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The AFL has sounded retired different monolithic sanction for its expansive last amusement with popular superstar Katy Perry believed to beryllium adjacent to inking a deal.
News Corp is reporting the AFL are closing successful connected the coup for Perry to articulation the likes of The Killers, Ed Sheeran, Bryan Adams, Meatloaf, Robbie Williams and KISS arsenic expansive last performers.
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Perry is nary alien to the MCG, having kicked disconnected the Women’s T20 World Cup Final successful 2020 with a stunning show successful beforehand of a assemblage of astir 80,000 fans, contempt not having officially toured Australia since 2014.
The AFL is anxious to get immoderate of music’s biggest names to play the expansive last and The Herald Sun reported the AFL was successful “advanced stages of talks with Perry’s absorption astir a multimillion-dollar deal”.
The AFL were keeping mum astir the large time however, reportedly saying: “We volition beryllium successful a presumption to marque an announcement connected this year’s Telstra pre-game amusement shortly.”
Speaking connected Fox Footy’s Midweek Tackle, Jay Clark, who wrote the report, said it was “a superb selection”.
Glenn McFarlane agreed, saying: “She’s a star, this’ll beryllium awesome.”
Scott Gullan joked that erstwhile AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan would beryllium fuming that Andrew Dillon landed specified a large sanction successful his archetypal attempt.
Clark added that it would beryllium different time expansive final, but Gullan said: “Move with the times, we’re each aiming towards Taylor Swift, she loves Melbourne, loves the MCG, Taylor doesn’t privation to commencement astatine 2 o’clock — she wants to commencement astatine 6.
“Let’s get it moving now, it’s an amusement business, each the large finals are astatine nighttime — c’mon.”
McFarlane replied: “I’m not definite she (Swift) loves it that much.”
Perry, who gets much than 56 cardinal monthly plays connected Spotify, is astir to merchandise a caller album, and was teasing the euphony video for her comeback azygous Woman’s World.
Newly-released footage from the upcoming video shows Perry looking similar a glammed-up Rosie the Riveter, dancing connected a operation tract wearing a stars and stripes bikini top, thigh-high boots and denim cut-offs.
Rapid-fire cuts look to amusement Perry utilizing the video to beforehand products including a non-alcoholic beverage and a enactment artifact – earlier the teaser ends connected a bizarre note, with a elephantine alloy anvil squashing the star, Looney Tunes style.
Friday’s merchandise of some the opus and video comes aft a weeks-long run from Katy to get radical excited astir her philharmonic comeback.
Woman’s World is going to beryllium an important merchandise for Perry, who hasn’t released an medium since 2020’s underperforming Smile.
However, she has been teasing an medium since April, with a root telling The Sun: “Katy has been moving connected her astir idiosyncratic medium ever for overmuch of the past 2 years.
“She has been doing it connected her ain presumption and it is rather antithetic from thing she has released before.”
Originally published arsenic AFL ‘close to’ locking successful Katy Perry for expansive last entertainment
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