By DEIRDRE DURKAN-SIMONDS, US ASSOCIATE SHOWBUSINESS EDITOR
Taylor Swift has made it clear she has no desire to leave Earth anytime soon.
During an interview with BBC Radio 2's Scott Mills on Monday, the 14-time Grammy winner, 35, was asked if she would ever consider following in Katy Perry's footsteps by taking a trip to space.
'Never!' she exclaimed, visibly horrified by the idea. 'Why would I do that? There's no reason to do that. I don't want to do that, ever. I never... oh my God, no!'
Explaining her fear, Swift continued, 'It's cold, it's scary, I don't know if I can come back down. If I go, no one will believe I went. It doesn't matter if you go, because everyone thinks you didn't go, or they have a weird take on it. I have no fascination.'
The singer, who released her record-breaking The Life of a Showgirl last week, added with a laugh, 'But thank you for asking! I don't know why I just completely freaked out; it was like I thought you were going to make me go.'
When Mills asked Mariah Carey the same question earlier this year, she famously quipped 'I've done enough.'
In June, Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez were among the all-female spaceflight crew that launched into space for about 11 minutes.
The space mission was met with substantial criticism for its questionable environmental impact, jaw-dropping price tag and the women's bizarre and dramatic antics after they touched back down.
Despite their seemingly harmless intentions, the optics of the flight were branded 'tone deaf' and 'embarrassing.'
One of the most ridiculed moment from the event was when Perry dropped to her knees and kissed the ground after emerging from the Blue Origin capsule.
'To go to space is incredible, and I wanted to model courage and worthiness and fearlessness,' Perry said in an emotional interview after landing.
She went on to describe the once-in-a-lifetime trip as 'second [only] to being a mom.'
It is unlikely Swift was shading Perry's choice as have reconciled and are now good friends after their long-standing feud.
It's no secret that Katy and Taylor had a rather nasty falling out, with the latter even penning her 2015 song Bad Blood about their dispute - which began when Perry apparently tried to hire a bunch of Taylor's backup dancers and 'sabotage an entire arena tour.'
The pair first fell out with one another a decade ago, and TMZ reported that the feud between the performers ignited when three of Taylor's dancers quit to join Katy's Prismatic World Tour.
Taylor released the single Bad Blood and added fuel to the fire in a now infamous interview with Rolling Stone when she admitted that the track was about a female musician - and 'straight-up enemy.'
She told the publication: 'For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not.
'She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, "Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?"
'Then last year, the other star crossed a line. She did something so horrible; I was like, "Oh, we're just straight-up enemies." And it wasn't even about a guy!
'It had to do with business. She basically