Fans Think Kesha Threw Shade at Katy Perry After Space Journey

Kesha’s latest selfie with a Wendy’s beverage is raising some eyebrows on planet Earth.

After the fast food chain’s social media account seemingly shaded Katy Perry following her adventure into space with the Blue Origin all-woman crew, Kesha, 38, appeared to indicate her support for the restaurant.

In a photograph posted via X on Monday, April 14, Kesha smiled for the camera while holding a cup from Wendy’s.

“Ooo I really like me a shady Kesha!” one user wrote on the platform. One other follower added, “Oh shady Kesha I really like u soo much.”

Related: Every Star Who Has Criticized the Blue Origin Space Trip

When the star-studded Blue Origin crew rocketed to outer space, not everyone applauded.  Celebrities including Olivia Wilde, Olivia Munn and Emily Ratajkowski criticized the Monday, April 14, launch, which marked the primary all-female flight crew since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963.  The event drew widespread derision on social media. Katy Perry, CBS […]

One music fan shared a suggestion by writing, “I hope you write a song about how lame that space trip was. Thanks.”

Perry, 40, was certainly one of six women who took off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas on Monday.

The previous American Idol judge made history with CBS Mornings host Gayle King, filmmaker Kerianne Flynn, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and Jeff Bezos‘ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, as they became the primary all-women spaceflight since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s 1963 solo trip.

While the launch received mixed reviews, the Wendy’s account reacted to Perry’s return to Earth on X by asking, “Can we send her back?”

Why Fans Think Kesha Threw Shade at Katy Perry After Space Journey
Courtesy of Kesha/X

Afterward within the day, Wendy’s shared a photograph of Perry seemingly kissing the bottom after returning to Earth with the caption, “I kissed the bottom and that i liked it.”

When one follower said Perry was only up there “for like 10 minutes,” Wendy’s replied, “Don’t short change her it was 11 minutes.”

Space trips aside, Kesha’s post comes nearly seven months after Perry addressed backlash for collaborating with Dr. Luke (real name Lukasz Gottwald).

The controversial producer had a yearslong legal battle with Kesha after she accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2005. (He denied the allegations and was never convicted.)

“I understand that it began lots of conversations,” Perry explained on a September 2024 episode of the “Call Her Daddypodcast. “And he was certainly one of many collaborators that I collaborated with.”

The singer desired to make it clear that the music she makes “comes from me.”

“The reality is I wrote these songs from my experience of my whole life going through this metamorphosis, and he was certainly one of the people to assist facilitate all that,” she explained. “One among the writers, certainly one of the producers.”