Watch Katy Perry Hilariously Bite Into a Cardboard Cake She Thought Might Be Real: ‘Agh, F–k’
Ew.
Katy Perry at The 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony held at Barker Hanger on April 05, 2025 in Santa Monica, California.
Ideally, cake is fluffy and moist, but every once in a while, you bite into one that’s as dry as cardboard. And if you’re Katy Perry, you sometimes bite into one that’s literally cardboard.
In a hilarious no-context video posted to Instagram on Monday (Nov. 24), the pop star sits on a table beside a colorful sculpture of a microphone with striped butterfly wings. “Hi, I’m in Shanghai, and welcome to my episode of ‘Is this cardboard, or is this cake?'” Perry tells the camera.
The hitmaker then leans in and takes a huge crunch out of the microphone head, her face twisting with disgust at the taste. “Agh, f–k,” she swears, spitting it out. “It’s cardboard.”
Perry is currently in Shanghai to play three shows at Mercedes-Benz Arena as part of her Lifetimes Tour. After her stay in China, she’ll have just a few stops left on the trek, which is set to wrap Dec. 7 with a performance in Abu Dhabi.
On Nov. 11, Perry showed off her new butterfly tattoo in honor of the tour, which first kicked off in April following the release of album 143 a few months prior. “Can’t believe it’s already time for The Lifetimes Tour tattoos,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. “Only 8 shows left…”
But while the tour is ending, life has been full of new beginnings for Perry lately. On Nov. 7, she eased into a new musical era with the release of single “bandaids,” and in October, she made her blossoming romance with Justin Trudeau public by stepping out with the former Canadian prime minister in Paris.
Watch Perry play “Cake or Cardboard?” in her video below.
