“Teenage Dream” is arguably Katy Perry‘s signature song. One of the writers did not want to hand the track over to the “Dark Horse” singer, but she had to because she was in a desperate situation. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Stargate, and a still-rising young gun named Benny Blanco in her corner, Perry constructed a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. A little more than a decade and a half ago, Katy Perry changed what ...

Carolyn Jenkins is a voracious consumer of film and television. She graduated from Long Island University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Producing where she learned the art of character, plot, and ...

Bonnie McKee, who co-wrote the 2010 hit with the singer, revealed that the track went through a few different lyrical renditions before landing on the chorus known today. "It was the most difficult to ...

Katy Perry spent more than her fair share of time in the spotlight recently, thanks to her trip to space via the Blue Origin NC-31 mission, but one older album from the star that earned her universal ...

The night before my 20th birthday, I paced my room for an hour. Olivia Rodrigo’s “Teenage Dream” and Lorde’s “Perfect Places” played over in my headphones as I mourned something I hadn’t quite lost ...

Summer 2010 may have been a few years before Lorde's rise to fame, but we now know exactly what she was doing anyways: blasting Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" nonstop (just like the rest of us). Lorde ...