--- title: All the Awards Shows Are Fake: Katy Perry Slams Her Industry description: The 'Witness' singer said in an interview that she doesn't think awards shows and awards reflect reality. canonical: https://time.com/4818752/katy-perry-on-award-shows/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-14T20:28:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-24T06:56:43.542Z og:title: Katy Perry Slams Awards Shows as "Fake" og:description: The 'Witness' singer didn't mince words og:url: https://time.com/4818752/katy-perry-on-award-shows/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0cff4df74bf765d6/6988d1b3ab6d775d896ae927/katy-perry.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2430 og:image:height: 1367 og:image:alt: "Katy Perry - Witness World Wide" Exclusive YouTube Livestream Concert og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Katy Perry Slams Awards Shows as "Fake" twitter:description: The 'Witness' singer didn't mince words twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0cff4df74bf765d6/6988d1b3ab6d775d896ae927/katy-perry.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'All the Awards Shows Are Fake': Katy Perry Slams 'Constructs' of Fame > Sponsored content. 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The 'Witness' singer said in an interview that she doesn't think awards shows and awards reflect reality._  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 14, 2017 8:28 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 14, 2017 8:28 PM UTC In the lead-up to the release of her [new album _Witness_](http://time.com/4816737/katy-perry-changes-lyrics-swish-swish-feud-taylor-swift/) last week, pop star Katy Perry participated in a 96-hour YouTube livestream meant to [reveal every element](http://time.com/4814535/katy-perry-forgives-taylor-swift/) of her newly liberated self. Her openness is a huge part of her new on- and offstage persona, one that she’s been building ever since [her political awakening](http://motto.time.com/4588831/katy-perry-hillary-clinton-surprise/) in the fall, and has carried over into her subsequent musical endeavors. In a new profile [for the New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/arts/music/katy-perry-witness-interview.html), Perry also shared some sharp comments on the music industry’s top honors that helped give her a platform. “All the awards shows are fake,” she told the _Times_, “and all the awards that I’ve won are fake.” She continued on to call awards “constructs,” suggesting that they don’t have audiences’ true tastes in mind. Perry has been the recipient of a [litany of awards](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2953537/awards) in her blockbuster pop career, including prizes from the American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, People’s Choice Awards, Teen Choice Awards, and many more. She has not yet, however, nabbed a Grammy, [although she performed](http://time.com/4668387/katy-perry-grammys-2017/) “Chained to the Rhythm” at that show’s 2017 event. But despite that particular snub, she’s still the world’s [most-followed person on Twitter](http://time.com/4591951/top-twitter-celebrities-2016/) — maybe an indicator of her suggestion that official awards are less important to her particular popularity than they might seem. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4818752/katy-perry-on-award-shows/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4818752/katy-perry-on-award-shows/"},"headline":"'All the Awards Shows Are Fake': Katy Perry Slams 'Constructs' of Fame","datePublished":"2017-06-14T20:28:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:43.542Z","description":"The 'Witness' singer said in an interview that she doesn't think awards shows and awards reflect reality.","url":"https://time.com/4818752/katy-perry-on-award-shows/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","Katy Perry"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0cff4df74bf765d6/6988d1b3ab6d775d896ae927/katy-perry.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0cff4df74bf765d6/6988d1b3ab6d775d896ae927/katy-perry.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Katy Perry - Witness World Wide\" Exclusive YouTube Livestream Concert","caption":"\"Katy Perry - Witness World Wide\" Exclusive YouTube Livestream Concert","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4818752/katy-perry-on-award-shows/","name":"'All the Awards Shows Are Fake': Katy Perry Slams 'Constructs' of Fame"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"The 'Witness' singer said in an interview that she doesn't think awards shows and awards reflect reality.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4818752/katy-perry-on-award-shows/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4818752/katy-perry-on-award-shows/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```