Katie Perry `Roar,’ New Single Puts Behind Her Teeny Bopper Image; Teaser Burns The California Girl’s Doll Past (Video)

Katie Perry’s “Roar,” the new single off her upcoming album, is sure to lays her teeny bopper image to rest. Critics think it’s not as edgy as Katy Perry’s first post-divorce single, “Wide Awake” or “Part of Me”, but it has the Katy Perry signature sound. It heralds a new era on Katy Perry's fourth album “Prism.” This is Katy Perry’s first album since the 2010 megahit “Teenage Dream.”

The promotional teaser for Katy Perry’s new single “Roar” shows her hypnotically bringing a flame across the screen until it touches and torches a childhood porcelain doll. Katy Perry symbolically burns the bridges of her teeny bopper past. Now that Katy Perry is “Wide Awake” after her much-publicized divorce from the British comedian Russell Brand, she is ready to move forward with new sounds.

Katy Perry knows enough not to stray too far from the formula that made her a worldwide musical phenomenon, but we might not see the purple wigs and the hypno-spiral pinwheel dresses that her fans have come to expect and love. Katy Perry’s new single “Roar” is an uplifting piece of pop as catchy has her last megahit, “Firework.”

With lyrics like “I got the eye of the tiger, the fire/Dancing through the fire, ’cause I am a champion/And you’re gonna hear me roar / Louder, louder than a lion” the song references the hit from the movie “Rocky 2” and should be a staple at sports stadiums for years to come.

Katy Perry’s new single “Roar” comes out before her upcoming album “Prism.” And it heralds a new era for the pop vixen. Katy Perry has burned her blue rig and is burying her candy-coated image, but she hasn’t lost that melodic pop sense that transforms all her songs into ear worms. Driven by a relentless beat, Katy Perry’s “Roar” rocks her way out of the relationship that pushed her past her “breaking point.”

“Roar” was produced by Dr. Luke and Max Martin. Katy Perry’s fourth album, “Prism” is due Oct. 22.