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Music video set in Egypt. Queen Katy Pätra is loved and adored by all, but if you make her angry she turns you to dust.Music video set in Egypt. Queen Katy Pätra is loved and adored by all, but if you make her angry she turns you to dust.Music video set in Egypt. Queen Katy Pätra is loved and adored by all, but if you make her angry she turns you to dust.
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
Kai Braden
- Eunuch
- (uncredited)
Robert Dowdy
- King Diamond
- (uncredited)
Brian Nagel
- Katy's Boyfriend
- (uncredited)
Nolan Padilla
- Nolan Padilla
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaFirst music video by a female artist to reach 1 billion views on Vevo/YouTube.
- Alternate versionsOriginally, "King Diamond" (the first visitor) is shown wearing a pendant with the Arabic name for Allah before getting turned to sand at 1 minute and 15 seconds. After a petition on Change.org accusing Perry of blasphemy received 65.000, the pendant was digitally removed on February 26, 2014.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Good Morning Britain: Episode dated 2 August 2019 (2019)
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now, if Taylor Swift could have guest-starred, what would her fate have been?
Katy Perry as a witch. In an Egyptian-themed super-fancy, if overly-cluttered music video.
Where has the fun gone? Like the only other reviewer here states, "style over substance" and that hits the nail right on the head. This is fancy and heavily-themed, but about as much fun as a snooty garden party where tea and cucumber sandwiches will be served. What do you take away after watching this? Ooh, Katy Perry makes for a fine witch. But Taylor Swift knows that already! Ooh, only kidding! Getting back to the serious subject: Afterwards, well, yeah, lavish production set, whole lotta fuss, big on Egyptian stuff, hell, the assorted bric-a- brac could fill a museum. And perhaps there are hidden messages in all of this, it's obviously one esoteric display.
But fun? No. Unless Egyptology is your kink.
The song. What is it supposed to evoke? Nothing fun, that I can tell you. But okay, what we deal with here at IMDb, the music video itself. There are so many negative images that if you freeze-frame it for the sake of ugliness, if that is your thing, you will be richly rewarded. Or if weird is your pleasure, then you will be happy. But from my point of view, something glamorous: Well, yeah, of course, Cleo Kate, there are good moments here, but they are cancelled out by all the ugly visions.
As for Juicy J., well, the very presence of JJ breaks the theme and shoots the music video in the foot. Enough said about myopic brash rappers.
But Katy didn't even need him to foul things up. There is such a lot of unattractive stuff in here that I am just astonished that fans do not speak up and say What Has Happened To Cute & Fun? One Lady Gaga is enough, don't all jump on that boat to sail around on The Bad Ship FreakOutYourMama.
In short, I prefer ROAR and I KISSED A GIRL. Something I can at least, in a way only of course, relate to. These scenarios belong in a sarcophagus.
{this review wasn't written by Taylor Swift}
Where has the fun gone? Like the only other reviewer here states, "style over substance" and that hits the nail right on the head. This is fancy and heavily-themed, but about as much fun as a snooty garden party where tea and cucumber sandwiches will be served. What do you take away after watching this? Ooh, Katy Perry makes for a fine witch. But Taylor Swift knows that already! Ooh, only kidding! Getting back to the serious subject: Afterwards, well, yeah, lavish production set, whole lotta fuss, big on Egyptian stuff, hell, the assorted bric-a- brac could fill a museum. And perhaps there are hidden messages in all of this, it's obviously one esoteric display.
But fun? No. Unless Egyptology is your kink.
The song. What is it supposed to evoke? Nothing fun, that I can tell you. But okay, what we deal with here at IMDb, the music video itself. There are so many negative images that if you freeze-frame it for the sake of ugliness, if that is your thing, you will be richly rewarded. Or if weird is your pleasure, then you will be happy. But from my point of view, something glamorous: Well, yeah, of course, Cleo Kate, there are good moments here, but they are cancelled out by all the ugly visions.
As for Juicy J., well, the very presence of JJ breaks the theme and shoots the music video in the foot. Enough said about myopic brash rappers.
But Katy didn't even need him to foul things up. There is such a lot of unattractive stuff in here that I am just astonished that fans do not speak up and say What Has Happened To Cute & Fun? One Lady Gaga is enough, don't all jump on that boat to sail around on The Bad Ship FreakOutYourMama.
In short, I prefer ROAR and I KISSED A GIRL. Something I can at least, in a way only of course, relate to. These scenarios belong in a sarcophagus.
{this review wasn't written by Taylor Swift}
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- May 23, 2017
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