Katy Perry’s Most Memorable Music Video Looks

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"I Kissed a Girl"

In 2008, Katy Perry burst onto the scene with her debut single off her album, a titillating ditty "about the magical beauty of a woman," according to the singer. Between her seductive, knowing glance into the camera and scantily clad body throughout the video, it was no wonder that the hit off her second studio album, One of the Boys, topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for seven weeks in a row and sold over 8 million copies worldwide.

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"Hot n Cold"

A wedding-dress-clad Perry dashes after her groom as he flees from the altar and together they get into a cat-and-mouse chase. Released four months after "I Kissed a Girl," this song was her second chart-topping single and sold over 5 million copies worldwide.

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"Waking Up in Vegas"

Dressed like a Las Vegas showgirl, Perry and her onscreen beau enjoy living the good life in this action-packed music video that shows the highs and lows of an amazing Vegas night — or daydream. "[It's] basically a song about getting into trouble with your best friend or your boyfriend or your girlfriend — and not having any 'I'm sorry for what I did,'" she explained of the song, which earned 37 million video plays.

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"California Gurls"

"It's definitely something to watch when you have the munchies," Perry once said of the confectionary masterpiece. "We named it 'Candyfornia' instead of 'California.'" The video, which stars Snoop Dogg and shows Perry in her iconic blue wig, premiered June 2010 and inspired the theme for her California Dreams Tour in 2011 through 2012. The hit stayed at No. 1 for six weeks in a row and received a Grammy nod for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

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"Teenage Dream"

The nearly makeup-free songstress lets her hair down in this love ballad that follows her and her high school love through passionate trysts and romantic countryside drives. The chart-topping hit earned Perry a Grammy Award nod for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

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"Firework"

A bit of foreshadowing? A year and a half after Perry worked purple hair in the self-empowerment anthem's video, she made it her own real-life look in May 2012. Throughout the moving video, the singer helps youngsters overcome their insecurities, and at the end, all the victors dance together.

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"E.T."

Perry donned several out-of-this world costumes, including reptile-like contact lenses, full pastel body makeup and a giant braided headpiece in the video for her fourth single off of Teenage Dream. The video earned five MTV Video Music Award nods and won for Best Collaboration (with Kanye West) and Best Special Effects.

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"Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"

Before its premiere in June 2011, Perry tweeted, "I told someone about my new music video I just filmed and they responded with 'Wow, that's gonna break the internet.' ... Should I knock on wood?" In the vid, the singer debuts Kathy Beth Terry, the headgear-sporting, outrageously adorkable star of the plot.

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"The One That Got Away"

Perry, who is done up as an elderly version of herself, spends the plot-heavy video reminiscing over a lost love who suffered a tragic death decades earlier. Despite the emotionally driven video, the song was the only Teenage Dream single that failed to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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"Part of Me"

Perry's second anthem hit shows the singer as a scorned girlfriend who joins the Marine Corps to get her girl power back. Perry reportedly went through actual military training, which included firepower, etiquette, and combat training.

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"Wide Awake"

Written and filned just for her Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D documentary, the video for her ballad includes several homages to her Teenage Dream hits — and her life. "It's the labyrinth of my life of the past two years. It's got a lot of symbolism in it," the star, who divorced from Russell Brand in February 2012, said in an interview with MTV News. "It's a dose of reality."

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"Roar"

Queen of the Jungle! After surviving a plane crash, Perry fearlessly adjusts to island life while still looking fashionable in a cleavage-baring, animal-print bra top and grass skirt in her music video. "Roar" is the lead single from Perry's fourth studio album, Prism.

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"Dark Horse"

This 2013 rap-infused number one hit featured a Cleopatra-inspired Perry, who likes wearing bejeweled grills and turned the men who scorn her to dust. “It’s got me, a pop artist, with a little bit of an urban kind of hip-hop-flavored background soundtrack to it, and the lyrics are kind of witchy and dark, as if I was a witch warning this man not to fall in love with me, and if you do know I’m going to be your last,” Perry told MTV.

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"Birthday"

For those who thought Katy Perry would make a great party guest, think again! Perry posed as a host of bad birthday party guests including Goldie the Dancer, Yosef Shulem The MC, Kriss the Clown, Ace the Animal Trainer, and Princess Mandee, Perry ruined the several unsuspecting fans’ bashes in the video for this 2013 upbeat pop tune.

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"This Is How We Do"

The fifth single off her Prism album showed Perry in a host of costumes and style. “It’s a great combination of my love for tumblr and modern art museums,” Perry said of her eclectic music video looks.