On August 17, 2025, the Lenovo Center in Raleigh will become a threshold to something stranger than spectacle and more sincere than mere entertainment—The Lifetimes Tour arrives. Katy Perry, newly returned from a suborbital voyage aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard, a mission described by some as more poetic than scientific, brings the cosmos with her. This was the first all-female spaceflight since 1963, and Perry—once the prismed pop priestess of earthly delights—has reentered our atmosphere with a sound said to be more ethereal, more urgent, more attuned to both vast silence and seismic joy. Critics have called her latest work a synthesis of electro-pop grandeur and existential anthem, a fusion of bold hooks and celestial longing. Her performance promises something more than polished pop—it’s a ritual in neon. For more, enter orbit at katyperry.com.

Opening the evening is Rebecca Black, a woman who outlasted her meme to become a surrealist torchbearer in the world of future pop. Once dismissed, now revered, Black’s sound inhabits the uncanny space between hyperpop and synth confession, weaving club rhythms with vulnerability and glitch. Her recent work has drawn comparisons to the likes of Charli XCX and Caroline Polachek, laced with the sort of haunted euphoria that only someone who’s lived in the glare of virality can conjure. She does not warm up the crowd—she bends reality a bit before handing it off. For more on her sonic metamorphosis, visit rebeccablack.com.