The same month, the album's title was confirmed as Smile, after one of the songs on the album. She later confirmed the following month that "Never Really Over" would be on the album. In a June 2020 interview with Billboard, Perry discussed a new song, titled "Teary Eyes". The same month, Amazon Alexa announced the album's release date as August 14, 2020. In May, she announced " Daisies" as the lead single of her new album. Perry also announced her intentions of releasing "a lot" of new music during the year's summer. In March 2020, Perry revealed her pregnancy with Bloom, via the music video for her single " Never Worn White".
In an interview with The Fader, he stated: "We did a couple of days and she is amazing." He further stated that working with Perry was "someone I've wanted to work with my whole life, and she was literally the most normal, no-ego person." In 2019, she released the singles " Never Really Over", " Harleys in Hawaii" and " Small Talk". In March 2018, Ian Kirkpatrick announced he had worked with Perry on new music. Katy Perry stated she was struggling with situational depression in 2017, following the underperformance of her fifth studio album Witness, public criticism of her, and breakup with then-boyfriend and current fiancé Orlando Bloom she conceived Smile during this period. Commercially, Smile reached the top five in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, the top 10 in Austria, Ireland, and Italy, and the top 20 in France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Upon release, Smile received mixed reviews from music critics, who were favorable towards Perry's maturing image, but criticized the album's lyrics and familiar production. Smile also contains Perry's 2019 standalone singles " Never Really Over" and " Harleys in Hawaii" in its standard tracklist, while the Japanese and fan editions of the album further include her other preceding singles, " Small Talk" (2019) and " Never Worn White" (2020). Billboard Hot 100 it was followed by " Smile", " Cry About It Later", and " Not the End of the World".
Primarily a pop record, Smile is characterized by themes of self-help and empowerment.įour singles were released from the album: " Daisies", the lead single, was released on May 15, 2020, and peaked at number 40 on the U.S. She described the album as her "journey towards the light, with stories of resilience, hope, and love". Perry worked with a multitude of producers on Smile, including Josh Abraham, Carolina Liar, the Daylights, G Koop, Andrew Goldstein, Oligee, Oscar Görres, Oscar Holter, Ilya, Ian Kirkpatrick, the Monsters & Strangerz, Charlie Puth, Stargate and Zedd. It was released on August 28, 2020, by Capitol Records, three years after its predecessor Witness (2017). Smile is the sixth studio album by American singer Katy Perry.
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