Unlike Katy Perry, Mariah Carey says you won’t catch her in space anytime soon.
The iconic singer, who is currently on the promo circuit ahead of the release of her new album Here For it All, set for release on Sept. 26, recently sat down for an interview on BBC Radio 2’s the Scott Mills Breakfast Show.
As seen in a clip shared online, Mills asked the Elusive Chanteuse if she would ever consider following in Perry’s cosmic footsteps and travel into outer space.
“Did she go to space?” Carey asked, before Mills confirmed the singer had gone “into orbit and back.”
“Wow. Alright, Katy,” she said. “I’m not mad at her. That’s pretty amazing.”
“Yeah, I mean, she hasn’t stopped talking about it since, but it happened,” Mills replied. “Would you do it?”
“I think I’ve done enough,” Carey replied with a laugh.
Perry took flight on April 14 when she joined Blue Origin’s 11th human flight, NS-31, as part of the company’s first all-female crew. The team, which included Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez, launched from West Texas and traveled at a rate “more than three times the speed of sound,” per a Blue Origin explainer.
Upon return, Perry was second to exit the capsule, kissing the Earth and holding up a daisy in tribute to her daughter, Daisy Dove. She sang a portion of “What a Wonderful World” mid-flight and later described feeling “super connected to love” from the experience, adding that it would “100 percent” inspire a future song.
“It is the highest high, and it is surrender to the unknown,” Perry added.
However, public opinions about the flight were mixed, and after the trip, Perry found herself at the center of online backlash.
Olivia Munn called the flight “a bit gluttonous,” while Emily Ratajkowski called it “end time shit.”
“Like this is beyond parody, saying that you care about Mother Earth and it’s about Mother Earth and you’re growing up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s single-handedly destroying the planet,” Ratajkowski added.
Perry was also simultaneously being clowned after some unflattering clips from her Lifetimes Tour went viral. She likened herself to a “human piñata” in light of the online pile-on.
“Please know I am ok, I have done a lot of work around knowing who I am, what is real and what is important to me,” Perry wrote to her fans on Instagram. “My therapist said something years ago that has been a game changer, ‘No one can make you believe something about yourself that you don’t already believe about yourself,’ and if I ever do have any feelings about it then it’s an opportunity to investigate the feeling underneath it.”
She continued, “When the ‘online’ world tries to make me a human piñata, I take it with grace and send them love, cause I know so many people are hurting in so many ways and the internet is very much so a dumping ground for unhinged and unhealed.”
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