However bad your week is going, Katy Perry’s is worse. The US pop star might have an estimated $350 million in the bank, be engaged to Orlando Bloom, and has an apparent fan in King Charles, performing at his coronation last year. But she’s recently been mercilessly hounded online for making a harmless mistake: deciding to release new music.

“Woman’s World,” her first solo single in three years, was meant to herald her return to the pop pantheon and generate endless excitable headlines about her forthcoming album, 143, set for release on September 20.