{"id":2476188,"date":"2026-06-26T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2476188"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:52:00","slug":"katy-perry-torches-her-past-in-new-song-watch-it-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/katy-perry-torches-her-past-in-new-song-watch-it-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Perry Torches Her Past in New Song Watch It Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Katy Perry - Watch It Burn (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YzUs8ohSB3w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/katy-perry\/\"><strong>Katy Perry<\/strong><\/a> is done holding back her anger.<\/p>\n<p>The singer, 41, released her new song, \u201cWatch It Burn,\u201d on Thursday, June 25, which serves as the sister song to her November 2025 track \u201cBandaids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song explores the replacement of years of restraint, people-pleasing and silence with the truth, using anger as a vehicle for honesty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaid I was too hard to love \u2026 For years\/ I tried to rise above\/ Was only light and love\/ But now I\u2019m shut the f*** up,\u201d Perry sings, later adding, \u201cDon\u2019t wanna cause a scene\/ But give me the gasoline\/ Tonight\u2019s the night\/ I light a match\/ Throw it hard behind my back\/ Gonna try to forgive and forget\/ Light a cigarette\/ And watch it burn.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/katy-perry-sings-about-broken-heart-in-new-song-video-bandaids\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/katy-perry-sings-about-broken-heart-in-new-song-video-bandaids\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Katy Perry Mends Her &#8216;Broken Heart&#8217; in Down-on-Her-Luck &#8216;Bandaids&#8217; Video<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tKaty Perry is turning to music after upheaval in her personal life. The pop star, 41, dropped her powerful new song, \u201cBandaids,\u201d and its self-deprecating music video on Thursday, November 6, marking her first release since her split from ex-fianc\u00e9 Orlando Bloom. In the video, a down-on-her-luck Perry finds herself in a series of near-death [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the video, Perry \u2014 with a giant scorpion stinger on her backside, a symbol of balance and accepting all parts of oneself \u2014 escapes from a hospital and drives through a car wash as she sings about lighting a match and setting fire to the pain and toxicity of her past. As she continues her transformation into a scorpion, Perry ignites her stinger and sets a street on fire. Her journey concludes as she enters a church and collapses to the floor. The churchgoers pick her up and drop her into a bath, where she is baptized, becoming a new woman.<\/p>\n<p>The video features a handful of Easter eggs, including a newsstand with Gaslight Magazine and Slop Times, which Perry burns to the ground. There is also an antique store called Time Will Tell Shoppe and a TV displaying the breaking news story, \u201cDon\u2019t Believe Everything You Hear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to dropping the new track, Perry explained her inspiration during a June 17 appearance on her producer <strong>Justin Tranter\u2019s<\/strong> \u201cUnfamous\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:125%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large credit-added wp-image-4361827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01750-katy-perry-watch-it-burn.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Cynthia Parkhurst<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t typically feel like a victim. You can hear it in my songs. I don\u2019t resonate with that,\u201d she said. \u201cBut last year was pretty tough and it would have been easy for me to fall into that weird victim triangle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perry elaborated on \u201cwrestling with [her] darkness\u201d on \u201cWatch It Burn,\u201d revealing how the anthem allowed her to tap into a new side of herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not given myself permission to be angry my whole life over things where I should be f***ing angry about. What I\u2019ve done is I\u2019ve pushed it down, but I should be f***ing angry,\u201d she noted. \u201cI\u2019m allowed to be angry for a f***ing moment!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead of embracing a \u201cwoe is me\u201d mentality, Perry opted to sit with her emotions during the difficult period in her personal life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just was like, \u2018OK, let\u2019s just feel this f***ing pain. Let\u2019s feel this pain. Let\u2019s feel this anger and let\u2019s move on. Let\u2019s learn from it also,\u2019\u201d she recalled. \u201c\u2018Let\u2019s get some feedback from it. Let\u2019s apply it. Let\u2019s learn from it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perry also hinted at the timeline of the song\u2019s creation, sharing that she wrote it \u201clast March\u201d but finished it in August.<\/p>\n<p><em>Us Weekly<\/em> confirmed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/katy-perry-and-orlando-bloom-split-after-nearly-10-years-together\/\">Perry and Bloom\u2019s split<\/a> in June 2025. The pair \u2014 who share daughter Daisy Dove, 5 \u2014 were together for nearly a decade and engaged for six years.<\/p>\n<p>A source exclusively told <em>Us<\/em> at the time that the breakup was \u201ca long time coming\u201d as things between the two had \u201cbeen tense for months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The following month, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/katy-perry-and-orlando-bloom-break-silence-on-their-split\/\">reps for Perry and Bloom<\/a> said in a joint statement to <em>Us<\/em> that the exes had been \u201cshifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on coparenting,\u201d adding that \u201ctheir shared priority is \u2014 and always will be \u2014 raising their daughter with love, stability and mutual respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/inside-katy-perry-and-justin-trudeaus-relationship-timeline\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/katy-perry.jpeg?crop=0px%2C105px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/katy-perry.jpeg?crop=0px%2C105px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/katy-perry.jpeg?crop=0px%2C105px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/katy-perry.jpeg?crop=0px%2C105px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/katy-perry.jpeg?crop=0px%2C105px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/katy-perry.jpeg?crop=0px%2C105px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/katy-perry.jpeg?crop=0px%2C105px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/katy-perry.jpeg?crop=0px%2C105px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/katy-perry.jpeg?crop=0px%2C105px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Inside Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau's Relationship Timeline: Montreal Dates to Instagram Official\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/inside-katy-perry-and-justin-trudeaus-relationship-timeline\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau\u2018s Relationship Timeline<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tKaty Perry has sparked fireworks with Justin Trudeau. The \u201cRoar\u201d singer and the former Canadian prime minister were first spotted out to dinner together in Montreal, Canada, in July 2025, just days before Trudeau attended Perry\u2019s Lifetimes Tour stop in the city. A source exclusively told Us Weekly at the time that their outing was [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bloom <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/orlando-bloom-breaks-silence-on-katy-perry-split\/\">broke his silence on the split<\/a> during a September 2025 appearance on <em>Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m great, man. I\u2019m so grateful. We have the most beautiful daughter,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, when you leave everything on the field, like I did in [<em>The Cut<\/em>], I feel grateful for all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>He added, \u201cWe\u2019re great [and] we\u2019re going to be great. It\u2019s nothing but love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perry, for her part, released her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/katy-perry-sings-about-broken-heart-in-new-song-video-bandaids\/\">first post-breakup song, \u201cBandaids,\u201d<\/a> in November 2025, singing about her \u201cbroken heart\u201d and how \u201cthe love we made was worth it in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since calling it quits with Bloom, Perry has moved on with <strong>Justin Trudeau<\/strong>, whom she was first linked to in July 2025. Earlier this month, she called the former Canadian prime minister, 54, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/katy-perry-calls-justin-trudeau-the-love-of-my-life\/\">\u201cthe love of my life\u201d<\/a> during a Tribeca Film Festival Q&amp;A.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy Perry is done holding back her anger. The singer, 41, released her new song, \u201cWatch It Burn,\u201d on Thursday, June 25, which serves as the sister song to her November 2025 track \u201cBandaids.\u201d The song explores the replacement of years of restraint, people-pleasing and silence with the truth, using anger as a vehicle for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2476189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21741,21800],"class_list":["post-2476188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Katy-Perry-Torches-Her-Past-in-New-Song-Watch-It.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476190,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476188\/revisions\/2476190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}