Martha Stewart Pokes Fun at Blue Origin Space Flight with Katy Perry Lyric: ‘The Drag We Needed!’

Nearly two decades before Katy Perry floated in space, Martha Stewart had a zero-gravity adventure of her own.

On Thursday, April 17, the lifestyle icon, 83, shared a throwback video of herself enjoying a taste of weightlessness, as she flips through the air.

“I boarded a Boeing 727 aircraft called G-Force One, and experienced what astronauts feel when they reach zero gravity,” she says in the clip.

While Stewart doesn’t directly mention Perry, 40, who’s been the subject of criticism following her participation in Blue Origin’s first all-female flight earlier this week, the post quotes one of the pop star’s hits.

“Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind?” — the opening lyrics to Perry’s 2010 song “Firework” — reads text over the video.

“In case you spaced out in 2007, Martha has always been ahead of her time 🌟,” the caption adds.

Commenters were delighted by the playful post, with one writing, “The drag we needed!” followed by the fire emoji.

“Martha. Goddess of dinner parties and memes,” read another reply.

Perry was one of the six women on Blue Origin’s first all-female flight crew, which traveled to space on Monday, April 14. Flight NS-31 took off from West Texas in a round-trip expedition that lasted about 11 minutes.

Along with the “E.T.” singer, journalist Gayle King, philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, astronaut and bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn were also aboard the flight.

The history-making mission inspired numerous memes the following days, many of which criticized the length of the trip and Perry’s choice to kiss the ground upon her return.

Fast food chain Wendy’s took a jab at the singer, writing on X, “Can we send her back.”

On Thursday, April 17, a source close to the situation told PEOPLE that the fast food chain was out of line.

“Wendy’s didn’t make a joke — they made a choice. Their recent posts on X aimed at Katy Perry were not only disrespectful, but blatantly inappropriate,” the source said.

“This wasn’t harmless banter, this was a billion-dollar brand using its platform to publicly demean a woman,” the source continued, contending that “when billion-dollar brands join in, it’s irresponsible.”