When Katy Perry announced her Lifetimes Tour, she revealed to Rolling Stone that she’d include a section featuring the “deepest cuts that have never seen the light of day.” On opening night in Mexico City on Wednesday, she stayed true to her word by performing the Teenage Dream deep cut “Not Like the Movies” for the first time in 13 years.
Dressed in a latex, pink-hued dress and cotton-candy shoes that paid homage to her biggest album, Perry surrounded herself by her band as she sang the 2010 deep cut. “They say you know, when you know/I don’t know,” she sang. “I didn’t feel the fairytale feeling, no/Am I a stupid girl for even dreaming that I could?”
The performance came during a “Choose Your Own Adventure” segment of the show, which allowed fans to select songs from one of her eras, different for each show. She also played the fan-requested “The One That Got Away.” The “spin-the-wheel” segment included all of her past albums, even the gospel album, Katy Hudson, which she released before she was known as Katy Perry.
“Muchas gracias, Mexico City 🇲🇽 Con amor, Tia Katy,” wrote Perry on Instagram after the show.
For the show, Perry delivered a video game-inspired theme as she performed songs off her album 143 along with her biggest hits from across her discography. In several fan videos, she was spotted floating around the arena for 143 songs, “Nirvana” and the show kickoff, “Artificial.”
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“I have a responsibility to the audience to give them that sing-along, to create that moment, and to bring out some nostalgia,” she told Rolling Stone. “But as an artist, I have a responsibility to myself to stay true to my art. So I’ll be introducing some new songs…. So, in the ‘Lifetimes’ regard, yeah, we are going deep.”
Perry last hit the road in 2017 to celebrate Witness. She also hosted an 80-date residency at Las Vegas’ Resorts World, called Play, between 2021 and 2023. On the Lifetimes Tour, she’s next scheduled to perform in Monterrey before commencing her run of shows through the U.S. in Houston next month.
