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Katy Perry Has Become an Internet Laughingstock Post-Blue Origin — but Only True Stars Demand This Much Attention
Since the Blue Origin space flight, Katy Perry has been relentlessly mocked online — but she's still a star.
These two threads have begun to blend together into an all-purpose disgust, in a manner that looks familiar: Last summer, Jennifer Lopez, in the wake of her separation from Ben Affleck and her cancellation of her own tour, was the object of online scorn, while Anne Hathaway remains the patient zero for social-media-era hate of a woman in the public eye. She’s still making the attempt, stumbling as she goes: The space flight saw Perry speaking in jargon, claiming that she had been studying string theory in order to comprehend the universe; it was clear that she truly believed that her crossing the Kármán line would be the catalyst for change and inspiration. Perry’s brand of pop, from the highs of “Teenage Dream” to the lows of “143,” is rooted in a kind of elaborate insincerity; her first hit single, after all, was a winking ode to kissing girls for attention, and she has continued in a similar vein in the years since.
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