Chained to the Rhythm Album Chained to the Rhythm Album Art
"Chained to the Rhythm" is the atomic number 82 single from Katy Perry'south fifth studio album, Witness. The song features guest appearance from Skip Marley, who besides provided backing vocals and additional writing. The single was officially released Feb 10, 2017, receiving radio play through Apple Music's Beats 1 Station the night before. Perry said the song represents political/mental liberation.
The song broke a Spotify record at the time for the most first day streams for a female artist in the United States with 3,062,293 streams.[1] The song had a major debut on Pop radio, having a starting time 24-hour interval audience impression of 27.735 million.[2]
Contents
- 1 Background and release
- ane.1 Promotion
- 2 Lyrics
- 3 Disquisitional reception
- 4 Music video
- 4.1 Lyric video
- four.2 Official video
- 4.3 Synopsis and critical analysis
- v Digital release
- 5.1 Worldwide
- five.ii Official remix
- 6 Concrete release
- 6.one Europe
- seven Promotional releases
- 7.1 French republic
- seven.2 France & Italian republic
- 7.3 United States
- viii Gallery
- 9 References
Groundwork and release
For her fifth studio album, Perry said she wanted to make "purposeful popular", which was implemented into the track "Chained to the Rhythm". Skip Marley told Billboard that he and Perry fabricated the song together after she heard his rail "Lions" and wanted to collaborate with him. Afterwards the ii spoke in January 2017, he "delivered the message that I had to deliver" while recording the rails, describing it equally "one of unification and beloved".[3] Perry felt "kind of depressed" later on Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in November 2016, and "definitely didn't want to write a order banger" when the globe was "on fire". She subsequently "channelled her frustration into new music" and also stated that creating the track "was a squeamish exercise of like writing a song that at kickoff mind is a really fun song, but I guess the more you swoop into it, information technology has a dissimilar sub-text".[iv]
The get-go of the new album era began on February 6, 2017 with an Instagram post made past Perry where she posted an image of her sporting bleached-blond hair in a pinkish wardrobe against a infant blue background, captioned "New life who dis".[5] This was followed past an official announcement from the Recording University that Katy Perry will be performing at the 2017 Grammy Awards. [6] On February 7, 2017 billboards were placed around the Usa revealing the release date of the song.[7] The official single artwork was revealed through Perry's twitter an hour before the song'due south release. It was designed by Frederik Heyman.[8] Later the much created buzz, the song was finally released on February 10, 2017. [9]
Promotion
Perry teased the song with a short clip which featured her dragging a chained disco-ball effectually her talocrural joint while she wore high-heels.[10] 60cm disco assurance will be placed in key locations around the world, where people will be able to mind to 90 seconds of the vocal.[11] [12] Twitter stickers based off the single's aesthetics were released for a express fourth dimension to celebrate the release.[13] The song recieved "on the hr" radio play for its release from numerous radio stations, including all of iHeartRadio channels. Several remixes take been released to promote the rail from various DJs and music producers. On March 22, 2017 American hip-hop recording artist Lil Yachty released a remix of the song on his official Soundcloud.[14] The remix was officially released to digital retailers on April 11, 2017.
Lyrics
[Poesy 1: Katy Perry]
Are nosotros crazy?
Living our lives through a lens
Trapped in our white-picket fence
Like ornaments
So comfortable, nosotros live in a bubble, a bubble
So comfortable, nosotros cannot see the trouble, the trouble
Aren't you lonely
Up at that place in utopia
Where null will ever be enough?
Happily numb
Then comfortable, we live in a chimera, a chimera
So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, the trouble
[Pre-Chorus: Katy Perry]
Aha, await so skilful
So put your rose-colored spectacles on
And party on
[Chorus: Katy Perry]
Turn information technology up, information technology's your favorite vocal
Dance, dance, dance to the distortion
Come on, turn it upward, keep information technology on echo
Stumbling around like a wasted zombie
Yeah, nosotros call up we're free
Drink, this one is on me
We're all chained to the rhythm
To the rhythm
To the rhythm
Turn information technology upwardly, it's your favorite song
Trip the light fantastic toe, dance, dance to the distortion
Come on, turn it up, keep information technology on repeat
Stumbling around similar a wasted zombie
Yep, we retrieve nosotros're free
Drink, this 1 is on me
Nosotros're all chained to the rhythm
To the rhythm
To the rhythm
[Poetry 2: Katy Perry]
Are we tone deaf?
Keep sweeping it nether the mat
Idea we can do amend than that
I hope nosotros tin can
So comfortable, we live in a chimera, a bubble
So comfy, we tin can't run across the trouble, the trouble
[Pre-Chorus: Katy Perry]
And then put your rose-colored glasses on
And party on
[Chorus: Katy Perry]
Turn it upward, it'south your favorite song
Dance, dance, dance to the baloney
Come on, turn it up, keep it on repeat
Stumbling effectually like a wasted zombie
Yes, we think we're complimentary
Drinkable, this one is on me
Nosotros're all chained to the rhythm
To the rhythm
To the rhythm
Turn it up, it's your favorite song
Dance, dance, trip the light fantastic toe to the distortion
Come up on, turn it up, proceed it on echo
Stumbling around similar a wasted zombie
Yeah, we recollect we're free
Beverage, this one is on me
We're all chained to the rhythm
To the rhythm
To the rhythm
[Bridge: Skip Marley]
It is my want
Break down the walls to connect, inspire
Ay, upward in your high place, liars
Fourth dimension is ticking for the empire
The truth they feed is feeble
Every bit so many times earlier
They greed over the people
They stumbling and fumbling
And we're about to riot
They woke up, they woke up the lions
(Woo!)
[Chorus: Katy Perry]
Turn information technology up, it'south your favorite song
Dance, dance, dance to the distortion
Come up on, turn information technology up, continue information technology on repeat
Stumbling around like a wasted zombie
Yes, we think we're costless
Drink, this ane is on me
We're all chained to the rhythm
To the rhythm
To the rhythm
[Outro: Katy Perry]
Plow it up
Plough it up
It goes on, and on, and on
It goes on, and on, and on
Information technology goes on, and on, and on
'Crusade we're all chained to the rhythm
Disquisitional reception
In a positive review, E!'s Samantha Scnurr wrote the song "sounds similar a soon-to-be party archetype with its easy pulse and disco elements, layered underneath the upbeat veneer, Perry delivers a strong bulletin about awareness and activism—and, according to her, how it's defective." NME reviewer Jordan Bassett praised the runway as "like Daft Punk, only fun", and felt the production was "crisp-as-fuck". Writing for Vulture.com, Karen Brill was less favorable, questioning if the track was "pretty much just trip the light fantastic, without much subtext?" Another positive review came from Jason Lipshutz ofBillboard, who felt that it amplified "Perry's new musical agenda at a time when she needed one" with its political themes. Co-ordinate to him, "the single is built around lyrics chastising us for existence 'happily numb' and 'tone deaf,' and tries to gently puncture the bubble that nosotros create when we drown out the world's issues."
Sal Cinquemani fromSlant Magazine praised the song, writing that "a rail with a hook that implores listeners to 'Come on, plough information technology up/Go along it on repeat' had better deliver the goods, and this ane most definitely does." Josh Duboff fromVanity Off-white considered the vocal "a departure from direct-forward firework metaphors and nostalgic teenage romance anthems." He noted, "the idea of the song is that we are chained to the 'rhythm,' perhaps not questioning our daily lives and existences as much every bit we should be." MTV's Anne T. Donahue take a positive review for the song, calling information technology a "hardly new terrain for Perry." She likewise described information technology every bit a "totally fine song that's easy to heed and trip the light fantastic to, and ane that does justice to her career in pop."
Music video
Katy Perry - Chained To The Rhythm (Official) ft. Skip Marley
The official video.
Katy Perry - Chained To The Rhythm (Lyric Video) ft. Skip Marley
Lyric video.
Lyric video
Aya Tanimura directed a lyric video for the song, which was released on February 10, 2017. It features a hamster, named Mr. Parsons, inside a doll firm, and a pair of hands is seen preparing miniature nutrient for the hamster. Analyzing the video, Erin Jansen from wrote "we're shown footage of a hamster running tirelessly on a hamster wheel, a visualization of the popular idiom meaning to perform activities repetitiously without progress." She also stated "Paired with Perry's lyrics, in that location's definitely a message to be absorbed."
Official video
The official video was teased through Kathy Beth Terry'southward parody account, a fictional character created by Katy Perry to promote "Last Friday Nighttime (T.Thousand.I.F.)". The tweet, which is the outset tweet from the account since 2012, read "ZOMG you guys…allow's become to Oblivia on Tuesday! My braces finally just came off and I desire some funnel cake!!!"[15]. Perry quoted the tweet maxim admission is free.
This video was officially released on February 21, 2017. The video was released through Perry's Vevo, with Mathew Cullen as director. The video was mostly shot at the Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California - where Perry rides a stylised version of the Full Throttle roller coaster.
Synopsis and disquisitional analysis
It was set in a futuristic theme park called "Oblivia".[16] Mark Fell from BBC noted the theme is a metaphor for the space distractions of mod society.[17] Co-ordinate to the Gil Kaufman from Billboard the video has "a number of not-and then-subtle hints at Perry's feelings about the electric current political climate in the nation."[eighteen]
The video opens with Perry walking though the gates of the happiest place on World, where cotton processed is served in portions the size of giant umbrellas. In the video the guests are all taking selfies, eating child-sized sticks of candy floss and crowding around a sign for "the greatest ride in the universe". Perry is nonplussed, just similar the other guests. But she pricks her finger on a rose and temporarily she snap out of the "paradise". Perry goes on a roller coaster. Mark also noted that the ride she'southward on is "The New Revolution", the world'due south first vertical loop coaster, which featured in the terminal scenes of cult comedy National Lampoon'south Vacation.[19] The scene changes to other ride called "The Great American Dream Drop," in which a loving couple snuggle into a tiny firm that gets swung around in the air so violently plunged toward the ground. The next scene takes place at a petrol station, where Katy is whisked off her feet past men in crewman costumes, the scene shows another attractions as flaming spectacles of blue "Inferno H2O," a tainted liquid that makes patrons belch burn down, according to the editor Marker Barbarous, the liquid name is "a reference to the West'south dependency on oil; but also to the looming crisis over the earth's water supply, which some experts believe could lead to a state of war in Asia. Other attraction is a hamster wheel that is impossible to proceed up with and plenty of arrows pointing the pliant parkgoers in the right management. Near the cease, she sits downwardly to watch a 3D movie, Perry notices a disturbing homogeneity amongst her swain park guests who are. Perry is swept upward in a giant trip the light fantastic toe number after Skip Marley jumps out of a 3D movie to rap his cameo, after wake upwardly, Perry sings a panic-stricken final chorus, the lyric "stumbling effectually like a wasted zombie" writ large, with Katy trapped in the middle of a mindless trip the light fantastic routine. The wake up telephone call leads to the final where Perry's worried confront staring into the camera in a moment of fright-filled awakening.
Ready photo.
Set up photo #2.
Set up photograph #3.
Set photo #4.
Set photo #5.
Ready photograph #6.
Set photo #vii.
Digital release
Worldwide
 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Label | Capitol | |
| RELEASED | February 10, 2017 | |
| FORMAT | Digital | |
| Cover photograph by Frederik Heyman Design past | Made in Digital |
| TRACK List | LENGTH | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Chained to the Rhythm (feat. Skip Marly) | iii:57 |
Official remix
 | ||
|---|---|---|
| LABEL | Capitol | |
| RELEASED | March 17, 2017 | |
| FORMAT | Digital | |
| Cover photograph by Frederik Heyman Design by | Made in Digital |
| TRACK LIST | LENGTH | |
|---|---|---|
| ane. | Chained to the Rhythm (Hot Flake Remix) [feat. Skip Marly] | 5:42 |
 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Characterization | Capitol | |
| RELEASED | March 24, 2017 | |
| FORMAT | Digital | |
| Cover photo by Frederik Heyman Design by | Made in Digital |
| Rail List | LENGTH | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Chained to the Rhythm (Oliver Heldins Remix) | four:36 |
This remix was released with both explicit and make clean versions.
 | ||
|---|---|---|
| LABEL | Capitol | |
| RELEASED | April 11, 2017 | |
| FORMAT | Digital | |
| Embrace photo by Frederik Heyman Design by | Made in Digital |
| TRACK Listing | LENGTH | |
|---|---|---|
| i. | Chained to the Rhythm (feat. Lil Yatchy) | 4:11 |
Physical release
Europe
 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Characterization | Capitol | |
| RELEASED | March 24, 2017 | |
| FORMAT | CD | |
| Cover photograph by Frederik Heyman Design by | Made in E.U. |
| Rails List | LENGTH | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Chained to the Rhythm (feat. Skip Marly) | 3:57 |
| 2. | Chained to the Rhythm (Instrumental) | 3:58 |
Promotional releases
French republic
| | ||
|---|---|---|
| LABEL | Capitol | |
| RELEASED | February 2017 | |
| FORMAT | CDr, Promo | |
| Cover photograph by Frederik Heyman Design by | Fabricated in France |
| Runway List | LENGTH | |
|---|---|---|
| one. | Chained to the Rhythm (feat. Skip Marly) | 3:57 |
| 2. | Chained to the Rhythm (Edit) | 3:35 |
French republic & Italy
| | ||
|---|---|---|
| LABEL | Capitol | |
| RELEASED | February 2017 | |
| FORMAT | CDr, Promo | |
| Cover photo by Frederik Heyman Pattern by | Made in French republic |
| Rail Listing | LENGTH | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Chained to the Rhythm (feat. Skip Marly) | 3:57 |
United states
On March 20, 2017 a promotional vinyl was distributed by Capitol Records that features the runway once on both sides. The vinyl is articulate with blue and pink paint splatter and is housed in a transparent slip. Perry had outset shown the promotional vinyl in her Instagram story. The vinyl was distributed for promotional means to DJ'due south, nightclubs, sweepstakes, contests, sometimes forth with a exclusive affiche for the unmarried.
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|---|---|---|
| LABEL | Capitol | |
| RELEASED | March xx, 2017 | |
| FORMAT | Clear vinyl, Promo | |
| Cover photograph by N/A Blueprint past | Made in United states of america |
| Rail LIST (SIDE A) | LENGTH | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Chained to the Rhythm (feat. Skip Marly) | 3:57 |
| TRACK List (SIDE B) | LENGTH | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Chained to the Rhythm (feat. Skip Marly) | three:57 |
Gallery
Promotional photo shoot for the single past New York based photographer, Olivia Bee.
Promotional paradigm.
Promotional image #ii.
Promotional image #iii.
Promotional image #4.
Promotional image #v.
Promotional image #6.
Promotional prototype #1 (zoom).
Spotify promotional billboard.
Spotify promotional billboard #ii.
Spotify billboard in London.
Spotify billboard in Canada.
Advert in NYC.
Official site.
Official site (afterwards release).
Social media banner.
Instagram post.
Twitter sticker #1 (Mr. Parsons).
Twitter sticker #2 (Disco chain).
Twitter sticker #3.
Twitter sticker #four.
Spotify advertizement for offer.
#KATYPERRYBRITs performance.
Katy Twitter emoji.
Disco ball locations.
Disco brawl.
Instagram post.
Disco ball in Brazil.
Snapchat promotion.
Instructions with disco brawl.
References
- ↑ http://ew.com/music/2017/02/eleven/katy-perry-chained-to-the-rhythm-spotify-streaming-record/
- ↑ http://www.idolator.com/7657319/katy-perry-chained-rhythm-photo-shoot-spotify-record
- ↑ http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7709265/skip-marley-katy-perry-legacy
- ↑ https://amp.ibtimes.co.uk/chained-rhythm-helped-katy-perrys-depression-later-donald-trump-won-us-ballot-1607925
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BQMb2LCAURu/?taken-by=katyperry&hl=en
- ↑ https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/828782200522887168
- ↑ https://twitter.com/katyperry/condition/829024081370451968
- ↑ https://twitter.com/katyperry/condition/829903451031113729
- ↑ https://world wide web.earnthenecklace.com/katy-perry-unleashes-catchy-new-song-chained-to-the-rhythm-katy-perry-chains-you-to-the-disco-ball-with-chained-to-the-rhythm/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/829103308681777152
- ↑ https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/829344709801697281
- ↑ https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/829346621259288578
- ↑ https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/829366404629483520
- ↑ http://www.billboard.com/manufactures/news/7735634/lil-yachty-katy-perry-chained-to-the-rhythm-remix
- ↑ https://twitter.com/KathyBethTerry/status/832771161645731840
- ↑ http://www.nme.com/news/music/lookout man-katy-perrys-cgi-filled-chained-to-the-rhythm-video-1984437
- ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/amusement-arts-39042467
- ↑ http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7694364/katy-perry-trippy-futuristic-chained-to-the-rhythm-video-watch
- ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/amusement-arts-39042467
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