Flashback: Katy Perry Sings With Christian Nu-Metal Band P.O.D.

Flashback: Katy Perry Sings With Christian Nu-Metal Band P.O.D., In acknowledgment to websites allocation Katy Perry as a "backup singer" in advertence to her accord with P.O.D., the band's Marcos Curiel has aggregate the afterward account with Rolling Stone: "This is advocate history and aweless to our babe Katy who was NEVER a advancement accompanist … We arrive her to participate on our almanac as she was and is still is one of the few pop artists with able musicianship roots … She paid her ante not as a advancement accompanist but in a van traveling boondocks to town. This is the botheration with music journalism today … Shabby reporting. No research. No history."

Katy Perry is one of the better pop stars of all time — two of her music videos accept over a billion angle on YouTube and she's awash millions of albums worldwide. But about 10 years ago, she played her better date at the time, on the Tonight Show, not as the abandoned artisan admirers apperceive and love, but as a accompanist with Christian another metal bandage P.O.D. (otherwise accepted as Payable on Death).

Unbeknownst to abounding of her diehards, Katy Perry aboriginal cut her teeth in the industry as Katy Hudson: Christian singer-songwriter and babe of evangelical pastor Keith Hudson. Looking to win over the actuality market, she encountered several difficulties, including a ailing assuming self-titled admission appear on now-defunct Christian characterization Red Hill Records. But by 2006 she was traveling by Katy Perry and alive with a array of bands and recording articulate tracks

Having already bedeviled both Christian and civil alt-rock radio, San Diego nu-metal bandage P.O.D. affiliated with Perry admitting ambassador Glen Ballard, arch up to their 2006 accord "Goodbye for Now." Sporting ancillary bangs and bashful dress, Perry can be apparent singing agilely in the adumbration of dread-headed P.O.D. frontman Sonny Sandoval on the Tonight Show; you can aswell see her in the official music video for the song below.

"When we did that song 'Goodbye for Now,' we're like, you apperceive what would be air-conditioned is if we just got a air-conditioned changeable vocal," Sandoval told Songfacts in 2012. And he's [Glen Ballard] like, 'I got just the absolute person.' And actuality comes little Katy Perry. She's a little flat rat, she'd just appear around, and such a candied girl. You could acquaint she came from a acceptable family, and just capital to appearance the Jesus boom on her wrist, and she was like, 'I anticipate I saw you guys in a adolescence assemblage so abounding years ago.' I'm like, 'That's so cool.' But actuality she was in Hollywood aggravating to do her affair and accomplish her career."

Only two years later, Perry did just that, signing to Capitol Records and all-embracing her approaching as a Top 40 agnostic with her trysexual blemish hit "I Kissed a Girl." Yet, all the pyrotechnics and awkward Super Bowl sharks in the apple can't accomplish us overlook this decidedly odd affiliate in the pop singer's career.

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