Katy Perry went to space with Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King, and others on Blue Origin’s spacecraft. The public and celebrities alike shared their opinions and sentiments about the women being sent to space. Keep watching to find out what some Billboard staffers had to say about the trip.
What do you think of Katy Perry going to space? Let us know in the comments.
What do you think of Katy Perry going to space? Let us know in the comments.
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00:00If anyone out there has $150,000, then you can go to space, too.
00:04All right, so Billboard Squad.
00:06Five ladies went to space, but everybody seems to just be mad at Katy Perry.
00:10Are we mad? What's going on?
00:12I don't care.
00:14I mean, I can understand why people are mad.
00:18Like, if I feel that strongly about it.
00:20Why? What are people upset about?
00:22I mean, a lot of people, you know, there's time to talk right now.
00:27It doesn't really, like, look super inspiring to see, like, super rich people just going into space.
00:33It's not giving what they think it's giving.
00:35They think it's giving inspiring, sending a bunch of women to space,
00:39but it's giving more, sending a bunch of rich people to space,
00:42as opposed to sending actual female astronauts that should be sent up.
00:46Yeah, yeah.
00:47That would give more.
00:48It's cool for, like, the aesthetics of it.
00:50Like, to see, like, a group of women, women of color, going into space.
00:54Like, that's, like, it looks good as a photo.
00:58As a photo.
00:59But it's, like, this was all funded by Jeff Bezos.
01:03They wouldn't be going up there without him.
01:06If this was Elon Musk, people would be reacting the same way.
01:09All these billionaires are obsessed with going to space
01:12because they're going to leave this planet completely fucked.
01:15Damn, Steph.
01:17Steph is mad.
01:18They're going to go on there, like, the minute this planet goes to hell
01:23because of climate change.
01:24I mean, and I think the funny part to me is that you have, like,
01:28this inspirational moment, but then I feel like the whole time
01:30I've watched Gayle be a part of this, she would look scared.
01:33She didn't even want to go, and she's like, why am I here?
01:35You know?
01:36How did I get on this spacecraft?
01:38How did she get convinced?
01:39I mean, like, Katy Perry, she's just hilarious because she just friends with Lauren Sanchez.
01:44So, I mean, like, if you're, that's how she got roasted.
01:47I mean, like, Kim Kardashian, she didn't.
01:49She knew she had to get some big celebrity to go.
01:52But even with the Katy Perry thing, like, everybody's so hyper-focused on her.
01:56Like, what happened with Wendy's?
01:57Why did they get involved?
01:58Oh, Wendy's tweeted, uh, it was actually pretty funny.
02:01It was a post, Katy Perry has returned from space.
02:04Wendy retweeted, uh, can we send her back?
02:08What?
02:08And this is what I think about it, this is what I think about it.
02:09Who is right in there?
02:10I think it was the joy.
02:11I think it was the joy that Katy Perry came back with that felt very disconnected to the
02:16world.
02:17Because, yeah, there's women of color astronauts, there's white women astronauts.
02:20You could have sent an astronaut.
02:21Like, she didn't sing a song in space.
02:23She should have sang a song in space.
02:24She should have sang a song in space.
02:25She should have performed firework in space.
02:27Come on now.
02:28That would have been great.
02:29Did you see that Gayle did say that at one point?
02:31She was singing.
02:32I was asking her to sing all the time, and she wouldn't.
02:34And she wouldn't.
02:35Because everybody said, sing roar, sing fireworks.
02:38And she said, it's not about me.
02:39I wanted to talk about the world.
02:41When we were coming back down, Katy just broke out in acapella because her band isn't
02:46there.
02:47She just broke out in acapella.
02:48What a wonderful world.
02:49It's a big, like, Gal Gadot, like, COVID moment where celebrities get together and they
02:55sing a song and they're just, like, uplifting everyone while we're all, like, shut inside
03:01their house and we can't, like, go outside anywhere.
03:04Well, and then Kesha commented on that, didn't she?
03:06Yeah, Kesha just retweeted her drinking, like, a Wendy's, like, out of a Wendy's cup.
03:11Yeah.
03:12But I feel like we're getting lost.
03:13We should care about Gail, okay?
03:15Gail was on a road trip that she couldn't get out of.
03:18Think about this.
03:19Think about, she was on a road trip where one person is singing, she's going to space,
03:23and she can't just, like, pull over.
03:26I mean, let's turn around.
03:27I want out of this.
03:28Yeah, she can't do nothing.
03:29Maybe she just wanted to go over there for the experience when no one held a gun to her
03:32head and told her, you gotta go up to space.
03:34Maybe that was, like, more of CBS.
03:36Like, this is a good opportunity for you to go to cover this trip.
03:39It definitely was CBS.
03:40Right?
03:41And then what about all the other celebrities that are angry?
03:43Like, what did Emily Ratajkowski say?
03:45She was kind of saying, like, something similar to what I said earlier.
03:49That space mission this morning, that's end time shit.
03:52Like, this is beyond parody.
03:53Saying that you care about Mother Earth, and it's about Mother Earth, and you're going up
03:57in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that's single-handedly destroying
04:03the planet.
04:04Look at the state of the world and think about how many resources went into putting these
04:09women into space.
04:10For what?
04:11For what?
04:12What was the marketing there?
04:13And then to try to make it, like, I'm disgusted.
04:15Literally, I'm disgusted.
04:16Like, it looks good, like, to see all these women, women of color, going into space.
04:21But, like, it's being funded by Jeff Bezos, which completely, like, negates it.
04:26I'm like, this is like, you know, a trip, like, like Sierra said before, like, women astronauts
04:31who have been training their entire lives and studying their entire lives to do something
04:36like this.
04:37And, yeah, maybe it would be more inspiring.
04:39But, you know, it's not like we're all going to be able to go up into space.
04:42Well, hey, for a $150,000 deposit.
04:45If anyone out there has $150,000, you can go to space, too.
04:49Loan it to me, Stephanie.
04:51And then, Judy, what were you showing me, the Amy Schumer thing?
04:53Amy Schumer also came for her, did a little funny video saying,
04:57Guys, last second, they added me to space, and I'm going to space.
05:07I'm bringing this thing.
05:12It has no meaning to me, but it was in my bag, and I was, like, on the subway, and I got
05:18the text, and they were like, do you want to go to space?
05:21So, I'm going to space.
05:23Like, acting as if she got a last-minute invitation to space, like, hey, let's go to space, too.
05:28Which is funny, she's doing her thing.
05:29I think this whole thing is a pop culture moment, and everyone's jumping on, trying to get on the buzz.
05:34But my whole thing, I mean, you brought up that it's all women, it's this publicity stunt, right?
05:40Like, the optics are cool.
05:41I wonder if it would have gotten all this criticism if it was men, you know?
05:45Like, my whole thing, it's like, why women, and why are people coming so fiercely for Katy Perry?
05:51Like, regardless of it, like, this narrative of this war of women, I'm just over it.
05:57Like, whatever happened to women supporting women?
05:59Do you know what I mean?
06:00Like, that's my whole thing.
06:01I think we saw it happen, sorry, we saw it happen with J.Lo.
06:04Like, all of a sudden, like, everyone piling on J.Lo.
06:06People pick a person, and they decide they hate them, and Katy doesn't deserve it.
06:11I love Katy.
06:12Listen, I love Katy.
06:13Sometimes people pick people that maybe are a little tone deaf.
06:18Like, I remember when people came at J.Lo.
06:19People came at J.Lo, and I was like, J.Lo, why you do that?
06:22You know what I mean?
06:23J.Lo, why you do that?
06:24J.Lo, J.Lo, like, come on.
06:25Like, you ain't gonna go there.
06:26You ain't gonna get a chopped cheese.
06:27And it's cool.
06:28You make you rich.
06:29You don't need a chopped cheese.
06:30You know what I mean?
06:31And then, did Jessica Alba finally throw something into this today?
06:34She did, and she actually is defending Katy Perry and all those women.
06:38Basically saying, not understanding why everyone's so upset.
06:41How does this affect our lives?
06:43We should be putting all of this energy towards Trump, and everything that Trump is doing,
06:47and his abuses of power.
06:48That's actually affecting us people down here on Earth.
06:52Us people down here.
06:54The way I look at it is, like, you know, obviously, like, I think people are piling on to Katy Perry
07:00a little bit, which is a little bit ironic, because Amy Schumer, and I'm sure Emerata,
07:04I'm sure they've all had moments where they're out of touch.
07:07I don't think Katy Perry needed to kiss the ground when she came back from space,
07:11and be like, wow, I'm so grateful for life.
07:13Now that I went up to space.
07:15I don't think you need to do that.
07:17I think, like, to your point about all the men, it's like, there is a man behind us.
07:23It's not because, like, this is solely because of women.
07:27All these women agreed to do this trip, which is cool, but it's not like they were the force behind it.
07:34This all goes back to Jeff Brazos.
07:36Let's bring it back.
07:37I agree to Jeff Brazos.
07:38It's like, I think it's visibility.
07:40Katy Perry is on Twitter.
07:41You can get there.
07:42You can't get to Jeff.
07:43Well, I will say we have reached out to everybody's reps involved, Katy Perry's, Wendy's, Kesha's.
07:48If we hear any thoughts on this, guys, I will let you know.
07:51You send it to the moon?
07:52It's Jeff or the moon?
07:53Where'd you send it to Jeff?
07:54You send it to Jeff.