Almost as soon as the pop star Katy Perry returned from a very brief journey to space with a group organized by Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez, the mocking comments began.
In Slate, 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 rocket A soldier who returns from the war and not as a multimillionaire who returns from the shortest influence trip in the world. ”
Ellen Cushing, writing for The Atlantic, proclaimed that Perry was the “perfect pop star for a silly advertising trick.” Several celebrities, such as actress Olivia Wilde and model Emily Ratajkowski, criticized Perry and Blue Origin’s flight.
Even Wendy’s’s x account attacked Perry on Tuesday in a series of publications (including: “We can send her 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 described Perry’s music as microwave popcorn, one could forgive that one asked 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 bra who looked like giant cupcakes from which whipped cream was coming out. (The point was included in the letter: “We will melt your palette”).
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: “Is the aforementioned ‘unknown’ bidded you in the neck?”
Perry, in case it serves something, has often defended other artists over the years. They have often refused to return the favor.
For example, Robyn, the great Scandinavian priestess of the pleasure dance-pop, who tallone Perry on his 2011 tour to promote “Last friday night” and “California Gurls”.
When Time Out New York asked Robyn if he was a Perry fan, he laughed and said: “Do you know what? I already have to go.”
Of course, there is room for artists to age and grow. (Compare, for example, Destiny’s Child Beyoncé with Beyoncé de 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 criticisms for it.
In his critic of the 2019 Perry song “Never Really Over”, the music critic of Times Jon Caramanica wrote: “A new song by Billie Eilish by Katy Perry. A new Norwegian song by Spotifycore by Katy Perry. A new song by Haim by Katy Perry. A new song by Katy Perry’s Pink Bubble-Pop by Taylor Swift by Katy Perry.
And in fact, “Never Really Over” was inspired both a 2017 song called “Love You Like That”, by the Norwegian artist Dagny, that Dagny ended up having an author’s 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 1995 Brit Awards 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 with 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.
The song was co -written and co -produced by the American blockbuster Lukasz Gottwald, better known as Luke, who in 2014 was accused by pop singer Kesha of inappropriate sexual behavior. During the following nine years, Kesha and Luke exchanged demands before reaching an extrajudicial agreement.
The criticisms of 143 They were devastating. In Metacritic, 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 valued in the 24 years of history of the site.
Rich Judge, who writes for Pitchfork, said that “the material is so devoid of something distinctive that it is suspected that it is a trolley or a cynical attempt to reach the kingdom of The bad thing that is good”
The Times dedicated a whole podcast to the question of whether the album was “really so bad.” (The answer, said Critics Lindsay ZoLadz, was “complicated.” Even so, it was not exactly a compliment).
So Perry’s vision levitating inside a phallic rocket as he clung 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 – he fit perfectly with the image he had designed for herself.
It was told to hype and saucer that the event had something to do vaguely with feminism, but in one of the numerous criticisms poured by celebrities after the space flight, 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.”
Jacob Bernstein reports on power and privileges for the Style section.
