'E.T.' is written by Katy Perry, Dr. Luke, Max Martin and Ammon. The song is an electro ballad that has a similar beat to Queen's 'We will rock you', and the song is about falling in love with a forigner. But in the video they've capitalised on the fact that she sings 'alien' in the lyrics and put an alien-theme on the whole thing.
In the video Perry is joined by rapper Kanye West(as well as on the single edit).
The Canadian director Floria Sigismondi is known for making dark and feminine music videos, and has done so in the past for artists like Christina Aguilera('Fighter', 'Hurt') and Marilyn Manson('the beautiful people', 'Tourniquet') -E.T. is no exception.
In the video, Perry play an alien(donning some serious make-up, and uses prosthetics, coloured contact lenses and shimmering face paint) who drifts through outer space before landing on an abandoned planet covered with litter. She eventually come across a broken robot, which turns into a naked male after recieving a kiss from Perry. Kanye West is mostly floating around in a spacecraft throughout the video.
Just the sheer amount it took for getting Katy Perry's make-up ready was hard for her. This is what she says about it:
"It was, like, five and six hours, each makeup look. It was hard for me! It was really a patience thing for me on this video. But, you know, it's like when you're doing a film. Sometimes you have to do prosthetics, and you have to get really old or turn into an animal or a monster — and that's kind of what this process was", Perry told MTV.
The single is Perry's fifth number one on the Billboard Hot 100-chart.
Katy Perry - E.T. (feat. Kanye West)
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