--- title: Katy Perry Gave a Speech After Las Vegas Shooting description: Katy Perry honored the victims of the Las Vegas shooting at her concert last night, telling her fans that "no one's going to steal our joy." canonical: https://time.com/4967069/katy-perry-honors-las-vegas-shooting-victims-at-concert/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-03T15:52:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:52.298Z og:title: Katy Perry United the Crowd With a Speech at Her Concert og:description: "Music brings us together, and it should never be a place of fear" og:url: https://time.com/4967069/katy-perry-honors-las-vegas-shooting-victims-at-concert/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb1d27c67c7dd41c9/6988e04de76ad2644462f655/gettyimages-856836834.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Katy Perry & Noah Cyrus In Concert - New York, New York og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Katy Perry United the Crowd With a Speech at Her Concert twitter:description: "Music brings us together, and it should never be a place of fear" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb1d27c67c7dd41c9/6988e04de76ad2644462f655/gettyimages-856836834.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'No One’s Going to Take Our Power From Us.' 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(Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 02: Katy Perry performs onstage at Madison Square Garden on October 2, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) Michael Loccisano—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 3, 2017 3:52 PM UTC [Katy Perry](http://time.com/4914066/taylor-swift-katy-perry-feud-timeline/) took time during her [_Witness_](http://time.com/4812588/taylor-swift-streaming-katy-perry-memes/) tour concert in New York City on Monday night to pay homage to the victims of [the tragic Las Vegas shooting](http://time.com/4966837/las-vegas-shooting-motive-weapons/). The shooting, which left more than 50 dead and hundreds injured at a country music festival, is considered to be [the deadliest mass shooting](http://time.com/4966656/las-vegas-mass-shooting-acts-heroism/) in modern U.S. history. At the concert, Perry encouraged her fans to keep their hopes up in spite of the horrific events of the day. “I want to take this moment right now for Las Vegas here tonight,” Perry said. “Listen, I know it’s been a tough day. But music is special. It’s magic. It’s something that unites us. There’s a community here that we need to take care of, that we need to surround, that we need to lift up, and I know that we all feel really disconnected at times but I know music brings us together, and it should never be a place of fear, right?” She then asked the crowd to engage with each other and reminded them that no one could “steal our joy.” “I’m going to do a little exercise because you know, we all think we’re connected by all the likes and the posts and stuff like that but sometimes we forget we need to touch each other,” she said. “We need to see each other. We need to communicate with each other. So just like one of those hippie dippie exercises, turn to your right or your left and if you don’t know the person next to you, introduce yourself and say hello. Maybe shake their hand! And if you have the guts, just say ‘I love you!’ No one’s going to steal our joy. No one’s going to wilt our flowers or clip our wings. No one’s going to take our power from us.” Watch below. > [](https://twitter.com/julezdel24/status/915059651644882944) ## Transcript [00:00] It's okay to mourn those you love. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [00:02] [ NOISE ] [ SOUND ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4967069/katy-perry-honors-las-vegas-shooting-victims-at-concert/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4967069/katy-perry-honors-las-vegas-shooting-victims-at-concert/"},"headline":"'No One’s Going to Take Our Power From Us.' 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