Pop superstar Katy Perry has hit back at criticism she recently faced over her decision to dress her backing dancers up as big-bottomed Egyptian mummies on her Prism tour and explained that it was meant to be a comment on our generation's obsession with plastic surgery. 

Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine about how she had been criticised for 'crossing a race line', she explained that it's sad to think people are directing hate at her for something they didn't understand:

"As far as the mummy thing, I based it on plastic surgery. Look at someone like Kim Kardashian or Ice-T's wife, Coco. Those girls aren't African-American. But it's actually a representation of our culture wanting to be plastic, and that's why there's bandages and it's mummies."

"I thought that would really correlate well together... It came from an honest place. If there was any inkling of anything bad, then it wouldn't be there, because I'm very sensitive to people."

Perry added: "I guess I'll just stick to baseball and hot dogs, and that's it! I know that's a quote that's gonna come to f**k me in the a**, but can't you appreciate a culture? I guess, like, everybody has to stay in their lane? I don't know."

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