The singer regrets the media circus after her 11 minutes flight with Blue Origin, while criticism for frivolity and environmental impact do not cease
Katy Perry has already brought her big. The singer has just starred One of the most criticized moments of his career After its 11 -minute space trip with Blue Origin, the space company of Jeff Bezos, on April 14. What should be a historical milestone (the first space flight with exclusively female crew) It has become a real headache for the artist. And it is that the saying already says: from heaven to hell there is only one step … or in this case, a rocket.
As Futurism has reported, Perry is repentant of all media paraphernalia that rode around the trip. The singer did not calculate that her suborbital trip, far from being applauded, was going to become meat and criticisms in equal parts.
A trip that has turned against
The thing has not gone well. The crew, which included the fiancee of Bezos, Lauren Sánchez, and the presenter Gayle King, has faced a flood of criticism. Perry, with its theatrical and exaggerated gesturesit has been the preferred white: he kissed the ground when landing, stirred a Margarita in the air and marked a What Firm World In full extravidity. The result? Thousands of people calling her false and opportunistic.
The launch of Blue Origin is not an isolated fact, but part of this new fashion among multimillionaires tech. Google’s ex-care has just joined the space competition, challenging Musk and company. A career that already generates more suspicion than applause.
Although Blue Origin presumes that your New Shepard rocket, which uses propulsion technology similar to experimental engines, only emits water vapor, reality is much less green. Each trip generates between 75 and 1,000 tons of co₂ per passenger, more than what a person broadcasts in a whole year.
While other entrepreneurs seek less polluting alternatives, Perry has taken sticks from all fronts. Emily Ratajkowski criticized her for “defending the earth while using a rocket of those who destroy it.” Even Wendy’s joined a tweet he asked: “Can we send it back?”, He later had to erase.
Sources close to the singer say that Perry did not expect such a negative reaction. Privately laments the video inside the capsule and that kiss to the ground that, seeking to be emotional, was imposed. Although he continues to defend that the experience was special for her, he acknowledges that the thing got out of hand.
This episode is only the last chapter in Perry’s chopped popularity dropwhich has been away from his successes of yesteryear. Since 2017, with the commercial failure of her “Witness” album, the singer has chained stumbling blocks and decisions that have reduced their cultural relevance. This space trip, far from relaunching its image, seems to confirm that It no longer connects with the public as before.
With a price of 28 million per seat, these space trips are a luxury that clashes frontally with real problems That we have down here. And the public, increasingly conscious and less impressionable, is no longer willing to applaud anything, not even a star that was ever indisputable.
