Katy Perry’s “Roar” Video

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
1 min readSep 6, 2013

Katy! Amazing.

Isn’t it weird, though, that she’s wearing a leopard-skin top, if she has the spirit of the tiger, or whatever? I guess she didn’t have the spirit of the leopard!!! Or maybe she rifled through other people’s suitcases in the plane’s wreckage, and found a leopard-print item of clothing that she then made into that bra-top, and the irony wasn’t lost on her. Who knows. Only Katy knows. Only Katy is.

UPDATED to include that I now see she was wearing a leopard-print scarf at the beginning. I am an idiot. But it’s still a little strange.

Anyway, I also particularly enjoyed this moment. And now to buy a phone.

(The song also just knocked “Blurred Lines” off its throne.)

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com