According to Perry, "PRISM" began with a process she calls
"slow cooking." While on tour promoting "Teenage Dream," she began
recording fragments of ideas into a dictaphone on her iPhone. Then Ngoc
Hoang, a member of Perry's team at Direct Management Group, transcribed
them and put the results into a "treasure chest" that Perry referred to
throughout the album's creation. Perry notes the sessions for "PRISM"
began to "dibble-dabble" last November, when she went into the studio
with longtime collaborators Greg Kurstin and Greg Wells. "I was still in
a dark place,"
Perry says. "I hadn't let the light in."
When sessions for "PRISM" began anew in March, however,
Perry had already gone through an intensive period of self-examination.
"I took a trip to Africa that really put my priorities in perspective
and started doing more work on myself," she says. Renewed, Perry
reunited with her creative team from Teenage Dream, spending a month in
Santa Barbara, Calif., with longtime producer Lukasz "Dr. Luke"
Gottwald, frequent songwriting partner Bonnie McKee and Henry Walter,
aka the young studio mastermind Cirkut. From there she headed to
Stockholm to work with Scandinavian pop maestro Max Martin for a few
weeks to put "the icing on the cake." In addition to those power
players, Perry tapped such hitmaking collaborators as Stargate, Benny
Blanco, Juicy J, Jonatha Brooke, Sia, Christian "Bloodshy" Karlsson and
Klas Ãhlund of the Teddybears. (Perry shares co-writing credit on all of
the tracks.)
"In May, I sat down with my managers and said, 'Guys, I
think I'm going to have everything ready enough to come out this fourth
quarter,'" Perry says. "We weren't really thinking we'd be able to put
anything out until February, but you don't want to sit on something
that's about to burst."
Source: Billboard
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