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Singer Katy Perry has admitted feeling “battered and bruised” by the backlash following her recent space trip, but reassured fans she is OK and would “keep looking to the light”.
Writing two weeks after the much-derided Blue Origin voyage, which saw her take an 11-minute flight with five other women, the US star said the “online world” had tried to make her a “human Piñata”.
Her comments came after fans paid for a billboard in New York to show their support for her ahead of her world tour.
Responding to a fan account that posted a video of the billboard, Perry said she was “so grateful” for her fans, adding they were “in this beautiful and wild journey together”.
Perry has been one of pop’s most successful singers over the past two decades, but the narrative around her has become more negative in the past year.
A poorly received album was accompanied by a lead single, Woman’s World, which had a music video which many viewed as regressive.
She was then criticised for her part in Jeff Bezos’s all-female Blue Origin space flight, during which she sang Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World to her fellow passengers, and held up the setlist for her new tour to an in-flight camera.
Some commentators said it was “tone deaf” for celebrities to be taking part in such a fleeting and expensive trip at a time of economic struggle.
However, singer Lily Allen apologised this week for “being mean” about Perry, saying that although she disagreed with the flight, there was no need to join the “pile on” against the singer.
Some fans showed their support for Perry by clubbing together to pay for a digital billboard message in New York’s Times Square for 24 hours.
A Brazillian fan account on Instagram explained fans had done it to “remind her that she is never alone; our love for her is boundless, unwavering, and eternal”.
"We’re so proud of you and your magical journey and we love you to the moon and back.
“Know that you are safe, seen and celebrated. We’ll see you around the world, this is just the beginning.” ‘Unhinged and unhealed’ internet
Perry left a comment expressing her gratitude, telling fans: "I love you guys and have grown up together with you and am so excited to see you all over the world this year!
“Please know I am OK, I have done a lot [of] work around knowing who I am, what is real and what is important to me.”
She said she is “not perfect”, but rather 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.”
She added: “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.”
The singer, whose hits include Roar, Firework and I Kissed A Girl, has just started a world tour, which will run until December and visit the US, Canada, South America, Canada, Europe and the United Arab Emirates.
Perry said she was looking forward to “seeing your faces every night, singing in unison, reading your notes, feeling your warmth”.
Put in /c/slop instead of /c/elchisme because Katy Perry tries really hard to be a public figure and wants to be relevant more than anything else.
She was then criticised for her part in Jeff Bezos’s all-female Blue Origin space flight, during which she sang Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World to her fellow passengers, and held up the setlist for her new tour to an in-flight camera.
Man imagine going to space for 11 minutes and you pull out this lame shit. At least William Shatner was humbled by the overview effect.
I love that scene of William Shatner seeming horrified, describing it as a funeral for Earth, and Jeff Bezos dressed as a cowboy pushing him aside to pop a bottle of champagne. It perfectly solidified my support for the execution of the Romanovs.
That scene was somehow hilarious and depressing at the same time.
He’s a pompous ass but I really felt for the guy in that moment and genuinely wanted to hear what he had to say.
seriously, to go up there only to celebrate your narcissism
Felt! If I had the opportunity to go to space, I would throttle anyone who wants to sing a fucking song during that experience.
I cannot imagine pitching in time and money to buy a billboard to protect the feelings of multimillionaires and billionaires. 24 hours in Times Square must have cost a fortune. Think of all the things you could have done instead with that kind of money and community organizing.
Remember when people tried to raise $100 million via GoFundMe for Kylie Jenner to make her the “youngest self-made female billionaire?”
No?! The fuck?! There are children starving to death and people wanna give their money to someone with hundreds of millions? We really are cooked as a species.
Parasociality and its more old-school cousin, fan culture are pretty weird.
I can’t imagine being that attached to a musician. Even when it comes to like the greatest living ones I can think of, ones who shaped much of my tastes, the most I do is recommend their music when it’s relevant to do so and maybe see them at a local show.
I’d bet that’s her pr team, not an organic fan thing.
I was flabbergasted by that as well. What a waste of money. Parasocial relationships are truly awful
How is it a win for women when K. perry went to space but we just had the first “woman stuck in space for 3 months” not even a month prior? She should get a new shtick
Katy Perry should be the first woman to get lost in space
Well she cant be the first woman in space. Because the soviets already did that. And that female astronaut is still alive today.
“Lost in Space”
kate mulgrew?
Insert drone strike but POC meme here
A Brazillian fan account on Instagram explained fans had done it to “remind her that she is never alone; our love for her is boundless, unwavering, and eternal”.
Brazil mentioned LET’S GO.
Fucking hate this bizarre cult of personality, why on earth these fan accounts is always Brazillian???
people live in brazil
No
Whitey can’t even get to the moon anymore. US-based space exploration is dead and buried.
Whitey Marginally Closer to the Moon Than Her Private Jet Flight to the Spaceport for 11 Minutes was too long for the title.
Whitey Looks Longingly at the Moon While Sipping Wine, Knowing She* Will Never Set Foot on It Thanks to Communist Liberals Tying the Hands of Altruistic Private Space Exploration Corporations with Red Tape Regulations
*That’s right, a WOMAN in space 💅 Communism could never 😤🦅
She was NOT sipping wine. She was singing Louis Armstrong to the black space tourists next to her. It’s much more tone deaf.
Holy fuck lmao
A rat done bit my sister Nell
With whitey on the moon
Her face and arms began to swell
And whitey’s on the moon
I can’t pay no doctor bills
But whitey’s on the moon
Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still
While whitey’s on the moon
The man just upped my rent last night
Cause whitey’s on the moon
No hot water, no toilets, no lights
But whitey’s on the moon
I wonder why he’s upping me?
Cause whitey’s on the moon?
Well I was already giving him fifty a week
With whitey on the moon
Taxes taking my whole damn check
Junkies making me a nervous wreck
The price of food is going up
And as if all that shit wasn’t enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell
With whitey on the moon
Her face and arm began to swell
And whitey’s on the moon
Was all that money I made last year
For whitey on the moon?
How come I ain’t got no money here?
Hmm! Whitey’s on the moon
Y’know I just 'bout had my fill
Of whitey on the moon
I think I’ll send these doctor bills
Airmail special
To whitey on the moon.
Of all celebrities, Katy Perry just seems so random to me
They are spare celebrities. If the shuttle blew up no one would miss them that much
She’s like a time capsule for 2011. At some point I’m sure the nostalgia cycle will make her cool again, but I can’t think of another pop musician who’s still musically stuck in that specific year to the same degree she is. Her recent Mexico City concert is like one of those dad rock tours where the 80 year-old musicians try to make the audience feel like they aren’t actively dying.
Maybe Katy could put out a song people actually like if she wants to be relevant.
Malignant narcissist
Katy Perry is in such a weird position. She has had to undergo so much character assassination, but she kind of deserves it for things she actually did do that people don’t mention as much. Now she’s trying to regain pop icon status without realizing the culture that put her there in the first place is gone. Comparing her to Kesha (real ones know why), who had a song pop off on TikTok and tour dates already sold out makes it clear that Perry and her producers simply don’t understand the zeitgeist anymore.
She’s a landlord, all I need to know
Oh wah. Her feelings were hurt for being a tone deaf member of the elite/oligarchy? Go fuck yourself. Maybe do more for women than a performative stunt and a shitty new video and song.
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