California‘s own Katy Perry has discovered the one marketing asset no other pop star on Earth can book: a former head of government who will hop on command. On Thursday, the singer, 41, posted a promo clip for her single Watch It Burn that opens innocently enough, with Perry lip-syncing in a bus lot. Then the beat drops, she starts bouncing, the camera pulls back, and in bounds Justin Trudeau, hair flopping, gazing at his girlfriend adoringly, hopping like a rabbit before bouncing right back out of frame.
Perry captioned the post with appropriate gravity: “ancient texts say that if you hop to this song you will get 1,000 years of good luck.” The clip has already racked up well over a million views and more than 1,500 comments, turning the former Canadian prime minister into the internet’s main character within hours.
The Internet Cannot Decide If Trudeau’s Hop Is Adorable or Unhinged
The reactions split instantly into two camps. The roasters came sharpest, with one X user writing, “Former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is now bouncing around in the background of girlfriend Katy Perry’s new music video like an 18-year-old backup dancer. From running a G7 country to B-roll.” Another kept it simple: “Former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is promoting Katy Perry’s new song… by hopping like a rabbit.“
The defenders fired right back. “Trudeau was such a down to earth Canadian Prime Minister,” one supporter wrote. “you have to be sick to see this and get angry.” And the wordplay crowd found the poetry in it, with one user quipping about the track itself: “I love the lyrics. ‘I’m gonna get what I deserve’. And she shows Trudeau.“
For Trudeau, this is simply the job now, and he has said as much on the record. When he skipped Canada’s opening World Cup match in June to cheer Perry’s halftime performance at a different game instead, he explained himself on X with a shrug for the ages: “Sometimes supportive boyfriend duties call.“
The hop video caps a romance that has moved from rumor to full spectacle in a year. The pair was first spotted at a Montreal dinner in July 2025, shortly after Perry’s split from Orlando Bloom, and by this June they were making their red carpet debut at her Lifetimes Tour concert film premiere, where Perry left nothing to interpretation, calling Trudeau “the love of my life.” She has been weaving him into the song’s rollout for weeks, too, sharing a June montage of clips featuring the former prime minister stamped with the lyric-borrowed text that she is going to get the life she deserves because she finally put herself first.
Watch It Burn, fittingly, is a song about torching the old life and claiming the one you deserve. Apparently the life she deserves includes a hopping ex-prime minister, a million views, and a thousand years of good luck. Somewhere, a G7 summit weeps. The internet, meanwhile, cannot stop watching.
