Let them eat cake … or not, in Katy Perry’s case. The singer has sparked backlash online this week after she threw her own birthday cake on the ground, leaving her backup dancers to eat it off the floor. Is it a “waste,” or just a woman having fun?
Katy Perry was called out for food waste
Katy celebrated her 41st birthday over the weekend and took to Instagram to mark the occasion. In the post, she included a behind-the-scenes video from her Lifetimes Tour, which showed her receiving a surprise birthday cake (scroll to slide eight to view).
In the clip, Katy blows out the candles on the cake before chasing after a team member with it. She misses, and the birthday cake lands with a splat on the floor. Later, her team of dancers ate chunks of the cake off the floor … and, to be honest, we can’t blame them. The cake looked tasty as heck!
But what was clearly a moment of fun for Katy has not gone down well online. Some people have criticised the singer for wasting food, while others have called the move inconsiderate.
“My mom was the one that baked this cake. She was so excited about the opportunity to make a cake for Katy Perry and spent so long on it. I’m genuinely confused and upset as to why she would do this,” one person posted on X.
“I wonder what having that mindset is like, to just throw away a whole cake everyone could’ve enjoyed,” someone else replied. “And then leaving that mess on the floor for someone else to clean up.”
Elsewhere, fans came to Katy’s defence. “As a baker, if I got paid, then it’s theirs to do what they want with it,” someone wrote, as another commented: “She is glowing and looks happy!”
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