Katy Perry Dark Horse music video is mesmerizing. Katy Perry transforms into a man-eating evil queen. Katy Perry's music video for "Dark Horse" it also almost historically accurate.

Katy Perry released the music video for her new single "Dark Horse." Katy Perry plays an Egyptian queen named Katy Patra, who has a killer love and some heavily decorated teeth. Katy Perry's Cleopatra, well, Katy-Patra, will rule the modern ancient world.

Katy shows off her fantasy hair and makeup as proscribed in an ancient scroll. "According to legend there was a magic queen in Memphis, Egypt. Every eclipse, kids would travel from Brooklyn to Babylon to win her heart. If she fell in love, you'd be top dawg. If she didn't, her wrath would leave you whimpering.  Her name is Katy Pätra."

Perry's new "Dark Horse" music video premiered on February 20

Katy Perry and Juicy J's "Dark Horse" topped the charts at No. 1 where it has stayed for the three straight weeks. It is the third single off Perry's "Prism" album.

The new single features rapper Juicy J, who told MTV News that Perry is "really a genius. She was by the mixing board and telling the guy what to take in and take out. She's really hands-on with her music. She knows music."
Katy Perry's Dark Horse music video plays on a theme of ancient Egyptian magic. After accusations of Katy Perry satanic performance at Grammys, Egyptian Queen Katy Patra plays further into the gossip by tuning into her Eye of Horus and turning her suitor (John Mayer?) into a dog.

Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" video is set in ancient Egypt. The Dark Horse lyrics conjure a magical ethos. Katy Perry's Egypt-themed "Dark Horse" may look a little too Hollywood to accurately reflect Egyptian history, but Time.com says Egyptologists say the video is closer than you might think. Well, there were no Twinkies in Ancient Egypt.

The director was conjuring the duality of Memphis, the Memphis of Ancient Egypt and the rising Hip Hop artistic community in Memphis, Tenn., that gave rise Juicy J.

Director Mathew Cullen (who also directed Katy Perry's "California Gurls" video) explained "[Perry] said that there's actually a place in Egypt called Memphis, and she thought it was so interesting that Juicy J is from Memphis, Tenn. She basically came to me and said, 'I want to do something Egyptian and I want to combine it with Memphis hip-hop.' That's music to my ears - when an artist has a couple concepts that they want to mash up to create something fresh."

Cullen didn't have Egyptologists at the shoot, Katy Perry's team went online to research the land of the Pharaohs and pyramids so they could "respect the symbolism" of what Cullen calls our "shared collective mythology."
Cullen explains to Time.com "We're only here because we build on the stories of every human being since the beginning of mankind. The most important thing is that when you create something, and this is actually something Katy and I worked to do - you bring a new spin to it."

Time.com contacted Egyptologists to get to the bottom of Katy Perry's references and found the music video was closer than most would think.

Robert K. Ritner, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Chicago, told Time.com "I find this really very wonderful, but I'm willing to bend my formal standards. Whoever put this together actually knew something about the myth of Cleopatra. There are a number of features in here that I could use in class."

Ritner, along with and David P. Silverman, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Pennsylvania and Curator of Penn Museum's Egyptian Section, pointed out that Ancient Egyptian art was based on colors that appear in nature. Katy's turquoise make-up was used in Ancient Egypt, you can still see the colors in Egyptian tombs.

Cleopatra couldn't really make lightning bolts come out of her hands, but the Queen's subjects did believe their rulers were part of a divine royalty.

The paintings that you see behind Perry's throne in the video are based on real paintings found in Egyptian thone.

The Eye of Horus was an Egyptian symbol of health and stability, not the Illuminati.

Ritner says "The many discussions of the Illuminati are nonsense." 

Dark Horse lyrics are:

I knew you were You were gonna come to me 

And here you are But you better choose carefully

'Cause I, I'm capable of anything 

Of anything and everything

 Make me your Aphrodite 

Make me your one and only 

But don't make me your enemy,

your enemy,

your enemy
So you wanna play with magic 

Boy, you should know what you're falling for 

Baby do you dare to do this? 

Cause I'm coming at you like a dark horse 

Are you ready for, ready for 

A perfect storm,

perfect storm 

Cause once you're mine,

once you're mine 

There's no going back

 Mark my words 

This love will make you levitate 

Like a bird 

Like a bird without a cage 

But down to earth If you choose to walk away,

don't walk away

It's in the palm of your hand now baby 

It's a yes or no, no maybe 

So just be sure before you give it all to me 

All to me, give it all to me

So you wanna play with magic Boy,

you should know what you're falling for 

Baby do you dare to do this? 

Cause I'm coming at you like a dark horse 

Are you ready for, ready for 

A perfect storm,

perfect storm 

Cause once you're mine,

once you're mine (love trippin') 

There's no going back

[Juicy J - Rap Verse] Uh She's a beast I call her Karma (come back) She eats your heart out Like Jeffrey Dahmer (woo) Be careful Try not to lead her on Shorty's heart is on steroids Cause her love is so strong You may fall in love When you meet her If you get the chance you better keep her She's sweet as pie but if you break her heart She'll turn cold as a freezer That fairy tale ending with a knight in shining armor She can be my Sleeping Beauty I'm gon' put her in a coma Woo! Damn I think I love her Shorty so bad, I'm sprung and I don't care She ride me like a roller coaster Turned the bedroom into a fair (a fair!) Her love is like a drug I was tryna hit it and quit it But lil' mama so dope I messed around and got addicted

So you wanna play with magic Boy,

you should know what you're falling for (you should know) 

Baby do you dare to do this? 

Cause I'm coming at you like a dark horse

(like a dark horse) 

Are you ready for,

ready for

(ready for) 

A perfect storm,

perfect storm

(a perfect storm) 

Cause once you're mine,

once you're mine

(mine) 

There's no going back