To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Billboard ranked the song at number two on their list of 20 best songs of the 2010s so far in 2015, [25] and also placed it on their list of The 100 Songs That Defined The Decade in 2019. If you are the originator/copyright holder of this photo/item and would prefer it be excluded from our community, contact us here for removal. Pallett says she does indeed do this in the pre-chorus when she accentuates the imperatives ("Let's go all the way tonight .

Retrospectively, the song has received acclaim, appearing in several critics' lists of Perry's best songs. It went to number one in New Zealand on the August 30 chart making it her third number one in New Zealand that year, preceded by " If We Ever Meet Again" with Timbaland in early 2010 and "California Gurls". They also talk about taking the relationship further in lines such as: "Let's go all the way tonight / No regrets, just love / We can dance until we die / You and I / We'll be young forever". After the first few lines, the B ♭ tonic chord that repeats throughout the song is offset by bass notes that give it a more dominant 7th feel.I couldn't believe after all of our agonizing over 'youth' themes, that we had overlooked such an obvious one – the teenage condition.

A music video for the song was filmed in various locations around Perry's hometown in Santa Barbara, California and was directed by Yoann Lemoine (a. According to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, "Teenage Dream" set the record for most added song in a week with 64 new stations and 14. Pictures from the shoot feature Perry kneeling in the sand looking at a man (played by Josh Kloss [41] [42]) wearing speedos, while others show her kissing the man in a hotel pool.

When Perry and McKee first met in 2004, they both were "really into Lolita" and "had a mutual fascination with the adolescent state of mind.