Chained to the Rhythm
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| Single by Katy Perry featuring Skip Marley | ||||
| from the album Witness | ||||
| Released | February 10, 2017 | |||
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| Length | 3:57 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
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| "Chained To The Rhythm ft. Skip Marley" on YouTube | ||||
"Chained to the Rhythm" is a song by American singer Katy Perry as the lead single from her fifth studio album, Witness. It features vocals from Jamaican singer Skip Marley. The artists co-wrote the track with its producers Max Martin and Ali Payami, with additional writing from Sia. Capitol Records released the track on February 10, 2017, as a digital download. "Chained to the Rhythm" is a dancehall and disco song, with lyrics about societal awareness.
The track topped the charts in Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, and Serbia, while reaching the top 5 in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Israel, Lebanon, Romania, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and the United States as well as the top 10 in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Mathew Cullen directed the song's music video, which was released February 21, 2017. It features Perry in an amusement park called "Oblivia". It was nominated for three awards at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. Perry and Marley have promoted the song with live performances at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, the 2017 Brit Awards, and the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards.
Perry described her fifth album Witness as a "360-degree liberation" record, with "Chained to the Rhythm" representing a "political liberation". The singer felt "kind of depressed" after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in November 2016, and "definitely didn't want to write a club banger" when the world was "on fire". She "channeled her frustration into new music" and said creating the track "was a nice exercise of like writing a song that at first listen is a really fun song, but I guess the more you dive into it, it has a different sub-text".Skip Marley told Billboard he and Perry made the song together after she heard his track "Lions" and wanted to collaborate with him. After the two spoke in January 2017, he "delivered the message that I had to deliver" while recording the track, describing it as "one of unification and love".
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