Katy Perry recently announced she was pushing back the release of her fifth studio album, Smile, by two weeks.
To her more than 102 million Instagram followers’ delight, the 35-year-old songbird, who is due to give birth in August, shared a soulful performance of her album’s first promotional single, Smile, which she released earlier this month.
As she sang her uplifting track on Tuesday, the 13-time Grammy nominee stunned in a flowing periwinkle gown, which had woven black fringe on its collar and sleeves.
Singing: To her more than 102 million Instagram followers’ delight, Katy Perry, who is due to give birth in August, shared a soulful performance of her album’s first promotional single, which she released earlier this month
During her SiriusXM show, Perry paraded around stage with a single masked guitarist behind her, as she stripped down the dance-driven for a more acoustic rendition on a patterned red rug.
She kept her short blonde straightened, while appearing lost in the moment and peacefully swinging her microphone’s swing stand in multiple clips, which were uploaded to her Instagram Story.
Additionally, she swayed and twirled with ease, just one day after announcing her album’s upcoming release date.
Lost in song: As she sang her uplifting track, the 13-time Grammy nominee stunned in a flowing periwinkle gown, which featured woven black fringe on the collar and sleeves
The mom-to-be has been actively promoting her new album, Smile, which is out on August 28th, also around the same time as her expected due date.
‘There’s a lot that will be happening this summer,’ Katy teased recently on social media, ‘not only will I be giving birth – literally – but also figuratively, to something you guys have been waiting for.’
‘I wrote the title track from the album when I was coming through one of the darkest periods of my life and had lost my smile. This whole album is my journey towards the light – with stories of resilience, hope, and love.’
Wow! She kept her short blonde straightened, while appearing lost in the moment, as swing her microphone’s swing stand in multiple clips uploaded to her Instagram Story
Katy admitted she hopes the song Smile will give people “hopefulness”, as it did when she was penning the tune.
She added: ‘#SMILE – the song – is out everywhere now! I hope it can be a few minutes of energizing hopefulness for you as it is for meee (sic)’
The new record will include the already-release singles Never Really Over, Harleys in Hawaii, and Daisies.
Stunning: During her SiriusXM show, she paraded around stage with a single masked guitarist behind her, as she stripped down the dance-driven for a more acoustic rendition on a patterned red rug
In May, Katy admitted her 2017 split from Orlando – who she has since reconciled with – left her ‘broken’, and she was hoping to feel excited about her record ‘Witness’, but the album didn’t perform to her expectations.
She said: ‘My career was on this trajectory when it was going up, up and up and then I had the smallest shift, not that huge from an outside perspective. But for me it was seismic.
‘I had given so much out, and it literally broke me in half. I had broken up with my boyfriend, who is now my baby daddy-to-be.
For the fans: Perry looked like a vision of beauty and perfection, as she inched closer to her giving birth to her baby girl
‘And then I was excited about flying high off the next record. But the validation did not make me high, and so I just crashed.
‘Gratitude is probably the thing that saved my life, because if I did not find that I would have wallowed in my own sadness and probably just jumped.
‘But I found the ways to be grateful. If it gets really, really hard I walk around and say, ‘I am grateful, I am grateful,’ even though I am in a s***** mood.’
Mom-to-be: Perry and her fiancé Orlando Bloom are expecting a baby girl, who is due in August
This comes after the couple pushed their wedding back for a second time. In a new interview, the singer admitted the couple are focusing on ‘delivering a healthy child’ as they prepare to welcome their daughter into the world next month.
The artist and the actor, 43, were rumoured to have originally planned to tie the knot last winter, before postponing the ceremony – allegedly set to take place in Japan – to this summer.
Katy told The Mirror: ‘You can’t plan anymore in 2020 because those plans are always cancelled.
‘You can’t plan in 2020!’ Katy and her fiancé have pushed their wedding back for a second time (pictured together in 2018)
‘We just want to deliver a healthy child. Everyone has to take life one week at a time right now.’
The musician echoed her comments in a recent interview with Howard Stern, detailing: ‘Obviously, that will happen in the future, but for now we just want to deliver a healthy child. And that’s what’s coming up right now!’
In March, Orlando revealed the coronavirus pandemic had affected the couple’s wedding plans.