is under investigation in Spain over her new music video for “Lifetimes”. The pop star, 39, released the -set video last Thursday (August 8), which sees her spending her day at the beach before heading to a club in However, some beach sequences were filmed at the dunes of S’Espalmador on the nearby island of Formentera, which is a protected area of natural beauty. In a statement, the Balearic Islands’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Natural Environment said that the production company responsible for the video had failed to request “authorization from the Regional Ministry to carry out the filming.
” “That is why preliminary investigation actions have been initiated,” it added. However, it went on to clarify that they do not consider Perry’s actions a “crime against the environment” but rather an infringement as general photography and filming “can be authorized” in the area. has approached Perry for comment.
“Lifetimes” is the second single from Perry’s upcoming seventh album , which is set to be released on September 20. The first single, “Woman’s World,” was met with a mixed critical reaction. Writing for , “Katy Perry’s new single is a depressingly retrograde racket, a faux-feminist pastiche paying tribute to the ‘feminine divine’,” opined White.
“Titled ‘Woman’s World’, it would have been mortifying enough in its natural habitat of a Hillary-for-president fundraiser in 2016. But now, in 2024, it sounds li.