The singer-songwriter was being interviewed backstage at the Ford Amphitheater in Hollywood when she was asked about the state of the music industry. She begins her answer by saying that although she’s not an Adele fan, she has respect towards the British singer’s massively popular 21. “It’s a solid record, and it’s selling,” she says.
But things get nastier when she compares it to the current chart queen, Katy Perry. “Like, who wants a fucking Katy Perry record?” she said to interviewer Heath Daniels. “I’m sorry. You know, you’re gonna get the two songs that are probably the hits that are good, but the rest of the album is gonna be crap. It is, it’s gonna sound like shit and who cares about buying that record? So people download the single and then that’s it.”
She backpeddaled a bit as she continued: “I’m not saying that Katy’s bad, I mean she’s great for what she does, but she’s not reinventing the wheel, she’s not giving substance, she’s giving you know microwave popcorn for you to feast on right at this moment, you know. And that’s it.”
