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Question for your Friday: Is Katy Perry trying to stay relevant whilst promoting her mediocre-performing new album? It’s a notion that we’ve grappled with ever since she came clean on James Corden’s car karaoke segment. “Well, James Corden makes me and the whole world feel very safe,” she said. “No one has asked me about my side of the story, and there are three sides to every story: one, two, and the truth.”

Watching Perry’s appearance at the Ariana Grande-led One Love Manchester benefit concert in the U.K. this week – and her push for love and loving one another – well, it comes as a surprise that the Swish Swish singer just won’t let this feud go. “I mean, I’m not Buddha – things irritate me,” she told NME. “I wish that I could turn the other cheek every single time, but I’m also not a pushover, you know? Especially when someone tries to assassinate my character with little girls. That’s so messed up!”

She also addressed the possible tension with Swift’s Bad Blood producer Max Martin whom Perry has worked with in the past. “I can’t speak for him, but he didn’t know [what Bad Blood was about]. I’m not supposed to tell him what he and can’t do,” she said.

“I’m very fair; I’m super-duper fair and I’m not one of those people who’s like ‘You can’t do that because I don’t like that person.’”

Swift has been taking time out from the spotlight for a few months and is yet to comment on Perry’s latest music (Swish Swish is an confirmed retaliation to Swift’s Bad Blood.) Perry’s new album Witness drops tonight – and Swift’s entire back catalogue will coincidently be made available on Spotify at exactly the same time. 

Will it ever end?