‘I’m pretty conceited’: Recognise this pop star?
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13 years ago, a very different Katy Perry had her first shot at pop fame. Picture: AP
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NEW footage has emerged showing world-conquering pop star Katy Perry in one of her early attempts at fame, way back in 2001.
In footage taken from Perry’s first tour as an artist at the tender age of 16, the singer — then named Katy Hudson, and recording Christian music — can be seen on a tour bus practising guitar, putting her hair in pigtails, and calling herself a “pizza face.”
The footage was uploaded by Jim Standridge, who explained that he was hired to shoot Perry’s first EPK (electronic press kit) for publicity purposes.
That publicity might come back to haunt the singer now, considering the footage is a far cry from her current image as a high-gloss pop princess. In the video, the teen talks about hiding her “pizza face” with makeup, Perry speaks candidly about covering her “pizza face” with makeup, and talks about the perks of life in the music business.
“Look at all these clothes … it’s great,” she says.
“Yeah … I’m pretty conceited”.
Standridge had this to say about the previously-unseen footage:
“The other day I was cleaning out some old footage in my office and found 90 minutes of raw footage I had totally forgot about. I quickly put together a short edit of the experience with Katy. Funny how she spent so much time messing with her hair …. In the present day her hair changes colour and style in every photo shoot, music video and performance …. I think Katy has grown into an amazing entertainer and woman.”
The 16-year-old Katy Perry was still a good seven years away from scoring her first number 1.
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Now 29 years old and with three multi-platinum pop albums under her belt, Perry had actually endured many false starts in the music business before bursting onto the scene with I Kissed A Girl in 2008.
Her 2001 debut album of Christian music, titled Katy Hudson, sold just a couple of hundred copies upon its release. She later wrote and recorded entire albums worth of songs with both Alanis Morissette’s producer Glen Ballard and Avril Lavigne’s hitmaking team The Matrix, before settling on her current shiny pop sound.
Just check the video to her 2005 Alanis-lite single, Simple:
Certainly a far cry from the Katy Perry of today.
