Let’s unpack Katy Perry’s most baffling and deranged moments of all time

Katy Perry has been sitting on the throne of pop stardom for two decades now, and has revolutionised pop music in ways we’ll never be able to replicate. But, it’s not just her insanely catchy tunes that have earned her this title: She is just an insane person at times, and the best Katy Perry moments are often ones she’s done all by herself, media training out the window.

Her level of craziness has genuinely put her in an iconic league of her own, and I just know her PR team were getting grey hairs before they hit 30. So, let’s unpack the most iconic yet unhinged Katy Perry moments from across her entire career that make her absolutely unreachable.

Attending King Charles’s coronation?!

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This was such a random move on Katy’s part but her outfit thankfully slayed enough for the majority not to realise. She also put on a fierce set at Windsor Castle, although it didn’t seem that fitting given that she’s not British.

Her 2024 VMAs performance

The VMAs were yesterday and I can’t not talk about this. Katy’s highly sexual performance shook the whole room and Orlando Bloom‘s face said it all. I am actually obsessed with their relationship.

‘Our country has f*****g failed us’

I will never get over this moment as long as I live. It’s absolutely hilarious out of context, but actually has a really sweet message behind it. If you only know the meme, it’s time to familiarise yourself with what actually went down.

Finding out about her divorce and then putting on an amazing show like nothing happened

This was one of the most unhinged moments in her career, but also one of the saddest. Katy was right in the throes of an emotional breakdown, but instead of cancelling her show, she got up, put on her insane outfit and gave the crowd a night to remember. In the words of her rival-turned-bestie Taylor Swift, she can do it with a broken heart.

Her first album being a Christian Pop album has to be one of the most 360 moments in all of pop history

As Jojo Siwa once said, “nobody in my generation has made this drastic of a change yet.” Well, I guess Katy Perry is the Jojo of her generation (I do not mean that) because the change from her first album, titled Katy Hudson (self-titled with her real name) to her most recent music is pretty insane.

Re-editing Harrison Butker’s awful speech to a much more acceptable version

You probably don’t remember his name, but Harrison Butker made headlines for all the wrong reasons when he decided to insult half the world’s population and diminished women in every possible way he could think of at a graduation speech. I like Katy’s version of the speech MUCH better.

Her terrible song, Woman’s World

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Seriously, how do you go from a pop-perfection, no-skip album to this?! I fear the teenage dreamer is long gone. You’ve served us well Katy.

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