When you’re nonetheless wiping the steam off your display from Katy Perry‘s NSFW debut efficiency of “I’m His, He’s Mine” with Doechii throughout her career-spanning medley at this week’s 2024 VMAs, buckle up as a result of the official video is simply as provocative.
The TORSO-directed clip for the third single from Perry’s upcoming 143 album (due out on Sept. 20) dropped on Friday morning (Sept. 13) and it combines some hair-raising green-screen stunts with a racy tabletop dance atop a dashing muscle automotive. The clip opens with Perry elegantly tumbling by way of the ambiance in free fall as she makes out with a hunky dude who seems a bit like her daredevil skydiving fiancé actor Orlando Bloom.
“I’m his queen, I’m his freak/ I’m each girl he needs and desires,” Perry sings as she cradles the person’s head whereas they hurtle towards the bottom, earlier than the digital camera cuts to a bikini-wearing Doechii dancing in an elevator whereas delivering her her personal alluring come on: “I’m his boss, I’m that b–ch/ I’m each girl he is aware of exists.”
After Perry and her cloud ranger love curiosity’s garments peel off throughout their mid-air make out sesh — with no parachutes in sight, we would add — the scene shifts to the singer splayed out on the hood of a gleaming chrome Corvette cruising down a suburban Barcelona road. Carrying a posh, skin-revealing metallic harness black monokini, Perry does the splits and slithers on the windshield as she sings about “creepin’ in his DMs” and “sleepin’ in his sweatpants.”
Perry then will get tossed from her shifting automotive dance platform, falling into the arms of her hunky love curiosity, clad in nothing however skimpy white underwear. The 2 ladies lastly workforce up on a soundstage the place they crawl round one another on the ground earlier than Doechii takes off for a drone-assisted sky dance.
“I’m His” prominently samples Crystal Waters’ beloved 1991 home single “Gypsy Lady (She’s Homeless),” which options the hypnotic chorus “la da dee, la dee da.” It follows on the heels of Perry’s first 143 single, “Lady’s World” — which sparked criticism over Dr. Luke’s involvement — and second focus observe, “Lifetimes.”
As provocative because the visible is, it’s PG-13 in comparison with the the efficiency on the VMAs, throughout which the 2 singers twisted themselves into sapphic pretzels and kissed in a second that made Taylor Swift’s jaw drop.
Watch the “I’m His, He’s Mine” video under.
