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Katy Perry knows people are saying about her.
And now she has something to say about it accordingly.
Last week, as you know, Lauren Sanchez, Gale King and Perry appeared in space last week as part of a mission aboard the new Shepherd Rocket from Blue Origin.
The ship’s entire female crew set out on a flight that took them beyond the Earth’s atmosphere threshold, lasting a total of 11 minutes.
This so-called mission sparked Perry’s ock laughs, especially as subsequent social media posts kissed the ground and acted like she had been away from her hometown planet for months.
“It was very deep. I don’t know if I saw Katy Perry talking about it, but she’s basically the leading figure now,” Joe Logan said in one example of the backlash.
Even Heck, Martha Stewart got shots with Perry in a very dramatic way the singer responded to the launch of this rocket.
Perry herself doesn’t speak much publicly in response, but she performed in Mexico on Thursday night and asked the audience.
“Have anyone ever called your dreams crazy?”
To be clear, no one has accused Perry of just wanting to be like an astronaut.
Criticism comes in multiple parts. The cost of this launch (more than $1 billion, perhaps even spent in a better way for society)…for the way many people tried to label this mission as a positive step for women…and especially for the way Perry responded to the efforts.
Meanwhile, in this same concert, Perry invited two fans who arrived on the blue spaceship for her lifelong tour.
“I want these gentlemen to come on stage because they’re dressed like my latest timeline,” she said on stage.
To be a little fair, Perry I have it In the past, major expeditions of this kind I had it It was a lifelong goal.
Certainly, she told Elle ahead of its April 14th release that she “wanted to go to space for almost 20 years.”
“I was researching all the commercial options I could think of,” Perry added. “Even when Blue Origin was first talking about commercial trips to space, I was like, ‘Sign up! I’m lined up first.”
That’s great.
But the way Perry went all this way has turned off a lot of people.
Celebrities like Emily Ratajkowski have denounced the mission, stating that to women in science “it looks like an advancement optically.”
In fact, she described the decision of Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos to take his fiancé Sanchez as “it’s not a progression to bring in space for space tourism.”
“Instead, this speaks to the fact that we absolutely live in Olihead,” Ratajkowski continued in a Tiktok video on April 15th.
“While there are very few groups of people interested in going to the space to lease their lives a new lease, most people on the planet are people who are worried about paying rent or having dinner for their kids.”
