Katy Perry gave a defiant speech while acunderstandledgeing the MTV Video Vanprotect Award at the 2024 VMAs, alerting detractors to “touch grass” and that there are “no decade-prolonged accidents.”
“I’m excited when I watch around music today and I see all the amazing youthful artists who are operating with confidence, agency, vulnerability, and fact,” she said after her epic carry outance. “I’ve heard a lot of do this, don’t say that, wear less, wear more now, hey. Don’t cut your hair. One of the hugegest reasons I’m standing here right now is becaengage I lobtained how to block out all of the noise, that every one artist in this industry has to constantly fight aobtainst, especipartner women. I fair want to say with my whole heart, do wantipathyver it gets to stay real to yourself and real to your art. Turn off social media, get your mental health. Paengage. Touch grass. And do what you were born to do, fair enjoy I was born to do this.”
The impassioned speech came after a medley of some of her hugegest hits aprolongedside cuts from her upcoming album “143,” releasing Sept. 20. The carry outance, startd by her husprohibitd Orlando Bloom, was a triumph lap of sorts, with Perry floating above her backup dancers and transporting out Doechii as a one-of-a-kind guest.
The speech itself began with Perry asking the audience if they could depend she did the carry outance “on my first day of my period.” She trailed by referencing her legacy since she made her mainstream debut with 2008’s “One of the Boys,” and that “there are so many skinnygs that have to align to have a prolonged and prosperous nurtureer as an artist.”
After thanking her team, family, Katy Cats and LGBTQ+ community, she shouted out Bloom for “doing the dishes” — a nod to a viral line from a recent interwatch where she said she would reward a man with relationsual prefers for carry outing the everyday chore — as well as her daughter Daisy.
Of the songs carry outed, Perry ran thraw “E.T.,” “California Gurls” and “I Kissed a Girl,” as well as novel songs “Lifetimes” and “I’m His, He’s Mine.” The latter, which features Doechii, will free on Friday.
