Katy Perry and James Corden sang Firework, Dark Horse, Bon Appetit, Swish Swish, and Roar during the latest segment of Cordens immensely popular Carpool Karaoke segment on The Late Late Show. Just as entertaining: the pop star also used the platform to, once and for all, plainly address her antagonism with Taylor Swift, saying that it was Swifts responsibility to end their feud.
Perry was an energetic karaoke companion: she shouted instructions to Corden like a drill sergeant body roll! stank face! lets go to Ibiza! come out raging! and sang with extra muscle during the high-flying hooks that appear in so many of her hits.
Judging from the segment, her favorite dance move at the moment appears to be the dab. It was dads who killed the dab, Corden quipped. Dads ruined it for everyone.
After the two sang Perrys latest single the house-leaning Swish Swish, rumored to be the latest salvo in an ongoing battle between Perry and Swift Corden asked her about the source of the tension between the two pop stars. She started it, Perry replied, and its time for her to finish it. (Up until this point, both Perry and Swift had not called out one another by name in their bitter back-and-forth over social media and song lyrics. The war between the once-friendly peers began over an issue involving dancers on both of their tours.)
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I tried to talk to her about it, and she wouldnt speak to me, Perry added. I do the right thing any time it feels like a fumble. [I got] a full shutdown, and then she writes a song about me [Bad Blood] thats how you want to deal with it? Karma.
Perry used her Late Late Showappearance to call for an end to the beef Im ready for that B.S. to be done, she declared while also offering thinly veiled threats: Theres the law of cause and effect: you do something, theres going to be a reaction, Perry said. Trust me daddy: theres gonna be a reaction. A moment later, she endorsed peace again. I think that women together, not divided, will heal the world.
Perry has been busy promoting her upcoming Witness album, out June 9th. She discussed her return to pop music in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres and appeared on Saturday Night Lives season finale last weekend to perform two songs.
Watch Katy Perry and James Corden sing some of her biggest hits and discuss her beef with Taylor Swift.