GIVE HER THE GASOLINE: KATY PERRY RELEASES “WATCH IT BURN”

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25 JUNE 2026 (TORONTO, ON) — After months of anticipation and speculation, Katy Perry released "Watch It Burn" globally today alongside a stunning new music video that picks up exactly where "bandaids" left off.

Perry delivers a razor-sharp, emotionally unfiltered anthem about what happens when years of silence, people-pleasing, and "love and light" conditioning finally snap. At its core, "Watch It Burn" is about permission to feel anger honestly, to stop minimizing pain and let the suppressed emotions finally surface.

Produced by Justin Tranter (Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa), Jason Gill (Katseye, Zara Larsson), Eren Cannata (Teddy Swims, Demi Lovato) Daniel Crean (Katseye, Sofia Carson) and co-written by Katy alongside Tranter, Cannata, Crean, Gill, Amanda “Kiddo” Ibanez, and Skyler Stonestreet. “Watch It Burn” fuses Katy’s signature soaring vocals with raw vulnerability and explosive catharsis.

The music video, directed by Christian Breslauer (Ariana Grande, SZA, Lizzo), premiered simultaneously with the track’s release and made its broadcast premiere on MTV Live, MTVU and on the Paramount Times Square billboards.

The release also completes the story fans have been chasing since “bandaids,” was released last year. The sister tracks together form a complete emotional arc from part one: wound, to part two: release. First teased as an Easter egg in the “bandaids” music video, “Watch It Burn” became one of the most demanded unreleased songs in Katy Perry’s catalog.

KATY PERRY MUSIC STATS: Update

Seven studio albums released.
Over 125 billion streams across platforms worldwide.
Over 70 million albums sold globally.
Six Diamond-certified singles ("Firework," "Dark Horse," "Roar," "California Gurls," "E.T.," and "Teenage Dream") and one Diamond-certified album (Teenage Dream).
First artist to have two music videos surpass four billion views on YouTube.
Over 60 billion Spotify streams and more than 88 million monthly listeners.
Winner of 5 American Music Awards, 5 Billboard Music Awards, 7 MTV Video Music Awards, 14 People's Choice Awards, recipient of 13 Grammy nominations, and holder of 19 Guinness World Records.

ABOUT KATY PERRY:
Since Katy Perry’s Capitol Records debut in 2008 with One of the Boys, she has racked up a cumulative 125 billion streams alongside worldwide sales of over 70 million albums. The biggest-selling female artist in Capitol history, Katy is one of only twelve artists in history to have surpassed 100 million certified units with their solo single releases – and the first-ever Capitol Records recording artist to achieve the elite status of having 10 million RIAA-certified units for a single in 2015. She was also the first artist in RIAA history to earn three RIAA Diamond singles – for “Firework,” “Dark Horse” and “Roar.” Since then, she’s added a few more to her collection with “California Gurls” (feat. Snoop Dogg), “E.T”, and both “Teenage Dream” the SINGLE AND ALBUM going DIAMOND. Katy now has six singles and one album for a total of SEVEN Diamond-certified titles.