Katy Perry launches Roar
Katy Perry joined the Breakfast Show from bed in Los Angeles as “Roar” began its worldwide launch. Scott had seen teaser videos in which the familiar blue wig of the Teenage Dream era was burned and wanted to know whether she was deliberately killing off her old image.
Katy described the vignettes as playful metaphors rather than a rejection of everything she had made before. The older songs would remain in her tours but evolve with her, while the new campaign represented a change in confidence and presentation.
She described “Roar” as a self-empowerment song written after she became tired of holding feelings in and allowing resentment to build. Her concise description was “me in therapy in a four-minute song”. Radio 1 then gave the record its first play on the show.
What can an Olympic gold medal still get you?
One year after London 2012, Scott reunited with Hull boxer Luke Campbell to test whether an Olympic gold medal still carried the extraordinary social currency it had immediately after the Games.
During 2012, Olympians had found doors opening everywhere when they produced their medals. Scott and Luke therefore went out to see whether the effect survived a year later, beginning with an attempt to secure a free taxi ride.
The experiment revived Scott’s earlier attempt to use a Blue Peter badge in the same way, although he freely admitted an Olympic gold medal occupied a rather different level of public affection.
Challenge six becomes Call Me Maybe
Scott had been DJing in Zante while Chris attended his sister’s wedding, so both had spent the weekend meeting strangers. Their challenge was to give every new person the same Radio 1 voicemail number and finish the conversation with the Carly Rae Jepsen premise: “Here’s my number, give me a call sometime.”
Neither presenter could access the voicemail until Monday morning. Scott had genuinely handed the number out while DJing. Chris admitted the wedding had distracted him and he remembered the challenge rather late.
When the messages were played, Scott had calls waiting. Chris had tried to rescue himself by asking people he knew to leave fake messages for Scott, but the accents and performances were hopelessly transparent. One particularly ominous voicemail turned out to be Alan Dedicoat helping with the setup.
The sabotage failed. Scott won challenge six and stretched his overall lead.
Chris survives the wedding
Chris returned exhausted but pleased after his sister’s wedding. He had managed the usher duties, then Scott had flown out for a brief DJ appearance of his own and spent much of the weekend signing fans’ foreheads.
The show resumed its second Breakfast week with Scott ahead on the scoreboard and another four daily challenges still to come.
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