Even levitating in space aboard a rocket, pop star Katy Perry still manages to get dunked on

Pop star Katy Perry was part of an all-female trip to space that lasted 11 minutes. PHOTO: REUTERS

Jacob Bernstein

UPDATED Apr 22, 2025, 03:15 PM

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NEW YORK – Almost as soon as American singer Katy Perry had returned from a very brief trip to space on April 14 with a group hosted by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez, the derisive comments started.

In American online magazine Slate, Heather Schwedel wrote: “It was one thing to understand intellectually that Katy Perry, (American TV personality and journalist) Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez’s much hyped ‘all-female’ trip to space aboard a Blue Origin rocket would in actuality only be an underwhelming 11 minutes long. But it was another to watch it play out over a multi-hour, breathless livestream that culminated with Perry kissing the Earth like a soldier returning from war and not a multimillionaire returning from the world’s shortest influencer trip.”

Ellen Cushing, writing for American publication The Atlantic, proclaimed Perry to be the “perfect pop star for a dumb stunt”. Various celebrities, including actress Olivia Wilde and model Emily Ratajkowski, criticised Perry and the Blue Origin flight.