Unconditionally

The video for ’Unconditionally’ is Aya Tanimura’s choreography made visible—careful, composed, dancers moving around Katy Perry like she’s the still point everything orbits. But the song doesn’t need any of that. It’s heartbreak stripped down, which is maybe the only way a song like this survives anymore. There’s no irony, no distance, just someone saying ’I love you exactly as you are’ and meaning it completely. That kind of earnestness kills you.