{"id":7303,"date":"2025-07-20T01:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T01:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7303\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T01:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T01:49:07","slug":"katy-perry-almost-suffered-death-by-giant-mechanical-butterfly-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7303\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Perry almost suffered death-by-giant-mechanical-butterfly last night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katy Perry got to enter herself into the grand pantheon of \u201cMusical superstars who almost got really dumb obituaries because something went wrong while they were flying around an arena on a giant prop\u201d last night, as footage has begun circulating of the recent astronaut<\/a> suffering what looked to be a pretty shocking malfunction during a concert in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Perry was flying through the crowd on the back of a giant metallic butterfly, performing her hit \u201cRoar,\u201d when the entire apparatus suddenly lurched\u00a0hard\u00a0to the side, dropping her several feet and sending her shaking. (From what we can make of the many angles of the moment circulating on the internet today<\/a>, Perry did seem to be clipped in on a harness\u2014but that part of the rig also\u00a0seemed 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\u2019s due: Perry only loses about one line of the song, returning to the track\u2019s chorus despite clearly still steadying herself on her suddenly unreliable ride. (She later posted a picture of her own terrified face from the moment to her Instagram Story, along with a \u201cGoodnight San Fran\u201d caption.)<\/p>\n

As noted by\u00a0Deadline<\/a>, this isn\u2019t the first \u201cflying around the auditorium\u201d mishap to pop up at a major concert in recent weeks; Beyonc\u00e9 was floating over her fans atop a flying car in Houston last month<\/a> when the whole thing canted dangerously to the side, forcing her to stop down a performance of \u201c16 Carriages.\u201d (She\u2019s since replaced the flying car with a flying golden horse, which doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019d necessarily solve the underlying problem, but\u2026) And, as very old people on the internet, we still have semi-fond memories of when Kanye West (somehow less disturbed then than he is now) would float over his crowds on a big flying platform and then would have to fend off fans<\/a> who tried to catch a ride by hanging off the edge. The point is, music stars really like\u00a0floating above arenas like some kind of mythical musical god; what\u2019re the demands of a bunch of poor winches, pulleys, and cables when compared to that?<\/p>\n

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Watch Katy Perry and Gayle King go to space<\/a>Gayle King and Katy Perry to pull real-life Morning Show stunt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katy Perry got to enter herself into the grand pantheon of \u201cMusical superstars who almost got really dumb…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-7303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}