I love Teenage Dream, but the actual CD is a mess.
The cover picture and cotton candy smell are epic, but the pictures used inside... just don't match the exterior.
The traklist font is horrible.
Perry is determined to make her first arena headlining tour — which will take her around the world — a jaw-dropping spectacle, on par with Lady Gaga and Pink's recent shows. (She was so blown away by Pink's last tour that she hired the director who worked on it.) "I just really want to raise the bar," she says. "Touring is no longer an ordinary thing where you play an instrument in jeans and a T-shirt. It has some pizazz these days, and I'm definitely bringing the pizazz with a lot of bells and whistles. The show has a Broadway feel to it. It's got a storyline that's going to be very interesting, kind of loosely based on my life, but a cartoon version."
This tour is shaping up to be HUGE.
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The show draws a lot of inspiration from the artists Will Cotton and Mark Ryden. Cotton — who directed Perry's "California Gurls" video — incorporates candy and baked goods into his art. Ryden is known for drawing pieces of meat alongside surreal images of creepy, doll-like children. "I have this whole thing in my show that is about candy and cupcakes and meat," Perry says. "It's both really sweet and shocking, but not in a sexual way."
She's most excited about the newest addition to the California Dreams show: smell-o-vision. "It's the first concert that's going to smell good," she says. "It's going to smell like you're in cotton candy heaven. It's a fun little nuance. I am a woman of detail, and you will be seeing that — even down to the 15 outfit changes I'm doing in concert."
E.T. domination is about to begin 
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