
It features a tiger print border around Perry, who wears a blue Japanese silk sukajan jacket, with the image of a tiger printed on its back. More video teasers were released onto YouTube, showing Perry at a funeral with a coffin decorated with the singer's famous pink and white pinwheels dress, and entering a recording booth while dressed with a "throwback" jacket featured in the single's cover art, which was revealed on August 8, 2013. Perry announced "Roar" would be the first single from Prism with the release of a video teaser featuring the singer burning a blue wig. Perry described the track as a song speaking about standing up for oneself. The song shares the theme of empowerment with Perry's single " Firework". Perry's vocal range spans from the low note B ♭ 3 to the high note E ♭ 5, while the music follows the chord progression of B ♭–Cm–Gm–E ♭. on, "Roar" is composed in the key of B ♭ major and set in a 4Ĥ time signature at a moderate tempo of 90 beats per minute. According to the sheet music published by Alfred Music. The song's instrumentation is composed of "pounding" pianos and "booming" bass drums. Throughout the song, Perry "flexes diva-like vocals", singing the lyric "Hey!" several times in a way resemblant of The Lumineers. Musically, "Roar" is a power pop song that features elements of arena rock. McKee told MTV that "Roar" is "kind of a 'pick yourself up and dust yourself off and keep going', female-empowerment song" and "kind of an epiphany song." Perry said she wrote the song after undergoing therapy, saying she was "sick of keeping all these feelings inside and not speaking up for myself". All its development took place in March 2013. Perry co-wrote the song with Bonnie McKee and its producers Dr.

"Roar" was recorded in four other studios: Luke's in the Boo, Playback Recording Studio and Secret Garden Studios, all located in the state of California, as well as MXM Studios in Stockholm, Sweden.

The song was mixed by Serban Ghenea at MixStar Studios. Problems playing this file? See media help.

In February 2020, the music video for "Roar" reached 3 billion views, becoming the first female-centered video to reach the milestone in YouTube's history. When "Roar" was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Perry became the first artist to have three Diamond-certified singles in the country, the others being "Firework" and "Dark Horse". "Roar" has sold 6.6 million copies in the US, over 1 million in the United Kingdom, and was Australia's best-selling female song of the year with 560,000 copies sold within that time. By the end of 2013, "Roar" had sold over 9.9 million units (combined sales and track-equivalent streams) globally according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The song was a commercial success, topping charts in Australia, Austria, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Lebanon, New Zealand, Scotland, Slovenia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The song was nominated for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. Grady Hall and Mark Kudsi directed the song's music video, which features Perry trying to adapt to the jungle and taming a tiger after surviving a plane crash.

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To promote the song, Perry performed under the Brooklyn Bridge at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, on The X Factor Australia in October 2013, at the Sydney Opera House also in October 2013, and on the German TV show Schlag den Raab in November 2013. It is a power pop song containing elements of arena rock and lyrics centering on standing up for oneself and self-empowerment. It was released on August 10, 2013, by Capitol Records as the lead single from her fourth studio album, Prism (2013). " Roar" is a song by American singer Katy Perry.
