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Katy Perry's new songs are "a little bit more grown-up"

Songwriter Bonnie McKee has revealed that the songs she's been working on with Katy Perry have a different and more mature sound than her fans are used to.

During a recent interview with MTV News, McKee (pictured left and below) explained that they've been collaborating on a few tracks and she's excited about the direction they are taking so far:

We were just in [Katy's hometown of] Santa Barbara and we wrote three or four songs, I guess. So I have four songs with her coming out. I think it's a little bit more grown-up and it's really interesting.

"I'm really excited for the world to hear it because she's just... she's taking a new approach. And I don't want to say too much about it, but it's definitely different. It's definitely a little more mature than the 'California Gurls' of yesterday."

The 'Teenage Dream' beauty, meanwhile, recently confessed that she has written a cut called 'Bad Photographs' that sets the tone for her forthcoming new album: "I titled it 'Bad Photographs' because the idea is that when people are in a relationship they only take photographs when they are happy, and sometimes when it ends you realize maybe it would be important to take photographs when it's not happy."

 

 

 

 

Watch McKee's music video for 'American Girl', which features Perry, below: