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Katy Perry‘s E.T. video featuring Kanye West premiered Thursday on MTV.com, VH1.com and LogoTV.com (see video below), and the songstress says she is enjoying being able to get creative with her music.

“I knew starting with ‘I Kissed a Girl’ that it might have taken a little bit longer to get everybody just onboard the Katy Perry train, I guess,” she added. “But now, I’m having so much fun and I get to be so creative and try different things and expand, and I never play it safe — in any way, really,” Katy said in an interview with MTV prior to the E.T. video premiere.

Perry said it was difficult to remain patient during the extensive costume and makeup process for the video, which took five to six hours.

“It was hard for me! It was really a patience thing for me on this video,” she said. “But, you know, it’s like when you’re doing a film. Sometimes you have to do prosthetics, and you have to get really old or turn into an animal or a monster — and that’s kind of what this process was.”

Watch the full Katy Perry E.T. video featuring Kanye West below.