Katy Perry is stepping into a fresh musical chapter, and her newest single appears to pull back the curtain on why things ended with Orlando Bloom.
The singer released Bandaids on Nov. 6, marking her first new track since news broke over the summer that she and Bloom had called off their engagement.
The song immediately signals a deeply personal tone, opening with Katy at a kitchen sink, accidentally dropping what looks like an engagement ring down the drain.
As she struggles to reach it, she delivers the striking lines: “Hand to God I promise I tried / There’s no stone left unturned / It’s not what you did, it’s what you didn’t / You were there but you weren’t.”
From there, the message becomes clearer.
While she stops short of naming Bloom, she suggests the emotional distance between them became too much to carry.
She goes on to express how she grew accustomed to disappointment, singing, “Got so used to you letting me down / No use tryna send flowers now.”
The video mirrors that emotional pain with physical moments, Katy injures her hand in the garbage disposal and later falls from a tree.
The scenes reflect the emotional toll she’s describing, though she also acknowledges the relationship’s good memories. She sings that there were bright moments and real joy, though things eventually fell apart.
As the track builds, she opens up further about feeling unheard, sharing how she was “flatlining trying to save this,” while things slowly bled out.
Still, she refuses to frame the relationship as a mistake. Near the end of the video, as a train races toward her, she spots a daisy, an unmistakable nod to her daughter Daisy Dove, whom she shares with Bloom.
She then closes with the emotional line, “If I had to do it all over again / I would still do it all over again… The love that we made was worth it in the end.”
Just days before the release, Katy teased the single with a close-up snap showing scratches across her face and a simple white shirt paired with a necklace spelling her full name, Katheryn.
Bandaids doesn’t deliver a dramatic tell-all, but it does hint that unmet emotional needs may have played a crucial part in the couple’s split.
Even so, Katy chooses grace, recognizing both the hurt and the love that defined that chapter of her life.
