This summery anthem finds Katy Perry "cruising down a heart-shaped highway" as she draws parallels between love and riding motorcycles in Hawaii. I'm on the back, I'm holdin' tight, I Want you to take me for a ride, ride When I hula-hula, hula So good, you'll take me to the jeweler-jeweler, jeweler Perry is using metaphors related to bike riding and Hawaiian culture to show her affection towards her sweetheart.
Perry was inspired to write the song following a trip on a Harley Davidson in Oahu with her fiancé Orlando Bloom. "To be on the back of a motorcycle in Hawaii with the air blowing on your face, it's so beautiful," the singer recalled to radio DJ Zach Sang. "I can remember specifically where I was; the street corner I was on in Oahu, whispering to Orlando and saying 'I'm going to write a song called Harleys in Hawaii.' And I did. That's something that will come at some point."
Perry wrote the song with her "Small Talk" collaborators: American singer Charlie Puth, Swedish-American songwriter Johan Carlsson, and American songwriter and rapper Jacob Kasher Hindlin. Carlsson and Puth produced the track.
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