WATCH KATY PERRY’S GRAVITY-DEFYING VIDEO VANGUARD PERFORMANCE AT THE VMAS

Katy Perry brought the greatest hits of her career to the MTV VMAs stage to celebrate receiving the awards show’s lifetime achievement honor, the Video Vanguard Award. Outfitted in a gravity-defying harness before changing into giant silver butterfly wings, Perry put together a set list that included, “Dark Horse,“ “ET,” “I’m His, He’s Mine feat. Doechii,” “California Girls,” “Teenage Dream,” “I Kissed a Girl,” “Firework,” and “Lifetimes.” (This came after Perry appeared on the red carpet wearing a ripped skirt and bralette and a QR code on her lower back.)

Watch clips from her performance, which were rapidly shared to X, formerly known as Twitter, below:

Perry—whose next album, 143, is out September 20—spoke recently on Call Her Daddy about how fame has changed her life. “It was a rocket,” she said. “It was a real rocket. And it was like, can you hold on? And I wasn’t present for some of it. It was really I have to be present for some of it. I was like, oh. Every day was a different city.”

She continued, “And I’m really just grateful as I sit here at 39, that I’m alive, that I have tools, that I’m grateful. It’s the first thing out of my mouth every single day is a gratitude prayer. It’s the first thing. It’s my very first thought. It’s the first thing that I say. I’m grateful I have a home life, which is a sanctuary, which is an anchor. While I was having all these number ones, my personal life was in shambles. And so that was totally out of balance. And then it shifted along the way. Now it’s been doing this, but that’s okay because actually my core is intact. My foundation is intact. My joy is no longer at the mercy of anyone or outside of myself. My joy is within me. But it’s been a long journey, and there is no there, there. I invest a lot of time and resources into therapy, retreats, evolution, even medicine journeys, all that stuff.”

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