It's '143' release day! Let us celebrate with Katy giving us more details on how this project came together
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00:00So with this new album, I know on 143 you have some features on there.
00:05Was there anyone you discussed like collaborating with that it ended up
00:10falling apart beforehand and maybe we could potentially get for like a deluxe or the next album?
00:14Well, I'd hold that secret then for the future.
00:18All I know is that the 21 Savage collab on Gimme Gimme is really hypnotic and super fun.
00:25I'm so excited for people to hear it.
00:27You've been doing this too long.
00:28You were like, let's circle back to what is...
00:31Why talk about something that hasn't yet happened that is still swirling?
00:34You know what I'm saying?
00:35Yeah.
00:36So let's land it in reality.
00:38So did you have a song that was the easiest to come together on this album and the song that was the hardest?
00:44For 143, the song that was the easiest...
00:52Gosh, they all have their layers and they're all kind of easy to write and stuff.
01:01It's just when you're actually tracking them and pulling your sleeves up and doing the hard work and getting it right and finding the pocket.
01:07I would say the hardest one to come together probably was Gorgeous just because there was some rewrites on that just to get that right.
01:16Because it's a simple, beautiful, sexy song.
01:19Sure.
01:20And we just wanted to...
01:21That's featuring Kim Petras and we just wanted to attack it with just that feeling of like...
01:27I don't know.
01:28Even if you don't do makeup tutorials, you want to do a reveal when you hear this song.
01:34You want to go and walk somewhere catwalk style or do a slow motion or do some piece of creative content with it.
01:44It just feels like a reveal song.
01:47But it just makes you feel like you also just want to call your girlfriends and go out.
01:50I love it.
01:51What was the component, the last component to come together in that song where it clicked and you were like, ah, yes, okay.
01:56It was just deciding on like...
02:00We wrote a couple of different verses and some of it got scrapped and some of it stayed and then just a delivery of different verses.
02:07It's just like melody is so important.
02:10Yeah.
02:11That's what really is the hook in all of it.
02:13And then the line is the lyrics, you know.
02:16Okay.
02:17So you got to have both in order to catch the fish.