It is said that Katy Perry “regrets” the “public show” that generated his trip to space, financed by Jeff Bezos, after receiving wide media attention.
The American pop star was part of the women’s team that participated on Monday, April 14 in a controversial 11 minutes to space.
Perry, 40, joined Jeff Bezos’s fiancee, American journalist Lauren Sánchez, along with Gayle King, the NASA Aisha Bowe exingeneum, the Civil Rights activist Amanda Nguyen and the film producer Kerianne Flynn, in a blue rocket launched launched from the Texas desert.
It was the first mission composed exclusively of women in more than six decades and the organizers described it as a historical event. However, it also generated great controversy, since some critics questioned whether it really represents the feminist moment trying to project.
While the organizers celebrated the flight as a milestone, others saw it as a marketing play at the service of the space tourism of Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin. Celebrities such as Emily Ratajkowski, Olivia Wilde and Amy Schumer were against.
Katy Perry was the main target of criticism for what was considered a “excessive” action during experience.
During the flight, Katy Perry raised a Margarita as she sang What to Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong. When landing, he kissed the ground in a gesture that generated teasing on social networks and then expressed in a press conference that he felt “super -consistent with love.”
According to a source cited by Dailymail.comKaty Perry does not regret having participated in the space trip, but he regrets having turned it into a “public show.”
“Katy does not regret having gone to space. It was an experience that changed his life. What he does regret is having made a media show,” said the source.
The source said Perry lamented some gestures that he now considers unnecessary, such as kissing the ground when landing or looking for attention inside the capsule.
The public’s response was negative and left the team with a “discouraging” feeling.
The Independent He has contacted Perry’s representative for comments.
This week, the American fast food chain Wendy’s mocked on social networks of the ‘Firework’ singer, asking: “Can we send it back?” in response to a publication about its return of space.
Later, they shared images of Perry kissing the ground after the landing, accompanied by the comment: “I kissed the ground and I liked it”, alluding to their 2008 theme ‘I kisse to Girl’.
Pop singer Kesha seemed to enjoy Wendy’s’s reaction, as she shared a photo smiling while taking a chain shake.
The hardest criticism came from figures such as the model and activist Emily Ratajkowski, who described the Blue Origin mission as “m *** to the end of time.”
“It’s as if this were beyond parody,” he said in a video posted on Instagram. “Do you say that you care about Mother Earth and that everything revolves around her, but you get on a spacecraft built and financed by a company that destroys the planet?”
“Look at the state of the world. Think about the amount of resources dedicated to putting these women in space,” he continued. “For what? What was Marketing’s goal there? I am literally disgusted.”
For her part, actress and director Olivia Wilde shared a viral meme by Perry kissing the ground and wrote in her Instagram history: “It seems that one billion dollars at least served for good memes.”
In the Perry Instagram comments section, several users also criticized the idea that “the rich go carelessly to space while our planet burns and people are starving.”
“Does this call to empower? It’s embarrassing,” said someone. Another added: “You would have to feel shame for making a trip to space only for fun, without thinking about the planet or the pollution that it generates.”
King replied that those who criticize the mission simply “do not understand what is happening.”
“We can all give testimony of how girls and young people are reacting to what this means,” he said. “There was a lot of work behind to get us and also go down.”
Instead, Perry seemed not to give too much importance to criticism. He shared a photo of the school lunch that he prepared for his daughter, Daisy Dove Bloom, the result of his relationship with the British actor Orlando Bloom.
“Back to the best reality: prepare the school food,” he wrote with emojis.
Daisy first appeared in public on Monday, dressed in an astronaut suit while watching her mother in the space launch.
Perry and Orlando Bloom would have made the “difficult decision” to present it publicly to be proud and understand that “it can achieve what is proposed.”
At a press conference, Perry thanked a journalist who called her astronaut and said that the trip “always dealt with love and belonging.”
“It’s not about singing my songs,” he said. “It is a collective energy up there. It is about us. Of opening space for women of the future, of occupying space and belonging,” he said. “And also of this wonderful world that we see out there and learn to value it. All this is for the good of the earth.”
The singer said he plans to write a song inspired by her trip to space.
Translation of Leticia Zampedri
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