Production and release Before the release of an accompanying music video for "Hey Hey Hey", Perry began teasing it with a series of
Marie Antoinette-themed pictures of herself. The clip was subsequently uploaded onto the singer's official YouTube channel on December 20, 2017, with a behind-the-scenes video premiering on January 4, 2018 on the same platform. When posting the clip on her
Instagram account, Perry added the caption: After a year of peaks and valleys (remember, it's all a journey), I wanted to end 2017 with a fun, triumphant piece of pop candy. Just think of it as a glam little stocking stuffer from me to you. 'Hey Hey Hey' is one of my favorite songs from "Witness" and for me, it embodies the fighting spirit I always want you to be able to find within yourself, and to see in me. The song's video was filmed in
Beverly Hills, California by
Isaac Rentz, and was produced by Nina Dluhy-Miller and Danny Lockwood. Six backup dancers were hired; Megan Lawson was credited as their choreographer. During the accompanying behind-the-scenes video, Perry resumed the clip's message: "You don't have to be just one thing if you're a woman, you can be all things. And just 'cause you're vulnerable does not make you weak". while also incorporating modern elements. and is given a brown drink ("Napoleon's Coffee") and her smartphone, where she communicates in-video with Prince Piggy (played by Tad Brown The clip ends with Perry running with her sword towards the prince and his servants. and Nolfi from
Entertainment Weekly described it as "candy-colored". Evan Jorssen of
NRJ likened the three women seen in the clip accompanying Perry to characters from the 1993 American
comedy horror fantasy film Hocus Pocus and the 1899 French film
Cinderella. Julien Goncalves of
Pure Charts compared parts of the video's concept to
Madonna's live performance of "
Vogue" (1990) at the
1990 MTV Video Music Awards. In a negative review, Highsnobiety's Gorsler wrote: "The visuals are, to put it kindly, less than stellar, with over-the-top production and a lavishly nonsensical plot making the music video one of the weirdest things to come out this year. But all that is to be expected from an artist like Katy Perry, who is famous for her eccentricity." He also criticized the heavy product placement and the use of an air horn rap trumpet sound at the beginning of the video, which "sound[s] like Katy Perry spent a little too much time playing around with Virtual DJ".
Vice magazine also slightly criticized the product placement sequences. ==Live performances==