Sure, the would-be inspirational lyrics ('Baby you're a firework/Come on show them what you're worth') are nonsensical.
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Slant Magazine stated that the song is "not an actively painful listen. MTV praised Perry's vocals, though felt the lyrics were "clunky". Perry's vocal range spans from A ♭ 3 to E ♭ 5. The song is composed in the key of A ♭ major and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 124 beats per minute. The line "Cause baby, you're a firework / Come on, show 'em what you're worth / Make 'em go, awe, awe, awe" is based on Kerouac's line "burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'" However the trend caught on and in live performances I now sing 4th of July, which happens to make great sense for the song name." Īccording to Perry, "Firework" is influenced by Jack Kerouac's novel, On the Road. Many people refer to the lines 'like the 4th of July' however the original lyrics were 'like a firefly' as they reminded me of fireworks at night whenever I saw them.
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would be like the opus or my one song - if I had to pick a song to play - 'cause it has a great beat. But I also don't want to be cheesy, it's a fine line, and I think 'Firework'. I hope this could be one of those things where it's like, 'Yeah, I want to put my fist up and feel proud and feel strong. "Now, people are coming back and almost adopting it as their own anthem, and it's hard, I think, to write an anthem that's not cheesy, and I hope that this could be something in that category. Perry said that "Firework" is her favorite song on Teenage Dream. Lead and background vocals were provided by Perry. All instruments were done by Stargate and Vee.
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Audio engineering was done by Carlos Oyanedel and Damien Lewis. It was mixed at The Bunker Studios by Vee. "Firework" was written by Perry, Stargate, Sandy Wilhelm, and Ester Dean while produced by Stargate and Sandy Vee at Soapbox Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. On January 5, 2012, "Firework" was elected the fifth most played single on US radio during 2011 by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, with 509,000 plays. "Firework" was nominated for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards. It was nominated for three awards at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, eventually winning one of those, the Video of the Year, the main and final award. The music video was said to be a more upbeat take on Christina Aguilera's message in " Beautiful". On MuchMusic's top 50 videos of 2010, "Firework" reached the top position. An open casting call for the music video drew an unprecedented 38,000 applicants.
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It portrays Perry singing and dancing around Budapest, with interspersed scenes of young people becoming confident in themselves. "Firework" has sold over 1 million copies in the United Kingdom, and was certified 12× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of over 12 million copies in the United States.Īn accompanying music video, directed by Dave Meyers, was released on October 28, 2010. The song was commercially successful, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the top five on 20 charts around the world. Capitol Records released it as the album's third single on October 26, 2010. It is a dance-pop self-empowerment anthem with inspirational lyrics, and Perry felt it was an important song for her on the record. Perry co-wrote the song with Ester Dean and the song's producers Stargate and Sandy Vee. " Firework" is a song by American singer Katy Perry from her third studio album, Teenage Dream (2010). For other songs titled "Firework", see Firework (disambiguation).