It’s an entire new ballgame for Katy Perry, because the “Roar” singer is confirmed because the headline performer for the AFL Grand Ultimate.
The U.S. pop star will carry out this September on the imposing Melbourne Cricket Floor, the venue for the ’s showpiece occasion.
On Thursday, July 25 the league introduced her look on the grand last, confirming weeks of hypothesis.
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“The sound of hundreds of thousands of Aussies roaring on the identical spectacle, I’d like to listen to that,” she says in a promo, a reference to the code’s “I’d Wish to See That” marketing campaign within the ‘90s. “100,000 passionate followers roaring on the mighty MCG,” says provides within the clip posted by the AFL, “I can’t wait to listen to that.”
The AFL’s large day is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 28.
It received’t be the primary time Perry has carried out on the MCG for a serious sporting occasion. In March 2020, simply days earlier than the pandemic shut borders and venues in all places, Perry sang on the last of the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup, an abbreviated format of cricket.
Whether or not she wraps her head round Aussies guidelines’ distinctive gameplay and terminology stays to be seen.
Perry is, after all, on the musical comeback path. Earlier this month, she dropped “Girl’s World,” her first new music since 2020’s Smile, which reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200.
The music serves because the lead observe to her upcoming, long-awaited dance-pop album, 143, which is code for “I really like you” and is because of arrive on Sept. 20. “Girl’s World” hasn’t set the charts on hearth. The observe bowed at No. 63 on the Billboard Scorching 100, considered one of her 36 appearances on the tally, and No. 47 on the Official U.Ok. Singles Chart.
