Katy Perry is coming into a brand new period — and he or she’s not holding something again.
The pop icon dropped her emotional new single “Bandaids” on November 6, marking her first launch since stories surfaced that she and longtime fiancé Orlando Bloom had known as it quits over the summer season. The weak observe dives deep into heartbreak, closure, and therapeutic — and followers suppose it’s her most private tune but.
The music video opens with Katy washing dishes earlier than by accident dropping what appears like an engagement ring down the drain. As she desperately reaches for it, she sings, “Hand to God I promise I attempted / There’s no stone left unturned / It’s not what you probably did, it’s what you didn’t / You had been there however you weren’t.”
The uncooked lyrics appear to reference the emotional distance which will have led to her breakup with Orlando. She continues, “Received so used to you letting me down / No use tryna ship flowers now / Telling myself you’ll change, you don’t / Band-Aids over a damaged coronary heart.”
All through the video, Katy faces a collection of painful mishaps — slicing her hand within the sink, falling from a tree — all symbolic of the emotional wounds she endured within the relationship. Nonetheless, there’s a nostalgic tenderness woven into the ache.
“On the intense aspect, we had good occasions / By no means faked our footage,” she sings. “We had been excellent ’til we weren’t / Now we’ve received too many splinters.”
Later, she opens up concerning the sluggish unraveling of the romance, including, “It’s not that sophisticated / To ask me how my day is / I’m flatlining attempting to avoid wasting this / Bleeding out, bleeding out, bleeding out sluggish.”
However regardless of the heartbreak, the 39-year-old mother — who shares 5-year-old daughter Daisy Dove with Bloom — ends the tune on a hopeful notice. “If I needed to do it over again / I might nonetheless do it over again,” she sings, earlier than a robust scene reveals a prepare barreling towards her. On the final second, she spots a daisy — a nod to her daughter — and steps apart, realizing the love she gained was definitely worth the ache.
