I'm Lisa Nova.

And this is the beautiful, talented,

and amazing Katy Perry.

Thank you.

We are in New York City.

And Katy is going to answer your questions.

In fact, 20,000 questions were submitted using the tool on

YouTube called moderator.

We're going to be here all night.

Get some popcorn, get a soda.

And 400,000 thousand votes were cast to pick-- 400,000?

Yeah, people voted 400,000 times to pick the

top questions.

I feel popular.

You are.

Thanks.

Super popular, super popular.

Super popular.

I'm so excited, are you excited?

So excited.

Let's get started.

Let's get started.

The first question comes from WhyTheFace01.

WhyTheFace01?

I know, the user names are hilarious.

Has anyone who never liked you come crawling back to you

after becoming famous?

Ooh, good question.

Yeah, the change, the whole change that happens after you

have a little bit of success.

Yeah, it's funny.

I kind of really went through that when I was in Los Angeles,

because I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17 and I wasn't

really invited different places that some other friends were.

Or I couldn't go hang out with certain people because they

didn't think I was cool enough.

And then finally, when I got my big break, it was like there

was no waiting in line.

And I was just like, I remember that.

I'm not going to come to your party any more.

I'm not going to just let you right the coattails.

But, I have really good friends, thank God.

And I've had them for a long time.

And they're having just as much fun on this insane

rollercoaster as I am.

And I get to go back to Santa Barbara all the time.

I just did a feature there about where I come from,

and my high school.

And I still am in pretty good contact with everyone

from kind of that time.

I reconnected with old best friends and we were all of the

so happy to be reconnected.

I mean, even if you do have success, sometimes you

disconnect from those people that you used to hang out with

in junior high and high school.

So I haven't had too much of that, no.

And I'm pretty good at spotting the fakers.

So, you made your own feature?

I did a feature on a television program about Santa Barbara and

where I come from, my hometown.

All right, the next question is from FLAMINGSTAPLES, who asks,

what was your reaction to the California Gurls parody

by Key of Awesome?

I don't know if you've seen it.

Yes, I saw it, of course.

I think I've seen probably more than half of them.

Want to watch a little bit right now?

There might be some people that haven't seen it.

I was so surprised they actually put this out like a

day after my video came out.

So, they must have done so much research.

I know a place where the girls are always meaner.

If you ain't rich, they're going no where

near your wiener.

Sipping Starbucks, a venti skinny mocha

chai tea, with foam.

Driving Escalades while they're texting and re-tweeting,

on iPhones.

Amazing eye to detail, these people.

They've done so many parodies and videos.

And I watch them every once in a while.

I mean they're on it.

The day after my video premiered, it was like [SNAP]

they had their version.

I love that you can do that and put it on YouTube.

And then you're almost like as many hits as

of the actual artist.

The geniusness of all this.

But, yeah, it was really funny.

I thought it was hilarious, because it was talking exactly

about what California Gurls to me is not.

I don't really like those L.A. girls.

Because I'm not talking about Hollywood girls

in California Gurls.

Because those are fake bitches.

They've got the fake face, the fake boobs, the fake fake fake.

And they're constantly climbing people's ladders to be

famous or whatever it is.

But, what I'm talking about are those California girls I think

that the Beach Boys were talking about.

There's something about them.

I love those East Coast girls because they have

all that attitude.

And those Southern girls are like Southern Belles.

But these California girls, they're just cool.

They're down to earth, they go with the flow.

They are the ones you want to invite over to hang out.

And they're girls' girls.

Like I'm friends with Lisa and she's friends with me.

And sometimes girls don't get along.

And I'm not talking about those girls.

Those girls are obviously too cracked out to even

come to the party.

You're a real California girl.

I am.

Santa Barbara, California.

805.

So you're obviously cool with parodies or

people making jokes.

I actually welcome them.

Because people asked there were a lot of questions about that.

I do kind of take myself seriously when

it's appropriate.

Like with different songs.

You saw with One Of The Boys that there were moments

to have a serious moment.

Like with Thinking of You.

And I will in the rest of this record later on.

But, I know that California Gurls is just a fun song.

And I think if people are making parodies of your

song, you've made it.

And I think we're only a couple states away from having all 50

states in the U.S.A to be parodied.

You know, Missouri girls, or Texas girls.

So it's exciting.

I love that stuff.

I welcome it.

Actually, I would like to see more of it, please.

Good, you heard that.

I'm a jokster, a prankster.

So if the joke's on me I'll still play along.

The next question is from MusicNow000.

What is one thing that most people don't know about

you that they'd be shocked to find out?

Goodness, I'm pretty much an open book.

So, it's a bit hard to find anything that people

don't know about me.

I'm kind of like looking around to see if anybody knows

something that I would like to reveal.

It could be even something not dirty.

Dirty?

Like a nice thing somebody doesn't know.

A nice thing somebody doesn't know, I don't even think

that exists either.

Well, my boobs are real.

Oh good.

Just wanted to cover all that.

What else?

I brush my teeth all the time.

Your teeth are really white, by the way.

Thanks.

I wanted them to be like Britney Spears white.

I want that too.

I used to grow up seeing her in music videos and being

like, what does she do?

Does she get a new set of teeth all the time?

They're so white.

Going towards the light.

But, I'm really anal about that because I like good breath.

And like a turn off for me with guys is halitosis.

I've actually twittered about it before, because I've been in

the same area where someone will have halitosis.

And I'll be like, don't talk to me.

But, how do they not know it?

Unfortunately, I'm the kind of friend that's like stick a

piece of gum in your mouth.

Because, I'm going to save some friendships for you.

And I hope someone does that to me too.

But hopefully I don't have to do that.

Because, I brush my teeth breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Smells good.

Well, I did have 13 cavities at one time.

Really?

So, you can imagine why I'm so freaked out.

When I was a kid, I didn't really go to the dentist a lot.

And I didn't really go to doctor.

And then when I finally went they were like, you might as

well get like a whole new set of teeth.

Why didn't you go to the dentist?

I was poor.

Next question.

Yeah, because we live in the U.S.A and there

is no health care.

Yet.

Good point.

It's coming.

It is coming.

Thank you, Obama.

The next question is a two part question and it's a video

question from SayKelsayy.

Hi Katy, my name is Kelsey.

And I'd like to ask you two questions, if that's all right.

You can answer one or both of them.

First one, since the California Gurls music video slash single

released from your new album Teenage Dream, what's the

next song that you're going to release?

Is it a single or create a new music video for it?

Because I would be so excited to know.

I'm waiting until August 24.

I'm so excited until your Teenage Dream album comes out.

I've got it marked down on my calendar.

And also, I know you and Russell Brand are engaged.

And you're going to get married.

Congratulations.

I'm very happy for you guys.

But serious question, are you guys planning

on having children?

Kids or kittens?

Kids.

I think children.

She did such a great job between her edits.

And I think that's me.

And then I heard her version of Hot 'N Cold in the background.

I mean, she is like a fan.

That's so cute.

And also, her attention to detail is so perfect.

Her positioning.

I love you.

OK, first question is, I just shot the music video for the

second single off this record called Teenage Dream.

And so happens to be, the song next, is Teenage Dream.

So I shot that music video in Santa Barbara, my hometown.

I wrote it in Santa Barbara with some friends.

And it's so exciting.

It was so fun.

And it's going to be completely different

from California Gurls.

California Gurls is like this.

The stupid wigs and the fun and the glitz and the glam.

And I think with Teenage Dream you'll see a very raw, almost

vulnerable, like so vulnerable.

I had to wear so many less layers of make up.

And I would show up to set and they'd be like,

no, take it all off.

And I'd be like, oh, people are going to judge me.

But I think it's going to be exciting.

I'm nervous.

And I had to make out with a boy.

What did Russell say?

It was very traumatizing.

And I was kind of mean to him.

I would be the one to call cut, because I was

like I can't do this.

I feel so horrible.

But I know that it's a job.

And he has to do the same thing sometimes.

So we understand what our work is.

But yeah, we are excited to get married, of course.

And I think in marriage, when you're picking a partner, that