It’s only been a few days, but it seems like Katy Perry is already pivoting from American Idol to the KP6 era. KatyCats were quick to notice on Tuesday (May 21) that the singer had changed her social media profile pic to a sleek, futuristic silver logo on a deep red background with her shiny initials floating inside a pair of parentheses. On X, the new logo was accompanied by a red bar filled with bubbles.
At press time Perry had not commented on the switch or explained what it means, but last month Perry teased that she’s preparing a new single, one that she promised could be one of her biggest hits ever. She described the unnamed track, whose release date has not yet been announced, as “one of my biggest songs that has yet to come out.” She revealed that the song was co-written by 28-year-old Canadian-Congolese singer Lu Kala, best known stateside for her feature on Latto’s 2023 song “Lottery.”
Perry also told Access Hollywood that same night that the long-awaited follow-up to her 2020 album Smile is one of her happiest LPs to date. “I just have yet to make a record from a place of feeling really happy and whole and full of love,” she said. “Sometimes artists are like, ‘Oh, that’s boring, you want to make music from kind of like a tougher place,’ but actually it’s very bright and joyful, like pure joy and fun and playful and celebratory and a party.”
Last August during a show on her now-shuttered Las Vegas residency, Perry told the crowd, “If you can’t love me at my Witness and Smile era, then you can’t love me in my KP6 era.” Technically, the upcoming album is the singer’s seventh, though she did release her debut LP, Katy Hudson, in 2001, which had a more Christian rock-themed vibe than her subsequent major label albums.
Around that time she also told GMA that despite not putting out any new material since the birth of daughter Daisy Dove three years earlier, “I think that I’m writing a lot and have written a lot from a place of love because I’m feeling so much of it – so much unconditional love, that love you never knew existed,”
Check out the new logo below.