Photo: Cynthia Parkhurst
Katy Perry is done holding back her anger and pain.
On Thursday (June 25), Perry released her latest single "Watch It Burn," a fiery anthem about letting all of the pain and suppressed anger finally boil over after years of "people-pleasing and 'love and light' conditioning," per a press release.
"I'm gonna get what I deserve/ I'm sorry, I know that it hurts/ Finally I put myself first/ And watch it burn," she sings.
Perry also shared a music video directed by Christian Breslauer that, per a press release, picks up where the visuals for her 2025 song "bandaids" left off. , complete with fire, revenge, and a rebirth from the ashes.
The "Firework" hitmaker previously explained that "Watch It Burn" was inspired by a "tough" year and her desire to not see herself as a "victim" of her hardships.
"I don't typically feel like a victim. You can hear it in my songs. I don't resonate with that," she said. "But last year was pretty tough, and it would have been easy for me to fall into that weird victim triangle."
She said that the track has her "wrestling with my darkness" and feeling and learning from the pain instead of just pushing it away.
"I just was like, 'Okay, let's just feel this f---ing pain. Let's feel this pain. Let's feel this anger and let's move on. Let's learn from it also," she said. "Let's get some feedback from it. Let's apply it. Let's learn from it."
Check out the music video blow. Warning: contains strong language.