By joining forces once again at the vein attempt by a man seeking to redo an image by instrumentalizing feminism, Katy Perry sinks. Again.
There is no doubt, Katy Perry will forever remember this Monday, April 14, during which she flew, alongside five other women, aboard a shuttle made in Jeff Bezos direction space. Problem: it seems that the rest of the world does not have much to do, and that’s good. To understand this info which, we grant you, seems a little pulled by hair, you have to go back to February, when the company Blue Origin (property of Bezos) announced the launch of the very first 100% female space mission. Are therefore provided on board the device the interpreter of‘I Kissed a Girl, Producer Kerianne Flynn, scientist Aisha Bowe, activist Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King TV presenter and journalist Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos’ engaged.
Very quickly, we are released: this initiative (which is the 11th trip of this type) would be a big step forward for the combat for gender equality. As such, Perry declares that she had embarked on the adventure to teach his daughter “Never have limits to your dreams”. Same thing for Aisha Bowe, who hopes that his career, “From community college to space”, will inspire young people at “Continue their dreams”. Blue Origin also sees in the presence of Amanda Nguyen “A symbol of reconciliation between the United States and Vietnam”. Very beautiful intentions on paper, which quickly empty of their substance when you remember the involvement of a certain Jeff Bezos in the equation.
A communication stroke and nothing else
It must be said that the billionaire is known neither to be a great feminist, nor to be a great democrat. Recently, the owner of Amazon was talked about for his a million dollars at the inaugural background of Donald Trump. Last January, in the furrow of Trump’s inauguration, we also learned that Amazon suspended some of his programs in favor of diversity and inclusion. In February, when Trump announced that he wanted to attack the diversity of opinion in the press, Bezos was ahead and declared that he was going to limit the section of the opinion of the Washington Post, that he bought in 2013. A barely disguised way of flirting with conservative power, which completely discredits the feminist designs of this trip.
-On this subject, the Guardian écrit : “At the heart of a wave of global protest against feminism and in the face of the worsening of inequalities of wealth, the absurdity of a billionaire of tech projecting a handful of millionaire women a few meters in space and transforming them into a ‘historic’ #Girlbosswin ‘historic seems perfectly dystopian. The major advances in matters of social justice, emancipation of women and even geopolitical relations are ridiculously thin And hardly constitutes more than a publicity stunt for the favorite project of Bezos. ”
Katy Perry Pro of recovery
Nothing too surprising either when you see the turn that Katy Perry’s career has recently. Because in terms of recovery of the feminist struggle for purely personal purposes, the fallen popstar is not at its first try. As evidenced Woman’s World, single of his latest album 143, lucky wanna be Hymn empowering any straight out of a generative AI to whom we would have given as a militant reference of Pastel Instagram Posts and Books by Marlène Schiappa. A most harmless song, which could have been only that: a failed attempt to come back to the front of the stage on the part of one of the most important popstars of the 2010s.
But now, this level 0 of feminism turns out to be only a sweet varnish under which a much less joyful truth hides: Perry’s full album was produced by Dr. Luke, this same producer accused of rape by singer Kesha for more than ten years. When asked why having made this choice, she answers: “He has been one of the many collaborators with whom I worked. But reality is that it comes from me. The truth is that I wrote these songs based on the experience of all my life and the metamorphoses I have known, and he was one of the people who made it easier, one of the authors and one of the producers.” In short, an answer decidedly not up to the task, which cannot hide the hypocrisy of its approach.
Fortunately for her, on social networks, the narrative that dominates is as follows: everyone does not give a damn about this trip. “Why does no one talk about it?”, “The way Katy Perry literally goes to space and people don’t care”, Can we read. Or again: “What have we accomplished by sending Katy Perry in space for 5 minutes?” In all this stir-household, Katy Perry can be delighted with one thing: tomorrow, everyone will have forgotten his participation in this smoking communication.
