Katy Perry is proudly owning the night time just like the Fourth of July.
The Teenage Dream hitmaker shared a patriotic picture on Instagram, paying tribute to her 2010 tune “Firework.” Within the picture, Perry, 39, poses in a bedazzled, star-shaped swimsuit emblazoned with stars and stripes.
The silver straps matched her earrings, and he or she wore purple lipstick to match her purple polka-dot bandana.
Perry channeled Rosie the Riveter, posing with one hand on her hip, and flexing her muscle mass with the opposite.
“BB UR A FIREWORK 🎆,” she started her caption, including, “and talking of labor, WOMAN’S WORLD IS GOING TO WORK IN ONE WEEK HAPPY 4TH 🇺🇸”
Perry beforehand introduced her new single “Lady’s World” on Wednesday, June 19, which is the primary time she’s launched music since 2020’s Smile. The brand new tune is ready for launch on Thursday, July 11, with the music video premiering the next day.
The “California Gurls” singer gave followers a sneak peek of the brand new tune on Instagram, lip-synching: “Attractive, assured / So clever / She is heaven despatched / So gentle, so robust.”
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Following the tune’s launch in 2010, Perry opened as much as Billboard concerning the inspiration behind the lyrics. “It’s a tune the place I believe my goal to some individuals may change once they hear it,” she stated on the time.
Perry instructed the publication the concept that sparked the tune got here from a Jack Kerouac novel, and it is primarily based on how she would need to be remembered: “Principally I’ve this very morbid concept . . . after I cross, I need to be put right into a firework and shot throughout the sky over the Santa Barbara Ocean as my final hurrah.”
She continued, “I need to be a firework, each residing and lifeless. My boyfriend confirmed me a paragraph out of Jack Kerouac’s guide ‘On the Highway,’ about individuals which might be buzzing and fizzing and vigorous and by no means say a commonplace factor.”
“They shoot throughout the sky like a firework and make individuals go, ‘Ahhh.’ I suppose that making individuals go ‘ahhh’ is form of like my motto,” Perry concluded.
The smash hit has turn out to be a serious hallmark of popular culture. Perry famously sang “Firework” for the 2021 presidential inauguration of Joe Biden.
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In 2022, the pop star joked that individuals have been getting the phrases flawed to the 2010 hit tune.
“It is awe, awe, awe, all people. Get it proper! It isn’t ‘Fireworks’ it is ‘Firework,’ ” she stated when Luke Bryan sang the phrases flawed throughout an episode of American Idol.
She additionally cheekily referred to as out the second on Instagram. “FOR THE OFFICIAL RECORD ☝🏻. it’s AWE not UP. it’s FIREWORK not FIREWORKSSS. Swipe ➡️ for proof 🎆🎇,” she wrote.