Katy Perry - California Gurls ft. Snoop Dogg (Video clip)

"California Gurls" is a melody recorded by American artist Katy Perry for her third studio collection, Teenage Dream (2010). The tune highlights verses from rapper Snoop Dogg. Both craftsmen co-


composed the melody with Bonnie McKee and its co-makers Dr. Luke and Max Martin, with extra generation from Benny Blanco. As per Perry, the melody is an answer tune to "Realm State of Mind" (2009), by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. "California Gurls" is a midtempo disco-pop, and funk-pop tune, with impacts of new wave, and electropop. Its verses are a tribute to the condition of California, in which both Perry and Snoop Dogg were brought up.

"California Gurls" accumulated positive audits from music faultfinders, with the greater part of them naming it a "mid year hymn", and also complimenting its generation and ensemble. Initially proposed to be sent to standard and musical airplay on May 25, 2010, the melody appeared on May 7, 2010, after clasps from the Teenage Dream collection were released on the web. It was along these lines discharged to iTunes on May 11, 2010 as the collection's lead single. The tune was an overall achievement, topping at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six sequential weeks, giving Perry her second US number-one single in and Snoop Dogg his third. The melody achieved number-one in ten different nations, including Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

A music video for the tune was discharged on June 15, 2010, and highlights Perry and her artists as bits of a tabletop game, set in the anecdotal "Candyfornia". Perry has said that the motivation behind the video was craftsman Will Cotton, who was additionally the masterful executive of the video. It has been noticed that the video is affected by a few different works, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the table game Candyland. On December 2, 2010, the melody got a Grammy selection for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. In 2012, Billboard positioned the tune number one on a unique The 30 Summer Songs of All Time posting.