Katy Perry had a message for her haters during the first night of her Lifetimes Tour 2025, at CDMX Arena in Mexico City, Mexico on Wednesday.
The 40-year-old pop singer’s controversial Blue Origin space flight last week was met with significant mockery and criticism, with a PR expert warning Perry could be facing a ‘career extinction.’
But the Dark Horse hitmaker didn’t let the backlash bring her down, as she recreated space choreography during the show, flying in the air at some points.
Appearing to address her critics, she posed the question to the audience: ‘Has anyone ever called your dreams crazy?’
Katy also posed for a selfie with two men wearing blue NASA jumpsuits.
Her 11-minute space mission sparked immense negative reaction, with former fans calling the voyage a PR stunt and labeling the women on the New Shepard rocket ‘space tourists.’
Katy Perry, 40, had a message for her haters during the first night of her The Lifetimes Tour 2025, at CDMX Arena in Mexico City, Mexico on Wednesday
Fresh from her controversial Blue Origin flight into space, Katy recreated space choreography during the show, flying in the air at some points
Perry shrugged off the criticism during her show, delivering an energetic performance with multiple costume changes.
Among her eye-popping onstage looks was a silver metal bodysuit as well as a delicate white dress.
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At another point in the show, Katy appeared with tubes connected to her head. She was also seen rocking out with a guitar.
Her Lifetimes tour will run from Apr 23 until December 7, 2025.
It comes after Perry announced that she has been forced to cancel two major shows.
In a fresh blow for the star, she took to Instagram on Monday to confirm the concerts in Guadalajara, Mexico, on May 1 and 2 were off after the stadium hosting the gigs was not built in time.
The pop icon wrote: ‘Sadly, I learned that the construction of Arena Guadalajara will not be complete for their scheduled shows next week, which includes mine on May 1 and 2.
‘Last week I sent my team to the Arena to make sure there wasn’t anything we could do to make this happen but it was evident when they arrived that the venue was not ready or safe to receive my show or an audience.
Appearing to address her critics, she posed the question to the audience: ‘Has anyone ever called your dreams crazy?’
The star floated through space, seemingly paying homage to her controversial recent flight
Katy also posed for a selfie with two men wearing blue NASA jumpsuits
Perry’s reputation is crumbling so quickly that her career is at risk of extinction, a PR expert has warned – just four days after her controversial 11-minte expedition on Jeff Bezos’s rocket Blue Origin
Perry rocked a number of eye-popping looks onstage, including a silver metal bodysuit
Her Lifetimes tour will run from Apr 23 until December 7, 2025
At another point she rocked out with a guitar
At another point in the show, Katy appeared with tubes connected to her head
It comes after Perry announced that she has been forced to cancel two major shows
‘I wish I could fix this but it is beyond my control. You guys mean the world to me and we have all been on such a beautiful journey together that I will be thinking about how I can create something special for the fans in Guadalajara in the future.
‘I love you ALL.’
The pair of Guadalajara shows were supposed to come during Katy’s third stop in a packed Mexican leg of her Lifetimes world tour, after three concerts in Mexico City and two in Monterrey.
She is then set to kick off her US tour in Houston on May 7 before performing 25 times in the country, either side of trips to Australia and Canada.
Her subsequent European leg will include a much-anticipated trip to the O2 with two shows on October 13 and 14.
The bad news comes after Katy joined Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, as well as NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and activist Amanda Nguyen, on the all-female Blue Origin fleet that headed to space last week.
Despite their seemingly harmless intentions, the optics of the mission have since been described as ‘tone deaf’ and ’embarrᴀssing’.
Following the backlash, it seems the Roar singer has been experiencing second thoughts about her flight with the space exploration company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos.
An inside source called the criticism unexpected for the former American Idol judge and ‘disheartening’ for the rest of the all-female crew.
‘Katy doesn’t regret going to space. It was life changing. What she does regret is making a public spectacle out of it,’ the insider exclusively revealed to DailyMail.com.
In a fresh blow for the star, she took to Instagram on Monday to confirm the concerts in Guadalajara, Mexico, on May 1 and 2 were off after the stadium hosting the gigs was not built in time
The pair of Guadalajara shows were supposed to come during Katy’s third stop in a packed Mexican leg of her Lifetimes world tour, after three concerts in Mexico City and two in Monterrey
She is then set to kick off her US tour in Houston on May 7 before performing 25 times in the country, either side of trips to Australia and Canada
Fans captured the star twirling in the air, in videos shared to Twitter
Perhaps the most ridiculed moment from the event was when the pop star emerged from the Blue Origin capsule.
She immediately stopped and held a daisy up to the sky before descending from the pod, dropping to her knees and kissing the ground.
Katy then waxed poetic about feeling ‘super connected to love’, thanked a reporter who called her an astronaut, and declared how their all-female journey ‘has always been about love and belonging’.
‘It’s not about singing my songs. It’s about a collective energy in there. It’s about us. It’s about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging,’ she said in a post-flight interview.
‘And it’s about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth.’
It didn’t take long, however, for the public to slam Katy’s behaviour as dramatic and over-the-top, especially considering NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were recently stranded in space for more than nine months.
The source admitted that the star now regrets ‘kissing the ground’ after the flight as well as her ‘close-up camera moments’ inside the capsule – where she held a daisy up to the camera, promoted the setlist to her upcoming tour, and sang the lyrics to What A Wonderful World all while suspended in microgravity.
It was previously revealed that Katy planned to bring the daisy to space as a ‘beautiful tribute’ to her four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove Bloom, who she shares with fiancé Orlando Bloom.
It wasn’t just social media users who criticized the all-female Blue Origin space mission either.
In fact, a slew of fellow celebrities – including Emily Ratajkowski, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Munn, and Amy Schumer – have panned the spectacle as a frivolous publicity campaign for Jeff’s space company.
In addition to the all-female crew’s bizarre post-flight behavior, a number of social media activists couldn’t help but question the environmental impact such a space mission will have on the planet.
Her brief mission into space was far from a success, as it’s sparked immense backlash, with many branding the whole thing a PR stunt and the women as nothing but ‘space tourists’
On arrival back to earth, Katy immediately stopped and held a daisy up to the sky before descending from the pod, dropping to her knees and kissing the ground
Jeff’s rocket releases water vapor as a byproduct, resulting in virtually no direct carbon emissions.
But Eloise Marais, a professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality at University College London, told the BBC the water vapor is still an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas that can contribute to global warming.
This was surprising for fans considering Katy’s long history of warning about the effects of climate change, most notably in a video she filmed for UNICEF in 2015.
The musician also became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambᴀssador in 2013 to highlight the effects of climate change on the world’s most disadvantaged populations, mainly children.
