Virtually as quickly because the pop star Katy Perry had returned from a very brief trip to space with a bunch hosted by Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, the derisive feedback began.
In Slate, Heather Schwedel wrote: “It was one factor to know intellectually that Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez’s a lot hyped ‘all-female’ journey to house aboard a Blue Origin rocket would really solely be an underwhelming 11 minutes lengthy. Nevertheless it was one other to observe it play out over a multihour, breathless livestream that culminated with Perry kissing the Earth like a soldier getting back from battle and never a multimillionaire getting back from the world’s shortest influencer journey.”
Ellen Cushing, writing for The Atlantic, proclaimed Ms. Perry to be the “excellent pop star for a dumb stunt.” Numerous celebrities, just like the actress Olivia Wilde and the mannequin Emily Ratajkowski, criticized Ms. Perry and the Blue Origin flight.
Even the X account for Wendy’s got here after Ms. Perry on Tuesday in a collection of posts (amongst them: “can we ship her again”). On its face, this appeared just a little unusual. Why was a fast-food chain providing sideline snark a few pop star heading into house?
However a decade-plus after the songwriter Linda Perry described Ms. Perry’s music as microwave popcorn, one may very well be forgiven for questioning if the posts from Wendy’s had been an erstwhile purveyor of empty energy choosing a combat with one other.
