- July 9 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
- July 13 Regina, SK Brandt Center at Evraz Place
- July 14 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
- July 16 Calgary, AB ScotiaBank Saddledome - Calgary Stampede
- July 17 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place
- July 19 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
- July 20 Seattle, WA Key Arena
- July 22 Portland, OR Rose Garden Arena
