Credit to Perry: She only missed about one bar of 'Roar' after lurching to the right and dropping several feet mid-butter-flight
Credit to Perry: She only missed about one bar of"Roar" after lurching to the right and dropping several feet mid-butter-flight Katy Perry floating on her giant butterfly at a show a few months back in Mexico City, Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Katy PerryKaty Perry got to enter herself into the grand pantheon of “Musical superstars who almost got really dumb obituaries because something went wrong while they were flying around an arena on a giant prop” last night, as footage has begun circulating ofSpecifically, Perry was flying through the crowd on the back of a giant metallic butterfly, performing her hit “Roar,” when the entire apparatus suddenly lurchedseemed to get pulled abruptly when the whole setup suddenly jerks about five feet to the right, sending the whole butterfly swaying and shaking.
) Credit where it’s due: Perry only loses about one line of the song, returning to the track’s chorus despite clearly still steadying herself on her suddenly unreliable ride. , this isn’t the first “flying around the auditorium” mishap to pop up at a major concert in recent weeks; Beyoncé was floating over her fans atop a flying car in Houstonwhen the whole thing canted dangerously to the side, forcing her to stop down a performance of “16 Carriages.” And, as very old people on the internet, we still have semi-fond memories of when Kanye West would float over his crowds on a big flying platform and then would have tofloating above arenas like some kind of mythical musical god; what’re the demands of a bunch of poor winches, pulleys, and cables when compared to that?
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