

The singer rehashed her recent Saturday Night Live production for “Walking On Air,” a song that sounds like it was pulled out of the movie Night At the Roxbury. Juicy J made an appearance to guest on new album track “Dark Horse,” Perry’s attempt at hip-hop, which felt stronger live than it does as a recording. The singer performed ten songs, opening with “I Kissed A Girl,” a single that should stay buried at this point in her career.


We are stronger together than we are alone.” She later dedicated a song to a friend who’d recently overcome breast cancer, a theme that resonated throughout most of the evening’s sets.įor Perry, though, the causal awareness was a secondary to the promotion of Prism, out Tuesday, which involved a lot of mentions of the new album throughout her set. The connecting thread was, of course, that all are female musicians with pop inclinations, and all support Young Survival Coalition, a breast cancer awareness organization the event benefitted.īareilles, who noted she’d “never played on a stage this big before,” told the crowd, “I know that almost every person in my life has been affected in some way and it is a beautiful thing to be here tonight. Bonnie McKee, Kacey Musgraves, Tegan and Sara, Sara Bareilles and Ellie Goulding, the show’s openers, all offered verses of “Roar” alongside Perry, revealing the distinctly different aesthetics between the performers. It wasn’t exactly gold, but in honor of the evening’s event, billed as Citi Presents “Katy Perry’s: We Can Survive,” Perry brought all of the show’s performers onstage with her for the finale. PHOTOS: Katy Perry Throws Concert for Thousands Ahead of ‘Part of Me’ Premiere
