The pop star won’t just be waking up in Vegas, she’ll be spending a lot of time there as part of her new residency PLAY, beginning Dec. 29.
The show features nearly two-dozen of her greatest hits and invites casual fans and devotees alike along for the ride. “We really went down the playlists and said, ‘What’s the top 20 songs that everyone in the world are listening to?'”
she tells EW. “And that’s our set list. All the songs have been revived. We’ve given them a little botox.”
The residency will also offer VIP experiences, as well as a museum looking back at the last 13 years of Perry’s career. She describes the experience as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids meets PeeWee’s Playhouse.
Since the show and museum experience will feature many of Perry’s biggest songs and their accompanying iconic looks, we asked her to walk us through some of the most eye-catching outfits from her career.
Perry memorably donned this beach ball-inspired look during her 2015 Super Bowl halftime, alongside the show’s biggest breakout star, Left Shark.
This fruity dress was one of Perry’s first ever bespoke costumes, designed for her to perform “I Kissed a Girl” on the 2009 Grammys. At the time, much of her aesthetic was fruit-based. “Strawberry, it was a play on words like Straw Perry,” she says.
This sweet dress, complete with fully spinning peppermints, was for Perry’s California Dreams tour. Her hair got caught in the spinning candy multiple times (so much so, it necessitated some changes to avoid causing her a neck injury).
She had two of this look, as she does with many of her tour costumes, so that she can switch on and off between them each night while one gets cleaned.
Another look from her California Dreams tour, this frosted ensemble was a twist on Perry’s appearance in the “California Gurls” music video.
She wore a bedazzled leotard, complete with an angry gingerbread custom-made from the video and then a removable tiered cupcake skirt.
Perry strutted in this purple ensemble during her Prismatic tour. The Egyptian-influenced design was part of a number where she rode on an enormous puppet horse.
“There’s a lot of magic references in the song; there’s a lot of magic in Egypt,” she explains. “I ended up going to Egypt for my 35th birthday and spent a week there, and my mind was blown.”
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