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"Long live the Queen! Katy Perry turned the &amp;quot;pop princess&amp;quot; cliche on its head with a sexy, grown-up ad campaign for her new fragrance, Killer Queen, starring Perry herself as a rebellious royal. The theatrical, beautifully shot teaser video hit the internet in late August -- and now Us Weekly has some exclusive behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nOne picture shows the &amp;quot;Roar&amp;quot; singer as she appears toward the beginning of the ad, in a towering, white, Marie Antoinette-esque wig, a ruby-red corseted dress, and bejeweled black tights. She stands amid a group of stunned attendants, who have just watched her cut off the bottom of her gown with a dagger. (Perry, of course, is not the first star to channel Antoinette; Madonna, Kirsten Dunst, and Beyonce have all paid tribute to the doomed Queen of France, too.)\r\n\r\nAnother photo depicts the 28-year-old pop singer near the end of the video, when she takes her place on a regal red-and-gold throne after strutting through the castle in black lace-up stiletto booties. Gone is the white powdered wig; in its place is her trademark black hair.\r\n\r\nSpeaking about the inspiration for her Killer Queen fragrance in a press release about the scent, Perry explained: &amp;quot;When I was creating Killer Queen, I was really inspired by the idea of a strong, confident woman in power. And that is exactly what I hoped to put into this fragrance, something that brings out the power inside of you.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe star, currently dating fellow musician John Mayer, has been all about self-empowerment lately. &amp;quot;Killer Queen has been in my vocabulary since I was 15, because of the song &amp;apos;Killer Queen&amp;apos; by Queen. Freddie Mercury painted the lyrics of this woman who I wanted to be. She seemed very powerful, and she captivated a room when she walked in,&amp;quot; Perry told Women&amp;apos;s Wear Daily recently of how she came up with the name.\r\n&amp;quot;I named my company Killer Queen after those lyrics,&amp;quot; she continued. &amp;quot;I feel like, after all this time, it was appropriate to use that name in association with something I did. I feel like I&amp;apos;m falling, finally, into that woman Freddie painted.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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