Katy Perry Evolves With Her Pokémon In New Song “Electric”

Popstar/Warped Tour alum Katy Perry shares her Pokémon inspired track “Electric”.

The song was teased all the way back in January during a video celebrating the video game franchise’s 25th anniversary. In the video only a brief snippet of the chorus appeared at the very end. Check out the video below.

Perry, who’s a lifelong fan of the games, said in a statement, “When I visited the Pokémon Café while touring Japan, I got so nostalgic. It took me back to my junior high years. So when I got the call to be a part of the 25th anniversary celebration alongside Post Malone and J Balvin, I was elated. The song’s themes—resilience, igniting your inner light—have guided my life and also parallel Pokémon’s story and characters. Pikachu is the evolved form of Pichu, so in the video, you see the younger version of me with Pichu and myself in the present day with Pikachu. We both evolve, yet retain a sense of playfulness.”

Check out the music video below.

“Electric” was written by Katy Perry, Jon Bellion, Lucas Marx, Oliver Peterhof, Rachel Kanner, Bruce Wiegner, and Jordan Johnson and Stefan Johnson of The Monsters & Strangerz, and was produced by German (Camila Cabello, Justin Bieber, Maroon 5), The Monsters & Strangerz (5 Seconds Of Summer, Hey Violet, Zedd) and Bruce Wiegner (Garrett Watts, Scotty Sire, Zane Hijazi).

The song will appear on Pokémon 25: The Album, a 14-track compilation starring 11 Universal Music Group artists, with Post Malone and J Balvin being the only other artists who’ve been publicly announced for the project. It comes out sometime this fall on Capitol Records (Catfish And The Bottlemen, Halsey, Paul McCartney).

Switchfoot Cover The Chainsmokers, Vampire Weekend On New EP

Huh.

Christian alt-rockers Switchfoot are dropping an appropriately titled covers EP — Covers — slated for a June 19 release date. The six-song EP features the band covering everyone from The Chainsmokers and Frank Ocean to Harry Styles and Vampire Weekend. Right now you can listen to their rendition of Ocean’s “Swim Good,” which is from the R&B artist’s debut mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra. 

Check out the track list and artwork below (if you look closely you can see PUP’s self-titled album amongst the LPs.)

1. Swim Good (Frank Ocean cover)
2. Harmony Hall (Vampire Weekend cover)
3. Stupid Deep (Jon Bellion cover)
4. Lucky Man (The Verve cover)
5. Lights Up (Harry Styles cover)
6. Sick Boy (The Chainsmokers cover)

“Seems like we all could use a bit of perspective these days: what it means to be alive, to be in community, to be human,” they wrote on Twitter. “So we’ve decided to bring you our first ever Covers EP, our own stamp on a diverse group of songs. We want to shock and surprise you. We want to move you.”

The Grammy Award-winning quintet further elaborated, “We’ve recorded a collection of songs written by a diverse group of songwriters. Different nationalities. Different ethnicities. Different backgrounds. Different understandings of the world. Even if we can’t be in the same room, it’s still our job to bring people together.”

Earlier in June, Switchfoot will take part in a drive-in concert at Petco Park in San Diego with The B-Side Players, SM Familia and Los Sleepwalkers. The show is Sunday, June 7, at 7 p.m.