Earlier this month Katy Perry found herself in a spot of controversy after she featured backup dancers in her tour that were dressed as mummies and has padded butts. The performance created a mixed response and some critics even went as far to say the costumes were racist.
In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, Perry opened up about the ordeal. “As far as the mummy thing, I based it on plastic surgery,” she said.
“Look at someone like Kim Kardashian or Ice-T’s wife, Coco. Those girls aren’t African-American. But it’s actually a representation of our culture wanting to be plastic, and that’s why there’s bandages and it’s mummies. I thought that would really correlate well together…It came from an honest place. If there was any inkling of anything bad, then it wouldn’t be there, because I’m very sensitive to people.”
The star continued saying: “I guess I’ll just stick to baseball and hot dogs, and that’s it. I know that’s a quote that’s gonna come to f–k me in the ass, but can’t you appreciate a culture? I guess, like, everybody has to stay in their lane? I don’t know.”
Also in the interview, the star commented on motherhood and planning for the future. “I want to be doing that in the right time,” she said. “And that’s not in the next two years, you know? Maybe it’s in a five-year plan, but I need to really be able to focus 100 percent of my attention on it. I don’t really want to take the child on tour.”
“I don’t need a dude,” she added. “I mean, Neil [Patrick Harris] and David [Burtka], their twins are beautiful. It’s 2014! We are living in the future; we don’t need anything. I don’t think I’ll have to, but we’ll see. I’m not anti-men. I love men. But there is an option if someone doesn’t present himself.”
You can read the full interview in the August issue of Rolling Stone Magazine. For more information visit RollingStone.com.
