Overview
- Katy Perry issued the single 'Bandaids' on Nov. 6 alongside a new music video.
- The video, directed by Christian Breslauer, strings together Final Destination–style near-death scenarios and concludes with a gas-station explosion.
- Lyrically, Perry details disillusionment and resolve, singing lines such as “It’s not what you did, it’s what you didn’t” and “Bandaids over a broken heart.”
- A daisy motif in the video is widely read as a nod to her and Orlando Bloom’s daughter, Daisy Dove, following their confirmed shift to co-parenting in June.
- The release is framed as the next step in her post-143 comeback and links to her Lifetimes Tour, which included an early live preview in Paris and is set to conclude in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 7.