High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" is a song by American recording artist Katy Perry. The song was produced by Lukasz Gottwald and Max Martin, who also co-wrote the song with Perry and Bonnie McKee for Perry`s third studio album, Teenage Dream. Perry stated that she was inspired to write the track after a night of wild partying and streaking. It was released as the album`s fifth single on June 6, 2011 through Capitol Records with a remix featuring American hip-hop recording artist Missy Elliott released to U.S. radio stations and digital retailers on August 8, 2011.. Musically, the song is prominent dance-pop with influences of pop-rock, and the lyrics are about drunken fun and debauchery. `Broke the law but I forgot` is often blanked out in radio versions of the song.