AS she kicks off the British leg of her first tour in seven years, it's clear Katy Perry is revitalised and hungry for more.
She hasn't toured since 2018, and the year after that she told me she was burnt out from travelling the globe while never getting to enjoy seeing the places she was visiting.
But at her Lifetimes Tour gig in Glasgow on Tuesday, the re-energised singer was more bouncy and bonkers than ever.
The 130-minute spectacle is full Perry wonderland theatre and she looks on cloud nine, belting out five of her songs from various contraptions in the sky.
Opening track Artificial sees her suspended by wires like something from a futuristic film, in the centre of the arena, while she performs 2008 breakout hit I Kissed A Girl from a globe hanging above the audience, as six dancers gyrate and contort around her.
Towards the end, it morphs into a dance remix as she spins around while hanging upside down.
For another new track, Nirvana, she somersaults through the air and "runs over" the top of her dancers while hanging by a harness.
All The Love sees a podium pop out of the stage and lift her at least 10ft up.
During one of the final highlights, she circumnavigates the arena straddling a giant flapping butterfly.
With a different stage or set of props for every song, there is serious time, effort and love in this show — and something for all.
Huge screens adorn one wall of the arena but most of the action happens on an infinity symbol-shaped stage, below, giving everyone in the room a view of the star.
The concert is themed around a sci-fi video game, with an animated Katy on screen being tasked to save the planet by releasing the Earth's butterflies, which have been stolen and held in captivity.
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Between each of the acts — or levels — there are videos about the latest twist and turn in the saga as Katy fights to bring love back to the planet.
But away from that slightly abstract idea, the main theme of the night is resilience.
Katy hasn't had an easy year.
She went through a highly publicised split from her partner of almost a decade, Orlando Bloom was cruelly trolled online for her latest album 143 and was criticised for her 11-minute Blue Origin space flight in April.
Singing Teary Eyes early on in the show, she tellingly says: "Don't be afraid of your tears — they're trying to heal you.
"We're all going through something so let's go through it together. We've just got to get out of our heads."
During Part Of Me, she changes the lyrics to: "I just want to throw my social media away."
Signing off the concert, she says: "Thank you for reminding me that no matter what the internet says, this is what we are."
A nasty public takedown of her on social media has taken its toll, but Katy — who shifted 1.1million tickets and grossed more than £60million from the first two legs of her tour — does what she does best and paints on a smile, with plenty of comedy and sass.
As the crowd cheers at the end of Teenage Dream, she says: "That sounds like I could still be your hall pass. But I have to warn you, I'm almost 41 years old — 41, and excuse my French, f***ing fabulous.
"But boy oh boy, you should be so lucky."
Whipping up the audience even more, she flirts: "I don't know, everyone, I think tonight's going to be a really special night because it's a full moon and there's something happening inside of me in Glasgow.
"I think it's the Scottish, but I either want to make out with you or I want to fight with you.
"I think I'm going to choose making out because it seems like all of the cute boys are Scottish . . . and the cute girls."
All ages are in the audience, from kids with signs that read, "Katy, you're going to hear me roar," to grans and grandads.
How Katy does it
I'M told Katy is travelling with a trainer to warm her up for the show each night, with a string of acrobatic feats and energetic dance moves.
There's also a physiotherapist on the road for her ten dancers and band.
And with Katy heading to Sheffield tomorrow, then Birmingham and London, it's worth keeping an eye out for her in town because she has foregone having a personal chef in favour of trying out local restaurants.
She picks three out — a boy who has just completed chemo and wants to sing with her, a woman whose husband was holding a sign saying he'd leave her for Katy and a heavily pregnant lady, who the pop star begs: "Please don't give birth on stage."
During the second act, she delivers hit after hit from her 28 Top 40 singles, with California Gurls followed by Teenage Dream, Hot N Cold, and Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) and at that point, this might be one of the happiest places on Earth.
Katy is a bit dorky, a little silly and absolutely joyful. This show is a blast from start to finish.
Tour's tale
THE tour kicked off in Mexico in April, but Katy and her dancers had spent six weeks beforehand training for eight hours a day.
Prior to each show they all have to warm up – and Katy plays games with her team before doing a "circle of gratitude" to hype everyone up for the night ahead.
Katy, who has brought her and Orlando Bloom's six-year-old daughter Daisy on the road with her, is due to continue through Europe and Asia before completing the tour on December 7 in Abu Dhabi.
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