Living the Dream

 Having released her new single Teenage Dream, Katy Perry is set to re-ride the Billboard Hot list to the top. Her first single California Gurls catapulted to the No.1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 after only four weeks of radio play. 

Teenage Dream, the title track, and the second single off her much anticipated new album has been premiering on radio and online.  The new single continues with some of the same straits as Gurls but has a mature ring to it (despite the title).

Thematically, it’s a song very much about being in love, about surrendering yourself to one person, about commitment and security and the serenity that comes from those things. 

“I wrote that song in Santa Barbara and it was a very pure moment for me, because that’s where I’m from,” she’s reported to have told MTV News. “And it was, like, where I started my creative juices. And also it kind of exudes this euphoric feeling because everybody remembers what their teenage dreams were — all the girls that were on your poster walls.

Perry’s Teenage Dream album is set for release August 24.