Katy Perry The One That Got Away

I think this song is highly relatable to anyone that has loved and lost.

The video was released on November 11, 2011. It begins with an old Perry at a modernistic home with a man who is presumably her husband. She makes herself a cup of coffee and thinks about the past when the song begins. As she sits on her bed, it cuts back to a younger Perry with her boyfriend, an artist (played by Diego Luna). They paint portraits of each other, dress up, and dance at a party. He gives her a tattoo with hot ink. These scenes are inter-cut with shots of the older Perry sadly reminiscing, as she sits on her bed at night.

In the flashback, the younger Perry and her boyfriend are seen fighting, culminating in her splashing red paint on one of his elaborate paintings after he did the same to one of her paintings. He leaves angrily and drives away. The angry boyfriend is seen driving; he opens the sun visor above him and finds the veil of the dress Perry wore when partying.  As he stares at it, he does not notice until too late the large boulders on the road. He tries to avoid running into them and crashes off a cliff.

The final sequence is focused on the present time  in which the older Perry is seen standing at the cliffside where the car had crashed, while Johnny Cash's cover of "You Are My Sunshine" plays in the background (which may be a reference to the lyrics "I was June and you were my Johnny Cash"). The ghost of the painter appears and the former lovers  holds hands  as in old times  , revealing matching tattoos on their hands. However, the song in the background is cut when the ghost vanishes, and the older Perry slowly walks away from the cliffside.