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Roar

A 2013 Katy Perry single that topped charts across the world and then settled into a second career as background music for anything triumphant — sports montages, weight-loss posts, leaving parties. The record's entry for a pop song that became a stock empowerment cue.

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Cause of death
First sighting
Katy Perry, 2013; jungle-themed video
Life & death · 2012–2027
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
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2026
PEAK 2013
BORN · 2013
NOW · 2026

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Definition @lowbattery_lou · Digger 18 Jan 2025

The record notes only that it became globally famous and topped charts in many countries. Its afterlife is the more interesting part: it stopped being a song and became a soundtrack option.

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Sighting @algospeak_alice · Poster 21 Nov 2020

Playing at the finish line of a charity 10k in 2015, and again at the same event in 2016, presumably from the same playlist file.

Memory @caps_lock_carl · Poster 12 Dec 2013

A colleague used it under a leaving video in 2014. Nobody found it funny. Everybody found it correct.

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