After the two spoke in January 2017, he "delivered the message that I had to deliver" while recording the track, describing it as "one of unification and love". Skip Marley told Billboard he and Perry made the song together after she heard his track "Lions" and wanted to collaborate with him. She "channeled her frustration into new music" and said creating the track "was a nice exercise of like writing a song that at first listen is a really fun song, but I guess the more you dive into it, it has a different sub-text". The singer felt "kind of depressed" after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in November 2016, and "definitely didn't want to write a club banger" when the "world" was "on fire". Perry described her fifth album Witness as a "360-degree liberation" record, with "Chained to the Rhythm" representing a "political liberation". Perry and Marley promoted the song with live performances at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, the 2017 Brit Awards, and the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards. It was nominated for three awards at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. It features Perry in an amusement park called "Oblivia". Mathew Cullen directed the song's music video, which was released on February 21, 2017. The track reached number one in Poland and Hungary, as well as the top five in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the top 10 in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. "Chained to the Rhythm" is a dance-pop, disco and dancehall song, with lyrics about political awareness. Capitol Records released the track on February 10, 2017, as a digital download. The artists co-wrote the track with its producers Max Martin and Ali Payami, with additional writing from Sia. It features vocals from Jamaican singer Skip Marley. " Chained to the Rhythm" is a song by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry that served as the lead single from her fifth studio album, Witness. Single by Katy Perry featuring Skip Marley
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