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Global News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Global News
Snoop Dogg performs ahead of B.C. Lions' home opener
Snoop Dogg was a B.C. Lions fan on Saturday — if only for one night. The legendary rapper donned a Lions jersey with the number 20 and his name emblazoned on the back as he took the stage for a concert at B.C. Place before the Lions hosted the Edmonton Elks in their first game of the CFL season. Over the course of a 35-minute set, Snoop Dogg sang several of his hits, including 'P.I.M.P.,' 'Gin and Juice,' and 'Drop it Like it's Hot,' plus abbreviated versions of songs he has featured on, such as Katy Perry's 'California Gurls' and the explicit version of Akon's 'I Wanna Love You.' His dancers and backup singers also donned Lions gear for the show. View image in full screen Snoop Dogg performs before the Edmonton Elks and the B.C. Lions play a CFL football game in Vancouver, on Saturday, June 7, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns B.C. previously announced more than 50,000 fans were expected to take in the show. Several hundred danced and sang in the end zone below the elevated stage, while thousands more stood in their seats. Story continues below advertisement A few Lions players and staff — including kicker Sean Whyte and defensive back Patrice Rene — took in parts of the show from the sidelines. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Snoop Dogg has been making music for more than three decades and has seven platinum records, 20 Grammy Award nominations, and multiple BET Awards and MTV Movie Awards. He has become a pop culture icon known for working with a variety of entertainers from rapper-producer Dr. Dre to television personality Martha Stewart, and was a roving correspondent for NBC at last summer's Paris Olympics. The 53-year-old musician closed his set Saturday by signing several footballs and handing them out to kids in the end zone. 'You've got to promise to grow up to be a B.C. Lion,' he said to one. Story continues below advertisement 'You getting good grades in school?' he asked another. Before leaving the stage, Snoop Dogg signed yet another football, removed his trademark sunglasses and the gold, bejewelled Wu-Tang Clan ring on his pinky, and handed off his gold microphone. He then launched the ball into the upper deck of the stands. He formed his hands into a heart and clapped for the crowd, then left before the game got underway. Big concerts have become an annual tradition for the Lions. Last year, the team launched its season with a performance by rapper 50 Cent that drew an announced crowd of 53,788.
Los Angeles Times
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Do you ever feel like a ‘human piñata'? Katy Perry does amid Blue Origin, tour backlash
Katy Perry knows online critics have much to say about her recent Blue Origin field trip to space and her new live tour. Despite this, the pop star wants fans to 'please know I am OK.' 'I have done a lot [of] work around knowing who I am, what is real and what is important to me,' the 'Firework' and 'California Gurls' singer said Tuesday on Instagram. Perry, 40, wrote about how she moves past online scrutiny in a lengthy comment replying to a fan's post on Instagram. Several fan accounts dedicated to the Grammy nominee shared a video of a Times Square billboard congratulating the singer on her Lifetimes tour, which launched on April 23 in Mexico City. In her comment, she thanked the fan groups for their support and addressed 'the 'online' world' which she said 'tries to make me a human piñata.' The singer has faced heat on multiple fronts recently, notably for her participation in Blue Origin's April space launch. On April 14, Blue Origin launched six women — including Perry, Lauren Sánchez and Gayle King — into space. The performer sang 'What a Wonderful World' while in zero gravity, kissed the ground upon landing and said the launch made her feel 'super connected to love.' Those moments quickly became fodder for internet memes — and backlash. Critics, including model-actor Emily Ratajkowski, slammed the celebrity joyride as wasteful and performative. Fast food chain Wendy's also shaded Perry, tweeting 'Can we send her back' upon the pop star's return to Earth. Singer Lily Allen said in an episode of her 'Miss Me?' podcast that she found the flight 'out of touch,' but she eventually walked back her criticism. Scrutiny over Perry's Blue Origin ride — which she did not directly reference in her comment — carried over to the launch of her Lifetimes tour the following week. Video featuring Perry's stiff and low-energy 'E.T.' choreography from the first night of her tour went viral on TikTok. 'Should've spent less time in space and more in rehearsals,' one user commented. On social media, the singer was also accused of using AI-generated background visuals on her tour. In his review of Perry's '143' album, Times critic Mikael Wood raised a similar flag about her music: ''143' is an oddly cold dance-pop album with boring melodies, utilitarian grooves and vocal performances that feel vaguely AI-derived.' Amid all the noise, the 'Teenage Dream' singer on Tuesday explained that she takes backlash with 'grace' and sends love to her critics. 'I know so many people are hurting in so many ways and the internet is very much a dumping group for [the] unhinged and unhealed,' she wrote. The 'Woman's World' performer continued: 'What's real is seeing your faces every night, singing in unison, reading your notes, feeling your warmth. I find people to lock eyes and sing with and I know we are healing each other in a small way.' On her Instagram account, the former 'American Idol' judge on Tuesday posted a video of a special moment she shared with a fan. 'Never forgot this is the whole point,' reads text over the video. Perry wrote in her comment that she is on a 'human journey playing the game of life with an audience of many.' That journey, she said, can sometimes be imperfect, but 'I get back up and go on and continue to play the game.' 'Somehow through my battered and bruised adventure I keep looking to the light,' she continued. 'And in that light a new level UNLOCKS.' Perry's Lifetimes tour continues with three shows in Guadalajara before she comes stateside. She kicks off the U.S. leg of her tour with a show at Houston's Toyota Center on May 7. Perry is set to perform at the Honda Center in Anaheim on July 13 and the Kia Forum in Inglewood on July 15.
New York Times
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Even Levitating in Space, Katy Perry Manages to Get Dunked On
Almost as soon as the pop star Katy Perry had returned from a very brief trip to space with a group hosted by Jeff Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, the derisive comments started. In Slate, Heather Schwedel wrote: 'It was one thing to understand intellectually that Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez's much hyped 'all-female' trip to space aboard a Blue Origin rocket would in actuality only be an underwhelming 11 minutes long. But it was another to watch it play out over a multihour, breathless livestream that culminated with Perry kissing the Earth like a soldier returning from war and not a multimillionaire returning from the world's shortest influencer trip.' Ellen Cushing, writing for The Atlantic, proclaimed Ms. Perry to be the 'perfect pop star for a dumb stunt.' Various celebrities, like the actress Olivia Wilde and the model Emily Ratajkowski, criticized Ms. Perry and the Blue Origin flight. Even the X account for Wendy's came after Ms. Perry on Tuesday in a series of posts (among them: 'can we send her back'). On its face, this seemed a little strange. Why was a fast-food chain offering sideline snark about a pop star heading into space? But a decade-plus after the songwriter Linda Perry described Ms. Perry's music as microwave popcorn, one could be forgiven for wondering if the posts from Wendy's were an erstwhile purveyor of empty calories picking a fight with another. Ms. Perry, after all, is the singer who in her 2010 'California Gurls' video, wore a bra made to look like giant cupcakes that ultimately shot out whipped cream. (The point was contained in the lyrics: 'we'll melt your Popsicle.') Soon after, Ms. Perry released the single 'Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F),' an anthem about the joy of waking up after a weekend bender. 'There's a stranger in my bed,' she sang. 'There's a pounding in my head. Glitter all over the room. Pink flamingos in the pool.' The comedian and actor Rob Delaney penned a humor piece for Vice about the song, in which he responded to the lyric 'is this a hickey or a bruise' by saying: 'Hold up! There's a huge difference,' and asked, 'did the aforementioned 'stranger' punch you in the neck?' Ms. Perry, for what it's worth, has often championed other artists over the years. They have often declined to return the favor. Take, for example, Robyn, the Scandinavian high priestess of plaintive dance-pop, who opened for Ms. Perry on her 2011 tour promoting 'Last Friday Night' and 'California Gurls.' When Time Out New York asked Robyn whether she was a fan of Ms. Perry's, she laughed and said: 'You know what? I have to go now.' Of course, there is room for artists to age and grow. (Compare, for example, the Beyoncé of Destiny's Child with the Beyoncé of 'Lemonade,' 'Renaissance' and 'Cowboy Carter.') But Ms. Perry's attempts at stretching artistically have mostly involved aping the work of other more acclaimed women in music and getting clocked for it. In his review of Ms. Perry's 2019 song 'Never Really Over,' the Times music critic Jon Caramanica wrote: 'A new Billie Eilish song from Katy Perry. A new Norwegianish Spotifycore song from Katy Perry. A new Haim song from Katy Perry. A new Pink song from Katy Perry. A new bubble-pop Taylor Swift song from Katy Perry. A new Mumford & Sons song from Katy Perry. A new Abba song from Katy Perry.' And in fact, 'Never Really Over' borrowed so heavily from a 2017 song called 'Love You Like That,' by the Norwegian artist Dagny, that Dagny ended up with a writing credit on the song. Promoting the single at an event in Shanghai, she stood there in her pleated metallic dress in front of a wind machine that turned her giant blond extensions into a moving object. Just as Madonna had stood there for the Brit Awards in 1995 in her pleated silver dress in front of a wind machine that turned her giant blond extensions into a moving object. In 2024, Ms. Perry was back with a new album, '143,' whose title, she said, represented her 'angel number.' The first single was 'Woman's World,' and the video for it featured Ms. Perry done up in a red and white bandanna like Rosie the Riveter. Then, the camera panned back and showed her wearing Daisy Dukes and an American flag bikini top that barely concealed her breasts. The lyrics discussed how she felt: 'Sexy, confident, so intelligent.' To prove the point, Ms. Perry pours whiskey into her mouth, letting it spill all over herself. The song was co-written and co-produced by the Swedish super-producer Lukasz Gottwald, better known as Dr. Luke, who in 2014 was accused by the pop singer Kesha of sexual misconduct. Over the next nine years, Kesha and Dr. Luke traded lawsuits before settling their claims out of court. The reviews for '143' were withering. On Metacritic, it has a rating of 37 out of 100, making it the site's lowest-rated album since 2011 and the worst-reviewed album by a woman in the site's 24-year history. Rich Juzwiak, writing for Pitchfork, said the 'material here is so devoid of anything distinguishing that it makes one suspicious it's a troll or cynical attempt for the campy realm of so bad it's good.' The Times devoted an entire podcast to the question of whether the album was 'really that bad.' (The answer, the critic Lindsay Zoladz said, was 'complicated.' This still was not exactly a compliment.) So the sight of Ms. Perry levitating inside a phallic rocket as she held onto a daisy — a tribute to her daughter, Daisy, that she said in interviews she chose to bring with her because the flowers are often described as 'weeds' because they are really resilient — was perfectly in keeping with the image she had designed for herself. The event was trumpeted as having something vaguely to do with feminism, but in one of the numerous criticisms delivered by celebrities after the spaceflight, Ms. Wilde summed up the experience succinctly on Instagram, sharing a photo of Ms. Perry with the flower along with the message, 'Billion dollars bought some good memes, I guess.'
Daily Tribune
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Tribune
Katy Perry blasts into space on all-women flight
Pop star Katy Perry completed a brief foray into space yesterday, roaring to the edge of the cosmos with an all-women crew on one of billionaire Jeff Bezos's rockets. The 'Firework' and 'California Gurls' singer was lofted more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) above the Earth's surface in a vessel from Blue Origin, the space company owned by the Amazon founder. Five other women including Bezos's fiancee Lauren Sanchez were on the flight, which took off from western Texas shortly after 8:30 am (1330 GMT) before safely landing again some 10 minutes later. The flight brought the passengers beyond the Karman line -- the internationally recognized boundary of space. Their fully automated craft rose vertically before the crew capsule detached mid-flight, later falling back to the ground slowed by parachutes and a retro rocket. The jubilant women then emerged, with Perry kissing the ground after exiting the capsule. Monday's mission is the first all-woman space crew since Valentina Tereshkova's historic solo flight in 1963. It is also the 11th sub-orbital crewed operation by Blue Origin, which has offered space tourism experiences for several years. They were expected to have a brief period when the women could unbuckle from their seats and float in zero gravity. 'Inspiration' Perry recently told Elle magazine that she was taking part 'for my daughter Daisy,' whom she shares with actor Orlando Bloom, 'to inspire her to never have limits on her dreams.' 'I'm just so excited to see the inspiration through her eyes and the light in her eyes when she sees that rocket go, and she goes back to school the next day and says, 'Mom went to space,'' Perry added. She said in a separate video posted to Instagram that she was shocked to discover during space training that the capsule she would travel in was named the 'Tortoise' and decorated with a 'feather' design -- the two nicknames her parents have for her. 'There are no coincidences and I'm just so grateful for these confirmations and so grateful that I feel like something bigger than me is steering the ship,' Perry said in the video. Perry, launched onto the international stage with her 2008 hit 'I Kissed a Girl,' was also travelling alongside TV presenter Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, former NASA scientist Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen, founder of a campaign group against sexual violence. They follow 52 previous Blue Origin passengers, including longtime 'Star Trek' leading man William Shatner.
USA Today
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Katy Perry reveals her 2025 tour will feature deep cuts, 'special section' that changes
Katy Perry reveals her 2025 tour will feature deep cuts, 'special section' that changes Show Caption Hide Caption Katy Perry is 'excited' to bring her daughter on 2025 Lifetimes Tour Katy Perry sits down with USA TODAY reporter KiMi Robinson to talk her world tour and why she is excited to bring her young daughter along. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — A few things have changed in Katy Perry's life since she was last on tour. It's been seven years since Witness: The Tour, and the multi-hyphenate now has a 4-year-old daughter, Daisy Dove Bloom. She's retired from her judging post on 'American Idol.' She's added a critically acclaimed Las Vegas residency to her résumé. But one thing remains the same about the chart-topping pop star as she heads into her global Lifetimes Tour, for which she announced the U.S. dates on Monday: Her famously over-the-top concerts will still be like 'Disneyland on wheels.' Among the details she's willing to share during a recent sit-down with USA TODAY about her upcoming tour is this: It's going to be a 'dance party.' Perhaps a more surprising nugget for fans is that Perry is looking for 'feedback' to influence her setlist, which will 'change and alternate' and sometimes include some 'deep cuts' from her discography. 'When I made the record (last year's '143'), it was a celebration of becoming a mother and all the love and the cliches that are true with it. All that unconditional love I never felt,' Perry tells USA TODAY. 'It is a freeing, dance-heavy … celebratory record. And that is exactly what the tour will be.' What songs will be on Katy Perry's Lifetimes Tour setlist? After kicking off April 16 in Austin, Texas, Perry will travel to Mexico, return to the U.S. in May, cross the globe to perform in Australia, come home to her West Coast 'California Gurls' in July before singing across Canada, then do a stint of shows in the U.S. before going to South America and Europe. In total, she has 40 shows and counting on the 2025 Lifetimes Tour. And though it's in support of her most recent album, Perry knows exactly what fans around the world want to see her perform: the chart-topping hits that have made her one of the best-selling musicians of all time. 'Lifetimes is going to incorporate the journey that I've been on for over 17 years and celebrate it,' she says. "I'll be singing a hybrid of songs; I feel a total responsibility to my audience to give them that sing-along feeling. But I will be introducing them to a few new ones, which I'm really excited about,' Perry says, promising fans performances of "California Gurls," "Dark Horse," "Firework," and "Roar." These bops will make for what she promises will be 'a real fun dance party,' but the mom also wants fans to keep safety in mind: 'Please wear sensible shoes and stay hydrated,' she says. From '143,' Perry plans to perform her collaboration with Doechii, 'I'm His, He's Mine,' 'All the Love' and, of course, the tour namesake dance club single 'Lifetimes.' But Perry is allowing some flexibility with the setlist: 'I am open to submissions. I might be doing a poll on social media,' she teases. Katy Perry promises to perform some 'deep cuts' live for the first time Perry revealed there's a 'special section that we've carved out of the show that will change and alternate, and it will need feedback from fans.' With the moving pieces in this 'fan-tailored' portion of the show, Perry admits, 'I'll have to be prepared, and I use a prompter.' With so many songs in her discography it seems nothing will be off-limits. 'There will be some deep cuts that have never been played. So if you're a true fan and you want to hear those deep cuts, those B sides, there's going to be that moment, and it's all in their hands,' she says. 'Yeah, some songs that have never seen the light of day live, we'll finally have the opportunity (to play), which I'm really excited about because the real fans are going to be like, 'Oh my God, this is it.'' Katy Perry is excited to tour the world with her 4-year-old daughter, Daisy Dove This year, Perry will add a new member to her touring crew: Daisy, her daughter with partner Orlando Bloom. Fans last saw Daisy make a brief cameo in 2023 during the last show of Perry's 'Play' residency in Las Vegas. 'She is so curious, and she's such an extrovert. And she loves seeing mommy happy. She loves seeing the shows,' Perry says. 'I'm excited that I get to bring her around the world on my first world tour with her.' She compares sharing music with her 4 year old to the feeling of celebrating Christmas with a child: 'Everything's just brighter again. Everything tastes better, everything looks better, everything's more fun because you see it through the eyes of a child.' With Daisy, whom she previously credited for influencing the visual spectacle that was her Vegas residency, Perry says 'a lot more play gets injected into (the show), and it's not that serious.' While traveling the globe, Perry will not only be responsible for entertaining arenas full of fans but also her preschool-aged daughter. 'I want submissions for where I should take her on days off,' she says, listing parks, children's museums and water parks as places she's seeking in each city. 'I'm going to show her the world,' Perry says. Katy Perry Lifetimes tour North American dates The singer's North American tour stops are nestled among her previously announced international tour dates. For the full list shows, head to
