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Katy Perry makes fans' day with a surprise meet-up before Rock in Rio performance… after her new album 143 was savaged by critics

Katy Perry surprised fans at Rock in Rio by going into the crowd to hang out and take photos with them before her performance in Brazil on Friday night.

Part of the backlash stems from the fact that Perry worked with Dr. Luke(real name: Łukasz Gottwald), the controversial music producer who was locked in a 10-year legal battle with Kesha over claims he had inflicted physical, sexual, and emotional abuse on her. Critics have panned Katy's sixth album 143, with Variety calling it 'flat, coasting on cascades of lyrical cliches and musical ideas that rarely crest. 'The miscalculation instantly soured the tone of a record poised as her comeback with the release Woman’s World, a hollow anthem predicated on self-empowerment platitudes that anyone would pick up in Feminism 101.

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