Katy Perry, “Roar” | Music Lifts 🎶 🏋

In the 33^rd edition of Lit Music That Lifts, we’re uplifted by Grammy-nominated pop superstar Katy Perry performing, “Roar.”

Welcome to Lit Music That Lifts (LMTL), or Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 for short! Music Lifts seeks to highlight songs that encourage, inspire, and uplift the spirit; songs that exude fortitude, positivity, and resolve, even in the face of adversity.  Featured songs aren’t genre-specific; songs may or may not be faith-based. The goal is for these songs to make you feel better – be LIFTED to new heights!  So, for the 33^rd  edition of Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 (2022), we highlight 🎵 “Roar” as performed by 🎙 Katy Perry.

“I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath / Scared to rock the boat and makes a mess,” 🎙 Katy Perry sings in the first verse of her gargantuan, uplifting hit, 🎵 “Roar”, which graces her 2013 album, 💿 Prism. Essentially, the 🏆 Grammy-nominated pop artist didn’t use her voice and kept the peace at her own cost. That’s totally wrong! Thankfully, Perry changed her tune, realizing after she “Stood for nothing” and “feel for everything,” she needed to assert herself – find her roar if you will.  In the pre-chorus, she’s strong, unwilling to be muzzled anymore, instead flexing her muscles.  “You held me down, but I got up,” she memorably sings, setting up one of the best choruses of the 2010s:

“I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter

Dancing through the fire

‘Cause I am a champion, and you’re gonna hear me roar

Louder, louder than a lion

‘Cause I am a champion, and you’re gonna hear me roar!”

Woo! Over exuberant production, Katy Perry shuts down antifeminists and asserts her power to be what and who she wants to be.  She doesn’t settle for others to make decisions for her, she is firmly in the driver’s seat.  The days of being passive are done: “I went from zero, to my own hero.”  Whether you’re a girl or woman like Perry who has far too long let others (men) keep you down, or you a boy/man who lets others run all over you and take your power, it’s time to find your ROAR and make sure that the whole world can hear it loud and proud.  This song NEVER grows old – it’s among Perry’s best.

🎙 Katy Perry • 💿 Prism • 🏷 Capitol • 📅 2013

Katy Perry, “Roar”: Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 No. 33 (2022) [📷: Arek Socha, Benjamin Balazs, Brent Faulkner, Capitol, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Ketut Subiyanto, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay]