Katy Perry has revealed that she and her devout Christian parents have to “agree to disagree” over the lyrics to some of her songs, including her innuendo-riddled recent hit Bon Appetit. In the video, Perry is served up as a meal, with all the delicacy of a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ad from the 1990s, until she rises up against her male oppressors and takes revenge by pole-dancing in front of them. The song uses a series of culinary metaphors to describe what is on Perry’s menu.
She teased the release of the track in April by tweeting a recipe for the world’s best cherry pie and asking fans to bake it for her. What she meant by cherry pie wasn’t entirely clear until Bon Appetit was released afterwards, which in hindsight makes the stunt a little less appetising.
The excitable acid-blond singer told the Australian radio show Smallzy’s Surgery that, shockingly, her pastor parents did not necessarily approve of the internationally successful call. “We agree to disagree but still with loving space,” she told Smallzy. “We all come from different places ... you can have your belief system, nobody is telling you not to believe your beliefs but you can also come from a place of love.” It is not the first time Perry has discussed the clash between her line of work and her parents’ religious beliefs. She told Vogue that she was taken to picket Marilyn Manson and Madonna concerts when she was younger, and when she spoke at the Human Rights Campaign Gala earlier this year she described herself as a “gospel-singing girl raised in youth camps that were pro-conversion camps”.
