Katy Perry Sets The Record Straight After Latest Music Video Sparks AI Speculation

Katy Perry has a message for those speculating that she relied on generative AI to create her latest music video.

Earlier this year, the Grammy nominee unveiled the stand-alone single Bandaids, alongside an accompanying music video which took inspiration from the Final Destination horror films.

In the clip, Katy plays a character who has several brushes with death over its four-minute runtime, including one sequence in which she is seen sawing through a tree-branch she’s sitting on, before falling straight to the ground.

Certain visual elements of the video led some to question if artificial intelligence tech was used to help create it, but Katy set the record straight in a behind-the-scenes Instagram post showing her on set, shared on Tuesday night.

“For those of you that thought this was AI… it wasn’t,” she wrote in the caption. “Cool dude.”

Bandaids is the first new music from Katy since her split from her long-time partner Orlando Bloom, prompting some suggestions that the lyrics were inspired by the break-up.

“It’s not what you did, it’s what you didn’t, you were there, but you weren’t,” the California Gurls star sings in the opening verse, adding: “Got so used to you letting me down, no use trying to send flowers now, telling myself you’ll change, you don’t, Band-Aids over a broken heart.”

Following the split, Katy has been linked with former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, who was seen at one of her tour stops earlier in the year, and later spent the singer’s birthday with her.

The new single is also Katy’s first outside of her 143 album cycle, which got off to a rough start and suffered several bumps in the road as the roll-out continued, including backlash over her choice of collaborators, low sales figures and a wave of criticism over the lead single’s music video.

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