The trip through the Katy Perry space that everyone criticizes, from Olivia Wilde to Emily Ratajkowski

Almost as soon as the pop star Katy Perry He returned from a very brief trip to space with a group organized by Jeff Bezos’s fiancee, Lauren Sánchezmocking comments began. In the magazine Slatethe journalist Heather Schwedel wrote: “It was one thing to understand intellectually that the publicized trip to space ‘only for women’ by Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez aboard a Blue Origin rocket would actually last only disappointing 11 minutes. But another thing was to see how it was developed in a live transmission of several hours, without breath, which culminated with Perry kissing the earth as a soldier who returns from the war and not as a multimillionaire who returns from the trip of Influencers shorter in the world ”.

Ellen Cushing, writing for another magazine, The Atlanticproclaimed that Perry was the “perfect pop star for a silly advertising trick.” Several celebrities, such as the actress Olivia Wilde and the model Emily RatajkowskiThey criticized Perry and Blue Origin’s flight. Even the X account of the Wendy’s fast food chain attacked Perry on Tuesday in a series of publications (including: we can send it back “). At first glance, this seemed a bit strange. Why did a fast food chain make fun of a pop star traveling to space?

But more than a decade after the composer Linda Perry He described Katy Perry’s music as microwave inflated corn, it could be forgiven that one wondered if Wendy’s messages were an old empty calorie supplier fighting with another.

After all, Perry is the singer who in her video “California Gurls”, of 2010, wore a bodice that looked like giant cupcakes from which whipped cream came out. Shortly after, Perry launched the single “There is a stranger in my bed,” he sang. “There is a hammering in my head. Winning throughout the room. Rosas flamenco in the pool.”

The comedian and actor Rob Delaney wrote a humor article for Vice About the song, in which he responded to the lyrics: “Is this a pacifier or a bruise?”, Saying: “Wait! There is a big difference”, and asked: “Did the aforementioned ‘unknown’ give you a punch in the neck?”

Perry, in case it serves something, has often defended other artists over the years. Often many of them have refused to return the favor. For example, Robynthe great Scandinavian priestess of Dance-Pop, who peeled Perry on her 2011 tour to promote “Last friday night” and “California Gurls.” When the magazine Time out From New York he asked Robyn if he was a fan of Perry, he laughed and said: “Do you know what? I already have to go.”

Of course, there is room for artists to age and grow (it is worth comparing the Beyoncé of the Destiny’s Child group with the beyoncé of Lemonade, Renaissance and Cowboy Carter). But Perry’s attempts to expand artistically have consisted above all in imitating the work of other women most acclaimed in music and receiving criticism for it.

In his criticism of Perry’s song, 2019, “Never Really Over”, the music critic of the Times, Jon Caramanicahe wrote: “A new Billie Eilish song by Katy Perry. A new Norwegian Spotifycore by Katy Perry’s bubble-pop from Taylor Swift of Katy Perry. A new Mumford & Sons song by Katy Perry. A new Abba song by Katy Perry. “And in fact,” Never Really Over “was inspired by a 2017 song called” Love You Like That “, by the Norwegian artist Dagnythat Dagny ended up having an author credit in the song.

To promote the single in an act held in Shanghai, he stood with his metallic dress pleated in front of a wind machine that turned his gigantic blonde extensions into a moving object. Just as Madonna stood at the Brit Awards, 1995, with her pleated silver dress before a wind machine that turned her gigantic blonde extensions into a moving object.

In 2024, Perry returned with a new album, 143whose title, he said, represented his “angel number.” The first single was “Woman’s World”, and in the video Perry appeared with a red and white handkerchief like Rosie, the riveter. Then, the camera backed away and showed it dressed as Daisy Dukes and a bikini with the American flag that barely hid its breasts. The lyrics talked about how it felt: “Sexy, sure of herself, so intelligent.” To prove it, Perry is whiskey in his mouth and lets him spill throughout his body.

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The song was co -written and co -produced by the American blockbuster Lukasz Gottwaldbetter known as Lukewho in 2014 was accused by pop singer Kesha of inappropriate sexual behavior. During the following 9 years, Kesha and Luke exchanged demands before reaching an extrajudicial agreement.

Criticism of the album 143 They were devastating. On the Metacritic website it has a score of 37 out of 100, which makes it the worst album of the site since 2011 and the album of a worse woman valued in the 24 years of history of that page.

Rich Judgewho writes for the portal dedicated to music PitchforkHe said that “the material is so devoid of something distinctive that it is to suspect that it is a joke or a cynical attempt to reach the kingdom of The bad thing that is good“. He Times He dedicated a whole podcast to the question of whether the album was “really so bad.” The answer, said the criticism Lindsay ZoLadzit was “complicated.” Even so, it was not exactly a compliment.

So Perry’s vision levitating inside a phallic rocket while clinging to a Margarita (a tribute to his daughter Daisy, who he said in interviews, decided to carry with him because these flowers are often described as “weeds” because they are really resistant) fit perfectly with the image he had designed for herself.

It was told to hype and saucer that the event had something vaguely with feminism, but in one of the many criticisms poured by celebrities after the space flight, actress Olivia Wilde succinctly summed up the experience on Instagram, sharing a photo of Perry with the flower along with the message: “One billion dollars bought some good memes, I suppose.”

The New York Times