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"Katy Perry has criticised her record label Capitol for shying away from releasing some of her more controversial songs. The singer, who is engaged to comedian Russell Brand, admitted that she often has to be strong willed in order to persuade her bosses to let her release certain songs. Speaking of a song on her new album called &amp;#039;Peacock&amp;#039;, she told Glamour: &amp;quot;They were all a bit worried about the word &amp;#039;c**k&amp;#039; and it gave me deja vu because they did the exact same thing with &amp;#039;I Kissed A Girl&amp;#039;. They said, &amp;#039;We don&amp;#039;t see it as a single; we don&amp;#039;t want it on the album&amp;#039;. And I was like, &amp;#039;You guys are idiots&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;I always try and make a lasting impression and I work very hard. My father has a saying, &amp;#039;You can&amp;#039;t be a flash in the pan&amp;#039;. This record is important to me because it will prove that my last album One Of The Boys wasn&amp;#039;t just luck.&amp;quot; She added that another song on Teenage Dream, called &amp;#039;Firework&amp;#039;, was inspired by Brand, saying: &amp;quot;He showed me a passage from On The Road by Jack Kerouac and he said that this is what I am. It was something like, &amp;#039;I want to be around people that are buzzing and fizzing and never say a commonplace thing and shoot across the sky and make everybody go ah&amp;#039;. So that&amp;#039;s become my life statement.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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