sentences:  Perry explained that the album's tropical slant was due to his prediction that one day "American pop will owe a huge debt to world sensibilities...these I wanted to explore and potentially boil down to some fundamental building blocks that might lead toward a new, more international style".Stylistically, Perry claimed that he based the structure of "Susquehanna" on James Joyce's "Ulysses" in that each of the songs were written in a different style and genre but the album was thematically coherent.He elaborated that he drew inspiration from Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film "Pierrot le fou" in that "songs are a means to an end.