{"id":118505,"date":"2024-09-26T21:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T21:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/26\/katy-perry-credits-madonna-for-kicking-off-her-career-shes-the-greatest\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T21:01:19","slug":"katy-perry-credits-madonna-for-kicking-off-her-career-shes-the-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/26\/katy-perry-credits-madonna-for-kicking-off-her-career-shes-the-greatest\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Perry credits Madonna for kicking off her career: “She’s the greatest”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Katy Perry and Madonna in 2015; TIMOTHY A. CLARY\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Katy Perry<\/strong> has said in several interviews that she’s reached out to younger female pop stars to mentor them, but in a recent one, she shouted out her own mentor: Madonna<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Australian TV show The Project<\/em>, Katy said<\/strong><\/a>, “She actually shouted out my song and that was really the beginning of my career, that’s kind of what started to break me.”<\/p>\n

Apparently the song in question was Katy’s 2007 single “Ur So Gay,” which at the time Madonna had called her “favorite song right now.” “Ur So Gay” predated Katy’s first #1 hit, “I Kissed a Girl,” by a year.<\/p>\n

“Madonna was really nice to me \u2014 well, it took a minute, because she was testing me, and then she became super nice,” Katy recalled. “She just does her Madonna thing. … She would invite me to, like, a party … and we got to do a photo shoot together, which was amazing … she’s the greatest.”<\/p>\n

“She paved the way … every female still needs to continue to say ‘thank you’ to her ’cause she is, like, breaking down barriers,” Katy gushed. “I’m 40. I still get to do music because of<\/em> Madonna.”<\/p>\n

In addition to Madonna, Katy mentioned Gwen Stefani<\/strong> as being “‘so nice” and\u00a0described how those experiences help guide her when she reaches out to younger pop stars like Chappell Roan<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I just remember the moments that I meet my heroes,” she told The Project<\/em>. “And I really think about that … like, that might be only interaction that we ever have. And people may not remember what you say, but they will always remember how you make them feel<\/em>. And so that is very [instilled in]\u00a0me.”<\/p>\n