A lyric video for the remix was uploaded to Perry's YouTube channel on the same day and was directed by Jay Sprogell. The remix of "Cry About It Later" was officially announced two days later featuring addition production from Bruno Martini and was set to be released on April 23, 2021. On Apa potential collaboration between Perry and Luísa Sonza was hinted by the latter one on Twitter, where she quoted Perry's " I Kissed a Girl" title line. Althea Legaspi of Rolling Stone saw it as a "new whimsical spin to the Cinderella story" writing "rather than being the damsel in distress, she embraces female empowerment." Billboard 's Heran Mamo sees also a Dracula reference in the visual, with their conclusion on the video being "singer flips the script by shedding the damsel in distress trope to become the female heroine whose love interests follow no heteronormative happy endings." Luísa Sonza and Bruno Martini remix She tries to make up with males, but in the end of the visual she falls in love with a female. It shows a story of a woman who struggles to find a lover. It is an animated video directed by SykoSan which was animated by Future Power Station. Īs part of The Smile Video Series, "Cry About It Later" received a visual on August 28, 2020.
The song was also included in her setlist at the Lazada Super Party. "Cry About It Later" was later chosen to be a lead track on Perry's second compilation EP Scorpio SZN, which was released October 26, 2020. It was later sent to Russian radios on September 13. "Cry About It Later" was released as a third single off Perry's sixth studio album, Smile (2020), on August 28, 2020. Luísa Sonza (pictured) was a featured vocalist in Bruno Martini remix of the song. starts with "Never Really Over" and then you go to "Cry About It Later." It's like you know it's letting go of old love and then going to the club and then it continues on this emotional journey of rebirth and then ending with this strength of what makes a woman, so there's actually a little bit of a story line in the track listing of course. It's really an unabashed kind of party song in some way it's a little bit like "you gotta get under someone to get over someone." And if you look at the track listing right, I did it in kind of a way where it tells a little bit of a story - it's not identical to my story. I've actually had that song for two and a half years and decided it was perfect for this record.
"Cry About It Later" it's a sleeper in the way on the record.
The song gatherned mixed reviews from music critics, with them mostly pointing out how the next album track, "Teary Eyes", is identical in subject matter to "Cry About It Later" – postponement of sorrow in favor of short-term pleasure. It is a pop song written by Perry, Noonie Bao, Sasha Sloan, and song producer Oscar Holter. " Cry About It Later" is a song by Katy Perry from her sixth studio album, Smile.
"Cry About It Later" (The Smile Video Series) on YouTube