“Smile” by Katy Perry
“Smile” is the title of a 2020 single released by singer and songwriter Katy Perry. The lyrics of “Smile” are inspirational as they talk about overcoming the failures and challenges of life.
The lyrics see Katy talk about how she turned the negative things life threw at her into positive things. For example, in the pre-chorus, she talks about how “every tear has been a lesson” and how sometimes what we see as “rejection” is actually God’s way of protecting us.
What Katy is actually doing in this song is telling her listeners that setbacks, challenges and failures came her way. However, she persevered through them all. She didn’t give up. And finally her perseverance paid off. And why? Because she’s finally shinning today and has “got back that smile”.
What Katy Perry has said about “Smile”
Via her official Twitter page, Katy revealed that she composed the song during her journey through “one of her darkest periods” in life. According to her, she lost her smile during that very dark period. However, through perseverance, she successfully surmounted that challenge. She therefore said the song and the entire album on which it appears is based on her “journey” into the light.
Facts about “Smile”
Katy Perry (through Capitol Records) released “Smile” on July 10th, 2020. It is actually the fourth single Katy released from her sixth studio album (which shares the same name with the song). The first three singles from the album are as follows:
It should be noted that a few weeks to the song’s release, the demo versio of it leaked online. This version featured hip hop artist Diddy. However, upon the song’s official release, Diddy’s vocals were missing from it. It’s not exactly clear why this happened.
Katy penned “Smile” along with a bunch of other writers, including the members of the hip hop trio, Naughty by Nature. The reason Naughty by Nature members are credited as co-writers is because “Smile” heavily samples the trio’s hit song “Jamboree”.
“Smile” has a total running time of 2 minutes and 47 seconds.
