Chris Ryan, also of MTV, inferred that the song was aimed at Perry's ex-boyfriend Travie McCoy, while New York magazine journalist Amanda Dobbis described it as "another break-up anthem".
What we can say, though, is that her books are full of girls developing "red hot" pashes on one another, breaking up, sobbing and coming together for a cuddle in bed.
Four years and another break-up later, he's recorded an answer song.
Second most popular was X Factor winner James Arthur's hit "Impossible" (6.5 per cent) followed by another break-up track - Adele's "Someone Like You" which accounted for 3.8 per cent of all songs sung.
She appears to have bounced back from her medical woes in late 2011 when her throat problems - which had threatened to permanently wreck her singing voice - forced her to cancel a string of concerts Adele - who won a record six Grammy Awards in the US last year - has said she will never write another break-up record as she is "done being a bitter witch".
If you start a relationship from a place of neediness and despair rather than a space of health and sincerity, it will end with another break-up.
Each VH1 jukebox needle-drop is clumsily timed to inform its audience that it's time for another break-up, sex scene, or montage of riding in a fancy jet or fast car.
For years she had tried to be the perfect wife and mother but now, divorced, with two sons, having gone through another break-up and in despair about her future, she felt as if she'd failed at it all, and she was tired of it.
Yet another would break up Harry van Arsdale High School, a vocational school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, into smaller schools with strong vocational and academic programs.
