Katy Perry Explains Why She's Releasing an Album This Year & Not Waiting for 2021

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Katy Perry just released the first single off her upcoming fifth studio album and she’s opening up about her decision to release an album this summer.

The 35-year-old singer just announced that the album is going to be released on August 14 and there’s a good reason why it’s coming out this summer instead of in 2021. “I have this body of work and there was a question of, do I wait until next year?

And I was like, one thing is for certain, I’m having a child this summer,” Katy said in an interview with New Music Daily on Apple Music. “My whole life is about to change and I’m sure I will have a whole new access to different emotions I never had, and will be able to write from, so I’m going to write a whole nother record probably when that