On Monday morning, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, Katy Perry, Amanda Nguyen, Kerianne Flynn, and Aisha Bowe made history when they were finally shot into space by Jeff Bezos’s aerospace company, Blue Origin. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Perry made a big promotional promise to her KatyKats: She revealed a plan to release her Lifetimes tour setlist from space.
In an interview with Video from Space prior to liftoff, Perry told a journalist she’d be bringing two special items on the flight: a daisy to remind viewers that “the Earth is very precious” (her 4-year-old daughter is also named Daisy), and her unannounced setlist for the upcoming Lifetimes tour. “I’m also launching a tour on April 23 in Mexico, and I’ll be on tour for the rest of the year,” Perry said. “I think it would be pretty cool to reveal my setlist for that tour in space.”
But Blue Origin’s New Shepard has since taken off and come back down to Earth, and the setlist is nowhere to be found. Upon landing, Perry hoisted her daisy into the sky and knelt down to kiss the ground. Later, in a post-flight interview, she claimed that she did indeed reveal her setlist for the tour “on a butterfly” (“How apropos?!”). I respect the audacity to co-opt a historic flight into space for your own promotional needs, but at the very least, you’ve got to deliver the goods. Perry promised her fans catnip, and I imagine the KatyKats are now dying to be fed.
At the very least, we know Perry did something musical during this trip: According to Gayle King, she gave the girls a rendition of “What a Wonderful World” on their way back to Earth. And with this audience? I’m sure there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
