Katy Perry looked incredible as she soaked up the sun in St Tropez with fiance Orlando Bloom this week – amid the catastrophic release of her comeback single, Woman’s World.

The Teenage Dream hitmaker, 39, who has defended the single’s Sєxualized music video as ‘slapstick’, brushed off her chart woes as she displayed her toned body in a gingham ʙικιɴι for her beach day with Bloom, 47.

The star flashed her midriff and cleavage in the two-piece which she paired with gold jewelry and some chic shades.

Lord of the Rings star Orlando flashed his hunky frame in a тιԍнт blue top and shorts as he embraced Katy in the surf during their break with their daughter Daisy, four.

The pair’s holiday comes as Katy’s comeback single has plummeted down the US iTunes chart since its release on Thursday, July 11.

The song has slipped to number 31 on the charts – being beaten by efforts by Eminem and Tom MacDonald.

The singer is currently promoting the lead single from her forthcoming seventh studio album 143, but the track – billed as an empowering feminist anthem – has been dismissed as unoriginal, hypocritical and formulaic.

The American star returned to music with her new track earlier this week, but has faced criticism for the Sєxualised nature of the video, notably a moment where she and her dancers perform Sєxy choreography on a construction site before she is “smashed” by an anvil and returns in a new costume.

In a recent behind-the-scenes video shared to Instagram, Perry said: ‘We’re kind of just having fun, being a bit sarcastic with it. It’s very slapstick and very on the nose.

‘With this set it’s like, “Oooh, we’re not about the male gaze, but we really are about the male gaze.” And we’re really overplaying it and on the nose.’

The former American Idol judge explained the anvil moment was meant as a “reset” to help her embrace the “idea of feminine divine”.

She added: ‘We wanted to open this video making it look like a super high-gloss pop star video.’

Woman’s World is the first single from Perry’s upcoming album 143, which will be released on 20 September.