Katy Perry has brought in Snoop Dogg to reclaim the dance-floor from Alicia Keys and Jay-Z with a song about California.
Katy and Snoop have just released ‘California Gurls’ as a response to ‘Empire State Of Mind’.The duet was inspired when Katie noticed the reaction her friends had to the Jay-Z and Alicia Keys collaboration ‘Empire State of Mind” so she decided to create a song for Los Angeles. “Everybody was holding their drinks in the air and dancing, and I thought, ‘We’re not in New York, we’re in Los Angeles! What about California? What about all the homies, the gin and juice, the swaying palm trees, the sun-kissed skin 24-7,’” Perry recalls. “I decided that we needed to make a response. I want people to want to book a ticket to California the first time they hear it!” And because it’s practically un-American to release a song that mentions gin and juice without Snoop Dogg, Perry recruited the rap icon to contribute his inimitable vocals to “California Gurls.” “We thought it would sound so cool and give the song another dimension,” she says. “Snoop is as West Coast as it gets.”
Katy Perry will follow-up her `One of The Boys` album with `Teenage Dream` in August.
‘One of the Boys’ sold 5 million copies around the world following its 2008 release.
The ‘California Gurls’ single is out now and the ‘Teenage Dream’ album will be available on August 27.
Check out the song here:
