
According to the sheet music published by Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc on, "Chained to the Rhythm" is in A minor set in a 4Ĥ time signature at a moderate tempo of 95 beats per minute. It features a guest appearance from Marley and background vocals from Furler. The song contains "slap bass" with elements of electric guitar and synths. It has a length of three minutes and fifty-seven seconds. Perry co-wrote the track with Marley, Sia, and its producers Max Martin and Ali Payami. "Chained to the Rhythm" is a pop, disco and dancehall song that contains a midtempo beat. Sia (pictured) co-wrote the song with Perry and also contributed with background vocals.

Erin Jansen from USA Today wrote "we're shown footage of a hamster running tirelessly on a hamster wheel, a visualization of the popular idiom meaning to perform activities repetitiously without progress." She also mentioned that, "Paired with Perry's lyrics, there's definitely a message to be absorbed." Composition It features a hamster inside a doll house while a pair of human hands prepares miniature food for the hamster. Aya Tanimura directed an accompanying lyric video. The song earned over three million streams within twenty-four hours of its Spotify release, breaking the record for the highest first-day streaming for a single track by a female artist.
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Capitol Records released the song for download two days later as the album's lead single and onto American radio stations on February 14. On February 8, 2017, in a promotional campaign for "Chained to the Rhythm," disco balls playing the song were left in various international cities. After the two spoke in January 2017, he "delivered the message that I had to deliver" while recording the track, describing it as "one of unification and love". Skip Marley told Billboard he and Perry made the song together after she heard his track "Lions" and wanted to collaborate with him. She "channeled her frustration into new music" and said creating the track "was a nice exercise of like writing a song that at first listen is a really fun song, but I guess the more you dive into it, it has a different sub-text". The singer felt "kind of depressed" after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in November 2016, and "definitely didn't want to write a club banger" when the "world" was "on fire". Perry described her fifth album Witness as a "360-degree liberation" record, with "Chained to the Rhythm" representing a "political liberation". Perry and Marley promoted the song with live performances at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, the 2017 Brit Awards, and the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards. It was nominated for three awards at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. It features Perry in an amusement park called "Oblivia".

Mathew Cullen directed the song's music video, which was released February 21, 2017.

The track reached number one in Poland and Hungary, as well as the top 5 in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the top 10 in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. "Chained to the Rhythm" is a pop, disco and dancehall song, with lyrics about political awareness. Capitol Records released the track on February 10, 2017, as a digital download. The artists co-wrote the track with its producers Max Martin and Ali Payami, with additional writing from Sia. It features vocals from Jamaican singer Skip Marley. " Chained to the Rhythm" is a song by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry that served as the lead single from her fifth studio album, Witness. Single by Katy Perry featuring Skip Marley
