Katy Perry’s new song was made in a lab to inspire Olympic athletes

Katy Perry has roared and now she’s going to rise. Last night, Perry released “Rise,” an Olympics-themed power ballad about believing in yourself in the face of adversity—pretty standard stuff for the woman who told us all we were fireworks. In a Today show segment, Perry said the song has been “brewing inside of [her] for years” and that she “was inspired to finish it now rather than save it for the album because of the overall mood of the world today.” But the song was also composed for corporate reasons: It will be used to get the blood pumping during NBC’s coverage of the Rio games.