Witness (Katy Perry album)
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| Studio album by Katy Perry | ||||
| Released | June 9, 2017 | |||
| Length | 57:44 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
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Witness is the fifth studio album by American singer Katy Perry. It is scheduled for release on June 9, 2017. The album's lead single, "Chained to the Rhythm", was released on February 10, 2017. A second song titled "Bon Appétit" followed on April 28, 2017. A third song, "Swish Swish", was released May 19, 2017.
Following the release of her fourth album Prism in 2013 and the end of The Prismatic World Tour in October 2015, Perry told The New York Times in February 2016 that she was in the "research and development phase" of a new album. She decided to take a hiatus after the tour concluded to "give my mental health a break" before starting to write new songs the following June. Perry felt "refreshed" after the hiatus, and had over 40 tracks "in progress" before the year ended. In August, the singer stated that she aspired to make material "that connects and relates and inspires" and told Ryan Seacrest that she was "not rushing" her fifth album, adding "I'm just having a lot of fun, but experimenting and trying different producers, and different collaborators, and different styles". In February 2017, Perry stated that the album was "definitely a new era for me" and "an era of purposeful pop" she was proud of. Later that month, she told Capital FM that "I've got something swirling, but I think I want to put out some songs first before I give them the full meal". The following May, Perry revealed to Entertainment Weekly that the album will include 15 of the 40 songs she wrote for it, and described the record as "fun and dance-y and dark and light".
In February 2017, Spotify announced that it would run a campaign to promote the album up to its release the following the summer. Three months later, YouTube announced that it would broadcast a live listen-along special for the album titled Katy Perry Live Special the day before its release where audiences are taken "inside of her world" and she shall "break it all down". On May 14, Perry posted a snippet of a new song on her Twitter with a closeup photo of her eye and a date of "May 15". The next day, she confirmed the album would be titled Witness and shall be released through Capitol Records on June 9, 2017. She also announced that the concert tour supporting the album—which was titled Witness: The Tour—will run in North America from September 2017 to February 2018. Tickets purchased would include a copy of the album.
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