Katy Perry Dedicates New 'Firework' Video to Youth LGBT Project

Katy Perry"s new video, "Firework" — her third clip from Teenage Dream — is dedicated to the It Gets Better Project, which fights discrimination against LGBT youth. "@PerezHilton I am officially dedicating my new video to #itgetsbetter," she tweeted, "because everyone has the spark to be a FIREWORK."

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Filmed in Budapest, the video shows Perry in the middle of an enormous dance party in one of the city's squares, and young people struggling with their identities — a cancer patient in a hospital, an overweight girl, a gay man. These characters are ultimately freed as fireworks rocket from their chests. Fireworks are seen shooting from Perry's chest as well, making a poetic connection back to the whipped cream that jetted from her bra in the "California Gurls" clip.

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“The A Team”

Ed Sheeran | 2011

This debut track from the then-20-year-old British singer-songwriter has a dark story behind it. Sheeran says he culls songwriting inspiration from "viewing other people's situations," which, for the heroine in "The A Team," involves drug addiction and prostitution that began as a teen. Sheeran paints the woman's trials with haunting imagery such as "But lately her face seems/Slowly sinking, wasting/Crumbling like pastries." "I did a gig at a homeless shelter, [and the song] is about one of the women there. It's her story," he said.

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