About

You're Like An Indian Summer In the Middle Of Winter is a selection of memorable lyrics from the song "Thinking Of You" by pop artist Katy Perry, released as the fourth track on her 2008 album One Of The Boys. The song is often celebrated by fans as one of her best tracks and peaked at the number 29 song on the Billboard Hot 100 following its release. In May 2025, the "Indian Summer" portion of the song went viral on TikTok as the subject of memes and lip dubs, many of which poke fun at the way Katy Perry sings the lyrics.

Origin

On June 17th, 2008, Katy Perry released the song "Thinking Of You" as the penultimate single off her album One Of The Boys. A music video for the song was posted to Katy Perry's YouTube^[1] channel on January 12th, 2009, garnering over 155 million views in 16 years. The song has gone on to be considered one of her best singles by critics and fans, earning the number nine spot in Glamour's^[2] "Katy Perry's 10 Best (and Worst) Songs, Ranked" article in 2020.

You're like an Indian summer in the middle of winter
Like a hard candy with a surprise center
How do I get better once I've had the best?
You said there's tons of fish in the water
So the waters I will test

Popularity On TikTok

In 2025, the section of the song where Katy Perry sings, "You're like an Indian summer in the middle of winter" became the subject of memes and reactions on TikTok. One of the earliest known examples of this was posted by TikToker^[3] @caseyistrash47 on March 21st, 2025, in which they lip dub to the song under the caption, "She was proNOUUNCong in the studio that day," garnering over 2.8 million views in two months.

Spread

The song continued to inspire lip dubs and memes over the following weeks. On April 2nd, 2025, TikToker^[4] @stefanb2000 posted a video doing an exaggerated lip dub of the song while eating noodles, garnering over 1.6 million views in a month. On April 3rd, the same TikToker^[5] posted another lip dub video to the song, garnering over 3.6 million views in the same span of time.

On May 5th, TikToker^[6] @proletariat.repair posted a video in which he blows his mustache upward to the tune of the song, as if lip dubbing it with his mustache, garnering over 3.3 million views in three days.

On the same day, TikToker^[7] @fartsmella_02 posted a video lip dubbing to the song while standing in front of a SpongeBob shower curtain, garnering over 7.2 million views in three days.

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