Katy Perry has always been a little weird. Not Lady Gaga weird. Not eating live bats on stage weird. But still… weird. Weird like a looney toon that shags. She had sentient dancing sharks as part of her Superbowl halftime show and shot whipped cream out of her bikini top at Snoop Dogg in her music video; she wrote a song that opens, “do you ever feel like a plastic bag?” and it was, somehow, a sparkling slice of pop perfection that endures 15 years later.

She has the air of someone who was never taught the full choreography, always trying to surreptitiously check if she’s doing it right – and, when she realises she’s not, flails kookily like, well, a plastic bag whipped through the air by a gently mocking breeze.

A goof, then. A sexy silly sausage with bona fide bangers to back it al

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