It was really magical." Perry commented that even though the song was rewritten many times, she was "so happy to finally get somewhere that we all agreed on" after it was finished. I remember Max sitting back and saying 'I wish we could bottle this feeling'. When the final version was finished, McKee said, "We were all so pumped that it had paid off. The chorus was rewritten, and the line "Skin tight jeans" was taken from the early "trying me on" version. teenage wet dreams.Īfter she recorded the vocals, McKee pulled Luke and Martin aside and told them her idea, to which they responded, "Well why didn’t you say that in the first place?".
And I want to continue to be one of those. And also it kind of exudes this euphoric feeling because everybody remembers what their teenage dreams were - all the girls that were on your poster walls. And it was, like, where I started my creative juices. I wrote that song in Santa Barbara and it was a very pure moment for me, because that's where I'm from. They started working on the verses, where Perry had already prepared most of the imagery. McKee tried to approach Luke about her idea, but he was upset about the amount of time he had spent working in the chorus, so he banned them from changing it. The following week, Perry invited McKee, Luke and Martin to write at her hometown of Santa Barbara, California. I couldn’t believe after all of our agonizing over 'youth' themes, that we had overlooked such an obvious one – the teenage condition. It is a very descriptive word it packs a lot of emotion and imagery into three syllables. I thought about what Benny said and I listened to the song again, and I was like The Teenagers… that’s such a great word, Teenager. I thought about me and my friends sitting around at slumber parties in the 90’s, giddy even just THINKING about boys. I thought about watching Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet' and putting on a little mini disco ball light and just dreaming of Leo. I thought about my own adolescent years, my own first love. We were both so over it we just called it a night." McKee continued working on the song the following days. McKee said that " looked at each other with dread, knowing we had to start all over again.
He says that if Benny doesn't get it, America won't get it." Blanco showed them The Teenagers's 2007 single "Homecoming" and asked them to write in a similar style. It was rejected by the producers, as McKee explained, "Luke always makes us 'Benny Proof' everything. There was a final version that was based around the metaphor of "trying me on" comparing clothes to sex, in a similar manner to Madonna's 1985 single "Dress You Up". Perry at first wrote a lyric about Peter Pan, but they later deemed it as "too young" since "we wanted it to have more edge, more sex." Another version included the lines "And the next thing you know / You’re a mom in a minivan", which made them laugh uncontrollably for an hour. For the Teenage Dream sessions, Perry and McKee had a "forever young" idea in mind.
When Perry and McKee first met in 2004, they both were "really into Lolita" and "had a mutual fascination with the adolescent state of mind." They explored the themes in their first records: Perry wrote "One of the Boys", which touched on the early stages of discovering that boys could be more than friends, whereas McKee wrote "Confessions of a Teenage Girl", which was about using sexual power to one's advantage.
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