Katy Perry: 'New album is important'

Katy Perry has described her new album Teenage Dream as "more important" than her debut One Of The Boys.

In an interview with MTV News, the singer said that the record will allow fans to take her seriously as an artist and see the hard work that she has put into her career.

"This record is more important, as important, if not more important than the first record. This one will really show if it was all by chance that the first one happened, which I strongly don't believe," she explained.

"But I think I have to work just as hard and show people that there is a visual element. There's a story to the songs... I'm really excited about going on tour again and giving out those hugs and not handshakes and making those music videos that are going to be larger than life."

She continued: "My ultimate goal is just to make people feel with music. I think that's really important, the power of music, and hopefully people can hear that displayed in this record, but like I said, it's not like anything I'm not... It definitely has a little bit more spice to it."