{"id":2448188,"date":"2019-08-30T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=878773"},"modified":"2019-08-30T10:34:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:34:13","slug":"katy-perry-goes-to-the-mutt-ball-in-small-talk-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/katy-perry-goes-to-the-mutt-ball-in-small-talk-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Perry Goes to the Mutt Ball in \u2018Small Talk\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KATYPERRY.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/katy-perry\/\">Katy Perry<\/a> and her tiny teacup poodle compete in the Mutt Ball in her new video for \u201cSmall Talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The peppy pop song describes the awkwardness of a breakup (\u201cgoing from strangers to lovers to strangers\u201d), but the video, directed by Tanu Muino, tells a different story. Perry arrives with her poodle to the Mutt Ball (\u201cMaking fetch happen\u201d), a gathering of dog owners who closely resemble their dogs. Perry ends up falling for a handsome man with a pet Weimaraner, and pretty soon, it\u2019s total puppy love for all parties. (Worth noting that Perry made a very campy appearance at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-pictures\/met-gala-2019-camp-832180\/\">the actual Met Gala<\/a> earlier this year.)<\/p>\n<p>Perry previously released the video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/katy-perry-never-really-over-music-video-842335\/\">\u201cNever Really Over\u201d<\/a> in May, marking her first new solo music release since 2017. (She also featured on Zedd\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/katy-perry-zedd-365-new-song-825423\/\">\u201c365,\u201d<\/a> in April.) In July, a jury found that her 2013 hit single \u201cDark Horse\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/katy-perry-dark-horse-lawsuit-flame-865058\/\">improperly copied<\/a> Christian rapper Flame\u2019s 2009 song \u201cJoyful Noise.\u201d Perry, her collaborators and her label Capitol Records must pay $2.78 million in damages to Marcus Gray and two of his co-writers on \u201cJoyful Noise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/katy-perry-small-talk-video-878773\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy Perry and her tiny teacup poodle compete in the Mutt Ball in her new video for \u201cSmall Talk.\u201d The peppy pop song describes the awkwardness of a breakup (\u201cgoing from strangers to lovers to strangers\u201d), but the video, directed by Tanu Muino, tells a different story. Perry arrives with her poodle to the Mutt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 02:18:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}