--- title: Katy Perry Took Over Hillary Clinton's Instagram description: Hillary Clinton got some major star power from Katy Perry for her Iowa rally on Saturday canonical: https://time.com/4086370/katy-perry-hillary-clinton-instagram/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-25T18:31:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:39:37.760Z article:section: Politics og:title: Katy Perry Took Over Hillary Clinton's Instagram og:description: Hillary Clinton got some major star power from Katy Perry og:url: https://time.com/4086370/katy-perry-hillary-clinton-instagram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe4ae4b888841002/698869c60a4a224cf89c6b8f/gettyimages-494138916.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Democratic Presidential Candidates Attend Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Katy Perry Took Over Hillary Clinton's Instagram twitter:description: Hillary Clinton got some major star power from Katy Perry twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe4ae4b888841002/698869c60a4a224cf89c6b8f/gettyimages-494138916.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Katy Perry Took Over Hillary Clinton's Instagram for Iowa Rally > Sponsored content. 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The singer took over the presidential candidate’s[Instagram](https://instagram.com/hillaryclinton/) account and blew it up like a “Firework.” “Katy Perry here, taking over Hills’ IG today for the rally in Iowa,” she wrote. “The stage is set, and the nails are pressed. T-minus 1.5 hours before we Roar together.” Perry continued her takeover by snapping photos of her niece playing with a Hillary Clinton coloring book, and herself posing next to a rally volunteer and with the woman of the hour. “My birthday gift to fellow Scorpio, Hillary, says it all,” she wrote next to a photo of a POTUS necklace. Check out Perry’s snaps below. Former President [Bill Clinton](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/07/stephen-colbert-bill-clinton-donald-trump) accompanied Perry in downtown Des Moines for the rally, which took place before the Iowa Democratic Party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. Other celebs who have previously helped drum up support and money for Clinton’s campaign include Beyoncé, Bryan Cranston, Ben Affleck, and Leonardo DiCaprio. [_This article originally appeared on EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/25/hillary-clinton-katy-perry-instagram-takeover) ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] [00:05] Thank [00:11] you. [00:17] Thank [00:23] you all so much. [ APPLAUSE ] [00:28] [ MUSIC ] Thank you. [00:37] [ APPLAUSE ] Thank you Iowa. Everybody [00:42] ready to make a political revolution? Every [00:47] day I will fight for the public interest, not the corporate [00:51] interest. I will not abandon any segment of american [00:54] society whether your gay or black or latino, poor [00:59] working class. Just because it is politically [01:03] expedient at a given time. New Leadership? Or [01:08] the same old battles of our past? Actions are words. [01:12] Do we want to get things done? Or do we just wanna [01:15] keep kinda shouting past each other? I'm not running [01:19] for my husband third term and I'm not running for [01:22] Barack Obama's third term. I'm running for my first [01:26] term. [ APPLAUSE ] [01:29] And I'm running as a proud [01:33] democrat. [ APPLAUSE ] All [01:38] right, Iowa Democrats. Let's give our Democratic [01:40] presidential candidates another round. 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