Katy Perry Seemingly Responds to Criticism Over Blue Origin Spaceflight

Katy Perry doesn’t need a dark horse to launch a message into the stratosphere.

After her April 14 trip beyond Earth’s atmosphere on an all-female Blue Origin space tourism flight, Perry touched down in Mexico City to kick off The Lifetimes Tour on Wednesday. During the performance, the singer had a message that seemed to hit back at critics still grappling with her galactic getaway.

“Has anyone ever called your dreams crazy?” Perry asked the crowd, according to People.

Perry, still on a high from her journey, also had an out-of-this-world reaction to two audience members dressed in blue suits reminiscent of her own mission attire.

“I want these gentlemen to come on stage because they are dressed like my most current timeline,” she said.

Ahead of the launch, Perry described the flight via Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin as an “important moment” for commercial space travel and women. But critics — from people on social media to fellow celebrities — were not over the moon with the 10-minute space jaunt, which cost an undisclosed amount of money. In a TikTok video posted on April 14, author and model Emily Ratajkowski shared her thoughts.

“That space mission this morning? That’s end-time shit. Like, this is beyond parody,” she said. “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 women, including journalist Gayle King and Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez — weren’t shy about defending the voyage.

King, whose reaction before boarding sparked viral memes, had comets of her own to hurl back.

In an April 16 interview, the journalist attempted to justify the trip by remarking that it would be good for the planet in the long run.

King also expressed one wish, which is that “people would do more due diligence.”

“And then my question is, ‘Have y’all been to space?’” she said. “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.’”