This is blatantly the weirdest interview ive ever been a part of. It’s @katyperry ‘s fault, really. bit.ly/wwJoXl

— shannonwoodward (@shannonwoodward) March 2, 2012

Katy Perry and Electronic Arts are joining forces for The Sims 3 Showtime Katy Perry Collector’s Edition, a themed expansion pack for PCs and Mac out March 6 ($50, rated T for ages 13-up). Exclusive in-game items will celebrate the “California Gurl” and her colorful clothing, hairstyles, accessories and stage props.

Since 2000, EA’s Sims games have let players take control of the lives of little simulated people, from their love interests to career choices and home décor. More than 150 million copies have been sold worldwide.

“I’ve always thought of myself as a cartoon, so I thought it wouldn’t be so bad to be a Sim,” Perry says in an exclusive interview. “I’m involved with The Sims because it’s pure fun, and creative. And you can change my hair color even more than I do,” she adds, flicking her blue ‘do.

Along with downloading Perry as a playable character, gamers can play her signature guitar, wear outfits and use stage props from 2011′s sold-out California Dreams tour (even the giant banana).

Requiring The Sims 3 ($30) to play, the Showtimeexpansion disc focuses on four performance-based careers — singer, DJ, magician and acrobat — each of which requires the Sim to work up from rags to riches. Perry says she likes the fact that there are no shortcuts to achieving success.

“I started out playing at coffee shops and on the side of the street with my guitar case open, and that’s how you start in The Sims,” she says. “I don’t think people should think success comes easy, on a silver platter, and in The Sims it doesn’t.”

And things likely will go wrong as the Sim climbs the ladder of success, be it a singer falling during a performance, a magician accidentally catching fire or dissatisfied audience members tossing vegetables at the stage.

Showtime isn’t Perry’s first Sims involvement. The 27-year-old Santa Barbara native recorded a special version of Hot N Cold for The Sims 2 in 2008, sung in “Simlish,” the gibberish language spoken by Sims. It went on to become a YouTube hit.

Corey Higgins, EA vice president of marketing, says the partnership with Perry is the most elaborate in the franchise’s 12-year history. “Katy has been very involved throughout the creative process in developing the unique fashions, furniture, hairstyles, props and marketing materials,” he says. “The end result truly celebrates her distinct personality and imagination.”

“With anything I do, I’m involved to an annoying point; I’m a bit of a control freak,” says Perry with a laugh.

Even though Perry sings about throwing away her phone in her latest single Part of Me, she considers herself quite tech-savvy. “I was always found on the Internet through MySpace, I’ve had a blog and I’m Twitter-savvy,” she says. “If you don’t adapt or adopt, you’re going to miss the boat.”

Music, of course, remains her top priority. On March 27, a supersized version of her 2010 hit album Teenage Dream will be released. Subtitled The Complete Confection, it will include all the songs from the original, which produced five No. 1 hits — a feat equaled only by Michael Jackson’s Bad— but also features three new tracks, as well as remixes, an acoustic track and a 20-minute megamix mash-up, says Perry. “I felt like I had more to say on Teenage Dream, plus I couldn’t include all the songs I wanted to on the original record.”

Perry says she was most excited about one of the new songs in particular, though she wouldn’t reveal which one. “I wrote and recorded it in only two days,” she says. “I had to literally slap myself in the face while in the studio and tell myself to stay awake to finish it.”

Perry’s also secretive about a new song she’s about to record, but strongly hints it’s for another collaboration with The Sims that will allow you to turn your world into “Candy-fornia.”

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Pop sensation Katy Perry’s second fragrance line, Meow, hits Nordstrom’s exclusively, and the singer revealed to “Extra’s” Mario Lopez where her love of cats originated. “It stems from cat hate, actually. I didn’t really understand cats until my first cat, Kitty Purry, walked into my life and wouldn’t leave.”

The spunky songstress continued, “I started to realize I think women are like cats. They want to be loved on their own time; they want people to earn their affection. And they won’t meet you at the door unless you’re really nice.”

Perry, who recently celebrated a one-year anniversary with husband Russell Brand, gushed, “We just stayed home because a lot of our life exists out in the open. So we just wanted to have that moment to ourselves.”

She added, “We ride bikes a lot… we’re pretty normal… is that okay?”

Katy’s faithful fans enthusiastically lined up at The Grove to see the curvaceous beauty — who made a grand entrance on the trolley, and laughed, “It was pretty intense… I like to do big entrances!”

In 2011, no one shined as brightly as Katy Perry. It’s hard to think back on the past 12 months without getting one of her songs stuck in your head.

As MTV’s Artist of the Year, Katy found success by unapologetically being herself. She sang about aliens, her foggy memories of house parties, lost love, true love, being yourself and everything in between. It’s easy for fans to connect to Perry and her music: She’s an open book. And in 2011, she turned a few more pages.

Riding high off the success of 2010′s Teenage Dream, Perry didn’t rest on her laurels. Instead, she set the bar even higher by hitting the road on the California Dreams Tour, where night after night, decked out in candy-colored clothes, she belted out her greatest hits and empowered her fans with tracks like “Firework.” That anthem, originally released late last year, became so ubiquitous this year that it finds itself at #10 on MTV’s Best Songs of 2011 list.

Visually, she always wanted to keep us guessing. She continually made music videos that were cinematic, tickling our funny bones at times (see: “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”) and leaving us nostalgic at others (see: “The One That Got Away”).

In August, she took home the VMA for Video of the Year for — you guessed it — “Firework.” Perry told the audience at the show, “I feel like I am doing something right when I sing that song. So thanks to everyone who helped to create it.” That same night, she also nabbed the Moonman for Best Collaboration for her Kanye West-assisted track, “E.T.”

Perry is one of the new millennium’s biggest pop stars, and she matched some of pop’s greatest icons on the charts this year. She tied Billboard records previously held by Michael Jackson and later one held by Janet Jackson and George Michael by having so many hit singles off one album.

But we weren’t just talking about Perry’s music this year. She made us giggle with an LOL-worthy hosting stint on “SNL” and made her big-screen debut voicing the iconic Smurfette in “The Smurfs.” Offscreen, she’s proved to be the kind of girl that can laugh off rumors that she’s pregnant and getting divorced. She’s loud, cool and a real girl’s girl.

It’s no easy task to sum up Katy Perry’s year. And all those accomplishments make it clear that she’s our girl. What would 2011 have been without Katy? It’s a 2011 we want nothing to do with.

Some of the year’s biggest stars opened up to Barbara Walters for her annual special, “The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2011.” Watch below the interview with Katy Perry aired last night at 9:30 p.m. ET on ABC.

This epically funny man addressed rumors about splitting with his wife, Katy Perry. They’re staying together ’til death do they part, but then Russell turned the tables on Ellen and came up with 5 rumors he’s heard about her!

Don’t believe on everything you read around the web! Katy and Russell are still strong.

As promised, here’s the interview of Katy for Elvis Duran and the morning show yesterday in Manchester, England. Listen!

She may still be releasing tracks off Teenage Dream thanks to her latest single, ”The One That Got Away,” but Katy Perry is already hard at work on some other super-special, top-secret musical project.

Producer Tricky Stewart, who worked with Perry on threeTeenage Dream songs, is back at work with the California Gurl herself, prepping some music with the singer. “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,” he told MTV News. “So we are in the process of just listening and freshening up things and getting ready for something special she has going on.”

What is it that she is readying? Well, Stewart doesn’t exactly know, or maybe he just doesn’t want to say. “I don’t know what it is, but I know she has something going on because she wants to be in the studio,” he said. “So that’s good. … I can tell you that Katy likes the studio again; that’s always a good thing.”

While he couldn’t shed much light on the project itself, he did reveal the name of the song. “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.”

The music they are working on is using some leftovers from their Teenage Dream sessions. And they hope to finally put that magic out into the world. “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, noting all the success the singer has experienced with the record, which includes five #1 songs. “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.”

Source: MTV