Katy Perry might be a teenage dream, but to some of her colleagues in Hollywood she's
become more of a nightmare.
In a world where Twitter feuds develop practically overnight, this pop star has certainly made
some enemies as she rose to the top.
These are just a few celebrities who can't stand this California girl.
Miley Cyrus
These frenemies smile for the cameras but are quick to trash one another in the media.
The friendship began in 2008 when Cyrus was just 15, and Perry, who is 8 years her senior,
claimed her hit song "I Kissed a Girl" was about the underage Hannah Montana star.
Cyrus confirmed it in a 2017 interview, saying:
"I heard her on the radio, they said who'd you write that about, and she said me."
But the pair have made controversial headlines ever since.
Recently, when Perry saw Cyrus in concert, Cyrus kissed her and slipped Perry the tongue.
Perry wasn't having it.
She said she pulled away, telling Australia's Sunrise:
"God knows where that tongue has been.
We don't know!
That tongue is so infamous."
Cyrus quickly took to Twitter to throw shade back at Perry and Perry's ex, John Mayer,
writing:
"Girl if you're worried about where tongues have been, good thing ur ex boo is ur EX BOO
cause we ALL know where THAT tongue's been."
Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris was set to open for Perry back in 2011 on her California Dreams Tour when
he dropped out at the last minute blaming the tour's production.
Harris took to Twitter to let his fans down, writing,
"… her team suddenly moved the goalposts, and I was to appear on stage with no production."
Perry took it personally and shot back at the DJ, tweeting names of all of the artists
opening up for her on her tour who apparently had no problem performing.
She ended one of her tweets with,
"It's fine, I'm used to you cancelling on me.
It's your staple."
The feud has since been put to rest, as Perry recently collaborated with Harris.
Perry cleared up these rumors via On Air With Ryan Seacrest, where she explained that she
and Harris simply bumped into each other and he invited her to listen to some songs he
was working on.
"We had a little falling out here and there.
Eight years or so had passed.
It was time to put all that behind us."
Lady Gaga
When Perry whipped out a mechanical horse and rocked green hair on her Prismatic World
Tour, Lady Gaga couldn't help but notice the similarities, tweeting,
"It looks like green hair and mechanical horses are the thing now"
— referring to the mechanical horse she rode on the AMA's red carpet a year prior
to Perry's tour.
It seems that Gaga was having hard time being compared to the pop star after the two released
singles on the same day, Gaga releasing "Applause" and Perry releasing "Roar."
She spoke out about the comparisons at South By Southwest that year, saying:
"I don't know what f---all I have to do with Katy Perry.
Our music is so completely different.
I couldn't be more different, really."
Lily Allen
British pop star Lily Allen was far from pleased when she heard that Perry described herself
as a skinnier version of Allen, calling their first meeting "frosty" on Capital FM. Allen
also shot back at Perry for fat shaming her by taking digs at her music claiming Perry
was discovered because of her, saying,
"She was signed by my label in America as, 'We need to find something controversial and
kooky like Lily Allen.'"
Allen went on to call Perry out for not writing her own music and called her lyrics "crass."
"The thing about Amy Winehouse is that we're both English and we both write our own songs."
Perry addressed the feud in an interview with Us Weekly, saying,
"I was just kind of joking and trying to be funny.
I didn't mean anything by it.
Comedians are not necessarily to be taken super seriously."
It may have been a joke to her, but it clearly wasn't taken that way by Allen.
Bo Burnham
Comedian Bo Burnham goes beyond typical stand up by using his musical talents to sing his
comedic acts.
In a recent Netflix special Burnham referred to Perry several times in his song titled
"Kill Yourself."
The comedian first referred to Perry's song "Roar" saying,
"Life's toughest problems don't have simple answers.
You shouldn't just be brave, you shouldn't just roar."
Perry then made her way into his lyrics again later in the song, when he sang:
"If you search for moral wisdom in Katy Perry's lyrics, then kill yourself."
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Burnham explains why celebs like Perry are often the
inspiration behind his comedy saying,
"It's me trying to advocate on behalf of the audience."
"These people that we deify to be better than human, and then we're so happy when they get
on late-night shows and act like human beings.
Like, who gives a f---?"
Travie McCoy
It's safe to say that Travie McCoy and Perry didn't exactly have an amicable breakup.
The rapper was smitten with Perry for two years, even buying her a promise ring back
in 2008.
But it seems that McCoy's drug addiction contributed to the couple's split, a problem he was open
about after going to rehab.
Perry made the reason behind their split even clearer in her song "Circle the Drain," which
is said to be about her ex.
McCoy claimed to not have heard the song when speaking to MTV News, but made sure to say,
"I'm just stoked that she finally has a song with some substance on her record.
Good job."
McCoy came clean on the details of their break up with Behind the Music, saying Perry
used him as a step-ladder for her career, and ended their relationship in an email.
"Someone that you are ready to spend the rest of your life with sends you a f---ing email
just s---ing on your whole parade."
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