Katy Perry in Disguise in Kotor, Justin Trudeau by Her Side
The singer who raised the so called Kosovo flag in Pristina was filmed in Kotor, wearing a headscarf and dark sunglasses, arm in arm with former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Katy Perry carried her summer vacation from Pristina into Kotor, and footage from the Bay of Kotor was posted by the Instagram page Podgorica Vremeplov (Podgorica Time Capsule). In the clip, the American singer walks down a street wearing a headscarf and dark sunglasses, holding the hand of former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, and quickly gets into a car. Regional media picked up the footage on August 4.
The headscarf was not a fashion choice. She wore it so passersby and fans would not recognize her. She arrived in Kotor from Saint-Tropez, and before that she had been on stage in Pristina.
Comments under the post were more amused than angry. “There’s nothing to hide. Honestly, no one would have recognized her,” one Instagram user wrote. Another added: “We’ve become a hit destination. Not a day goes by that even Vucko doesn’t mention us.”
Astronauts, the Moon and a flag on stage
Perry headlined the festival’s opening night, July 31. Her performance leaned on a space themed stage design, choreography and costumes to match. At one point she addressed the crowd and spoke about a possible trip to space, and then dancers dressed as astronauts walked onto the stage and handed her the flag of so called Kosovo.
She raised it in front of the audience, then laid it on a stage built to resemble the surface of the Moon. The crowd answered with cheers. Clips of the performance quickly spread across the region, and the story broke away from the concert itself.
Reactions from Serbia arrived almost immediately.
Someone explain to Katy that Kosovo is part of Serbia. She should read a book about the history of the territory she’s visiting, it wouldn’t hurt her.
That was one of the most shared comments. Others wrote that the singer was chasing attention her music no longer brings her, adding: “Does she even know what she did? This is the scandal of her career.” Because of that one moment with the astronauts, four days later people were still tracking where the singer was spending her vacation.
The festival wasn’t founded by Dua Lipa
Here, coverage merged two things that don’t belong together. The festival is called Sunny Hill, and it launched in 2018. It was founded by Dukagjin “Dugi” Lipa, the father of singer Dua Lipa. She promotes it and is today its best known face, but she is not its founder.
The difference is not just a technicality. The political weight carried by that stage routinely gets pinned on the daughter, not the father who has run the festival since its first edition. Sunny Hill was never just about music even before this. We wrote about it when Dua Lipa posted a photo of a breakfast that included pljeskavica and sparked a debate that had nothing to do with songs.
Katy Perry, then, arrived at a festival that already carries a political charge, and in a space themed segment accepted a prop that has nothing to do with space.
How did the relationship with Trudeau start?
The timeline is short:
- July 2025, the first rumors, after a dinner together in Montreal
- late 2025, the relationship confirmed with a joint photo on social media
- July 31, 2026, the Sunny Hill performance in Pristina
- August 2026, Saint-Tropez, then Kotor
Trudeau divorced Sophie Grégoire Trudeau in 2023. Before this relationship, Perry ended her engagement to actor Orlando Bloom, with whom she has a daughter.
The footage from Kotor was not a chance encounter with paparazzi. It was filmed by a local Instagram page, from the street, as the couple walked toward their car. There was no stopping, no waving, no statement. A headscarf, sunglasses, a few steps and a door closing.
Every new frame from this vacation pulls the regional audience back to that first night in Pristina. The headscarf doesn’t help.
