Katy Perry reworks Teenage Dream leftovers for new project

If you thought that the upcoming “The One That Got Away” would be the end of Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream era, then think again. Katy, who is pictured above in the new ghd™ ad campaign, has been back in the studio with Tricky Stewart “freshening up” some of Teenage Dream’s leftover tunes.

“Katy and I went into [the studio] just to address some issues with records that we had done in the past that didn’t end up going on Teenage Dream,” Stewart tells MTV. “So we are in the process of just listening and freshening up things and getting ready for something special she has going on.”

Tricky wouldn’t spill the beans on what the songs would be used for, but he did dish some details on one track in particular.

“This song is really special. It’s called ‘Dressing Up,’ so it’s going to be a big record, I think,” he said. “It definitely fits. It’s right there in what her sensibilities are as a musician and a songwriter. She doesn’t change much. She has a very keen musical taste. It’ll be really good.”

What he means by that is that the ‘new’ music will sound exactly like the Teenage Dream album, which can either be an amazingly good thing or a hot mess depending on how you look at it.

“We always knew that the records we created were special [and] at the time it was more contractual obligation [that they didn't make the record],” he explained. “I can only have so many songs produced by me on the record. She didn’t need to have extra songs at the same time.”

Oh I see: Dr. Luke doesn’t want anybody stealing his shine, hmm? Well, I can’t complain considering that the Dr. Luke songs on Teenage Dream were better than the Tricky Stewart ones.

As for this new project, I’m predicting that it’ll be an added mini-album to extend the Teenage Dream era, similar to The Fame Monster or Ke$ha’s Cannibal. Rihanna revealed that a Teenage Dream re-release was in the works last October (has it really been a year? Shit), and in March Dr. Luke’s rep confirmed that Perry had recorded a new single with the super producer. Capitol Records probably didn’t count on getting so much mileage out of Teen Dream, which has spawned three five No. 1 singles, so the previously scheduled re-release has clearly been postponed multiple times. It’s a little late now for a standard re-release, so a spin-off EP or even a whole album seems more likely.

Until then, prepare yourself for the all-star remixes and affordable one cent pricing that Capital will use to try and make “The One That Got Away” a hit.

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  • mimifan

    oh please just go away!

  • SerferTJ

    Right???
    And she needs to take her BFF Rihanna with her.

  • Barf

    shaking and crying

  • Steveroni

    When I saw the image, I thought of Hummingbird Heartbeat and got overly excited.

  • Pmape

    Yeah I been foresaw this happening. Rerelease of Teenage Dream including: ET remix with Kanye, Last Friday Night Remix with Missy, The One That Got Away Remix, Dressin’ Up, Song with Rihanna, And probably 1 or 2 more leftovers.

  • Carlos

    FINALLY a Katy Perry post, you just gave me life and this is all I’ve ever wanted to hear, I adore your prediction and I’m ubber excited, I hope Part of Me makes the final cut of whatever they are releasing, I want brand new songs to complement the brilliant ones that compost Teenage Dream, no remixes, nothing, just all Katy records meant to be in Teenage Dream. This will be huge and amazing, and I can’t wait for The One That Got Away to be a major hit. I’ve been stuck on the looped version of Dressin’ Up since it half-leaked, it’ll be superb.

  • Carlos

    I don’t see the remixes or whatever happening, I foresee band new songs that didn’t make the final cut! :) Shit, now I’m stanning.

  • http://twitter.com/MonstrDang Neophyte Dang

    GO AWAY WOMAN
    One untalented (Rihanna) gimmick is enough

  • http://twitter.com/MonstrDang Neophyte Dang

    with rage

  • Tristan Schack

    oh yay… katy is blessing us with her humble presence again… she really is the mother theresa of our day. so humble… and she never judges. that whole “alejandro” thing must have just been a misconception, because miss “perry” went on to have a naked album cover right afterwards. 

    i geuss we’ll have to choose our battles against this monster, also known as hurricane katy. we see it coming, we try to evacuate, but in the end, it’s gonna hit us and we are just gonna have to deal with however many lives she so nobly “touches. ”

    capital records is a class act!   and why would she ever want to collab with britney, rihanna, ke$ha, beyonce, or gaga on a new song when she herself, is already, 100% perfect. 

    *rolls eyes* and sends love out to the prophet for keeping it real! 

  • MUSIC LOVER

    OH SHITTTTTTTT! “Dressing Up” I always saw that song as a hit.  If this is true, we are bound to get a 7th and even 8th single.  Could your faves do the same?  NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!  Hate on bitches.  ”TOTGA” will be the most serious and beautiful vid of this era.  Just wait and see.  Top 5 hit for sure.  Katycats better get their pussies to work and TRY to make it go #1.

  • Shaniqua

    in the words of kween Keri, “SHE NEEDS TO GO HAVE SOME BABIES”

  • MUSIC LOVER

    Also if “TOTGA” doesn’t go to #1, you bitches better bet on it that the first single will be a sure #1 hit, leftover or not.  This re-release is just a rumor, but it is definitely a solid back-up plan if “TOGA” falls short which honestly, most likely will.  Either way my girl is going is break even more records!!!  All the haters can say she is cheating and this shit doesn’t count which is completely fine and even understandable, but at the end of the day how any of your faves close to doing the same thing?  HAHA, exactly!  Bye bitches!

  • Anonymous

    Duuuude, “Dressing Up” leaked a looooong time ago. The lyrics are a little strange and kinda bad in a funny way, but the production is great. Plus, I don’t get why you’re hating on Tricky. He was the only guy willing to give Katy any songs that were even remotely rock. “Hummingbird Heartbeat” and “Circle The Drain” were hot to death in my opinion. I really think that Tricky has improved. Even his stuff on J.Lo’s (“Villain,” “Good Hit”) and Christina’s albums (“Desnudate,” “Glam”) was great.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1542631212 Charles Lawrence

    For the love of GOD will this woman just get hit by a bus already? I am so tired of her bouji rehashes of the same shit. Bitch is fake as press-on nails. Go the fuck away.

  • Landon

    Y’all are grown ass individuals throwing hate on a woman who is obviously slaying left and right. If she wasn’t breaking records then no one would care how she is everywhere.

    Stay pressed cause Katy is here to stay.

  • Mko_

    the remix thing is something that all artists have been done for decades! I’m not a fan but I’m not a hater! she’s just another pop tart that is doing what the label says she will do in order to be on top and the public love it!!!!
    BTW this pictures has BURLESQUE all over the place LOL!

  • Adam596

    that bitch didnt have 5 m1 singles. she had three. e.t was n1 because of the fuckin remix we k west and last shitty night was n1 because she ran crying to missy eliott so she can fuckin do a remix for it. enyone can take big names and make hits.. DESPERATE BITCH…..

  • http://twitter.com/BOBBYADAN Bobby

    Recycled Pop from Dr. Luke and Katy Perry is a good thing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1127181558 Andrés Felipe Rodríguez

    Agree actually I think Tricky songs on Katy album are the best songs on it

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1127181558 Andrés Felipe Rodríguez

    Is so crazy that she is the new “Gaga” this days talking about the way that most people are hating on her and want her to go away like Gaga, but actually she like her bff Rihanna both are nice and likeable pop stars that if they stay longer or go away and comback they tunes are fun and not annoying trying to be “defining a decade” or something like that

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=671279196 José Francisco Morales

    This makes sense. I’m 100% sure that the Max Martin/Bonnie McKee co-penned track “Part Of Me” will make the cut on the re-release, with the Rihanna featured track as well.

  • alliD

     Like that has stopped Bey? Naturally not everyone is so crazy on being on the front pages everyday but still.

  • alliD

     Like that has stopped Bey? Naturally not everyone is so crazy on being on the front pages everyday but still.

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