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Katy Perry talks about new album

"The second record is really important to me because I think it shows whether I'm meant to do this, or I got lucky," Perry says. "I guess I'm going to take the clout I have now and go, ‘Yeah, I want to work with you, because you wouldn't have worked with me five years ago.'" She does plan on working again with Greg Wells, Dr. Luke and Max Martin, and hopes to start recording her next album this summer.

Katy Perry has had a chat about what her new album is going to be like...

"The second record is really important to me because I think it shows whether I'm meant to do this, or I got lucky," Perry says. "I guess I'm going to take the clout I have now and go, ‘Yeah, I want to work with you, because you wouldn't have worked with me five years ago.'" She does plan on working again with Greg Wells, Dr. Luke and Max Martin, and hopes to start recording her next album this summer.

"Basically what I want to do is not alienate the audience that I have at all. I think some people feel like they have had success with one thing and one idea and one record and they want to pull a 180 and try a totally different thing," Perry explains. "I definitely feel like that's the wrong move. I feel like you just have to grow from it, you can branch off of it but keep the tree the same in some ways. Some people get full of themselves, and they think that anything they do is going to work or turn to gold or be the right move, and the reason why you're here is because of the people that like your music and the fans, so you always should keep an ear open to what they're saying."

Katy, look! I bought you a gun rack!