
She may have survived a trip into space earlier this year, but Katy Perry nearly came a cropper on Planet Earth at one of her own gigs when she became the latest pop star to suffer a prop malfunction.
The singer was playing the San Francisco Chase Center over the weekend and was banging out one of her signature hits, Roar, aboard a giant mechanical butterfly, when the metallic beast shuddered and dropped down suddenly. Perry stopped singing but regained her composure and managed to finish the number in one piece.