Alert – Katy Perry slammed by Miley Cyrus’ brother in wild rant claiming she copied Hannah Montana star’s career

Katy Perry has been slammed by Miley Cyrus’ brother Trace Cyrus, in an astonishing rant he posted on his Instagram this Friday.

The tirade comes at the end of a week in which Katy, 40, was fiercely criticized and brutally mocked for her role in Jeff Bezos’ all-female Blue Origin space flight, which has proven to be controversial for its cost and environmental impact.

As one of the passengers on the 11-minute excursion, Katy was especially derided for singing to fellow travelers during the journey and kissing the ground after they landed, among other treacly moments that were captured on camera.

Now, however, the pop star has come in for brickbats over her career track over the past several years – which Trace claims has been derivative of his sister.

He even joked that Katy’s decision to go blonde and acquire a pixie cut in 2017 was a copy of Miley’s decision to adopt a similar hairdo four years earlier.

Trace blisteringly laid into Katy, quipping that her supposed attempts to stay relevant ‘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. Stop!’

Katy Perry has been slammed by Miley Cyrus ‘ brother Trace Cyrus, in an astonishing rant he posted on his Instagram this Friday; Katy pictured on Monday’s Blue Origin flight 

Now, however, the pop star has come in for brickbats over her career track – which Trace claims has been derivative of his sister; Trace and Miley pictured 2020 

He unleashed the stunning diatribe in a shirtless Instagram video, showing off his sprawl of tattoos and his nipple piercings.

‘I first knew Katy Perry, though, and her team were lame as f*** when her career was first dying,’ he joked: ‘and they were like: “Hmm, what can we do? Well, what worked for Miley? She cut her hair off and it broke the internet and everybody freaked out and she bleached it blonde. We should do that with you, Katy!”’ 

Mimicking a meeting, he said: ‘Katy’s like: “Yeah, yeah, we should! Should we do it slightly different?” “No, we’re gonna do it exactly the same!”’

He also alleged that Katy’s 2017 song Bon appétit featuring Migos was swiped from Miley’s previous career move to ‘transition’ into ‘more hip-hop stuff’ by collaborating with artists like Mike WiLL Made-It, Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J.

Left out of the equation was the fact that Katy worked with Kanye West on the hit single E.T. in 2011 – two years before Miley collaborated with Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J and Mike WiLL Made-It on the latter’s song 23.

Trace searingly accused Katy of trying to ‘do exactly what the f*** Miley did and blow up. Guess what, it didn’t f***ing work!’

He went on: ‘And then they just tried some EDM song and some s***, because EDM’s hot. Didn’t f***ing work! Now we’re gonna send your a** to space. Didn’t f***ing work! It’s not working. It’s backfiring. Stop!’

The post comes as Katy’s space mission continued to received backlash for its jaw-dropping price tag, for its questionable environmental impact, and for the bizarre and dramatic antics of its six-person crew after they touched down on Earth’s soil.

Trace blisteringly laid into Katy, quipping that her supposed attempts to stay relevant ‘didn’t f***ing work, and now they’re going to send your a** to space’

He unleashed the stunning diatribe in a shirtless Instagram video, showing off his sprawl of tattoos and his nipple piercings

Katy, Gayle King, and Lauren Sanchez, as well as NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and activist Amanda Nguyen, were included in the all-female fleet that took off on Monday morning from West Texas.

Despite their seemingly harmless intentions, the optics of the mission have since been described as ‘tone deaf’ and ’embarrassing.’

Following the backlash, it seems now the Roar singer is experiencing second thoughts about her flight on Blue Origin – the space exploration company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. An inside source has called the criticism unexpected for the former American Idol judge and ‘disheartening’ for the rest of the all-female crew.

‘Katy doesn’t regret going to space. It was life changing. What she does regret is making a public spectacle out of it,’ the insider exclusively revealed to DailyMail.com.

Perhaps the most ridiculed moment from Monday’s event was when the pop star emerged from the Blue Origin capsule. She immediately stopped and held a daisy up to the sky before descending from the capsule, dropping to her knees and kissing the ground.

Perry then waxed poetic about feeling ‘super connected to love,’ thanked a reporter who called her an astronaut, and declared how their all-female journey ‘has always been about love and belonging.’

‘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,’ she said in a post-flight interview.

‘And it’s about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth.’

It didn’t take long, however, for the public to slam Perry’s behavior as dramatic and over-the-top, especially considering NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were recently stranded in space for more than nine months.

The source admitted that Perry now regrets ‘kissing the ground’ after the flight as well as her ‘close-up camera moments’ inside the capsule – where she held a daisy up to the camera, promoted the setlist to her upcoming tour, and sang the lyrics to ‘What a Wonderful World’ all while suspended in microgravity.

The singer also took the opportunity to promote her upcoming Lifetimes tour by showing off the setlist while suspended in microgravity

It was previously revealed that Perry planned to bring the daisy to space as a ‘beautiful tribute’ to her four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove Bloom, who she shares with fiancé Orlando Bloom.

In a rare sighting, her daughter was seen on Monday dressed in an astronaut costume to watch her famous mom fly to the edge of space. 

The parents reportedly made the ‘difficult decision’ to introduce Daisy to the world because Perry wanted Daisy to be ‘proud of her and show her daughter that she can do anything.’

But now, the source shared that the pop star ‘regrets sharing the daisy with the world’ and ultimately ‘wishes the video footage from inside the pod was never shown’ at all.

It wasn’t just social media users who criticized the all-female Blue Origin space mission on Monday either. 

In fact, a slew of fellow celebrities – including Emily Ratajkowski, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Munn, and Amy Schumer – have slammed the spectacle as a frivolous publicity campaign for Bezos’ space company.

Perry’s Blue Origin space mission was mocked by fast food chain Wendy’s and her pop rival Kesha on Monday

After the official X account for Wendy’s questioned if we ‘can send her [Perry] back’ to space, Kesha piled onto the drama, posting a snap of herself enjoying a Wendy’s shake and smiling

Fast food chain Wendy’s even emerged as an unlikely critic of the Blue Origin flight when the company left a shady comment under a photo of Perry in her spacesuit, asking if we can ‘send her back’ to space.

What’s more, Perry’s long standing pop rival Kesha took pleasure in the backlash by posting a photo of herself drinking from a Wendy’s cup – a move that, according to the source, Perry felt was ‘adding fuel to the fire.’

In addition to the all-female crew’s bizarre post-flight behavior, a number of social media activists couldn’t help but question the environmental impact such a space mission will have on our planet here.

Bezos’ rocket does release water vapor as a byproduct, resulting in virtually no direct carbon emissions. But Eloise Marais, a professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality at University College London, told the BBC the water vapor is still an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas that can contribute to global warming.

This was surprising for fans considering Perry’s long history of warning about the effects of climate change, most notably in a resurfaced video Perry filmed for UNICEF in 2015. 

She also became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2013 to highlight the effects of climate change on the world’s most disadvantaged populations, mainly children.

A source exclusively revealed to DailyMail.com that while Perry ‘doesn’t regret going to space,’ she does regret ‘making a public spectacle’ out of the Blue Origin space mission

A resurfaced video for UNICEF showed Perry in 2015, warning how children are suffering from man-made climate change

As the backlash continued to spread online, Gayle King hit back at critics while appearing on CBS Mornings with crewmate Aisha Bowe.

The journalist responded to accusations the suborbital flight had no real scientific purpose, saying during Tuesday’s broadcast: ‘This is what bothers me, I’ve certainly read some of the stuff being said online and it’s coming from people I know, people I consider friends.

‘They call it a ride, which I find very irritating because they never say men went for a ride,’ King continued. ‘It’s called a flight or a journey. A ride implies it’s something frivolous or light hearted. There’s nothing frivolous about what we did.’

‘I’m very disappointed and saddened by [the hate]. What it’s doing to inspire other women and young girls – please don’t ignore that.’

Bezos’ fiancé Lauren Sanchez also addressed criticism of the space mission in a post-flight interview. When asked by People about Munn’s recent comment that the Blue Origin flight appeared ‘gluttonous,’ Sanchez told the outlet: ‘I get really fired up.’

She added: ‘I would love to have them come to Blue Origin and see the thousands of employees that don’t just work here but they put their heart and soul into this vehicle. They love their work and they love the mission and it’s a big deal for them.

‘So when we hear comments like that, I just say, “Trust me. Come with me. I’ll show you what this is about, and it’s, it’s really eye-opening,”‘ Sanchez said.

Much like the rest of her crewmembers, the source revealed that Perry ‘never expected this backlash’ and she’s equally as ‘disheartened’ by the ‘uncalled for and upsetting’ response to their Blue Origin flight.

‘And despite the accusations she is still an environmentalist,’ they added.

The Grammy nominee has yet to publicly address the criticism surrounding her Blue Origin space mission in any interviews or on social media. 

But what she did have time for yesterday, much like she did during the three minutes she was suspended in microgravity, was to promote her upcoming Lifetimes tour with a post shared to Instagram.