From Gwen Stefani to Katy Perry or Kim Kardashian: The magic drift of some Democratic celebrities | People
The space trip aboard a Blue rocket that Katy Perry and five other women made on April 14 has ended up damaging the already reduced public image of the pop singer – he has said this week feel like a “piñata” after the hatred poured in networks by their Haters-. The Californian traveled together with the reporter and fiance of Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez, the journalist and presenter of CBS Gayle King, the Aisha Bowe aerospace engineer, the activist Amanda Nguyen and the producer Kerianne Flynn in one of the rockets of the company owned by the founder of Amazon in a journey that barely exceeded 10 minutes Broken half a million dollars per person.
The trip has made rivers of ink run both in the traditional media, with hundreds of opinion articles, as in social networks, where the memes about Katy Perry have multiplied. “Can we send it back to space?” You could read in some comments. And famous as actresses Amy Schumer and Olivia Munn or the model Emily Ratajkowski have criticized the trip. “You say that you care about Mother Earth and you are going to climb to a spacecraft built and financed by a company that, without anyone’s help, is destroying the planet,” said Rratajkowski in a video. While the singer showed her support to Kamala Harris during the presidential campaign, her approach to Jeff Bezos (one of those responsible for the electoral success of Donald Trump) has been the drop that has filled the glass for many of her followers, discontent with the artist in recent times.
It all started with his return album, 143released last summer. For the first single from the album, Woman’s Worldproduced producer Lukasz Gottwald, better known as DR.LUKEwith whom he had worked on many occasions until the singer Kesha accused him of rape in 2014. While everything was resolved with an agreement by both parties after a prolonged judicial battle for a decade, the name of Dr. Luke has always been linked to the controversy, already Katy Perry was affected to collaborate on an issue with an alleged message of female empowerment with a man accused of rape. Now, his publicized space trip by Bezos, the man who prohibited The Washington Post (Diary of his property) Ask for the vote for Kamala Harris, he has further emphasized his public image, at least for part of the United States.
Katy Perry has not been, much less, the only openly Democratic celebrity that seems to be showing sympathies with Trump and her acolytes. Kim Kardashian, who for years has shown his support for the Democrats, received a wave of negative comments when sharing on his Instagram profile, where more than 357 million followers brings together, an image of Melania Trump on the day of taking her husband’s possession, a fact interpreted as a sample of support. Unlike other millmillonarium friends of his circle, Kardashian did not attend the act, but his possible turn to republicanism has not gone unnoticed. In an article collected by The Cut Last January, entitled, Is it now Republican Kim Kardashian?, The businesswoman’s links with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were analyzed, with whom she has worked to develop her reform campaigns of the US penitentiary system. If last November Kardashian shared a video interacting with Optimus, the humanoid robot developed by Tesla, only a few weeks ago unleashed controversy when posing in a photo shoot in the magazine Perfect Magazine next to the controversial Cybertruck of the company. “I will not buy your products again” or “tell me what side you are without telling me what side you are” are some of the thousands of messages that can be read in the Post.
Gwen Stefani’s political turn has not been unnoticed either. The one that was one of the most relevant artists of his generation in the late nineties and early 2000s, has held a low profile for several years, with few public appearances. However, its name has been circulating on the Internet for several weeks, but not precisely because of its work. Non -Doubt’s ex -Vocalist has given unintentional clues about her possible change in political position, although rumors became strong when a few months ago she expressed her enthusiasm for actor’s interview Jonathan Rouumie with the presenter Tucker Carlson, well known in the United States for her support for the ultra -right and for encouraging conspiracy theories.
More than a decade ago, Stefani was one of the many celebrities who acted in fundraising campaigns for the election of Barack Obama as president. Moreover, she was invited to the last state dinner that the Democratic president celebrated in 2016, but since then the comments about her possible approach to more conservative positions have only growed. So much so that in an interview for the magazine Paper In 2021, the journalist asked him directly if he was now a Republican. Stefani did not want to position himself or make any political statement. The last thing that has caught the attention of his fans (and detractors) has been his collaboration with Hallow, an application to pray. Stefani’s alleged metamorphosis has not surprised everyone, since the artist’s link in 2021 with the country singer Blake Shelton, openly conservative and recognized voter of Trump, made many ties to many. Of course, marry someone who votes differently that you mean nothing, but it is more suspected to follow the influencer And extreme right -right commentator Candace Owens in X, as some users have highlighted in the social network.
Leaving openly characters Trumpists Like Kanye West or actors Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight, recently appointed “Hollywood Ambassadors” by Trump, support for Republicans by the entertainment industry has always been rather timid compared to Democrats. The change of administration has silenced many stars and proof of this was the absence of messages and condemnations to Trump’s controversial government decisions in the last awards season and in the Oscar’s own gala. All this, together with some gestures and behaviors of great celebrities, gives the impression of being in front of a magic drift of several celebrities that, at least, normalize or minimize the aggressive policies of the US president.
