Katy Perry isn’t letting heartbreak break her. Instead, she’s telling her story the way she knows best. On Thursday, the pop queen released her single “Bandaids,” a surprise, mid-tour breakup song seemingly inspired by the end of her relationship with Orlando Bloom.

The Christian Breslauer-directed video follows Perry as she endures a series of unfortunate, yet darkly humorous, events, some laced with Easter eggs referencing things she has said in the past, as she sings about losing someone she loved. “Hand to God, I promised I tried/There’s no stone left unturned,” she declares in the opening line. “It’s not what you did/It’s what you didn’t/You were there but you weren’t.”

The video opens with her washing dishes when a golden ring slips down the drain. As she reaches in to retrieve it

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