凱蒂.佩里：戰無不勝的音樂女王

顏色多變的頭發、多彩甜蜜的服飾和一雙迷人的電眼是她的標簽；復古、性感、另類、時尚、無厘頭，不論哪種造型她都能輕松駕馭；不管是頒獎儀式、走紅毯還是街拍，她都是攝影師們追捧的焦點；生活上，她是一個堅強、風趣又溫暖可人的鄰家女孩；事業上，她是野心勃勃、能撐起半邊天的流行音樂天后；她是推特紅人，卻能一直堅持勇敢做自己。這位戰無不勝的音樂女王就是讓粉絲們愛到欲罷不能的“水果姐”凱蒂·佩里！

\"Thirty-eight，\" Katy Perry is saying. \"I still have about 90 to go.\" She's not talking about finishing a book； rather it's how many concerts she has completed on her Prismatic world tour， which kicked off1） in May. Thirty-eight nights of Kissing-a-California-girl-Birthday-Fireworking it， now on a two-night stopover in Boston. And 90-something of those are left， finishing in Stockholm on March 22 next year.

At 2 p.m. （Perry's morning， her \"working hours\" run from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m.）， she's sitting on the sofa in her penthouse2） suite in black workout clothes， her hair slicked3） back， oatmeal4） in hand， and a precisely applied blob5） of pimple6） cream on her chin. \"I wore it for you，\" she announces grandly.

This， in a nutshell7）， is how Perry （total sales， more than 13 million albums and 72 million digital singles； total No.1 singles， nine） plays to the grown-ups. While she has a fan base of \"eight to 80， that's what we call it\"， she is funny， sardonic8）， in on her own joke. A conversation with Perry has the rat-tat-tat9） rhythm of word play and a wry10） humor—she puts the broad11） in \"broad\".

But she's a little low on mojo12） today. Last night's concert was \"okay，\" she says. \"It was the first time in this run that my voice was a little hoarse. I think I tried to overperform for the president.\" Perry was at the White House two days earlier at a dinner for the Special Olympics， but now she's looking down on a genteel13） Boston square， scooping14） her \"boring breakfast\" out of a plastic tub. \"When I don't feel like I have my whole range， I really can't spread my wings. It gets me down a little bit.\" She's right： in between last night's pyrotechnics15）， Perry looked most comfortable having a quieter moment with the audience and bestowing a large pizza on two eight-year-olds， one of whom she zippily16） noted， \"dressed like a Deadhead17）\".

When she's overdone it vocally， Perry has to wear a nametag that says， I'm quiet. Which， as you can imagine， is not the easiest for the proclaiming queen of pop. Katy Perry has to roar.

At 29， turning 30 this month， Perry sits astride18） an empire. Every key decision on the 127-person tour， \"from catering to dancers\"， is made by her. She has a crack19） management team， but \"it is overwhelming to know what you're doing in 2015 already，\" she says， sighing. On tour she does two shows in a row， then has one day off—she is big on20） visiting art museums—then it's on to the next. She meditates \"five to six times a week and has an act-out day about every four to six months. I'll have a cigarette， which I know is absolutely horrible for me， after a few drinks when I'm having a week off. I don't do black tar heroin.\"

Of course， Perry's not digging ditches21）—the Prismatic tour is expected to gross22） at least $100 million， and further consolidate23） her position as the top of the pops. But how does a girl live a real life among all of this： seeing family， meeting men？ （Perry is currently single.） \"I spent four days at home last week，\" she says， whipping out24） an iPhone and showing off her equally giant-eyed five-month-old niece， Stella： \"We need eye agents，\" she quips25）.

Perry can also inspire herself just fine. \"When I was starting out， I always had a visual for every song I wrote，\" she recalls. \"When I'm writing， I would say about seven out of ten times， I have a music video in my head.\" And when the best-laid plans go amok26）， she improvises27）. In 2010， she was due to wear a Viktor Rolf dress to the Met Gala28）， \"and one of their factories burned down or something a week before.\" She remembered something she'd found online， a glow-in-the-dark dress—with an extra set of batteries—by a brand called Cute Circuit. She woke up the next morning on the couch （\"obviously I had turned it up too high，\" she drawls） to her stylist， Johnny Wujek， throwing a copy of Women's Wear Daily at her. \"We made the cover. The anarchists29） of the Met！\"

As she gets older， Perry gives \"less of a shit. I hear that the 30s are a better version of your 20s， because you know what you want for yourself.\" She does have the confidence， however， to admit what she doesn't know. \"I've always been very attracted to gentlemen who have quite large vocabularies，\" she explains. \"One of my favorite apps is the Dictionary.com app. In my late 20s， I've educated myself more than I did growing up because I wasn't able to have a great education. I was taken out of school， put in these weird， kind-of-not-really schools.\" So there's not just texting， for Perry it's \"intellexting\".

Asked about her number of Twitter followers， the most in the celebrity kingdom， Perry picks up her phone and checks： \"54.9 million.\" She likes Twitter but doesn't live for its validation30）. \"I can go a week without tweeting and be fine. Like I don't have to say， 'Goodnight，' to my followers.\" She rolls her eyes.

Perry has a love-hate relationship with the Internet. \"When I do these interviews， a lot of these clips people pull out are like， 'Katy Perry doesn't want a man to have babies.' I'm like， 'I didn't say that. I just said， I'm good.' Why can't I be a mogul31）？ I want to have a baby， sure， but I want to have a career. I want to have a record label. I want to have an incredible tour. So I'm going to have all of those things. Let's talk about that.\"

When she's having an off day， Perry gets \"quieter. I can snap a little bit， be a little bitchy32） to the couple of people around me. Tamra， my assistant， is my closest punching bag. But she's strong and understands that I have a lot of pressure on me sometimes. But， you know， I went to Santa Barbara， which is my hometown， the other day， and I just drove there， laid out on the beach in my bikini like a starfish， and nobody cared.\" Perry's also big on bicycles， on which she is sometimes snapped cruising around New York. \"The bike is the greatest thing because people don't have enough time to put it together in their heads. I'm like a ghost.\"

Of course， being the very opposite of a ghost—the rainbow-bright girl's girl who plays to people from eight to 80， from high to low—is the great allure33） of Katy Perry. She'll put on a show for her fans， but she will listen to herself. She loves the style of the ballsy34） girls， \"Whenever the Internet will put me on blast about whatever I wore， I'm like， 'I ain't dressin' for you. I don't dress for you bloggers who are still wearing bandage dresses.'\"

She laughs. \"If you're wearing Ala?a， that's fine.\"

一個全能的女漢子

“38，”凱蒂·佩里說，“我還剩大約90。”她可不是在談論讀完一本書，而是在說她開始于5月（編注：英文原文發表于2014年9月）的“棱鏡”世界巡回演唱會已經完成的場次。在縱情演唱了《我親吻了一個女孩》《加利福尼亞女孩》《生日》和《煙火》等歌曲38個夜晚之后，現在凱蒂在波士頓停留兩晚。這次巡演還有大約90場，將于明年3月22日在斯德哥爾摩落下帷幕。

下午2點（佩里的上午，她的“工作時間”是從下午2點到凌晨2點），佩里坐在她靠近酒店頂樓的豪華套間的沙發上，穿著黑色健身服，頭發整齊地向后梳著，手里端著燕麥粥，下巴上一團祛痘霜涂得恰到好處。“我可是為了你才穿成這樣的。”她鄭重其事地說。

簡單地說，佩里就是這樣與成年人相處的，而她可有著1300萬張唱片和7200萬首數字單曲的總銷量，還一共有九首冠軍單曲。盡管她擁有“我們稱之為從8歲至80歲”的粉絲群，她卻風趣幽默，愛嘲諷，愛自嘲。與佩里的交談有一種文字游戲的砰砰砰的節奏感和一種諷刺的幽默感——她可以毫不掩飾地開一些粗俗的玩笑。

但是她今天卻稍微有點兒不在狀態。昨晚的演唱會“還不錯，”她說，“昨晚是這次巡演中我第一次聲音有點嘶啞。我想是之前為總統表演得有點過頭了。”佩里兩天前在白宮參加了為特殊奧林匹克運動會舉辦的晚宴，但此刻她卻在俯視著安寧而古樸的波士頓廣場，從塑料碗里舀著吃她那“無聊的早餐”。“當我覺得我的聲音沒有完全打開，我就真的沒法盡情地唱歌。這讓我有點失落。”她說的沒錯，佩里在昨晚放煙火的間隙看起來最輕松自在，她跟觀眾一起享受著相對安靜的時刻，并把一個大比薩給了兩個八歲的小孩，她還眼尖地注意到其中一個“穿得像‘感恩而死’搖滾樂隊的樂迷”。

每次用嗓過度后，佩里就不得不戴上一個標簽牌，上面寫著：我要保持安靜。不難想象，這對這位人人稱頌的流行音樂女王來說絕非易事，凱蒂·佩里得“咆哮”才對。

現在29歲、這個月就要滿30歲的佩里坐跨一個王國。關于這個由127個人參與的巡演，“從餐飲到伴舞”的每一個重要決定都由佩里來做。她有一個一流的管理團隊，但是“現在就已經知道自己2015年會做什么讓我有點受不了。”她嘆了口氣說道。在巡演過程中，她會連著表演兩場，然后休息一天——她非常喜歡去參觀藝術博物館——接著繼續下一場表演。她每周會冥想“5～6次，每4～6個月會有一天盡情放縱。如果有一周的時間休息，我會喝上幾杯，再抽根煙，雖然我知道抽煙對我非常不好。我不碰黑焦油海洛因的。”

當然，佩里可不是在做無用功——“棱鏡”巡演預計總收入至少一億美元，還會進一步鞏固她流行音樂天后的地位。但這么忙的一個女孩要如何過正常的生活呢：跟家人見面，跟男人約會？（佩里現在是單身。）“上周我在家待了四天。”她說著突然拿出她的蘋果手機，給我看她五個月大的侄女斯特拉的照片，她也有一雙跟佩里一樣的大眼睛。“我們都需要給眼睛找個經紀人。”她俏皮地說道。

佩里還能很好地激發自己的靈感。“剛開始著手的時候，每寫一首歌我頭腦里都會有一個畫面，”她回憶道，“現在寫歌的時候，我覺得差不多十次里有七次，我腦海里會出現一個音樂視頻。”當周密的計劃出現問題時，她還能隨機應變。2010年，她本來要穿Viktor Rolf的裙子出席紐約大都會藝術博物館的慈善晚會，“但是晚會前一周他們的一家工廠被燒毀了，或出了諸如此類的事。”她想起了之前在網上看到過的某件衣服，那是一件會在黑暗中發光的晚禮服，來自一個叫“可愛電路”的品牌——還多送一組電池。第二天早晨，躺在沙發上睡覺的她（“顯然我當時玩得太過了。”她懶洋洋地說）被她的形象設計師約翰尼·武耶克叫醒了，約翰尼扔給她一份《女裝日報》。“我們上封面了。紐約大都會藝術博物館慈善晚會上的搗亂分子們！”

隨著年齡的增長，佩里對很多事都“更不在意了。我聽說30多歲的你是20多歲的優化版，因為你知道自己想要什么。”不過，她確實有自信能夠承認自己所不知道的事情。“我總是會被詞匯量超大的紳士吸引，”她解釋道，“我最喜歡的手機應用之一是Dictionary.com。我25歲之后自學到的東西比我成年前學到的都要多，因為我以前沒能接受非常好的教育。我小時候被迫輟學，被送進一些奇怪的、不太像是真正的學校的地方。”所以對佩里來說，手機發送的不僅是短信息，還是“智慧的信息”。

當她被問及推特粉絲數量的時候——在名人圈里佩里的粉絲是最多的——她拿起手機核實了一下：“5490萬。”她喜歡玩推特，但并不過分依賴這種虛幻的認可。“我可以一周都不玩推特，也沒什么大不了。比方說，我不會非得跟我的粉絲們說‘晚安’才行。”她不以為然地翻了個白眼。

佩里對互聯網又愛又恨。“每次我做這些采訪，人們總會抓出一些片段，像是‘凱蒂·佩里不想嫁人生子’。我就會回答：‘我沒這么說過。我只是說，我現在這樣很好。’我為什么就不能成為一個大人物？我當然想有小孩，但我也想有自己的事業。我想擁有自己的唱片公司。我想來場無與倫比的巡演。所以，我會去實現所有這些目標。我們還是談談這些吧。”

在休息的日子里，佩里會變得“更安靜。我可以小睡一會兒，會對周圍的一些人發小脾氣。我的助理塔姆拉是我最親近的出氣包。但她承受力很強，也理解我有時壓力太大。但是，你知道嗎，有一天我回我的家鄉圣巴巴拉，我就直接開車到了那里，穿著比基尼躺在沙灘上，像只海星一樣，結果沒人注意到我。”佩里也很喜歡騎自行車，有時她會被拍到騎著車在紐約閑逛。“騎自行車出行是最棒的，因為人們沒有足夠的時間在腦海里拼出我的樣子來。我就像個幽靈一樣。”

當然，佩里與幽靈可是截然相反的，這個彩虹一樣光彩照人的女孩，她的表演讓8歲到80歲、高層到低層的觀眾都為之瘋狂，而這正是凱蒂·佩里最大的魅力所在。她會為她的粉絲開演唱會，但她會傾聽自己內心的聲音。她愛極了那些勇敢無畏的女性的風格，“不管我穿的是什么，每次網友攻擊我的穿著時，我就會想，‘我又不是穿給你們看的。你們這些博客寫手們到現在還穿著繃帶裙，我可不是為你們打扮的。’”

她大笑起來。“如果你穿的是阿拉亞（編注：高級定制服裝品牌），那就沒問題啦。”