Fresh off her Super Bowl XLIX performance, Katy Perry spoke with Elle about her record-breaking halftime show and her current music competition, Us Weekly reports.

Perry revealed that she worked tirelessly for six months on the Super Bowl performance and had to report to many Super Bowl heads during that time to ensure that her show came together seamlessly.

"In my show, I am boss daddy. I am boss mommy," Perry told Elle. "They call me Boss. Everything goes through my eyes; I call all the shots, 100 percent of it. With the NFL, I have to be accountable to several levels of red tape. There are many committees I have to go through for my costumes, the budgets of my show, every interview-everything, I have to report to somebody. So I am no longer the boss; I have to relinquish that control."

When asked to open up about her fame and superstardom, Perry revealed that her fame and popularity is much "harder" than she had ever dreamt.

"It is a hundred times harder a dream than the dream that I dreamt when I was 9," Perry explained. "You think you signed up for one thing, but you automatically sign up for a hundred others. And that is why you see people shaving their f---ing heads."

Perry named the constant media scrutiny and gossip rumors that come with fame as one of the reasons why being a celebrity is so hard. She explained her belief that the media portrays celebrities as different characters in order to create a narrative that is relatable to the public.

"As pop figures, we're all characters. And the media uses that. Who is the sweetheart, who is the villain? You know. Taylor's the sweetheart. Kanye's the villain. That's the narrative."

Perry's description of Swift as a media sweetheart is a huge contrast from what she told Billboard prior to her Super Bowl show.

Perry, who has been in a long-standing feud with Swift, took aim at the "Shake it Off" singer, saying "If somebody is trying to defame my character, you're going to hear about it."

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