Katy Perry flashed her bikini-clad backside in a green bikini as she posed along her balcony in Brazil.
The stunner, whose newly released album 143 was savaged by critics, showcased her pert backside in the snap shared to her Instagram page.
Katy – who sported a ball cap – was snapped by a pal while posing for a side view photo.
The 39-year-old star also posed by the Christ The Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro as well as posting a snapshot of a Facetime call with fiance Orlando Bloom.
Katy Perry flashed her bikini-clad backside in a green bikini as she posed along her balcony in Brazil
The 39-year-old star also posed by the Christ The Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro
143 is Katy’s sixth studio album and her first in four years.
Her last two albums — Witness (2017) and Smile (2020) — were critical and commercial failures after years of Katy dominating the Billboard charts.
143 was supposed to be her much-anticipated comeback after her beloved music of the 2010s found a resurgence on TikTok.
But the album’s rollout — which saw the release of three single: Woman’s World, Lifetimes and I’m His, He’s Mine — was plagued by controversy.
In July, it was revealed that Katy had worked with producer Dr. Luke on her new music, including the ‘female empowerment’ anthem Woman’s World.
The 39-year-old star also posed by the Christ The Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro as well as posting a snapshot of a Facetime call with fiance Orlando Bloom
This sparked backlash as Dr. Luke was previously locked in a decade-long legal battle with singer, Kesha , 37, who he sued in 2014 when she accused him of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, which he has vehemently denied.
Earlier this month while appearing on Call Her Daddy, Katy defended her decision as she addressed the controversy for the first time.
‘I understand that it started a lot of conversations,’ she said of her choice to reunite with Dr. Luke. ‘And he was one of many collaborators that I collaborated with.’
The Wide Awake singer insisted Luke is simply someone who helps her ‘facilitate’ her music.
She went on: ‘But the reality is it comes from me. The truth is I wrote these songs from my experience of my whole life going through this metamorphosis, and he was one of the people to help facilitate all that—one of the writers, one of the producers.
‘I am speaking from my own experience. When I speak about Woman’s World, I speak about feeling so empowered now as a mother, as a woman, giving birth creating life, creating another set of organs, a brain, a heart.
‘I created a whole whole heart and I did it. I’m still doing it. And I’m still a matriarch. And feeling really grounded in that, that’s where I’m speaking from,’ she concluded.
Reviews for 143 have not been too kind to Katy, with Variety brutally stating that the album ‘strips away the remnants of the perky personality that catapulted Perry into early 2010s superstardom.
The described the album as ‘flat’ and remarked that Katy ‘sounds disaffected and removed, as if she’d just punched in between “American Idol” tapings.’
The stunner’s newly released album 143 was savaged by critics
Reviews for 143 have not been too kind to Katy, with Variety brutally stating that the album ‘strips away the remnants of the perky personality that catapulted Perry into early 2010s superstardom
Meanwhile, The Guardian gave 143 a two out of five stars, calling it ‘a common-or-garden mediocre pop album.’
AP said the album was ‘uninspired and forgettable’ while The Independent also gave it two stars and said it was ‘painfully dated and glaringly out of touch.’
A 5 out of 10 review from music publication Clash said that ‘the world has moved on.’
