Katy Perry is addressing the backlash she’s acquired following the all-female Blue Origin house flight she took half in earlier this month, together with journalist Gayle King and billionaire Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez.
In the remark part of a Katy Perry Brasil fan web page put up on Instagram, the pop star wrote a prolonged message on April 29, assuring followers that she is doing nicely amid the criticism she’s acquired in the previous couple of weeks.
Under a put up that includes a billboard for Perry’s “Lifetimes Tour,” which started on April 23 in New Mexico, the star thanked followers for his or her assist, writing, “I’m so grateful for you guys. We’re in this beautiful and wild journey together. I can continue to remain true to myself, heart open and honest especially because of our bond.”
“Please know I am ok, I have done a lot work around knowing who I am, what is real and what is important to me,” the Hot N Cold singer continued.
She mentioned that her therapist advised her one thing years in the past “that has been a game changer,” including, “‘No one can make you believe something about yourself that you don’t already believe about yourself’ and if I ever do have any feelings about it then it’s an opportunity to investigate the feeling underneath it.”
“When the ‘online’ world tries to make me a human piñata, I take it with grace and send them love, cause I know so many people are hurting in so many ways and the internet is very much so a dumping ground for unhinged and unhealed,” she wrote.
A screenshot of Katy Perry’s Instagram remark.
Katy Perry / Instagram
“What’s real is seeing your faces every night, singing in unison, reading your notes, feeling your warmth. I find people to lock eyes and sing with and I know we are healing each other in a small way when I get to do that.”
Perry mentioned she’s “not perfect” and that she has “omitted that word from my vocabulary.”
“I’m on a human journey playing the game of life with an audience of many and sometimes I fall but … I get back up and go on and continue to play the game and somehow through my battered and bruised adventure I keep looking to the light and in that light a new level UNLOCKS,” her commented concluded.
The 40-year-old performer has additionally acquired on-line hate for showcasing a sequence of space-like themed outfits throughout her new tour as many followers thought the outfits had been a nod to the pop star’s house journey. Her dance routines — additionally space-themed — had been the goal of mockery as nicely.
Perry beforehand advised The Associated Press that her tour was impressed by films like The Fifth Element and Blade Runner as a result of she wished to construct her units round online game characters who battle evil forces.
Perry made headlines earlier this month when she blasted off into house on a Blue Origin rocket as a part of the newest mission, referred to as NS-31.
She was joined by King, Sánchez, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics analysis scientist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn on the all-female crew on the New Shepard rocket, a 59-foot-tall (18-metre) suborbital spacecraft. This marked the primary all-female flight crew in additional than six a long time to move to house.
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Blue Origin mentioned that the New Shepard crew reached an altitude of greater than 346,000 toes, with the mission taking simply over 10 minutes in whole. But many celebrities shared their reactions to the flight, together with actor Olivia Munn, who accused Perry and the crew of being “gluttonous” by taking the journey.
“What are they doing?” Munn mentioned whereas visitor co-hosting Today With Jenna & Friends on April 3. “I know this probably isn’t the cool thing to say, but there are so many other things that are so important in the world right now.”
“I know this is probably obnoxious,” she continued, “but like, it’s so much money to go to space, and there’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs.”
Munn mentioned the almost 11-minute flight resulted in “a lot of resources being spent,” including, “What’s the point? Is it historic that you guys are going on a ride? I think it’s a bit gluttonous.”
Reality TV star Gabby Windey addressed the flight in an episode of her Long Winded podcast, saying, “OK, Katy Perry going to space. All women crew. Oh, wow, we’re gonna send all the girls to space in case they blow up. This is not about empowerment. This is a case study.”
“You’re gonna risk your life for a 10-minute flight? No way,” Windey added. “Oh, you want to see Mother Earth? Have you heard of Google Earth? It’s the same.”
Model Emily Ratajkowski shared her ideas on TikTok, saying, “That space mission this morning, that’s end-time sh–. Like, this is beyond parody.”
“Saying that you care about Mother Earth, and it’s about Mother Earth, and going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s single-handedly destroying the planet? Look at the state of the world, and think about how many resources went into putting these women into space, and for what?” she requested, including, “What was the marketing there? And then to try to make it like … I’m disgusted. Literally, I’m disgusted.”
Comedian Amy Schumer shared a video to Instagram, joking that she had been added to “space” final second.
“I’m bringing this thing,” Schumer mentioned, displaying a Black Panther toy, mocking all of the objects the ladies on the flight dropped at house. “It has no meaning to me, but it was in my bag, and I was on the subway, and I got the text, and they were like, ‘Do you want to go to space?’ so I’m going to space.”
Fast-food chain Wendy’s even bought in on the motion and requested if they might ship Perry again to house in response to a put up asserting that the singer had returned to Earth.
“I’m a woman send me to space,” the Wendy’s account added. “When we said women in stem this isn’t what we meant.”
King has additionally addressed the criticism following the flight and took goal at individuals referring to the mission as “a ride” saying, “You never see a man, a male astronaut, who’s going up in space and they say, ‘Oh, he took a ride.’ It’s always referred to as a flight or a journey, so I feel that’s a little disrespectful to what the mission was and the work Blue Origin does.”
King advised Extra that she isn’t letting the “haters” deliver her down. “I know there are cranky Yankees, I know there are some haters, but I’m not gonna let people steal my joy and steal the joy of what we did or what we accomplished that day,” she mentioned. “I’m just not going to let it in. I’m not. And these are some of my friends that are throwing shade!”
