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Katy Perry canceled her upcoming concerts in Guadalajara, Mexico. The singer's The Lifetimes Tour will begin on April 23, 2025, and will support her 2024 album 143.
According to Daily Mail, the singer announced on her Instagram story on April 21 that her concerts, which were supposed to take place on May 1 and May 2, were canceled.
Katy Perry stated that the construction of Arena Guadalajara hasn't been completed and will not be done before her concert. She also shared that she sent her team to the music venue last week to make sure the tour dates weren't canceled. However, the team stated that the venue wasn't either ready or safe for the fans.
"Sadly, I learned that the construction of Arena Guadalajara will not be complete for their scheduled shows next week, which includes mine on May 1 and 2. Last week I sent my team to the Arena to make sure there wasn't anything we could do to make this happen but it was evident when they arrived that the venue was not ready or safe to receive my show or an audience," she wrote.
The Lifetimes Tour setback follows Katy Perry's Blue Origin mission
According to the BBC's report dated April 14, Katy Perry was sponsored on an 11-minute-long trip to space by Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos. The pop star was joined by Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sanchez, the NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, film producer Kerianne Flynn, Gayle King, and activist Amanda Nguyen.
On April 15, the singer uploaded a clip of the women floating in their spacecraft. In the caption of the Instagram post, she thanked Jeff Bezos' American space technology company, Blue Origin.
"Still processing this incredible journey. Thank you @blueorigin and to my space sisters, taking up space AND making room in space for all - 143. See you on tour (when I come down, figuratively)," she wrote.
Several celebrities, including Emily Ratajkowski, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Munn, Jessica Chastain, Kesha, Lily Allen, and Amy Schumer, came forward and criticized the space mission. According to Daily Mail's April 15 report, Ratajkowski uploaded a TikTok video on April 15, pointing out the resources used for this mission.
"Look at the state of the world and think about how many resources went into putting these women into space. For what? What was the marketing there? And then to try to make it like... I'm disgusted, literally I'm disgusted," the model said.
The 33-year-old's TikTok video was reuploaded on X by the user @PopBase. The tweet went viral, garnering over 250K likes and 19K reposts.
Dr Tanya Harrison, from the Outer Space Institute experts' network, who had previously worked on NASA's Mars mission, told the BBC that while she appreciated that the space mission created an impression on people, she felt "cynical."
Calling it a "marketing stunt," Harrison stated that the main reason behind the mission may have been promoting space tourism.
"People were like, 'Oh, this is so cool. Katy Perry is going to space.' The cynical part of me wants to call it a marketing stunt. This is a company promoting the fact they can launch tourists into space," she said.
Katy Perry's The Lifetimes Tour will commence on April 23. It will conclude on December 7, 2025, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Singer and content creator Rebecca Black will be the supporting act. The pop star's last tour, Witness: The Tour, was in 2018.
