The official music video for 'Birthday' was directed by Marc Klasfeld and Danny Lockwood Dawn Rose served as a producer, while Nicole Acacio served as executive producer, Richard Alarcon sereved as the editor, Tony Gardner as the make-up artist, and Joseph Robbins was the director of photography. The trailer is censored during Ace's clip. The two minute trailer shows Perry dressed as many alter ego, including Goldie 'The Dancer', Yosef Shulem 'The MC', Kriss 'The Clown', Ace 'The Animal Trainer', and Princess Mandee. It depicts a variety of cakes and sweets-among other confections-decorated with the song's lyrics and concludes with Perry lighting the last candle of a cake.ДЄ teaser for the official music video was released on April 22, 2014, two days before the official video release. To promote the single, a lyric video was uploaded onto Perry's Vevo account on April 10, 2014. The song title appears in candles over a floral cake.

The art is based on a photograph, taken during a birthday party circa 1990, in which a blonde Perry and her sister Angela Hudson smile toward the camera 'puffy' letter balloons were 'photoshopped' onto the cover to spell out Perry's name. Later Perry tweeted 'HAHAHAHAHA #JusticeForAngela рџрџрџрџЋ‰рџЋ‰рџЋ‰рџЋ‚рџЋ‚рџЋ‚'. After the hashtag finally trended the uncensored version of the artwork was revealed. Hahahahahaha', then tweeted the hash-tag '#Birthday' herself. The top & I will UNLOCK the genius with you. Afterwards Perry tweeted 'IF you would like to see my sisters amazing face/pose get #BIRTHDAY trending to The artwork, featuring her older sister Angela Hudson during her birthday celebration as a child, revealed was a censored version which pixalized her sister's face. The artwork was officially revealed on Katy Perry's twitter with her saying, 'In honor of #TBT may I present the cover of myВ NEXXXT single, рџЋ‚рџЋ€BIRTHDAYрџЋ‚рџЋ€ /ykpqK4Xwtb'. On April 3, 2014, the singer announced on her Twitter account that 'Birthday' would be released as the album's fourth single, posting its cover art as well. The song surfaced online on October 16, 2013-two days prior to the official release of Prism. The song itself was recorded at various studios, including Luke's in the Boo in Malibu, California, Conway Recording Studios in Hollywood, California, Playback Recording Studio in Santa Barbara, California, MXM Studios in Stockholm, Sweden and Secret Garden Studios in Montecito, California. The track was finally mixed by Serban Ghenea at the MixStar Studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia, accompanied by the mixing engineer, John Hanes. Its audio engineering was done by Peter Carlsson, Clint Gibbs, Sam Holland, and Michael Illbert. The drums were played by Steven Wolf, while the horns were played by the Saturday Night Live Band, arranged by Lenny Pickett and engineered by Dave O'Donnell. The latter three produced the song and contributed to the instrumentation and programmed their respective instruments. The song was written by Perry, Bonnie McKee, Cirkut, Dr.

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