Katy Perry Abducts Kanye West For "E.T." Video

Katy Perry dropped her new futuristic video yesterday for her remixed version of the single, "E.T." featuring rapper Kanye West. The song taking viewers into a brand new dimension, is the fourth off of her Grammy-nominated third studio album, "Teenage Dream." We've seen Perry camp it up in "California Gurls" and go glam in "Thinking of You" and "Teenage Dream," but we've never seen her get extraterrestrial until now. Her post-apocalyptic "E.T." clip is a big-budget spectacle that takes Perry to the next level. It certainly ranks among her very best and is unquestionably the biggest thing she's ever done.
The song has a science-fiction theme, and Perry admitted that outer space fascinates her. "E.T. is a metaphor about finding someone who is just obviously not from this world because how could they love me like this? Even though it's a metaphor, I'm very interested in all things futuristic. I mean, I complain every day that the Hoverport has still not been invented!" she said. "I think it's absolutely ridiculous. I look out into the sky and to the stars and I feel there is so much out there."
The spacey, robotic jam over a "stomp-stomp-clap" beat similar to Queen's "We Will Rock You" (1977), "E.T." is an celestial electronic pop and hip hop ballad with elements of teen pop, that tells of "falling in love with a foreigner." Extraterrestrial metaphors are used throughout, and West continues these metaphors in his two verses, making heavy use of Auto-Tune at times. It has been noted for bringing out a different side of Perry, with a darker, deeper, and more mature tone.
The colorful and surreal video was directed by Canadian Floria Sigismondi, known for her "dark, feminine" videos for artists including Christina Aguilera and Marilyn Manson. The video is definitely out of this world with Perry and West falling from outer space down to earth as they deliver their verses. In it, Perry, as a titular alien, drifts through outer space before landing on an abandoned planet covered with litter. "E.T." is a huge-looking, quick-moving blockbuster of a clip, overflowing with eye-catching special effects, opulent costumes and artfully applied makeup, the kind of production where a plot is basically an afterthought. In other words, it's a Hollywood-level spectacle, a summer smash that just so happened to come out in the early days of spring. It's an event.