We may still be living in a Woman’s World, but Katy Perry is moving on to other things. Next Friday, the US superstar is getting ready to unleah a fan-favourite cut from her new album, 143, as her next single. That song? Lifetimes.

Originally previewed by Katy in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music, Lifetimes sounds very different from Katy’s much-touted comeback single, Woman’s World, which recently debuted and peaked just outside the UK Top 40, at Number 47, her first lead single to miss the Top 40.

But not to worry! Whereas Woman’s World aimed for a straight-down-the-middle feminist platitudes with maximalist club-pop beats, Lifetimes already sounds like a much more distinctive (and more Katy Perry!) release.

“I’ll love you for life,” Katy howls in the preview, over a house piano that’s clearly meant to emulate one of her best-ever tracks, 2013’s Walking On Air. “Lifetimes…”

And while you may assume that the subject of Lifetimes would be Katy’s partner, the actor Orlando Bloom, she’s revealed that actually it was her daughter, Daisy, that inspired her to pen the track.

Speaking to The Sun, Katy said: “I wrote Lifetimes about her. Every night before we go to sleep I say, ‘I love you’, and then I ask, ‘Will you find me in every lifetime?’ and she says, ‘Yes.’

“The love I was missing, every mountain I climbed looking for this view, all this love. It came to me when she entered my life. Maybe one day you will go on this journey but you will find this love, it does exist and it will exist for you.”

We’re not crying, you are.

Lifetimes will function as the second official single from Katy’s seventh album 143 (or ‘I love you’), her first LP since 2020’s lockdown record Smile, which peaked at Number 5 on the Official Albums Chart, becoming her fourth UK Top 10 album.

Lifetimes by Katy Perry drops Friday August 9. 143 follows September 20 via Capitol.