Katy Perry Singing You And I

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About

Katy Perry Singing You And I refers to a TikTok trend featuring lyrics from American pop star Katy Perry's 2020 song 'Harleys in Hawaii.' The trend uses a clip of Perry performing the song and singing the line "You and I," with people making puns or jokes where the answer would be some version of the line "you and I." The trend grew popular on TikTok in September 2023.

Origin

On October 16th, 2019, Katy Perry released her song "Harleys in Hawaii," with a YouTube^[1] upload of the music video for the song gathering over 132 million plays in three years (seen below).

On November 19th, 2019, Katy Perry shared the official vertical video for the track,^[2] with footage from these videos becoming the basis of the TikTok meme in 2023. The video gathered over 4 million play in three years (seen below).

The earliest known meme using the track was a September 29th, 2021 remix by YouTuber Ranvision, who combined the song with lyrics by rapper CupcaKke. The upload gathered over 640,000 views in two years.^[3]

On September 19th, 2023, TikToker^[4] @snaluvr_ posted the earliest known TikTok meme using the Katy Perry song, with the caption on the video reading, "teacher: the vowels are "a e _ o _" which are missing?" The post gathered over 15 million plays and 3 million likes in six days (seen below).

@snaluvr_ im backkkk, not an edit but i thought this was funny #katyperry #harleysinhawaii #teacher #school #fypシ #fyp #uandii ♬ U AND EYEEEEEE – 𝐧𝐨𝐚𝐡✩

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On September 21st, 2023, TikToker^[5] @marsnotheplanet posted the video of Perry singing with a text overlay that read, "My friend saying me and you / the teacher correcting them." The post gathered over 4 million plays and 409,000 likes in four day (seen below, left). On September 22nd, TikToker^[6] @silversupremacy posted a video joking about giving their crush a rating of 9/10. The upload gathered over 200,000 plays and 23,000 likes in three days (seen below, right).

marsnotheplanet</a> Back in the day <a title="music" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/music?refer=embed">#music</a> <a title="katyperry" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/katyperry?refer=embed">#katyperry</a> <a title="youandi" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/youandi?refer=embed">#youandi</a> <a title="harleysinhawaii" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/harleysinhawaii?refer=embed">#harleysinhawaii</a> <a title="flop" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/flop?refer=embed">#flop</a> <a title="floptok" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/floptok?refer=embed">#floptok</a> <a title="fyp" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed">#fyp</a> #Katy Perry ♬ original sound – Mary

@silversupremacy basically a 10/10 😭 #youandi #uni #katyperry #harleysinhawaii #meme #stantwitter #flops #floptok #viral #fyp ♬ original sound – dojaxsilversupremacy

On September 21st, 2023, TikToker^[7] @sailorgoooon posted a version of the meme to joke about British people saying "uni," gathering over 1.6 million plays and 200,000 likes in four days (seen below, left). On September 22nd, TikToker^[8] @the_plant_mack_daddy used the video in a post that gathered over 490,000 plays and 130,000 likes in three days (seen below, right).

@sailorgoooon #fyp #foryou #gay #katyperry #harleysinhawaii #university #uk #british #uktiktok #america #americantiktok ♬ Harleys In Hawaii – Katy Perry

@the_plant_mack_daddy ♬ original sound – Bradtom

Various Examples

@itsniine This song got all the answers🙏🏽 #itsniine #katyperry #harleysinhawaii #youandimeme #uandii #floptok😍😍😭😌🤞💅💅 ♬ original sound – Nine

@pink..friday YOU AND IIIIIIIIIIIII #fyp #katyperry #meme #trend #viral ♬ original sound – PinkFriday👛

@devin_poop #science #sciencetok #astrology #sun #sky #biology #math #class #katyperry #harleysinhawaii #youandi #fyp #scientist #scienceexperiment #sciencefacts #taylorswift #1989taylorsversion #1989 #messi #harleydavidson #justiceforharleysinhawaii #smile #teenagedream #americanidol #americanhorrorstory ♬ original sound – DevinHavinAGoodTime

@devin_poop Im trying with this one 😭 #katyperry #katycats #harleysinhawaii #smile #no #spanish #spanishtiktok #espanoltiktok #professorsoftiktok #messi #fantasize #bilingual #dojacat #scarlet #guts #gay #class #youandi #fyp #1989taylorsversion #1989 ♬ original sound – DevinHavinAGoodTime