Legendary Lovers

This mystical love song finds Perry describing the eternal passion between herself and her beau as well as namechecking legendary lovers Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Shakespeare's tragic heroine, Juliet. She sings on the chorus: "Take me down to the river Underneath the blood-orange sun Say my name like a scripture Keep my heart beating like a drum." Perry penned the song in her hometown of Santa Barbara with her frequent collaborators, Bonnie McKee, Henry Walter, Max Martin and Dr. Luke.

The dreamy EDM-lite tune features Indian percussion and lyrics focusing on Eastern religious concepts such as infinity and karma. "I think that we had a lot of fun on 'Legendary Lovers,'" Bonnie McKee told MTV News. "I feel like I was able to pull a lot of imagery from really early [Eastern-influenced] stuff that I did [when I was a kid and young songwriter], and it was a lot of fun to get into the Bollywood sort of theme 'cause I know she's always had an obsession with that to. I think they're pretty classic themes that she goes over. When you're writing love songs, it's always forever; they seem to always last throughout time."

13 years after its original release, Katy Perry recruited Chief Keef for a remix of "Legendary Lovers." The collaboration, titled "Legendary Lovers (Save Me)," blends Perry's glossy Prism-era pop vocals with Chief Keef's Chicago drill energy, and was produced by Dr. Luke, Max Martin, and Cirkut, the same team behind the original. The pairing is a full-circle moment rooted in a 2013 Twitter feud when Perry publicly criticized Chief Keef's song "Hate Bein' Sober," prompting a heated response from the Chicago rapper. The following year, Keef sampled "Legendary Lovers" in his own song, "Save Me." The modern revival began on TikTok, where mashups of the two songs were reportedly pulling in over 200,000 daily streams by April 2026. Perry then humorously tried to "summon" Keef on TikTok, and on May 27, she posted footage of the two meeting in person - shaking hands and wearing matching hoodies - captioning it "Legendary link up." The official remix followed just two days later.