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Katy Perry has kicked off her career-spanning ‘Lifetimes’ tour in Mexico City – check out the full setlist and footage of the gig below.
On Wednesday (April 23), Perry embarked on her first tour – save for her Las Vegas residency in 2023 – since 2018’s ‘Witness’ run in Mexico City. The tour, dubbed ‘Lifetimes’, sees her perform hits from across her discography, with several debuts and reintroductions of old fan favourites along the way.
For her first show on the tour, she kicked off the set with the live debut of ‘Artificial’, before transitioning to ‘Chained to the Rhythm’, ‘Teary Eyes’ and ‘Dark Horse’. Later on, she ran through a collection of hits including ‘California Gurls’, ‘Teenage Dream’, ‘Hot N Cold’, ‘Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) and ‘I Kissed a Girl’.
She then performed ‘Not Like The Movies’, marking the first time it’s been played since 2012. After that, she performed ‘The One That Got Away’ as the fan request of the night, before debuting ‘All The Love’.
Perry closed out her set with another collection of hits and fan favourites, including ‘E.T.’, ‘Roar’, ‘Lifetimes’ and set-closer ‘Firework’.
‘Artificial’ (live debut)
‘Chained to the Rhythm’
‘Teary Eyes’
‘Dark Horse’
‘Woman’s World’
‘California Gurls’
‘Teenage Dream’
‘Hot n Cold/Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)’
‘I Kissed A Girl’
‘Nirvana’
‘Crush’
‘I’m His, He’s Mine’
‘Wide Awake’
‘Not Like The Movies’ (first time since 2012)
‘The One That Got Away’
‘All The Love’ (live debut)
‘E.T.’
‘Part Of Me’
‘Rise’
‘Roar’
‘Daisies’
‘Lifetimes’
‘Firework’
Later in the year, Katy Perry will hit the UK and Europe – see the full list of dates and get tickets here.
The tour’s commencement follows the singer announcing earlier this week the cancellation of two shows in Guadalajara in May as the venue they were meant to take place in will not be constructed in time. The tour also comes shortly after her highly criticised space flight earlier in the month. Perry was one member of the first all-female space mission in history.
During their voyage, Perry sang Louis Armstrong’s ‘What A Wonderful World’ and revealed the setlist for her upcoming ‘Lifetimes’ tour. She was later seen holding a daisy to the sky and kissing the ground upon returning from space.
The trip has sparked memes and controversy, and she has also garnered criticism from other celebrities for taking the space flight, with actress Olivia Munn branding Perry “gluttonous”, Emily Ratajkowski saying she was similarly “disgusted” by the space flight and Lily Allen calling the mission “out of touch”, saying there was “no fucking reason” for it.
The fast food chain Wendy’s also criticised the project, jokingly asking if they could “send Katy Perry back to space”. The quip appeared to be subtly endorsed by singer Kesha in a social media post.
Gayle King has since responded to the controversy and defended the flight, saying: “Have you been? Have you been? If you’ve been and you still feel that way after you come back, please let’s have a conversation. Number three, please don’t call it ‘a ride’, that is not a friggin’ ride. Whenever a man goes up, you have never said to an astronaut ‘boy what a ride’.”
Madonna revealed that she saw her late mother "on the other side" while she was in a medically induced coma in 2023.
In a conversation on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast on Monday, the Queen of Pop explained that she was treated in intensive care and remained in a coma for two days after doctors discovered a "serious bacterial infection" that developed after a mild fever.
Thinking back to the health scare, Madonna shared that she experienced a vision of her mother, also named Madonna Ciccone, who lost her life to breast cancer in December 1963.
"I was almost there on the other side, and I had a conscious moment," she said. "My mother appeared to me, and she said, 'Do you want to come with me?' And I said, 'No.'"
She added that her assistant was present in the room and heard her say the word, "No."
"And then, when I did eventually wake up, I realised that the 'no' was about me needing to forgive and make good with people that I still held grudges against," the 67-year-old explained.
One of the long-standing conflicts she chose to release was her troubled relationship with her brother Christopher Ciccone.
The artist passed away from pancreatic cancer at 63 in October 2024.
"For my brother, I didn't speak to him for, you know, for years, years, and years. And it was him being ill (and) reaching out to me and saying, 'I need your help.' And me having that moment like, 'Am I going to help my enemy?' You know, that's how it felt. And I just did," the Ray of Light singer said. "And I ended up (helping) and I felt so relieved. And it was such a load off my back, such a weight that was removed, baggage that I could put down to finally be able to be in a room with him and holding his hand, even if he was dying and saying, 'I love you and I forgive you.' That was really important."
