Trace Cyrus believes that his sister Miley Cyrus’ career has influenced fellow pop star Katy Perry.
“I first knew Katy Perry and her team were lame as f*** when her career was first dying,” Trace, 36, quipped in a Friday, April 18, Instagram video. “And they were like, ‘Hm, what can we do? Well, what worked for Miley? She cut her hair off and it broke the internet and everyone freaked out and she bleached it blonde. We should do that with you, Katy.’”
Miley, 32, notably chopped her hair into a pixie cut ahead of the release of her Bangerz record in 2013. Perry, 40, for her part, went shorter and lighter in 2017.
Trace didn’t stop at apparent hair similarities, also theorizing about Miley’s professional collaborations with Mike WiLL Made-It, Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J that transitioned her to a music with a more “hip hop” sound. He now thinks that Perry’s music has a similar vibe.
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“‘You’re now going to do the same stuff that Miley did and blow up,’” Trace said on Friday, parodying a conversation between Perry and her team. “Guess what? It didn’t f***ing work — and then they just tried some EDM song or some s*** because EDM’s hot. Didn’t f***ing work, and now they’re going to send your a** to space. Didn’t f***ing work! It’s not working. It’s backfiring.”
Trace also captioned his upload, “Didn’t work … try again 🎲.”
Perry, who has not responded to Trace’s accusations, returned from an 11-minute space excursion aboard Blue Origin’s rocket earlier this week on the first all-women intergalactic flight.
When Perry returned to Earth, she held up a daisy — in honor of her and fiancé Orlando Bloom’s daughter’s name — and kissed the ground.
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“One day when you’re older, will YOU still look up in wonder?” Perry, whose space adventure fulfilled long-held personal dreams of being an astronaut, wrote via Instagram. “Still processing this incredible journey. Thank you @blueorigin and to my space sisters, taking up space AND making room in space for all. See you on tour (when I come down, figuratively).”
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Perry was joined by 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, on the flight. During the experience, Perry even serenaded the crew with a rendition of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.”
“It’s not about singing my songs. 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,” Perry said during a post-landing press conference, noting that she didn’t want to belt one of her own hits. “And it’s about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth.”
The space flight, said to serve as an inspiration for women around the world, also fueled online controversy as many prominent A-listers criticized the launch.
