Katy Perry Unleashes New Single, "Chained to the Rhythm"

Katy Will Perform The Song Live At The GRAMMYs®, Airing On CBS This Sunday, February 12

News provided by

Feb 10, 2017, 00:26 ET

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Capitol Records released "Chained to the Rhythm," the first single from Katy Perry's forthcoming album. She will perform the song live for the very first time at the 59^th Annual GRAMMY Awards, which will air on CBS this Sunday, February 12, at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT. Katy co-wrote "Chained to the Rhythm" with Max Martin, Sia Furler, Ali Payami and Skip Marley. The song is available everywhere for streaming and download. Visit http://Katy.to/CTTR. The lyric video can be viewed HERE.

Katy Perry's cumulative streams now exceed 18 billion worldwide and she is the most-followed person globally on Twitter. She made her Capitol Records debut with 2008's One of the Boys and cemented her status as a global superstar with the follow-up album, Teenage Dream (2010). PRISM, her 2013 album, debuted at No. 1 on iTunes in 100 countries and has sold more than 12.5 million adjusted albums worldwide. With the singles "Firework" and "Dark Horse" each surpassing the 10 million threshold including song sales and streams, Katy is the first female artist to earn two RIAA Digital Single Diamond Awards. Cumulatively, she has sold more than 40 million adjusted albums and over 125 million tracks worldwide. Katy played to a total of two million people on the sold-out, 151-date Prismatic World Tour and headlined the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show, which set a record as the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show ever.

"Chained to the Rhythm" Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Are we crazy
Living our lives through a lens
Trapped in our white picket fence
Like ornaments

So comfortable, we're living in a bubble, bubble
So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, trouble

Aren't you lonely
Up there in utopia
Where nothing will ever be enough
Happily numb

So comfortable, we're living in a bubble, bubble
So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, trouble

Pre-chorus:
So put your rose-colored glasses on
And party on

Chorus:
Turn it up, it's your favorite song
Dance, dance, dance to the distortion
Turn it up, keep it on repeat
Stumbling around like a wasted zombie
Yeah, we think we're free
Drink, this one's on me
We're all chained to the rhythm
To the rhythm
To the rhythm

Turn it up, it's your favorite song
Dance, dance, dance to the distortion
Turn it up, keep it on repeat
Stumbling around like a wasted zombie
Yeah, we think we're free
Drink, this one's on me
We're all chained to the rhythm
To the rhythm
To the rhythm

Verse 2:
Are we tone deaf
Keep sweeping it under the mat
Thought we could do better than that
I hope we can

So comfortable, we're living in a bubble, bubble
So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, trouble

Pre-chorus:
So put your rose-colored glasses on
And party on

Bridge:
It is my desire
Break down the walls to connect, inspire
Up in your high place, liars
Time is ticking for the empire
The truth they feed is feeble
As so many times before
They greed over the people
They stumbling and fumbling
And we about to riot
They woke up, they woke up the lions