The One That Got Away (Katy Perry) – 2010

Russell Brand, Orlando Bloom, and John Mayer have all been romantically linked to Katy Perry. These are just some of the ones we know of. Speculation is usually at its peak as to which of them her songs are based on. When Perry mentioned the subject of “The One That Got Away,” everyone was surprised.

But no one was more surprised than the Broadway star Josh Groban when Katy Perry revealed she wrote the song about him in 2011. When she was promoting her “Witness World Wide” album, she told James Corden that Groban had inspired the song. It became apparent that they had somewhat dated in the past.