11 Songs With Hidden Meanings
6. Katy Perry - Firework
Katy Perry’s hit Firework is viewed as a positive and motivational song. However, its origin is rather dark. The song featured in Teenage Dream is about Katy Perry’s death.
In an interview with Billboard, Perry stated that she wants her body to be “put into a firework and shot across the sky over the Santa Barbara ocean”. She got the odd idea after her boyfriend showed her an excerpt of the book, On the Road, by Jack Kerouac.
But not to worry: Katy Perry is quite pleased with people using Firework as a self-improvement song.