Katy Perry Gets Brutally Honest About Heartbreak in Stunning ‘Bandaids’ Video

Katy Perry isn’t letting heartbreak break her. Rather, she’s informing her story the method she understands finest. On Thursday, the pop queen launched her single “Bandaids,” a surprise, mid-tour separation tune apparently influenced by the end of her relationship with Orlando Bloom.

The Christian Breslauer-directed video follows Perry as she withstands a series of regrettable, yet darkly funny, occasions, some laced with Easter eggs referencing things she has actually stated in the past, as she sings about losing somebody she enjoyed. “Hand to God, I assured I tried/There’s no stone left unturned,” she states in the opening line. “It’s not what you did/It’s what you didn’t/ You existed however you weren’t.”

The video opens with her cleaning meals when a golden ring slips down the drain. As she reaches in to recover it, the waste disposal unit turns on, mauling her ring finger. (The scene might be a sly nod to her NSFW discussCall Her Daddylast fall, when she joked that she ‘d offer her ex foreplay if he did the meals.)

In one scene, she saws off the branch she’s resting on and topples down. In another, she trips an escalator, just for her shoelace to get captured in the fractures, dragging her back. She’s later electrocuted by a Tesla before consuming a croissant with her ring finger covered in plasters.

In the lyrics, co-written with Justin Tranter, Sean Cook, Russ Chell, Eren Cannata, and Kiddo Ibañez, she takes a look at the favorable parts of her previous relationship: “On the intense side/We had great times/Never fabricated our pictures/We were perfect/Til we weren’t/ Now we’ve got a lot of splinters.”

In one poignant scene, she almost gets squashed by a speeding train before finding a single daisy growing through the rocks– a clear tribute to her child, Daisy Dove, whom she shows Bloom. The sight provides her the strength to break complimentary. After the tune ends, she’s seen purchasing a cigarette at a filling station as a radio DJ discusses a tune called “Watch It Burn,” which fans have actually hypothesized may be an approaching single.

“It’s not that complicated/To ask me how my day is/I’m flatlining tryna conserve this,” Perry sings later on in the tune, before making it clear in the bridge: “If I needed to do it all over again/I would still do it all over again/The enjoy that we made deserved it in the end.”

At the end of the video, she lights a cigarette as “Woman’s World” plays faintly in the background– a recommendation to the filling station scene from the questionable single’s video– before the station blows up, symbolically indicating her goodbye to her inadequately gotten last age.

Perry is presently covering the European leg of her Lifetimes Tour, with programs arranged in Lyon, Barcelona, and Madrid today, before she heads to Asia for the trip’s last leg. This is the very first authorities release from Perry given that her album,143

From Wanderer United States.