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Katy Perry drops new single, disco balls in selected cities
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In this April 3, 2016 file photo, Katy Perry arrives at the 51st annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. The pop singer teased a snippet of her comeback song on Wednesday and even took a portrait of her new hairstyle in relation to her musical release. “Why are we so chained?” she captioned the clip. (Invision/AP/Jordan Strauss)
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fter releasing her anthem “Rise” for the 2016 Rio Olympics, Katy Perry reclaims her pop throne with her disco single “Chained to the Rhythm.”
The pop singer teased a snippet of her comeback song on Wednesday and even took a portrait of her new hairstyle in relation to her musical release. “Why are we so chained?” she captioned the clip.
To electrify her “Katycats” even more, Perry, 32, announced that she had set up special disco balls playing “Chained to the Rhythm” across several cities around the globe. Some of the places where these chained disco balls have been planted are Los Angeles, Chicago, Tokyo, London and Stockholm. Only one glowing sphere is chained in South America and none in Southeast Asia and Africa.
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The disco balls act like a music player where people can plug in their earphones to play the song. Many lucky musicaholics found Perry’s glittering disco globe and bopped to its old school beat on social media.
Okay this is nuts. There's a disco ball at Nathan Phillips Sq PLAYING BRAND NEW @KATYPERRY. Go check it out! #ChainedToTheRhythm pic.twitter.com/ef2nwP0dGO
— TJ (@OnAirTJ) February 8, 2017
AN ICONIC BOP I JUST GOT SCALPED IN LEICESTER SQUARE I LOVE #CHAINEDTOTHERHYTHM @katyperry QUEEN 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/SltY7b37xf
— adam (@basicallyadam) February 8, 2017
I found the discoball ✨@katyperry @MEMilanHotel listening to this brand new song 🎶💥❤ #ChainedToTheRhythm #FindME #MEMilanIlDuca #TheMEPeople pic.twitter.com/tfjMD9Wbf4
— Caterina Tagliabue (@CateTb91) February 8, 2017
“Chained to the Rhythm,” which she co-wrote with singer-songwriter Sia, is one of Perry’s tracks for her upcoming fifth studio album following her 2013 album “Prism.”
This article appeared on the Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper website, which is a member of Asia News Network and a media partner of The Jakarta Post
