Mariah Carey Just Learned Katy Perry Went to Space & Her Reaction Is Everything
Mariah Carey has always been iconic, but her recent comment about Katy Perry’s Blue Origin space flight might take the cake. You see, she had no clue the “Firework” singer even went to space.
On the Scott Mills Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 on Aug. 7, Carey was asked by host Scott Mills whether she would “fancy going to space like Katy Perry did.” This was when the conversation went awry quickly.
Wearing oversized dark sunglasses, Carey looked confused, responding, “Did she go to space?”
“Not for long,” Mills said
“Where’d she go?” Carey continued as an off-camera crew member discussed Perry’s journey. “Into orbit and back,” they added.
“She’s like floating in the…” Carey said, looking rather perplexed. “And this is true?”
“I’ve not made this up,” Mills said sincerely. “This is true… she was proper in space.”
“Wow. Alright, Katy,” Carey said nonchalantly. “I’m not mad at her. That’s pretty amazing.”
Mills joked that Perry “has not stopped talking about it since” and was curious if Carey would be interested in hopping about Jeff Bezos’ space craft.
And that’s when Carey pulled the ultimate quip. She said, “I think I’ve done enough.”
Carey knows better than to go up into space for 11 minutes, even if she didn’t hear about the controversial New Shepard mission. Yet Perry and her crewmates, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez, heard weeks of criticism because the flight seemed like a wealthy privilege in an era when many people are struggling.
Perry reportedly enjoyed the mission, but she did have some regrets in the aftermath, per the Daily Mail.
“Katy doesn’t regret going to space. It was life-changing,” an insider told the media outlet. “What she does regret is making a public spectacle out of it.”
Perry went all-out while she was floating in space, sharing her set list for her Lifetimes Tour on a butterfly, honoring her four-year-old daughter Daisy with a flower, and kissing the ground after the quick jaunt.
Carey may have missed all of the fuss in April, but she’s going to keep her feet firmly grounded on planet Earth.
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