I know a lot of us have wondered about Wide Awake's writing process (and she talks about Cirkut's part a little bit):
Quote:
Katy Perry: “I wrote 'Wide Awake' in two days with the dream team of songwriters. It's like a bookend to the film [Part of Me], just a great punctuation for the film and for that time in my life. It tells the story of the movie. Rewatching the last year of my life in the edit bay was a catalyst for these feelings to come out. I was congested with the idea, and I knew I needed to get it out. I needed to have my say right then and there. I knew it was going to be a bit of a retrospective, that it would be ballad-y, midtempo. I knew the feeling of it -- I knew it wasn't going to be an uptempo dance number, and what really triggered it was a simple combination of beats that this guy Cirkut played. You never really know where songs can come from. When I was a kid, I made up songs to the sound of the washing machine or a dripping faucet or windshield wipers. I took the sounds that were continual and put my lyric or melody ideas with them. There are songs that say, "I'm strong after everything I've been through," and that's not always the case. Sometimes the reality is you've had a revelation. I wanted to capture how humbling that revelation can be. When I started this record cycle, it was all about cotton candy clouds and living the high, sweet life, and even though it didn't end so sweetly for me in some ways, the call back was falling from those same candy clouds.
When I was collecting Katy singles I refused to buy Hot n Cold for weeks until that Banana Phone version appeared on eBay. It's one of her best single covers!
When I was collecting Katy singles I refused to buy Hot n Cold for weeks until that Banana Phone version appeared on eBay. It's one of her best single covers!
IKR. I had to hunt for it, but luckily I found it for $11. It's probably my favorite Katy pic ever.
I still want the watermelon cover though.