Perry’s journey from the homophobia-tinged sobriquet U R So Gay to campaigning for Hillary Clinton has been in full view of the pop-consuming public for the past near-decade, and is now in full-on “ wake up sheeple!!” mode with the cavernous Chained To The Rhythm. “We gonna call this era Purposeful pop,” she tweeted shortly after the song’s debut on streaming services early Friday. W hen Katy Perry released her new single Chained to the Rhythm last week, she declared that the track wasn’t merely a song – it was a movement.
