Katy Perry‘s group was initially cold and warm about “Teenage Dream.”
Bonnie McKee, who co-wrote the 2010 hit with the singer, revealed that the monitor went via a couple of completely different lyrical renditions earlier than touchdown on the refrain identified as we speak.
“It was essentially the most troublesome to put in writing,” Bonnie defined throughout a Could 6 episode of The DaddyMommy Show podcast. “We wrote like 5 completely different variations to it.”
The songwriter—who’s credited on the monitor alongside Katy, Max Martin and producers Benny Blanco and Dr. Luke—recalled the primary model of the hook beginning out with the traces: “You make me really feel like I am born once more / All model new, come on, Peter Pan.”
In fact, that idea did not stick. In truth, after deciding these lyrics had been “too younger” and “wanted to be sexier,” they went again to the drafting board and labored on a couple of extra concepts, together with one which was known as “Strive Me On.”
“It was all form of style references,” Bonnie recounted. “Regardless that that is a very cute thought and price writing, it felt a little bit bit camp, and the track was a little bit extra earnest.”