Thread: Watch Katy Perry leave earth

for a short time with friends

Blue Origin's star-studded launch with Katy Perry and Gayle King

a bunch of vapid space barbies. pity they came back.

Looks like Reg DILDO had a hand in the rocket design, nice to see so many air heads get off

Now hoping for Elon & Donald to come down to earth.
Had they been on a space flight then I would have hoped for the opposite..

5hit - she came back.



Doubtless tax would have loved the rocket to be barbie pink.

The best bit was bullet head bezos taking a header

Down to earth meets the aherm 'Amazons'

It wasn't much kop watching it on Japanese TV.

‘You say you care about Mother Earth? I’m disgusted’: The celebs at war with Katy Perry over space travel
The pop star claimed the 11-minute Blue Origin flight made her feel ‘super-connected to love’ – but that was before she checked Instagram


One of the most vocal critics has been Emily Ratajkowski. The model posted a video on TikTok calling the mission “end-of-times s---” and “beyond parody”.

15 April 2025 7:00pm BST


It was supposed to be a small step for (wo)man, a giant leap for feminism. But an all-star, all-female mission to space has come back down to Earth with a bit of a bump.

This week six women, including pop star Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, were blasted more than 62 miles above Earth to the Kármán line, the internationally recognised boundary of space, during an 11-minute flight.

The women were the first all-female space crew in more than 60 years, and their aim was to inspire young women to love science – while no doubt also promoting Bezos’s company Blue Origin, which plans to commercialise space travel for the wealthy. Although Blue Origin has not released full ticket prices, a $150,000 (£114,000) deposit is required just to reserve a seat.


The all-female crew included (L-R) Lauren Sánchez, Katy Perry, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, Gayle King and Amanda Nguyễn Credit: Blue Origin
Also on board the New Shepard rocket were former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and CBS presenter Gayle King, who said a highlight of the flight was hearing Perry sing Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World.

Nguyen made history as the first Vietnamese woman to travel to space, and Bowe was the first person of Bahamian heritage to make such a mission.

“It’s an important moment for the future of commercial space travel and for humanity in general and for women all around,” said Perry.

But numerous people have criticised the timing of the all-star space flight, and poked fun at a video of the crew members experiencing zero gravity for the first time, where they shrieked and did somersaults. And it’s Perry, 40, who has come in for the most merciless mocking.

One of the most vocal critics has been Emily Ratajkowski. The model posted a video on TikTok calling the mission “end-of-times s---” and “beyond parody”.

On her return to Earth, Perry clutched a daisy that she had taken to space with her, in honour of her daughter Daisy Dove, who was also there to watch the launch.

“I feel super-connected to love,” said Perry. “This experience has shown me you never know how much love is inside of you, like how much love you have to give and how loved you are.”

Presumably she hadn’t had a chance to check her social media yet.
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just about sums up the silly stunt nicely.

Ironic that they flew up on a giant dildo, hope they had time to fuck themselves, twats

a wonderfully bitchy report from the guardian.

What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space

Marina Hyde

The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish

Tue 15 Apr 2025 09.29 BST

Well, I watched every second of the buildup, flight and aftermath of the first Blue Origin all-female space trip. You’ve heard of one small step for man? This was one giant leap backwards for womankind. I’m kidding, I’m kidding! What could be more empowering or something than watching Lauren Sánchez make going to space sound like brunch with the girrrrrls. Sally Ride could never.

Anyway, if you missed this, Jeff Bezos’s fiancee took an 11-minute trip to the edge of space on one of his Blue Origin craft on Monday, alongside some all-female passengers – sorry, “crew” – who included CBS anchor Gayle King and pop star Katy Perry. So yes: the Woman’s World video is no longer the most plastic feminist thing Katy’s done.

Given the mixture of freebie rides and seats sold to the super-rich, the thing people always say about Blue Origin tickets is that prices range from zero to $28m dollars. A bit like a seat on a RyanAir flight to Tallinn. But these spots were all personally gifted by Bezos and Sánchez because this was an Important Mission. Which also meant the whole thing was exclusively documented by Blue Origin’s Pravda-like web channel. Here, the anchors and reporters kept explaining that – unlike when men went to space in the past – this mission was all about emotions. But look, it’s great that we’re valorising emotions above all things, because it gives me permission to say how very much I hated this entire, hilariously vacuous spectacle.

Lauren already bills herself as a children’s author, helicopter pilot, journalist and philanthropist, and kept being told she was adding “astronaut” to the world’s longest multi-hyphenate. How did she find the trip? “I don’t really have the words for this, like … ?” OK but can you at least try? “I can’t put it into words but I looked out the window and we got to see the moon.”

Back at the viewing platform in the West Texas desert, commentary was provided by, among others, Kris Jenner and a bottom-tier Kardashian (Khloé). Khloé glossed the moment of landing with the words: “it’s literally so hard to explain right now”. Other insights? “There’s one woman whose grandfather is back there and he is 92 and they didn’t even have transportation back then.” I mean, the guy was literally pre-horse. Historic scenes.


Katy Perry kisses the ground on her return to Earth. Photograph: BLUE ORIGIN/AFP/Getty Images
Amid extremely stiff competition, the most hardcore gibberish emanated from Perry, who served up an entire word salad bar involving the “feminine divine” and being “super-connected to love”. “It’s about making space for future woman,” she explained. “It’s about taking up space.” Imagine going to actual space and talking instead about therapy-speak “space”. When Buzz Aldrin beheld the surface of the moon, he described it as “magnificent desolation”. Honestly, if he wanted to feel desolation he could have just tuned into this corner of West Texas on Monday afternoon. When a Stem advocate came for her post-flight interview, we got to see the apparently lobotomised reporter shriek: “How do you look perfect after just going to space?!”

In truth, how the women looked had been an overwhelming part of the buildup, and by their own design. In an Elle magazine joint interview with the passengers, Lauren showed off the hot space suits she’d personally commissioned, inquiring rhetorically: “Who would not get glam before the flight?” “Space is going to finally be glam,” agreed Perry. “Let me tell you something. If I could take glam up with me, I would do that. We are going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut.” A former Nasa rocket scientist said: “I also wanted to test out my hair and make sure that it was OK. So I skydived in Dubai with similar hair to make sure I would be good – took it for a dry run.” Still want more? Because there was SO much of it. “We’re going to have lash extensions flying in the capsule!” explained Lauren. “I think it’s so important for people to see us like that,” explained a civil rights activist. “This dichotomy of engineer and scientist, and then beauty and fashion. We contain multitudes. Women are multitudes. I’m going to be wearing lipstick.”

Ooof. I always thought space travel was futuristic, but this was the first time it came off as travelling back in time, in this case using their little capsule to take us back to the most ludicrous inanities of 2010s girlboss feminism.

Ultimately, it felt like a sign of the times that everything was about personal growth rather than affording any new understanding of wider humanity. As King put it: “I’m so proud of me right now.” Everyone, bar none, talked in whatever trite solipsism language has been reduced to by a permanent diet of social media self-care. It all made me realise how much I miss humans not permanently crying on TV, and being able to find words that don’t sound like they could be printed above a picture of a crossroads sign on Instagram, or maybe some sandy footprints on a beach.

Having oh-my-godded her way through some pure gibberish, Lauren eventually announced that she’d learned: “We’re all in this together. We’re so connected.” Agreed. In which spirit, please please please could Amazon pay full and fair tax in all the territories in which it, one of the world’s biggest companies, operates? Such an act of connection truly would be your and Jeff’s gift to our planet that you apparently just got some kind of a perspective on while Katy Perry was floating around during the zero-gravity bit pushing towards the camera a butterfly printed with her next tour dates. Why do I feel like the most meaningful thing to come out of this will be a three-minute song called Space Cowgirl? Forget the right stuff. This was the wrong stuff.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

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Originally Posted by taxexile

a wonderfully bitchy report from the guardian.

What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space

She's very good. Check out 'This is Entertainment' podcast.

Originally Posted by armstrong

She's very good. Check out 'This is Entertainment' podcast.

Or even 'The Rest Is Entertainment'

Yeah that one as well.

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