California Gurls was released in 2010 as the lead single from Katy Perry's album Teenage Dream, featuring Snoop Dogg. The song celebrated California culture with a bright pop sound and quickly reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of the biggest summer hits of the year. Its chorus has since become a lasting shorthand for sunshine and West Coast fun online, regularly appearing in travel videos, summer edits and nostalgic throwbacks more than a decade after its release.