17 Magical Things You Didn’t Know About Katy Perry
She’s the force behind “Firework,” “California Gurls,” and “Teenage Dream” — not to mention about a bajillion other songs you can’t get out of your head. In between dominating the music world, being a style trendsetter, and holding the record for the highest number of Twitter followers (73 million to be exact), Katy recently used the social networking site to sell her fourth perfume, Mad Potion. (Yes, Twitter commerce!) The singer sat down with BuzzFeed to give us the deets on everything from her favorite hangover food to whether or not we’ll see Left Shark and Right Shark ever again.
1. Katy is one of the first to launch and sell a product directly through Twitter.
“I thought it was a nice way to launch, and eventually Mad Potion will be in stores. I feel like I have a couple followers on Twitter, so it’s a great place to be heard within the snap of your finger. I thought it’d be an interesting, innovative way to start buying things directly from Twitter, which isn’t something people have done in the past. So [Mad Potion] is now available on the site in my pop-up shop, @KatyPerryPopUp, and there’s a Twitter Buy Now card that you use. It’s like a gift card and you buy it there. It’ll also be rolling out in different stores soon. With the online pop-up shop, for example, I like being part of innovative technology.”
2. Social media has helped shape her career “from the get.”
“Well, it’s just given me another voice than the singing voice. A lot of times I get to just share. I control my Twitter, as is obvious with all of my grammatical contributions and typos. I was always involved very early on in Twitter, so I think that does contribute to the amount of people that I have following [me]. When you’re at the base level of the different technologies, after 10 years of it being around — or however long, maybe it’s been five — then eventually you’re going to have more than the others that just joined yesterday. And I was on Vimeo, blogging and making videos for the first moves in my career, and I had my Tumblr account, and I was always testing out the waters with my different songs on Myspace. So I was always using technology to connect with people around the world. From the get.”
3. There’s a reason her fragrance is named Mad Potion.
“Well, everything is in a name, and I am such a sucker for a theme. So once I named it Mad Potion, I decided to really play up this magical element and the perfume being a potion. And I really do think that sense of smell is really powerful in creating memories, because, like, how often do you find yourself walking past someone wearing the same perfume you wore when you were a teenager? Or meeting a guy, and he’s wearing the cologne your first boyfriend wore — and you’re transported to this place in the time of your life. So I feel like scents are really powerful in making memories, and it’s like a magical potion that does all that. I wanted to make it like a classical magical potion vibe. And then [the neck of the bottle] kind of comes from the Cheshire Cat from the tale of the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, and then maybe there’s a reference to the Mad Hatter. Everything being a little off, which is me.”
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