Katy Perry says her new single Watch It Burn sees her channel her anger for the first time after a “pretty tough” year that saw her split from Orlando Bloom.
Katy Perry is set to let her anger rip on a new song called Watch It Burn.
The 41‑year‑old star – who split from longtime partner Orlando Bloom in 2025, with whom she has daughter Daisy Dove – says the single finds her “wrestling with my darkness” after a “pretty tough” year.
The I Kissed A Girl singer admits she’s spent most of her life suppressing her anger, but this time chose to give herself “permission” to “feel the pain” so she could finally move forward.
In a preview of her interview on the Unfamous with Justin Tranter podcast this Wednesday (17.06.26), Katy said: “In Watch It Burn, I am wrestling with my darkness.
“But last year was pretty tough.
“I have not given myself permission to be angry my whole life, over things where I should be f****** angry.
“What I’ve done is I’ve pushed it down, but I should be f****** angry.
“I’m allowed to be angry for a f****** moment.
“So instead of falling into ‘woe is me’, I was just like, okay, let’s just feel this f****** pain. Let’s feel this pain. Let’s feel this anger. Let’s move on. Let’s learn from it also.”
While attending the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour – Live from Paris in New York City recently, alongside partner Justin Trudeau, Katy gushed that she’s “very in love” with her beau.
She said during a post-screening Q+A: “Every day is a fantastic journey.
“Every day is a chance to evolve and be a better person… I feel like a more grounded person in so many aspects of my life. I am very in love.”
Katy revealed that the Paris dates captured in the concert film were performed shortly after she met former Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau – something she says changed everything.
She said: “I’m a little bit like a rainbow kite – I fly super high. Sometimes I need to be anchored, so to have that anchor finally makes me feel really whole now.”
Katy also spoke candidly about the emotional wreckage of 2025.
She admitted: “Last year was probably one of the hardest years of my life and I went through a f***‑ton.
“There were days that were really, really, really hard, and I just kept going because I made a promise to my fans, to my daughter, to myself. I walked through the fire… If you’re walking through hell, you keep going.”
Katy hinted at the theme in Watch It Burn about no longer holding back.
She said: “I’m different now. Your 20s are for emotions, your 30s are for sorting them and your 40s are for f****** not caring about them.”
She ended on a reminder that even global superstars aren’t immune to life’s darker moments.
Katy said: “Sadness does not discriminate, grief does not discriminate, pain does not discriminate… everybody is subjected to it in their own ways.”
