Katy Perry just zoomed to space and back with Blue Origin’s all-female crew, and her on-ground antics were more cringe than cute.
The “E.T” singer, alongside Lauren Sánchez, Gayle King, and three others, blasted off on Jeff Bezos’s New Shepard rocket for an 11-minute joyride, crossing 100km above Earth. After landing in Texas, Katy Perry got dramatic, kissing the dirt and waving a daisy—named after her kid, Daisy—like she’d just survived an alien invasion.
While Gayle King rambled on about Perry’s mid-flight rendition of “What a Wonderful World,” the real show was her post-landing theatrics. “I feel so connected to love,” Katy Perry gushed, but cynics on X weren’t buying it.
Dr. Tanya Harrison from the Outer Space Institute nailed it: this was a marketing stunt dressed in a blue flight suit. Katy Perry is just another celeb flexing a $150,000 deposit for a few minutes of zero gravity.
Sure, the all-women crew might inspire some girls, but with folks on Earth struggling to buy eggs, as actress Olivia Munn pointed out on Today, Perry’s daisy-waving feels tone-deaf. Blue Origin’s claiming eco-cred with “no carbon emissions,” but experts like Professor Eloise Marais say water vapor from the rocket still messes with the ozone layer. So, while Perry’s kissing the ground, the planet’s quietly taking a hit.
Either way, this was the most pointless space “mission” in history that got the world’s attention.
