MADRID (AP) — In her new music video, Katy Perry pretends to be one of many hundreds of vacationers having the time of their lives on Spain’s Balearic Islands within the Mediterranean. However some components, filmed in a protected pure enclave, may convey hassle.
The regional authorities is investigating the video for her newest music, “Lifetimes,” for the clips during which the 39-year-old American singer and songwriter seems leaping and working throughout dunes of the Ses Salines Pure Park, a protected space on the islands of Ibiza and Formentera, apparently with out permission.
The photographs taken on the dunes of the personal islet of S’Espalmador, “some of the ecologically invaluable websites on the islands” and in an space cordoned off from the general public with sticks and ropes, sparked the controversy, in response to native media.
The regional authorities have opened “preliminary investigation proceedings,” in response to an announcement launched Tuesday, after the manufacturing firm failed to use for the suitable permits. The filming wouldn’t have been an environmental offense, as a result of this kind of manufacturing will be licensed with a allow, the division of pure surroundings added.
Her label, Common Music, mentioned the native video manufacturing firm had assured it that every one needed permits for the video have been secured. When it discovered one allow was nonetheless being processed, “we got verbal authority to go forward” a day earlier than the shoot, which befell July 27, a label spokesperson mentioned in an e mail to The Related Press.
“We adhered to all laws related to filming on this space and have the utmost respect for this location and the officers tasked with defending it,” the assertion mentioned.
The video, directed by Colombian-American photographer and director Matías Vasquez, Stillz, exhibits Perry crusing, swimming or clubbing on the islands, some of the common and crowded vacationer resorts within the Spanish Mediterranean, particularly in the course of the summer time.
Perry’s new album “143” will likely be launched on Sept. 20.
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