Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on the AFL clashing with Katy Perry over Grand Final song choices

Katy Perry has reportedly faced some pushback over her proposed song choices ahead of her AFL Grand Final performance.

The pop star is set to headline as the pre-game entertainment act - and it's been revealed league officials told her to play the hits from her back catalogue while Perry wanted to showcase newer stuff.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says it's fair that the AFL gets to make the calls - as the league's footing the bill for her performance. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International correspondence with endsit Eye insurance, peace of mind for
New Zealand business. Marry Old's Australia correspondent, he mas got
a good afternoon. Do you have that fair enough?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
If these guys at the AFL are paying the bills,
they get to demand what Katie sings.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh God, bullister, Yeah, I mean look, it was a
bit of a sort of a mind. Look, it's not
like Tatay. She's not like Taylor Swift. She's like b Grade.
Now anyway, they were all wetting themselves down in Melbourne.
We've got Cody Perry with a grand Final. Well, Katy
Perry said, look, I'd like to do a couple of
new songs. Oh no, so the old suits at the

(00:37):
AFL you can't do any new stuff. We want the
old songs like Raw, and we want teenage dream and Firework.
Well I went and had to listen this morning because
I knew they wanted to mention it. And I know
one song that Raw, Yeah you hear me Raw. I've
had great pop song, but every other song sounds exactly
the same. Is that blasphemous to say that? God Almighty

(00:58):
as you can sing any song, it all sounds the same.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yes, I mean, I can see how you would come
to that conclusion, Muzzle. But the fact of the matter
is they are not all the same, some of them.
No they I mean, look, you and I probably sit
on the same place with out our views on Katie
Pierry's musical ability, but some of her songs. But if
you can believe it, the songs on the new album
are even particularly more shite than the last one.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
So we don't want to Oh, I love it, I
love it. That's fair.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I mean, if they're paying the good money, they get
to decide, don't they.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I guess so, I mean yeah, I mean they've hired
of for seven I think that singing seven songs and
a half times, she's probably going to get a couple
of million dollars. So she's she's doing a bit better
than my band, Rocking Horse. I can assure you. Yeah,
I played drums and sing do.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
You hold on? Are you the lead singer from behind
the drums?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well, when our female singer turns up, she's the lead singer.
When she doesn't turn up, when she gets hammered, I
am that's that is.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
A hard job, because you can the drumming is already
quite a physical exertion without then having to actually project
your voice.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh it's all right, mate, I can just.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Give us a sample. What do you sound like when
you sing.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
A pull in the Nazareth was feeling about a half past.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I'll tell you what, if Katie doesn't want to do it,
you should do it. It's not bad mus I'd come
and see you.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Hey, very good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
What about the reserve banks? And they've decided to hold
the interest rates?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Have they? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
They have.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
What's at four point three to five has been that
way for nearly four years, last interest rate cut. Ten
months since the last rate move though, so it's it's
being held steady. There was a bit of speculation obviously
on the back of what the US Central Bank did
last week. Now, of course the big half a percent
interest rate cut, but the Reserve Bank holding firm here.

(02:50):
It's not gonna move no matter how much it gets
bullied by the government and bullied by the opposition and
bully by the Greens. The Reserve Bank is saying, bugger off,
we are independent. We will decide when it's appropriate to
cut interest rates. So, I mean, if they thought Michelle
Bullock was going to be a pushover. Think again, boys
and they're all boys and suits. This woman is eminently

(03:11):
capable and she's more obviously tough enough to hold her own.
So no cut. And what economists are now suggesting here
that it's not going to be until early next year
when rates come down in Australia.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, okay, I think we can believe that. Hey listen, okay,
So it's not the first time that Ozzie's have gone
to the super fans to pay for cosmetic stuff like
teeth and boobs and stuff. But apparently you guys are
ramping this up.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Why because they want to, you know, look nice now
and don't worry about it when I'm old and gray.
Eight hundred million dollars was taken out of superinnuation accounts
last year, according to the Australian Tax Office, eight hundred
million to play for, you know, to pay for things
like bigger breasts, smaller breasts, you know, possibly white teeth,

(03:52):
looks like the Southern Alps marching across your face and
I mean hello eight hundred and here's the stat that
came out from the ATO. You take twenty k out
of your super account when you're forty. That's one hundred
thousand dollars you're going to miss out on at sixty
five when you retire. Now, do you really want to
have that brilliant smile and bigger breasts? Now? I guess

(04:15):
many people do, because eight hundred million dollars is not
small change.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Muz. What about this is an idea though, because there
are some photographs of these people with fixed up faces,
and I'll tell you what they look They look amazing,
And I reckon you could actually earn more with those
pearlas than if you had a bunch of sort of
jaggedy teeth, don't you.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Think, mat if you're still a bogan or a bozo,
you can't. But he tie your shoelacers up, don't matter
how good your smile is.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Really, No, you make a very good point. Actually you
are right, muz. Thank you very much appreciated. That was
actually excellencing And that's mury Oult's Australia correspondent. For more
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