At this point, Katy Perry's rebound has been intensified for weeks. Since one of six women who travelled to space with blue origins earlier this month, the singer has become the target of severe criticism: people call for her to travel, the way she promotes her life’s tour, and her stage appearance at the first show that began last week.
Reports of her Blue Origin involvement only exacerbated the opposition from her album Alos a few months ago 143. The LP has received ruthless comments from fans and critics, with some slamming her for reconnecting with Luke, the stigma producer behind some of Perry’s biggest hits, who faces allegations of sexual abuse from pop stars. Hostility goes through the typical cycle of the Internet: some Stan mobs lock in effective criticism and take advantage of the opportunity to despise and be mean online. "Why is Katy Perry not dead in space like she should be?" Reading a tweet that reflects many other tweets.
The reality is that Perry's cultural stock is currently at a low point. She has obviously been trying to hate: As she signed up with fans on Tuesday: "I've done a lot of work to know who I am and what is real, and what matters to me is... the Internet is a garbage dump of atheism and boundlessness. Seeing your face every night is seeing your face every night, reading books, reading your notes, feeling your notes, feeling your warmth."
In the midst of turmoil, Perry starts her journey through life, a video game-inspired pursuit of “heart” and “love”. Over the past week, the sight of high-quality production has caused multiple standing applauses during her Mexican performances. A lifetime tour is an experience with acrobatic flips, flying props, and Perry is the center of the storyline. She always remembered the kind of pop star-savage, stupid, overdoing type-she has always been.
During a show in Mexico City last Saturday, Perry played KP143, a semi-human, semi-robot video game character designed to preserve the fictional planet. The world she lives in is threatened by machine villains - think about AI, who capture butterflies, symbols of female energy and power and use them to achieve evil. In her video game style mission, Perry flips over the pink sky and sways to One of the boys Classic, ultimately consistent with her performance throughout her career.
Throughout her scene, the singer reimagines her biggest hits, including "Teenage Dream" and "Hot N Cold," in a choreographed packaged performance, which seems to be in line with what Pop Stans' favorite female entertainers need. (Seldom are male performers who want to engage in intense choreography and storytelling during the show.) Perry rises up during her two-hour performance, constantly interacting with the audience, many of whom wear the inspiration of her various album eras. While artists use community text messages and a curated Instagram channel to choose distant relationships, Perry plays fans on stage every night and allows them to play a song for her in the “Pick Your Own Adventure” section of the show.
Online, some critics mocked Perry's fun in Perry as the clip radiates fighting creatures with lightsaber-like wands in "ET", which makes Cringey and awkward moment. But as part of a choreography designed to adapt to the rhythm of the music and drive the storyline of her video game, the battle scenes were unfolded in person. The slightly exaggerated action was intentional - after all, she played a half-handed role.
From the beginning, the Campy Antic online mocked the heart of Perry’s character. After all, she is a pop star who shot fireworks and whipped cream from her chest, spoke in one sip during her game residence and placed on a real edible marshmallow for the album cover. Perry's dramatic version made her peak. So why don't these instincts land in the same way now? Perhaps the popular landscape has shifted to embracing new artists and being known for sharing the vulnerability of the camp. But Perry's Supreme Court approach reflects dedication to world-building, making her a popular idol and inspiring a new generation of stars like Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo. It's hard not to give her credibility.
There is a debate about the visual effects generated by the show using AI in the song "Lifelong" . Although this is a broader question that affects artists from all genres, it triggers effective dialogue about keeping art human. The inclusion of seemingly artificial images is ironic for the production that fights against non-human villains. But by Monday night's show in Monterrey (only three shows), Perry replaced those visuals with shots of her sold-out crowd, proving that someone on her team is listening to feedback and fine-tuning the experience.
Even with all the authorization throughout the concert and she wears a spectacular machine-style look on stage, pop star Katy Perry is still human. The singer's vulnerability was fully demonstrated during last Friday's second show A teenage dream Deep Cut: "She once ruled the world / can't believe she has become her own shell." Tears flowed down her face as she brought the lyrics. "In the journey of humanity, there are a lot of viewers playing games in human life, sometimes I fall, but... I come back and continue playing games, somehow through my abuse and injury adventures, and I've been brightening up." It's worth mentioning whether certain hatreds (including comments about her age and appearance, even attacks on her 4-year-old daughter) have gone too far.
What Perry gets often reflects the worst part of the internet: a space that ignores nuances for quick judgment. Too easy to simplify Perry’s celebrity and make fun of her without knowing the scope of her career. (Even the burger chain jumps in.) There are some clear double standards: in 2021, as the world only begins to recover from the pandemic, Star TrekWilliam Shatner has been praised for taking a similar Jeff Bezos-funded trip. Some of the frustrations of space launch seem to be better suited for Bezos and tech billionaires to be friends with Trump than some women on the road. Lily Allen apologized for Perry’s criticism of space travel, saying, “It’s my own inner disgust…it doesn’t need to be with her at all.” The internet should also have some reflection.
On Dr. Luke Front, it is fair to have a pop star accountable to whom he is in line with. Still, the reality is that none of Katy Perry’s contemporaries (including Lil Durk, Kim Petras and Doja Cat) faced so much opposition in repeated collaborations with producers.
Even in the case of negative emotions, Perry offers a very fun, fun two-hour show to attend the United States in the future next week. Throughout the tour of the lifetime, there are moments that Perry is navigating. Early on, when her dancer wore virtual reality-style goggles, the “must touch grass” flash flashed on the screen, swiping into the “bound to rhythm” rhythm on the fictional screen, citing attacks from online users. "Are we crazy? / Live our lives through the camera?" Perry sang. At the end of the show, as she approached the failure of the KP143 virtual villain, she shot fireworks from the Rockets to the character on the screen and adjusted the lyrics to the authorized national anthem "Rise", proclaiming: "I will rise forever."
Before finishing the Mexican run, Perry participated in Lady Gaga’s Viva La Mayhem performance and posted a clip of Gaga singing: “You love to hate me/I’m the perfect celebrity,” a sharp lyric poem that seems to mirror Perry’s current experience. The post feels like a quiet endorsement of the censorship Perry encountered and a reminder that the perfection people want from the stars is always out of reach in the popular lineup.
At least Perry's approach is clear: "When the 'online' world tries to make me a piñata of humanity, I enjoy it with grace and send love to them."