“The best part was when we got back in our seats after Zero-G’s, Katy sang ‘What a Wonderful World,’” Gayle King shared upon returning to Earth during Blue Origin’s Monday, April 14, launch X livestream. “We’ve been asking her to sing all the time, and she wouldn’t. Everybody said, ‘Sing ‘Roar.’ Sing ‘Firework.’ And she said, ‘It’s not about me. I wanted to talk about the world.’”
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UPDATE — 3/10/25, at 10:44 a.m. ET: Katy Perry fulfilled her promise of singing in space, but didn’t perform a track from her own discography.
“The best part was when we got back in our seats after Zero-G’s, Katy sang ‘What a Wonderful World,’” Gayle King shared upon returning to Earth during Blue Origin’s Monday, April 14, launch X livestream. “We’ve been asking her to sing all the time, and she wouldn’t. Everybody said, ‘Sing ‘Roar.’ Sing ‘Firework.’ And she said, ‘It’s not about me. I wanted to talk about the world.’”
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Perry opened up about her song of choice in her post-flight interview. “I think that it’s not about me. It’s not about singing my songs,” she explained. “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. And it’s about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth.”
When asked where the spaceflight ranks among her long list of accomplishments, Perry said her space trip was “second to being a mom.” She added, “That’s why it was hard for me to go ‘cause that’s all my love right there, and I have to surrender and trust that the universe is gonna take care of me and protect me and also my family and my daughter
“Firework” singer, 40, shared a behind-the-scenes video of her preparation before she and an all-women Blue Origin flight crew go into space on Monday, April 14.
In a video shared via Instagram late Sunday, April 13, Perry showed fans the inside of the New Shepard rocket that “we have been training in for the last few days.” Perry pointed out that she is in seat number two, showing off a chair with “K. Perry” written on it.
“I think I’m gonna sing, sing a little bit. I gotta sing in space!” Perry declared in the video.
“I do believe this. I’m not going to say I can’t believe here,” Perry added. “I do believe this because I think that believing your dreams and saying that is actually how you make your dreams come true.”
