Rebecca Black Survived Busy Katy Perry Tour Schedule with ‘Gay Sex’ (Exclusive)

It’s been a busy year for Rebecca Black.

The pop star, 28, kicked off 2025 with the release of her Salvation project in February, headlined her own tour in the spring and spent the summer opening for Katy Perry‘s Lifetimes Tour — Black’s first time playing arenas — while performing and DJing at festivals in-between show dates.

How did she handle the grueling schedule? “I have said it once, and I’ll say it again. It is the gay sex that I am so blessed to have that I can look forward to,” Black tells PEOPLE in a centaur-inspired look on the 2025 MTV VMAs red carpet at New York’s UBS Arena on Sunday, Sept. 7.

And who exactly is she having sex with? “My girlfriend,” teases the “Sugar Water Cyanide” singer without disclosing her partner’s identity.

When it comes to the tour itself, Black says the “craziest part” was seeing all that goes into putting on a show the scale of Perry’s. “It takes more than a village. It’s multiple cities of people who are working day and night to get these things up. I can’t believe she trusts these girls to put her in the sky. It’s a lot,” she says.

For Black, playing venues with capacities over 10,000 was a completely new experience. “I was so overstimulated the first night and so scared, and by the end it felt so like redeeming to be able to get on and be like, ‘This is just another show,'” she explains. “It was so much fun. But it was crazy.”

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Beyond touring with Perry, the “Friday” performer has released collaborations with hip-hop duo Joey Valence & Brae as well as electronic artists Jax Jones and sooeyon since releasing Salvation. Additionally, the project’s breakout track “Sugar Water Cyanide” was sampled by South Korean singer Yves for the song “Soap” with PinkPantheress.

Black hasn’t slowed down, and she doesn’t plan to. New music is already in the works. “I’m very close to being done, and I am really excited about the direction,” she says. “It’s dark. It’s sexy — definitely, definitely sexy.”