The Decided Song

At the start of the year I was in Group with other people than the people I am in now, I decided to use the song 'Roar' by Katy Perry for our music video so I decided to use my original ideas from my original group and use it in my new group. The song I chose to make the music video around was 'Roar' by Katy Perry, I chose this song because I think that the lyrics to the song will fit around our music video very well. We came to the conclusion after the results came back from my questionnaire that the ages between 16-24 are popular for pop music videos and this is also why we have decided to stay with original idea of Katy Perry 'Roar' as it will be better for our target audience.


The song 'Roar' is taken from Katy Perrys latest ablum 'Prism'. Prism is Katy Perry is 3rd album, the album was released in 2013. 

Katy Perry released the lyric video for Roar on 12th August 2013 the lyric video consist of a group chat between friends using the lyrics through emojis on an Iphone. The video starts with Katy Perry in bed then her phone goes off then she picks her iphone up then it zooms into her onto a whatapps group message.The technology in the lyric video is an I phone most teenagers own an I phone these days so that will grab the target audience for the teenage generation and will give the video more view on youtube.

The lyric video for Katy Perry 'Roar' is to the right hand side.


I find that the lyrics from the song Roar will fit well in with our film we are going to make the lyrics 'You held me down but I got back up' will be shown by bullying these lyrics will represented in our video by the victim fighting back at the bully and and this why I think our music video will be sucessful because the lyrics will be relevant to the video.





Katy Perry Roar lyrics

I used to bite my tongue and hold my breathScared to rock the boat and make a mess
So I sat quietly, agreed politely
I guess that I forgot I had a choice
I let you push me past the breaking point
I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything

You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Already brushing off the dust
You hear my voice, you hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Get ready 'cause I’ve had enough
I see it all, I see it now

[Chorus]
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
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You’re gonna hear me roar

Now I’m floating like a butterfly
Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
I went from zero, to my own hero

You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Already brushing off the dust
You hear my voice, you hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Get ready ’cause I’ve had enough
I see it all, I see it now

[Chorus]
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
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You’re gonna hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You'll hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You're gonna hear me roar...

Ro-oar, ro-oar, ro-oar, ro-oar, ro-oar

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
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You’re gonna hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You'll hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You're gonna hear me roar

Katy Perry Roar video was released on 5th September 2013 is has now has 311,020,878 million views on YouTube. The single roar is the 3rd fastest and best selling single of 2013.

I found this video on YouTube of the making of the video and was difficulties they went through and how it was planned I found this very useful to see the final video and this video and the outcome of it. This has given me an idea for my own music video to film behind the scenes and making an out cut video after we have made our final piece.

Whilst researching about the song I came across a new report on a 8 year old who  has autism and can barely speak, but sang to the song Roar. Jack Robbins age 8 from Texas  mother Carla Robbins posted a video of her son singing to the song on the internet on YouTube and had over 300,000, likes. I find it amazing how someone who can speak was able to sing to this song.

 Recently Katy Perry has beaten Justin Bieber on twitter with the most followers this due to her successful hit of roar it rocketed over twitter when it was released. Katy Perry quoted a tweet one of her fans had sent to her just after getting of a plane.  

On the day of release Katy Perrys album and song roar went straight up the chart. Her album appearing at number 2 in the UK official album chart and her song climbing high at number 7 in the UK official singles chart.This is also why we have decided to pick this song to base our music video around due to it being a very popular and successful song which will benefit us to use for our music video.