Katy Perry doesn’t want a darkish horse to launch a message into the stratosphere.
After her April 14 journey past Earth’s ambiance on an all-female Blue Origin area tourism flight, Perry touched down in Mexico Metropolis to kick off The Lifetimes Tour on Wednesday. Throughout the efficiency, the singer had a message that appeared to hit again at critics nonetheless grappling together with her galactic getaway.
“Has anyone ever called your dreams crazy?” Perry requested the group, in keeping with Folks.
Perry, nonetheless on a excessive from her journey, additionally had an out-of-this-world response to 2 viewers members wearing blue fits harking back to her personal mission apparel.
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“I want these gentlemen to come on stage because they are dressed like my most current timeline,” she mentioned.
Forward of the launch, Perry described the flight through Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin as an “important moment” for business area journey and girls. However critics — from folks on social media to fellow celebrities — weren’t over the moon with the 10-minute area jaunt, which price an undisclosed amount of cash. In a TikTok video posted on April 14, writer and mannequin Emily Ratajkowski shared her ideas.
“That space mission this morning? That’s end-time shit. Like, this is beyond parody,” she mentioned. “Saying that you care about Mother Earth and it’s about Mother Earth, and you’re going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s single-handedly destroying the planet?”
Perry’s fellow crew members — six girls, together with journalist Gayle King and Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez — weren’t shy about defending the voyage.
King, whose response earlier than boarding sparked viral memes, had comets of her personal to hurl again.
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In an April 16 interview, the journalist tried to justify the journey by remarking that it could be good for the planet in the long term.
King additionally expressed one want, which is that “people would do more due diligence.”
“And then my question is, ‘Have y’all been to space?’” she mentioned. “Go to space, or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and how they do, and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing.’”
