This Fourth of July, we’re taking a look at the meaning behind Katy Perry’s apropos song, “Firework.” As much as you hear the popstar’s hit single during the holiday weekend, the song really has very little to do with America. Instead, “Firework” has to do with a more morbid concept: death, or more specifically, Katy Perry’s death. In a Billboard interview the singer said, “when I pass, I want to be put into a firework and shot across the sky over the Santa Barbara Ocean as my last hurrah.”
But where did Perry get this idea? She explained that she was inspired by the great American author, Jack Keuroac, and his 1957 novel, On The Road. “My boyfriend showed me a paragraph out of Jack Keuroac’s On the Road, about people that are buzzing and fizzing and full of life and never say a commonplace thing. They shoot across the sky like a firework and make people go ‘Ahhh.’ I guess that making people go ‘ahhh’ is kind of like my motto.” From: https://americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-behind-firework-by-katy-perry/
