Most celebrities ease into reinvention with a new haircut or a season of True Detective. Not Katy Perry .

The 41-year-old pop star spent 2025 behaving as if she were the star of an experimental performance-art piece about how wealth, fame, and unlimited access to private aviation erode any sense of coherent identity.

Her whole year was so disjointed and strange; on paper, it reads like a script written by a writers’ room of feuding couples on the brink of divorce , each anonymously adding plotlines that the others would later deny.

Things were already wobbly when she attempted her grand pop comeback at the end of last year. 143, the album she framed as her love letter to fans, arrived with lengthy Instagram essays about healing, history, angels, and seeing the number 341 ever

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